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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 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, 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.

Current Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Video
Mar. 3	Sean Carroll	California Institute of Technology	The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics	V
Mar. 10	Joel Schwartz	Harvard University	Combining Remote Sensing, Chemical Transport Models, Land Use and Meteorology to Estimate Air Pollution Exposure for Health Studies and Risk Assessments	V
Mar. 17	Abigail Swann	University of Washington	Quantifying the Role that Terrestrial Ecosystems Play in Earth's Climate	V
Mar. 24	Benjamin Stevens	Trinity University	Nihil sub sole novum? Some Ancient Histories of Science Fiction	V
Mar. 31	Valerie Trouet	University of Arizona	A Tree-ring Perspective on Fire and Climate Dynamics	V
Apr. 7	Michael Raupp	University of Maryland	Return of Periodical Cicadas: Fear, Fascination, and Fun in 2021	V
Apr. 14	No Colloquium
Apr. 21	Sean Fleming	U. S. Department of Agriculture Oregon State University	The Physics of Predicting Rivers: How We Do It, and Why It's Important	V
Apr. 28	Christina Richey	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Let's Talk IDEA in Science	V
May 5	No Colloquium
May 12	Eliezer Gurarie	University of Maryland	Caribou and Climate Change: Towards a Global Ecology of Animal Movements	V
May 19	Seth Rittenhouse	U.S. Naval Academy	Rydberg Atoms and Molecules: Connecting the Microscopic and Macroscopic Worlds	V
May 26	Robert Rogers	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	NOAA Airborne Hurricane Research through the Intensity Forecasting Experiment (IFEX): Past, Present, and Future	V
Jun. 2	Casey Honnibal	Goddard Space Flight Center	Lunar Surface Hydration: A View from Earth	V

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

• Engineering Colloquia
• Exploring Leadership Colloquia
• Information Science and Technology Colloquia

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Mehdi Benna	Ruth Lieberman	Floyd Stecker	Some Past Committee Members
Anand Bhatia	Alexander Marshak	Dave Thompson, Chair	Pawan Bhartia
Jim Foster	Robert Michell	Kelsey Young	Peter Colarco
Diego Janches	Alexander Pavlov	Dot Zukor	George Huffman
Demos Kazanas			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,  Fall2014,  Spring 2015,  Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017 Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2019 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2019 (chronological)

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