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Fall-Winter 2007-08

This series has concluded. The current schedule is HERE.

All Colloquia will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Fridays in the Building 3 (Goett) auditorium, except as noted.

If you would like to attend and do not have a NASA badge, please contact the Scientific Colloquium at (301) 286-0660 or by e-mail (click here), more than 48 hours beforehand. Use the same contact information to be added to our mailing list. Access to Goddard Space Flight Center is limited to those holding Goddard badges or official visitors. You can become an official visitor by finding a badged Goddard employee to escort you. The Scientific Colloquium Committee cannot promise to provide escorts.

The Goddard Library has made streaming video available for some colloquia by clicking on the V in the column to the right of the topic. Due to speakers' authorizations, some videos are not playable outside Goddard. Please note: connection speeds lower than 56 K may be able to handle only the audio portion of the transmission. Some videos are also available for Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004 , Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002 , Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2001, and Fall 2000 .

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Topic	Video
Oct. 5	Fred Lo	National Radio Astronomy Observatory	Megamasers, Dark Energy, and the Hubble Constant	V
Oct. 12	John Sigwarth	Goddard Space Flight Center	Global Auroral Imaging During the Polar Mission Era	V
Oct. 19	Joel Schwartz	Harvard School of Public Health	Aerosols and Health	V
Oct. 26	Massimo Robberto	Space Telescope Science Institute	The Hubble View of the Orion Nebula	V
Nov. 2	Paul Slovic	Decision Research	The Sociopolitics of Risk: Challenges for Risk Assessment	V
Nov. 9	Scott Murchie	Applied Physics Laboratory	Mapping of Mars' Surface and Atmosphere by the CRISM Imaging Spectrometer on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter	V
Nov. 16	Louis Uccellini	NOAA Centers for Environmental Prediction	THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE Use of Satellite Data in Operational Numerical Weather Prediction: Present Status and Future Challenges	V
Nov. 23	No Colloquium
Nov. 30	Joey Comiso	Goddard Space Flight Center	Decadal Changes in the Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Cover	V
Dec. 7	Wayne Esais	Goddard Space Flight Center	Honey Bees, Satellites, and Climate Change	V
Dec. 14	Geoffrey Marcy	University of California, Berkeley	THE JOHN BAHCALL MEMORIAL LECTURE Properties of Exoplanets: Orbits, Interiors, and Origins	V
Dec. 21, 28 Jan. 4, 11	No Colloquia
Jan. 18	Michael Kaiser	Goddard Space Flight Center	New Views of the Sun and Inner Solar System from STEREO	V
Jan. 25.	Jonathan Lunine	University of Arizona	Titan from Cassini-Huygens: A Once and Future Earth?	V
Feb. 1	No Colloquium		The talk by Dr. John McDonald, "Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury" has been re-scheduled for May 16.
Feb. 8	Ruth DeFries	University of Maryland	Carbon Emissions from Tropical Deforestation: Science Meets Policy	V
Feb. 15	Jennifer Wiseman	Goddard Space Flight Center	The Wave(length)s of the Future: Observing Star and Planet Formation with ALMA and Herschel	V
Feb. 22	James Russell, III	Hampton University	Overview and Science Results from the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) Mission - Talk Postponed until March 7
Feb. 29	A. R. Ravishankara	NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory	Role of Aerosols in Earth’s Climate: From Radiative Forcing to Chemistry	V

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