Spring 2016
The spring series has now ended.
See the current schedule HERE.
All Colloquia will be held at 3:30 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.
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. Some videos are also available for Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mar. 2 |
Jessica Miesel | Michigan State
University |
Fires in the Wild West: Forest Carbon, Black Carbon and Post-fire Nutrient Dynamics - TALK POSTPONED | |
Mar. 9 | Wendy Freedman | University of Chicago |
Measurement
of Cosmological
Parameters - TALK
POSTPONED |
|
Mar. 16 |
Gerald North |
Texas A&M University | What
Can a Greenland Ice Core
Tell us about Climate
over the Last 4000
Years? |
V |
Mar. 23 |
G. Fritz Benedict | McDonald Observatory | Hipparcos, Hubble Space Telescope, and Gaia: A Golden Age of Astrometry | |
Mar. 29 |
Ewine van Dishoeck |
Leiden University |
THE
JOHN BAHCALL
LECTURE Where Does the Water in Our Oceans Come from? |
V |
Mar. 30 |
Jessica Miesel |
Michigan State
University |
Fires in the Wild West: Forest Carbon, Black Carbon and Post-fire Nutrient Dynamics | |
Apr. 6 |
Sara Via |
University of Maryland |
Climate Change Effects on Native Plants | |
Apr.
13 |
Adele Morrison |
Princeton University |
Upwelling
in the Southern Ocean |
|
Apr. 20 |
Raman Sundrum |
University of Maryland |
Particle
Physics, the Large
Hadron Collider, and
Beyond |
|
Apr. 27 | No Colloquium |
|
|
|
May 4 |
Harvey
Moseley |
Goddard
Space Flight Center |
Exploration, Discovery, and Technology in Space Astrophysics | |
May 11 |
James Green |
NASA
Headquarters |
The
Martian: Science
Fiction and Science Fact |
|
May 18 |
Thomas
Moore |
Goddard
Space Flight Center |
The Magnetic Musculature of Space as Revealed by MMS | |
May 25 |
Graham Feingold |
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration |
Quantifying Aerosol Influences on the Cloud Radiative Effect | |
Jun. 1 |
Richard Larson |
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology |
Queues: The Long and the Short of Waiting | |
Jun. 8 |
No Colloquium |
|
||
Jun. 15 |
Rafael Casellas |
National Institutes of Health | CRISPR:
Enabling the 21st
Century Biological
Revolution |
|
Aug. 17 |
Piers Sellers |
Goddard Space Flight
Center |
THE WILLIAM NORDBERG
MEMORIAL LECTURE NASA and the Land Biosphere |
|
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
Richard Barry |
Jim Foster | Alexander Marshak | Dong Wu | Richard Ray, emeritus |
|
George Huffman | Michelle Thaller | Pawan Bhartia, emeritus | Ed Sittler, emeritus |
Peter Colarco |
Demos Kazanas | Dave Thompson, Chair | Padi Boyd, emeritus | |
Carlos Del Castillo | Hans Krimm | Melissa Trainer | Conor Nixon, emeritus |
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, Spring
2014, Fall
2014, Spring
2015, Fall
2015,
Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2014 (alphabetic by name)