Fall-Winter 2023-24
All Colloquia will be held
at 3:00 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.
AT PRESENT, ALL VIDEOS OF
SCIENTIFIC COLLOQUIA ARE OFFLINE FOR SERVER
UPGRADES.
Current
Schedule
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
Video
Sept. 20
Michael
Kirk
Goddard
Space Flight
Center
NASA’s Role in the 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipses
Sept.
27
Bruce
Banerdt
Jet Propulsion
Laboratory
The Scientific Legacy of
the InSight
Mission
Oct.
4
George
Huffman
Goddard
Space Flight
Center
THE
WILLIAM NORDBERG
MEMORIAL LECTURE
How Much Did It Rain in Your Backyard, and
Around the
Globe?
Oct. 11
Hugo
Alaya Solares
Pennsylvania
State University
High-Energy Gamma-ray
Astronomy with
the HAWC
Observatory
Oct. 18
Jochen
Heinrich
University of
Oregon
A Stroll in the Dark: Hunting Dark Matter at
the Large
Hadron
Collider
Oct.
25
Stephen
Greenberg
University of
Maryland
Six Scientists and their Books
Nov.
1
Jennifer Raff
University
of Kansas
The Earliest Americans
Nov.
8
Lea Marcotulli
Yale
University
The Most Powerful Persistent Jets through
Cosmic Time
Nov. 15
Jonathan
Gardner
Goddard Space
Flight Center
THE JOHN C.
LINDSAY MEMORIAL
LECTURE
Science from the First Year with the James
Webb Space
Telescope
Nov.
22
NO
COLLOQUIUM
Nov. 29
Karen King
University of
Tennessee,
Knoxville
Tree Rings Reveal Unprecedented 21st Century Heat
Across the
Pacific
Northwest of
North America
Dec.
6
David
McRaney
Independent
How Minds Change
Dec. 13
Dylan
Selterman
Johns Hopkins
University
What Can We Learn from Dreams?
Dec.
20, 27, Jan. 3,
2024
NO
COLLOQUIA
Jan.
10, 2024
Elizabeth
Turtle
Johns
Hopkins Applied
Physics
Laboratory
Dragonfly:
Revolutionary
In-Situ
Exploration of
Prebiotic
Chemistry and
Habitability
on Saturn's
Moon Titan
Jan.
17
Emily
Martin
Smithsonian
Institution
Geological
Implications
of Enceladus's
Plume-derived
'Snow' Fall
Jan.
24
Erika
Holmbeck
Lawrence
Livermore
National
Laboratory
The Fission Fragments
in Our Stars
Jan.
31
Jacqueline
Austermann
Columbia
University
Predicting Coastal
Responses to a
Changing
Greenland Ice
Sheet
Feb.
7
Robert
Herrick
University
of Alaska
Fairbanks
Volcanism on Venus:
Past, Present,
and Future
Feb.
14
No
Colloquium
Feb.
21
Jen
Golbeck
University
of Maryland
The Bond Between People
and Dogs
Feb.
28
David
Diner
Jet
Propulsion
Laboratory
Advancing
Ambient
Particulate
Matter
Monitoring for
Societal
Benefit
Mar.
6
No
Colloquium
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
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, Fall 2021, Spring
2022, Fall 2022, Spring
2023
Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2022
(alphabetic by
name)
Current
Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 20 |
Michael
Kirk |
Goddard
Space Flight
Center |
NASA’s Role in the 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipses |
|
| Sept.
27 |
Bruce
Banerdt |
Jet Propulsion
Laboratory |
The Scientific Legacy of
the InSight
Mission |
|
| Oct.
4 |
George
Huffman |
Goddard
Space Flight
Center |
THE
WILLIAM NORDBERG
MEMORIAL LECTURE How Much Did It Rain in Your Backyard, and Around the Globe? |
|
| Oct. 11 |
Hugo
Alaya Solares |
Pennsylvania
State University |
High-Energy Gamma-ray
Astronomy with
the HAWC
Observatory |
|
| Oct. 18 |
Jochen
Heinrich |
University of
Oregon |
A Stroll in the Dark: Hunting Dark Matter at
the Large
Hadron
Collider |
|
| Oct. 25 | Stephen
Greenberg |
University of
Maryland |
Six Scientists and their Books |
|
| Nov.
1 |
Jennifer Raff |
University
of Kansas |
The Earliest Americans |
|
| Nov. 8 | Lea Marcotulli |
Yale
University |
The Most Powerful Persistent Jets through
Cosmic Time |
|
| Nov. 15 |
Jonathan
Gardner |
Goddard Space
Flight Center |
THE JOHN C.
LINDSAY MEMORIAL
LECTURE Science from the First Year with the James Webb Space Telescope |
|
| Nov.
22 |
NO
COLLOQUIUM |
|||
| Nov. 29 |
Karen King |
University of
Tennessee,
Knoxville |
Tree Rings Reveal Unprecedented 21st Century Heat
Across the
Pacific
Northwest of
North America |
|
| Dec.
6 |
David
McRaney |
Independent |
How Minds Change |
|
| Dec. 13 |
Dylan
Selterman |
Johns Hopkins
University |
What Can We Learn from Dreams? |
|
| Dec.
20, 27, Jan. 3,
2024 |
NO
COLLOQUIA |
|||
| Jan.
10, 2024 |
Elizabeth
Turtle |
Johns
Hopkins Applied
Physics
Laboratory |
Dragonfly: Revolutionary In-Situ Exploration of Prebiotic Chemistry and Habitability on Saturn's Moon Titan | |
| Jan.
17 |
Emily
Martin |
Smithsonian
Institution |
Geological Implications of Enceladus's Plume-derived 'Snow' Fall | |
| Jan.
24 |
Erika
Holmbeck |
Lawrence
Livermore
National
Laboratory |
The Fission Fragments
in Our Stars |
|
| Jan.
31 |
Jacqueline
Austermann |
Columbia
University |
Predicting Coastal
Responses to a
Changing
Greenland Ice
Sheet |
|
| Feb.
7 |
Robert
Herrick |
University
of Alaska
Fairbanks |
Volcanism on Venus:
Past, Present,
and Future |
|
| Feb.
14 |
No
Colloquium |
|||
| Feb.
21 |
Jen
Golbeck |
University
of Maryland |
The Bond Between People
and Dogs |
|
| Feb.
28 |
David
Diner |
Jet
Propulsion
Laboratory |
Advancing Ambient Particulate Matter Monitoring for Societal Benefit | |
| Mar.
6 |
No
Colloquium |
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
Scientific
Colloquium
Committee
| Shahid
Aslam |
Demos
Kazanas |
Floyd
Stecker |
Some
Past Committee
Members |
| |
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, Fall 2021, Spring
2022, Fall 2022, Spring
2023
Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2022 (alphabetic by name)
