Spring 2013 

The Spring series has ended.  The Scientific Colloquium will resume on September 27, 2013, with the John Lindsay Memorial Award and Lecture by James Klimchuk, Why is the Solar Corona So Hot?

All Colloquia will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Fridays 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) 286-0660 or by e-mail (click here), more than 48 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. 

The Goddard Library has made streaming video available for most of our recent colloquia -- click on the V in the column to the right of the topic.  Due to speakers' authorizations, some videos are not playable outside Goddard.  Please note: connection speeds lower than 56 K may be able to handle only the audio portion of the transmission. Some videos are also available for Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010,  Spring 2010,  Fall 2009, Spring 2009, 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
Feb. 15
 Dan N. Baker
 University of Colorado
 Space Physics Exploration: Basic Research with a High Public Purpose
 V
Feb. 22
 Francis Halzen
 University of Wisconsin Particle Astrophysics with High Energy Neutrinos V
Mar. 1
 Paul Cassak
 West Virginia University
 Magnetic Reconnection - What is NASA's MMS for Anyway?
 V
Mar. 8
 Suvi Gezari
 University of Maryland
 Supermassive Black Hole Caught Red Handed in Stellar Homicide
 V
Mar. 15
 Steven Zubrick
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
 Some Meteorological Aspects of the Derecho of June 29, 2012 V
Mar. 22
 Matthew Povich
 California State Polytechnic University The Milky Way Project: Citizen Scientists Map Massive Star Formation Throughout the Galaxy V
Mar. 29
 No Colloquium


Apr. 5
 Robert Provine
 University of Maryland Baltimore County
 Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond V
Apr. 9
TUES.
3:45
 Carolyn Porco

 Space Science Institute

 The Active South Polar Terrain of Enceladus: How Its Jets, Heat and Tidal Stresses Are Related
NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME
Co-sponsored by the Astrophysics Science Division Colloquium
Apr. 11
THURS.
 		Andrea Ghez University of California, Los Angeles THE JOHN BAHCALL LECTURE
The Galactic Center: Unveiling the Heart of our Galaxy
NOTE SPECIAL DAY 		V
Apr. 19
 Miguel Nicolelis
 Duke University
 Machine-Brain Interface - CANCELED DUE TO SEQUESTRATION
Apr. 26
 Beth L. McGee
 		Chesapeake Bay Institute Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Blueprint V
May 3
 Paul Mahaffy
 Goddard Space Flight Center Satisfying our Curiosity about the Habitability of Ancient Mars with 9 Months of Exploration of Gale Crater
 V
May 10
 Jennifer Wiseman
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 Hubble at 23!   
V
May 17
 Ron Dunbar
 Stanford University
 Climate Change from Antarctica to the Tropics: How do past events influence forecasts for the future? - CANCELED DUE TO SEQUESTRATION
May 24
 No Colloquium


May 29
WED.
1:30
 Gregory Stone
 Conservation International
 Underwater Eden and What We Each Can Do to Create and Sustain a Healthy Ocean Environment
NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME
Co-Sponsored by the Exploring Leadership Colloquium Series
 V
May 31
 Jesse Feyen
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
 Predicting Sandy's Impacts: the Science behind Modeling and Communicating Storm Surge
 V
Jun. 7
 Anne Douglass
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE
An Information Avalanche: How UARS And Aura Observations Enlighten Chemistry Climate Models
 V

Other Information

Other Colloquia at Goddard

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Pawan Bhartia
 Molly Brown Hans Krimm Dave Thompson, Chair
Padi Boyd Jim Foster Conor Nixon Richard Ray, emeritus
Scott Braun Demos Kazanas Ann Parsons Ed Sittler, emeritus
Eric Brown de Coulston
 Larry Kepko Michelle Thaller


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

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2011 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2011 (chronological)

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