Fall-Winter  2018-19

The Fall series has ended.  The current schedule is HERE

IMPORTANT:  All Colloquia will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesdays 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) 286-8168, more than 72 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.

PLEASE NOTE: TALKS IN THE GODDARD SCIENTIFIC COLLOQUIUM SERIES REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE SPEAKERS.  THEY ARE NOT OFFICIAL GODDARD OR NASA POLICIES.

The Goddard Library has made streaming video available for many of our colloquia -- click on the V in the column to the right of the topic.  NOT ALL BROWSERS WORK FOR ALL VIDEOS.  IF YOUR FAVORITE DOES NOT WORK, TRY A DIFFERENT ONE.  Some videos are also available for Spring 2018, Fall 2017,  Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010,  Spring 2010,  Fall 2009, Spring2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008,  Fall 2007,  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.

Current Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Video
Sept. 19
 Robert Weryk
 University of Hawaii
 `Oumuamua: the First Interstellar Comet
 V
Sept. 26 BUILDING 8 AUDITORIUM
 Leah Krubitzer
 University of California, Davis
 Cortical Plasticity Within and Across Lifetimes
 V
Oct. 3
 Nick Pyenson Smithsonian Institution
 The Past, Present, and Future of Whales
 V
Oct. 10
 Steve Ritz
 University of California, Santa Cruz
 Observing the Universe Broadly, Deeply, and Frequently V
Oct. 17
 Jane Rigby
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL LECTURE
A Magnified Vision of How Galaxies Evolve
 V
Oct. 24 NO COLLOQUIUM


Oct. 31
 Anne Thompson
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE
Variability in Ozone Structure: Insights from Strategic Ozonesonde Networks
 V
Nov. 7
 NO COLLOQUIUM
The previously scheduled talk has been postponed until February, 2019.

Nov. 14
 Philip Pressel
 Perkin-Elmer
 The Hexagon KH-9 Spy Satellite
CO-SPONSORED BY THE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM
 V
Nov. 21
 NO COLLOQUIUM
 
Nov. 28 J. Marshall Shepherd
 University of Georgia
 From the "Brown Ocean Effect" to Water Availability: Two Facets of the Hydroclimate from a NASA Perspective
 V
Dec. 5 - re-scheduled
 Dagomar Degroot
 Georgetown University Civilization and the Solar System: Cosmic Upheavals and Human History
Dec. 12
 Ernie Wright Goddard Space Flight Center
 CSI Apollo: Recreating the Iconic Earthrise Photograph
Dec. 19, Dec. 26, Jan. 2, 2019
 NO COLLOQUIA


Jan. 9
Will re-schedule
 Peter Marra
 Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
 Studying Birds in the Context of the Annual Cycle
Jan. 16
Will re-schedule 		Kathleen Bragdon
 College of William and Mary
 Native Americans and Anthropologists: A New Relationship

Jan. 23
Will re-schedule
 Fred Smith
 Illinois State University
 Neandertals in Evolutionary Perspective

Jan. 30
Will re-schedule
 Gillen D'Arcy Wood
 Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
 Tambora and the Year Without a Summer, 1816
Feb. 6
 Brian Fields
 University of Illinois
 When Stars Attack! Near-Earth Supernova Explosions Revealed by Deep-Ocean and Lunar Radioactivity V
Feb. 13
 Angela Olinto
 University of Chicago
 Space Probes of the Highest Energy Particles: POEMMA & EUSO-SPB

Other Information

Other Colloquia at Goddard

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Richard Barry
 Jim Foster Robert Michell Some Past Committee Members
Mehdi Benna
 George Huffman Alexander Pavlov
 Pawan Bhartia
Anand Bhatia Diego Janches
 Floyd Stecker Richard Ray
Peter Colarco Demos Kazanas Dave Thompson, Chair Ed Sittler

Alexander Marshak Kelsey Young
 Melissa Trainer

Previous Schedules: Fall 1998, Spring 1999,Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003,
Spring 2004, Fall 2004,  Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006,  Fall 2006,  Spring 2007,  Fall 2007,  Spring 2008,  Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Fall 2009 Spring 2010 Fall 2010 Spring 2011 Fall 2011  Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013,  Fall 2013, Spring2014,  Fall2014,  Spring 2015,  Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017 Spring 2018

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2018 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2018 (chronological)

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