Fall 2011

Seminars are held on Fridays from 3:30-4:30 PM (except where noted) in the Charles H. Jones Auditorium (L1205) in the Ford ES&T Building.

Organizers: Dr. Ellery Ingall, Associate Professor of geochemistry and oceanography, and Dr. Athanasios Nenes, Professor of aerosols and clouds.

For more information, please contact the Main Office at (404) 894-3893.


 

August 26

  Jennifer S. Haase - Purdue University
  "The use of GPS radio occultation to investigate tropical cyclone development"

 

September 9

  Kurt Frankel Memorial

 

September 15

 Ying Wang - Carnegie Institution of Washington

 ** 11 AM Seminar

 

September 16

 Lisa Beal - Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science

 "The role of the Agulhas System in Ocean Circulation and Climate"

 

September 30

 Ross Stein - USGS

 "What triggers most earthquakes? The answer lies in the shadows"

 

October 7

 Ellery Ingall - Georgia Institute of Technology

 "Penguins, Potatoes and Polyphosphates: Adventures in the Antarctic"

 

October 14

 Kristine DeLong - Louisiana State University

 "Climate variability for the past 250 years in the Dry Tortugas, Florida Keys from multiple species of corals"

 

October 21

 WenZhan Song - Georgia State University

 "Sensor Web for Volcano Study and Beyond"

 

October 26

 Christopher Jones - UNC Chapel Hill

 "What Are Theory and Experiment in Climate Research"

 IBB Room 1128

 

October 28

 Zafer Defne

 "Ocean Tides as an Alternative Source of Energy Production"

 

November 4

 Chaim Garfinkel - Johns Hopkins University

 "The Influence of the Stratospheric Equatorial Quasi-Biennial
Oscillation on the Troposphere"

 

November 11

 Greg Stock - Head Geologist, Yosemite National Park

"Rockfalls and landscape evolution"

 

November 18

 Martial Taillefert - Georgia Tech