Texas A&M University

Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Spring 2016 Seminar Schedule

Seminars are held at 4:00 p.m. in Room 112 of the Eller O&M Building unless otherwise specified.

The nearest visitor parking is in the Central Campus Garage. (Click on the CCG building on the map for more information.)

January 19		Dr. Ottmar Moehler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - AIDA mixed-phase and ice cloud experiments: a summary of results, parameterizations and model applications
January 22 Friday		Dr. Joseph Niehaus, Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University - Ice in the Atmosphere: Laboratory Studies of Contact Freezing (seminar in Eller O&M Building Room 1106)
January 26		Michael Battalio, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University - The Solsticial Pause, Dust, and Baroclinicity in the Martian Atmosphere
		Geoffrey Roest, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University - Air Quality at a Ranch Site in the Western Part of the Eagle Ford Shale
February 2		Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University - Texas Extreme Rainfall and the Faucet Hypothesis
February 11 Thursday		Dr. Eloise Marais, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University - Air Quality in Africa: A Space-Based Perspective
February 19 Friday		Dr. Chelsea Corr, Oak Ridge University Associates, NASA Langley Research Center - Aerosol-Radiation Interactions in the Ultraviolet: Insights from Airborne and Ground-Based Remote Sensors
February 23		Dr. Gerald G. Mace, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah - Seasonal Variability Of Clouds and Precipitation in the Southern Oceans as Diagnosed from A-Train
February 25 Thursday		Dr. Cyrus Abari, Advanced Study Program, Remote Sensing Facility NCAR - Fiber-Optic and Semiconductor Lidars: The Future of Ground-Based and Airborne Optical Remote Sensing
February 29 Monday		Dr. Leung Tsang, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan - Electromagnetic Scattering Based on 3-Dimensional Solutions of Maxwell Equations for Applications to Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and Snow Water Equivalent (seminar in Eller O&M Building Room 1209)
March 1		Dr. Paquita Zuidema, RSMAS, University of Miami - Absorbing aerosols and low clouds in the southeast Atlantic
March 3		Dr. Yangyang Xu, Advanced Study Program, NCAR - The Role of Short-lived Climate Pollutants in the Past and Future Climate Change: Observational Constraints and Model Projections
March 8		Dr. Michael Kahnert, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute - Light Scattering by Small Particles in Atmospheric Optics
March 15		Spring break - no seminar
March 22		Dr. John Mecikalski, Atmospheric Science Department, University of Alabama-Huntsville - What can 1-minute Resolution GOES Super Rapid Scan Imagery tell us about Convective Clouds?
March 29		Dr. Graeme Stephens, Jet Propulsion Laboratory - The symmetric nature of Earth's energy balance and water cycle
April 4 Monday		Dr. Alan Betts - Land-surface-cloud-climate coupling on the Canadian Prairies (seminar in Eller O&M Building Room 1209)
April 5		Dr. Jonathan Martin, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Quasi-geostrophic diagnosis of the influence of vorticity advection on the development of upper level jet/front systems
April 12		Dr. Justin Deighan, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado-Boulder - TBD
April 14 Thursday		Dr. Pinar Menguc, Ozyegin University Istanbul - Optics and Buildings
April 19		Dr. Charles Kolb, President, Aerodyne Research, Inc. - TBD
April 26		Dr. Benjamin Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - TBD