Department of Environmental Sciences

Seminar Schedule Spring 2018


January 26, 2018
Special Time and Location: 1:30 P.M. (Refreshments served at 1:15 pm)
Room 101, The Institute of Food Nutrition and Health, 61 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Speaker: Syukuro Manabe, Princeton University
Title: Interhemispheric Asymmetry in Global Warming
Host: Tony Broccoli
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February 23, 2018
Speaker: Barbara Turpin, University of North Carolina
Title: WATER-SOLUBLE ORGANIC GASES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON CHEMISTRY IN DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS
Host: Tony Broccoli
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March 2, 2018
Speaker: Christopher Obropta, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Title: COMMUNITY-BASED GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE, A RUTGERS COOPERATIVE EXTENSION URBAN EXTENSION INITIATIVE
Host: Donna Fennell
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March 9, 2018
Speaker: Christopher Meyer, Antea Group
Title: COME LEARN ABOUT AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING CAREER WITH ANTEA GROUP
Host: Lisa Rodenburg
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April 6, 2018
Speaker: Rutgers Graduate Students:
 
Nicole Lloyd (Microbial Biology; supervisor Tamar Barkay)
"Co-selection of Heavy Metal and Antibiotic Resistance in Fish Gut Microbiota"
 
Yuwei (Cindy) Wang (Environmental Sciences, supervisor Nathan Yee)
"Mercury Oxidation and Absorption by Anaerobic Bacteria"
 
Norambuena Morales (Microbial Biology; supervisor Tamar Barkay)
"Mercury Responses in Thermus Thermophiles"
Host: Nathan Yee

Monday, April 9, 2018
Special Time and Location: 9:30 am (Refreshments served at 9:15 am)
Room 205, The Institute of Food Nutrition and Health, 61 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Speaker: Michelle Kim, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Title: SEA SURFACE CONTROLS OVER AIR QUALITY AND CLIMATE FORCERS IN THE MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER
Host: Donna Fennell
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April 13, 2018
Speaker: Jared Wilmoth, Princeton University
Title: THE METHANE PARADOX AND IMPORTANCE OF REDOX CYCLING IN PEAT SYSTEMS
Host: Jeffra Schaefer
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April 20, 2018
Special Time and Location: 12 Noon (Refreshments served at 11:45 am)
Room 205, The Institute of Food Nutrition and Health, 61 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Speaker: Dana Caulton, Princeton University
Title: SUPER EMITTERS IN NATURAL GAS EMISSIONS AND THE FUTURE OF EMISSIONS MONITORING
Host: Donna Fennell
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Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Special Time and Location: 12:30 pm (Refreshments served at 12:15 pm)
Room 101, The Institute of Food Nutrition and Health, 61 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Speaker: Daniel Westervelt, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, LAMONT-DOHERTY EARTH OBSERVATORY
Title: THE AIR QUALITY - CLIMATE CHANGE NEXUS: FROM THE NANO TO THE GLOBAL SCALE
Host: Donna Fennell
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Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Special Time and Location: 9:30 am (Refreshments served at 9:15 am)
Room 205, The Institute of Food Nutrition and Health, 61 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Speaker: Mary Whelan, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA
Title: INNOVATIONS IN UNDERSTANDING LAND CARBON UPTAKE
Host: Donna Fennell
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May 4, 2018
Speaker: Nina Shapley, Rutgers, Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Title: DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE BIOPOLYMER ADSORBENTS FOR WATER PURIFICATION
Host: Donna Fennell
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