Spring  2018

The Spring series has ended.  Please see  https://scicolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov for the latest information about the series.

IMPORTANT:  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.  NOT ALL BROWSERS WORK FOR ALL VIDEOS.  IF YOUR FAVORITE DOES NOT WORK, TRY A DIFFERENT ONE.  Some videos are also available for Fall 2017,  Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, 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
Feb. 28
 Robin Canup
 Southwest Research Institute
 Origin of the Moon
Mar. 7
 Rolando Garcia
 National Center for Atmospheric Research
 The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and the K-Pg Extinction  V
Mar. 13  3:45
SPECIAL DAY/TIME
 Garth Illingworth University of California, Santa Cruz THE JOHN BAHCALL LECTURE
Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn: Exploring the First Billion Years with Hubble and Spitzer - Implications for JWST
Co-sponsored by the Hubble Project and the Astrophysics Science Colloquium

V
Mar. 14
 James Beasley
 Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
 Radioactive Wildlife:  The Secret Life of Animals in Chernobyl and Fukushima
Mar. 21
 NO COLLOQUIUM
The talk by Jens Redemann will be re-scheduled.

Mar. 28 Sharon Hill
 Lithospherica, LLC
 Earthquake Lights: Are They Real?
 V
Apr. 4
 Tane Casserley
 Monitor National Marine Sanctuary Heavy Metal on the High Seas: USS Monitor and the Wartime Shipwrecks off the Coast of North Carolina
 V
Apr. 11
 No Colloquium
The previously scheduled talk will be given in the fall series.

Apr. 18
 Arthur Shapiro
 American University
 Why Are We Surprised by Only Some of the Things We See? Optical Illusions, Contrast, and Harmonic Systems
Apr. 25
 Mark Perry Applied Physics Laboratory
 Ring Rain and Tar Polluting Saturn: A New Understanding of the Interactions Between Saturn and Its Rings
V
May 1 3:45
SPECIAL DAY/TIME 		Katherine Freese
 University of Michigan
 The Dark Matter in the Universe
Co-sponsored by the Astrophysics Science Colloquium
 V
May 2
 Scott Guzewich
 Goddard Space Flight Center Swimming in Martian Lakes
 V
May 9
 Kirstin Petersen Cornell University
 Designing Robot Collectives
Co-sponsored by the Engineering Colloquium
 V
May 16
 Katherine Marvel
 Columbia University
 What Does Recent History Teach Us About Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity?
 V
May 23

 Alfred McEwen
 University of Arizona
 Are Martian Recurring Slope Lineae (RSL) Habitable?
 V
May 30
 Daniel Kadouri
 Rutgers School of Dental Medicine
 A Predator a Day Might Keep the Doctor Away

Jun. 6
 Patrick McGovern
 University of Pennsylvania
 Ancient Brews Rediscovered and Re-created

Jun. 13
 David Helfand
 Columbia University
 Surviving the Misinformation Age
 V

Other Information

Other Colloquia at Goddard

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Richard Barry
 Jim Foster Robert Michell Some Past Committee Members
Mehdi Benna
 George Huffman Alexander Pavlov
 Pawan Bhartia
Anand Bhatia Diego Janches
 Floyd Stecker Conor Nixon
Peter Colarco Demos Kazanas Dave Thompson, Chair Richard Ray

Alexander Marshak Melissa Trainer 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,  Fall 2014,  Spring 2015,  Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2014 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2014 (chronological)

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