Fall-Winter 2021-22

THE FALL-WINTER SERIES HAS CONCLUDED.  PLEASE VISIT https://scicolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, 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.

Current Schedule - talks are at 3:00 p.m. Eastern time, except as noted.

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Video
Oct. 6
2:00 p.m.
Tonima Ananna
 Dartmouth College
 Modeling the Intrinsic Population of Active Galactic Nuclei Using High-energy X-rays
 		 V
Oct. 13
 Michael Shermer
 Skeptic Magazine/Chapman University
 Understanding the Unidentified
 V
Oct. 20
4:00 p.m.
 John Cook
 Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub
 Using Psychology and Critical Thinking to Build Resilience Against Misinformation
  V
Oct. 27
 James Head III
 Brown University
 The Ancient Climate of Mars: Was the Ambient Climate 'Warm and Wet' or 'Cold and Icy'?
 V
Nov. 3
 No Colloquium


Nov. 10 Andrea Dupree
 Center for Astrophysics
Harvard and Smithsonian
 The Mysterious Great Dimming of Betelgeuse
 V
Nov. 17
 Charles Cockell
 University of Edinburgh
 Using Microbes and Prisons for the Settlement of Space
 V
Nov. 24 No Colloquium


Dec. 1
 Sean Carroll
 University of Maryland
 Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
 V
Dec. 8
 David Jewitt
 University of California Los Angeles
 Phaethon and the Geminids: How Asteroids Fall Apart
 V
Dec. 15, 22, 29
Jan. 5
 No Colloquia


Jan. 12
 Keith Noll
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 NASA's Lucy Mission - First Exploration of the Trojan Asteroids
 V
Jan. 19
 Brett McGuire
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 The PAH Revolution: Cold, Dark Carbon at the Earliest Stages of Star Formation
 V
Jan. 26
 Leda Kobziar
 University of Idaho
 The Hidden Life of Smoke: Wildfire Emissions of Bacteria and Fungi Alter the Atmospheric Microbiome
 V
Feb. 2
 David DeVorkin
 Smithsonian Institution
 From the Laboratory to the Moon: the Life of George R. Carruthers
Feb. 9
 Lisa Thomson
Jared Westbrook
 The American Chestnut Foundation
 The Life, Death and Rebirth of the American Chestnut
 V
Feb. 16
 Monya Baker
 Nature Magazine
 Reproducibility in Biomedical Research
 V
Feb. 23
 No Colloquium
The talk previously scheduled for this date will be held in the fall

Other Information

Other Colloquia at Goddard

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Shahid Aslam
 Demos Kazanas
 Floyd Stecker
 Some Past Committee Members
Mehdi Benna
 Rosemary Killen
 Dave Thompson, Chair
 Pawan Bhartia
Anand Bhatia
 Ruth Lieberman
 Compton Tucker
 Peter Colarco
Jim Foster
 Alexander Marshak
 Dot Zukor
 George Huffman
Diego Janches
 Robert Michell
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, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021 

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

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2019 (chronological)

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