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Spring 2010

The Spring series has now concluded. Please watch for updates on our Fall series.

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 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 .

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Topic	Video
March 5	Mark Clampin	Goddard Space Flight Center	Direct Imaging of Exoplanets	V
March 12	Margaret Leinen	Climate Response Fund	What Are the Implications of Increased Calls for Geoengineering Research?	V
March 19	Suzanne Young	University of Massachusetts	The Phoenix Mission to Mars: Top Ten Discoveries of NASA’s Innovative Explorer of the Red Planet and the Implications for Bio-habitability	V
March 26	Gerald Fishman	Marshall Space Flight Center	Space-borne Observations of Intense Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) above Thunderstorms	V
April 2	No Colloquiuim
April 9	Warren Wiscombe	Goddard Space Flight Center	The Atmospheric Radiation Measurements Program (ARM): A Revolutionary Approach to Field Campaigns	V
April 16	Michael Montgomery	Naval Postgraduate School	Some Recent Developments in Tropical Cyclone Dynamics	V
April 23	Anthony Colaprete	Ames Research Center	Results from the LCROSS Experiment	V
April 30	David Lynch	The Aerospace Corporation	Color and Light in Nature	V
May 7	Kelly T. Redmond	Western Regional Climate Center	Western United States Climate Variability and Change: Observations and Projections	V
May 14	Adam Riess	Johns Hopkins University	Expansion and Dark Energy	V
May 21	David McComas	Southwest Research Institute	Science Results from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer - IBEX	V
May 28	John Seiradakis Tom Malzbender	Aristotle University, Greece Hewlett-Packard Laboratories	The Antikythera Mechanism Co-sponsored with the Goddard Engineering Colloquium	V
June 4	No Colloquium
June 11 2:00 p.m.	M. O. Andreae	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry	Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in the Climate System	V
June 11 3:30 p.m.	Mark Whittle	University of Virginia	Primal Scream: Sounds from the Infant Universe	V

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Scott Braun	Ann Hornschemeier	Ed Sittler
Molly Brown	Demos Kazanas	Michael Smith
Mian Chin	Randy Kimble	George Sonneborn
Jim Foster	Richard Ray	Dave Thompson, Chair.

Previous Schedules: Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003,
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