Spring Seminar Schedule

For a complete list of EAS events including abstracts and locations, please see our Seminars and Events Calendar:

http://www.science.purdue.edu:8085/eas/seminars

PDF Version of the Seminar Schedule

Date

Time

Speaker

Topic


Jan. 17

3:30

Dr. Noboru Nakamura, the University of Chicago

"Climatology and Trend of Large-Scale Eddy in the Troposphere and Stratosphere Diagnosed with Quasi-Conservative Coordinates”

Jan. 24

3:30

Prof Xiaodong Song, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana

"The Earth's Inner Core: Anisotropy, Rotation and Topography"

Jan. 31

3:30

Prof. Duncan Sibley, Michigan State

"Analogical Thinking and Model-Based Reasoning in Geosciences"

Feb. 7

3:30

Dr. Joya Tetreault, Univ. New Mexico

“Geodynamic Modeling of Mantle Flow in the Western United States”

Feb. 14

3:30

Prof. J. Ogg, Purdue University

Discovery Lecture:  "Super-Greenhouses and Middle East Oil"

Feb. 21

3:30

Prof. Saad Haq, Purdue University

“Experimental Modeling of Convergent Tectonics”

Feb. 28

3:30

Prof. Diane Doser, Univ. of Texas El Paso

“Seismotectonics of South-Central Alaska”

Mar. 20

3.30

Prof. Robert Korty, Texas A&M

“Moist Convection and Eddy Mixing:  How Saturation Potential Vorticity Provides New
Insights into Climate Dynamics”

Mar. 27

3:30

Dr. Ian Howat, Ohio State University

“Speeding Ice and Shifting Paradigms: Time Scales of Possible Ice Sheet Collapse”

Apr. 10

3:30

Prof. Alan Robock, Rutgers University

"Climatic Effects of Nuclear War"

Apr. 11

TBA

David Hager

EAS Awards Program

Apr. 17

3:30

Prof. Terry Pavlis, Univ. of Texas

"Tectonics in Extreme Environments: Erosion and Tectonic Interactions in the St. Elias Mountains, Alaska"

Apr. 24

2:30

Maria Zuber, MIT

College of Science Special Lecture - "Inside the Terrestrial Planets," PHYS 203

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