Spring  2019

The current series has ended.  The Scientific Colloquium will resume in the fall.  Watch https://scicolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov for current information.

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 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017,  Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010,  Spring 2010,  Fall 2009, Spring2009, 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. 19
SPECIAL DAY/TIME
Tues.   3:45
 		Natalie Batalha
 University of California, Santa Cruz
 THE JOHN BAHCALL LECTURE
Lava Worlds to Living Worlds: A Retrospective of NASA's Kepler Mission
Co-sponsored by the Hubble Space Telescope Project and the Astrophysics Science Colloquium
 		V
Feb. 20
 No colloquium


Feb. 27
 Compton Tucker re-scheduled Goddard Space Flight Center Dinosaurs, Milankovitch Cycles & Back to a Cretaceous Earth V
Mar. 6
 Dagomar Degroot
 Georgetown University
 Civilization and the Solar System: Cosmic Upheavals and Human History V
Mar. 13
 Tyler Faith
 University of Utah
 What Drove Africa's Megaherbivores to Extinction?
 V
Mar. 20 Eric Christian
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 The Edge of the Solar System and Beyond
 V
Mar. 27
 John D. Richardson Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Voyager Observations of the Outer Heliosphere and Interstellar Medium
Mar. 29
SPECIAL DAY/TIME
Fri.   3:00 p.m.

Our Years with Piers: A Tribute to Piers Sellers
Including: I saw how fragile and infinitely precious the world is
by Bruce Adolphe
composed in memory of Piers Sellers
for mezzo-soprano, cello, and recorded sounds
East Coast Premiere
 		V
Apr. 3
 Joan Edwards
 Williams College
 Botanical Explosions: The Evolutionary Impact of Ultra-Fast Plants
 V
Apr. 10
 Nancy Connell
 Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
 Global Catastrophic Biological Risk (GCBR)
 V
Apr. 17
 Steve Schwartz Brookhaven National Laboratory
 How Long Does Anthropogenic CO2 Stay in the Atmosphere? V
Apr. 24
 Marco Ajello
 Clemson University The Star-Formation History of the Universe
 V
Apr. 26
SPECIAL DAY
Fri.
Peter Brown University of Western Ontario
 The Impact Hazard from Small Near-Earth Objects: Lessons from Chelyabinsk V
May 1
 Kathleen Bragdon
 College of William and Mary
 Native Americans and Anthropologists: A New Relationship V
May 8
 Michael Behrenfeld Oregon State University
 The Wonderful World of the Plankton - A Tour from Biochemistry to Space
V
May 15

 Gillen D'Arcy Wood
 Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
 Tambora and the Year Without a Summer, 1816
 V
May 22
 Fred H. Smith Illinois State University Neandertals in Evolutionary Perspective V
May 29
 Scott Bolton
 Southwest Research Institute
 The New Jupiter Revealed by Juno
 V
June 3
SPECIAL DAY/TIME/PLACE
Mon.   Noon
B34 W150
 David Brin
Opportunities, Danger, and Destiny in the Solar System ... and Beyond
 V
June 5
 Thomas Ackermann
 University of Washington
 Is There a Path Forward for Solar Climate Engineering? V
June 12
 No colloquium
The talk previously scheduled will be moved to the fall.



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 Richard Ray
Peter Colarco Demos Kazanas Dave Thompson, Chair Ed Sittler

Alexander Marshak Kelsey Young
 Melissa Trainer

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,  Fall2014,  Spring 2015,  Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017 Spring 2018, Fall 2018

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2018 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2018 (chronological)

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