Videotapes (VHS Format) of Scientific Colloquia are available in the Goddard Library. They may be checked out with a Goddard library card or viewed in the Library. For further information, contact the Goddard Library Patron Services Desk at (301) 286-7218.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
| Sept. 11 | Jim Hartz & Rick Chappell | Vanderbilt University | Worlds
Apart: How the Distance Between Science and
Journalism Threatens America's Future |
| Sept. 18 | Brian Marsden | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | Potentially Hazardous Asteroids: '2028' and All That |
| Sept. 25 | Douglas Ubelaker | Smithsonian Institution | Forensic Anthropology: Dead Men Tell Tales |
| Oct. 2 | Richard Hoover | Marshall Space Flight Center | Are There Really Any Living Things in Meteorites? |
| Oct. 9 | Ken Jezek | Ohio State University | Mapping Antarctica: The New Results from Radarsat |
| Oct. 16 | Owen Brian Toon | University of Colorado, Boulder | Aerosols and Climate: Unsolved Problems, from the Possible Impact of Aviation on Climate to the Faint Young Sun Paradox |
| Oct. 23 | Andrea Gore | Mount Sinai School of Medicine | The Role of Estrogen Over a Lifetime of Changes - Puberty, Fertility, Menopause |
| Oct. 30 | Matthew Golombek | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Mars Pathfinder Update |
| Nov. 6 | Robert Bakker | University of Colorado | Birds! Dinosaurs or Not? |
| Nov. 13 | Lonnie Thompson | Ohio State University | WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE
Global Climate Change, Past and Present |
| Nov. 20 | Mark Cane | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
of Columbia University |
Prospects for Improving Forecasts of ENSO (El Niño and the Southern Oscillation) and its Global Consequences |
| Nov. 27 | no colloquium (Thanksgiving) | ||
| Dec. 4 | Stanley Whitcomb | California Institute of Technology | Searching
for Gravitational Waves with the Laser Interferometer
Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) |
| Dec. 11 | Howard Bond | Space Telescope Science Institute | Planetary Nebulae with Hubble Space Telescope |
| Dec. 18, 25
Jan. 1 |
no colloquia | ||
| Jan. 8 | Laura Landweber | Princeton University | DNA, Cells, and Computation |
| Jan. 15 | Heidi Hammel | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Exploring the Giant Planets with Hubble Space Telescope |
| Jan. 22 | William Phillips | National Institute for Standards and Technology | Almost Absolute Zero: the Story of Laser Cooling and Trapping |
| Jan. 29 | Michael Malin | Malin Space Science Systems | Rocks and Shocks: High Resolution Photographic Investigation of Mars |
All colloquia will be held in the Building 3 Auditorium at 3:30 p.m. Coffee and tea will be served in the Lobby beforehand, courtesy of GEWA. If you plan to attend and do not have a NASA badge, please contact Carol Krueger, at (301) 286-6878, at least 24 hours beforehand. To be added to our mailing list, call the same number.
Goddard Scientific Colloquium Committee
Bob Cahalan
Paul Lowman
John Pearl
Jim Collatz
Bob MacDowall Jerry Soffen
Joe Dolan
Steve Maran
Caroline Stahle
Demos Kazanas Claire
Parkinson Dave Thompson,
Chair.
Last Update August 19, 1998
