National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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 2019, Fall 2018, 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. 25	Dante Lauretta	University of Arizona	OSIRIS-REx Explores Asteroid Bennu	V
Oct. 2	No Colloquium
Oct. 9	Sliman Bensmaia	University of Chicago	Biological and Bionic Hands: Natural Neural Coding and Artificial Perception	V
Oct. 16	No Colloquium
Oct. 23	Elaine Ostrander	National Institutes of Health	How to Build A Dog in 2,392,715,236 Simple Steps	V
Oct. 30	Michael Rampino	New York University	Mass Extinctions of Life, Flood-Basalt Volcanism and Cosmic Impacts	V
Nov. 6	Karen Lips	University of Maryland	Emerging Infectious Diseases and Impacts on Biodiversity	V
Nov. 13	Ric Mixter	Independent	The Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations	V
Nov. 20	Thomas Holtz	University of Maryland	Dinosaurs Red in Tooth and Claw: New Discoveries in the Evolution and Adaptations of Carnivorous Dinosaurs	V
Nov. 27	No colloquium
Dec. 4	Jacqueline Grebmeier	University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science	Biological Time Series Observations in the Pacific Arctic: A Key to Understanding Ecosystem Change	V
Dec. 11	Genevera Allen	Rice University	Data-Driven  Discoveries and Scientific Reproducibility
Dec. 18, 25 Jan 1, 2020	No colloquia
Jan. 8	Gerald Wilkinson	University of Maryland	Amazing Facts about Vampires and other Bats	V
Jan. 15	No Colloquium
Jan. 22	Shep Doeleman	Harvard University	Imaging a Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope	V
Jan. 29	Amy Mainzer	University of Arizona	Searching for Potentially Earth-Impacting Asteroids and Comets	V
Feb. 5	No Colloquium
Feb. 12	Nathan Steiger	Columbia University	Coupled Megadrought Risk in North and South America	V
Feb. 19	Zaven Arzoumanian Keith Gendreau	Goddard Space Flight Center	THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL LECTURE A NICER View: Physics and Astrophysics from the International Space Station	V
Feb. 26	Adam McKay	American University and Goddard Space Flight Center	The Composition of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov: Insights into Planet Formation in Other Planetary Systems

Other Information

• Suggestions or comments about the Goddard Scientific Colloquium?  Leave a message at (301) 286-8168.
• How speakers are selected for the Goddard Scientific Colloquium
• Scientific Colloquium Committee Charter
• Winners of the John C. Lindsay Memorial Award
• Winners of the William Nordberg Memorial Award
  

Other Colloquia at Goddard

• Engineering Colloquia
• Exploring Leadership Colloquia
• Information Science and Technology Colloquia

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Mehdi Benna	Ruth Lieberman	Floyd Stecker	Some Past Committee Members
Anand Bhatia	Alexander Marshak	Dave Thompson, Chair	Pawan Bhartia
Jim Foster	Robert Michell	Kelsey Young	Peter Colarco
Diego Janches	Alexander Pavlov	Dot Zukor	George Huffman
Demos Kazanas			Ed Sittler

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, Fall 2018, Spring 2019

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2019 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2019 (chronological)

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