National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Spring 2023

All Colloquia will be held at 3:00 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 Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, 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
Feb. 15	Michael McCormick	Harvard University	The Worst Year: new light on 536 CE, climate change and human history from the Science of the Human Past at Harvard (SoHP) and the Climate Change Institute, University of Maine
Feb. 22	Dennis Reuter Amy Simon	Goddard Space Flight Center	THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL LECTURE Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs: a Tale of Two Instruments
Mar. 1	Paul Mahaffy	Goddard Space Flight Center	Martian Organics, Isotopes, and the Evolution of Habitability Explored in Gale Crater with the Curiosity Rover and from Orbit with the MAVEN Mission
Mar. 8	Andrew Dessler	Texas A&M University	Climate Change: On the Brink of Disaster and the Brink of Salvation
Mar. 15	Randy Koster	Goddard Space Flight Center	THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE Impact of Land Processes on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction
Mar. 22	NO COLLOQUIUM
Mar. 29	NO COLLOQUIUM		The talk by Bruce Banerdt has been re-scheduled for September 27
Apr. 5	Alex Ruane	Goddard Institute for Space Studies	The IPCC Sixth Assessment Synthesis Report - Impacts across Generations and Clearing a Path Forward
Apr. 11 NOON	Compton Tucker	Goddard Space Flight Center	Carbon Stocks of African Dryland Trees from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea
Apr. 12	Jacob Haqq Misra	Blue Marble Institute of Science	Escaping the Great Filter: The Future of Civilization and the Search for Technosignatures
Apr. 19	P. Jeremy Werdell	Goddard Space Flight Center	Observing the Microscopic Living (and Non-Living) Ocean from Space
Apr. 26	Elisabetta Matsumoto	Georgia Institute of Technology	Knotty Knits: A Chat about Math and Crafts
May 3	Adam Sobel	Columbia University	Climate Risk Science, Fundamental and Applied
May 10	Rachel Wood	University of Edinburgh	The Cambrian Explosion
May 17	Fred Espenak	Goddard Space Flight Center	The Great North American Total Eclipse of 2024
May 24	Lindley Johnson Kelly Fast	NASA Headquarters	Planetary Defense at NASA
May 31	Yvette Cendes	Harvard/Center for Astrophysics	Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs): Progress, Open Questions, and Prospects
Jun. 7	Joanna Joiner	Goddard Space Flight Center	THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE How Do We Make and Improve Satellite Data Products that Enable Breakthrough Science? Journeys through Solar Backscatter Observations

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

Shahid Aslam	Demos Kazanas	Floyd Stecker	Some Past Committee Members
Mehdi Benna	Rosemary Killen	Dave Thompson, Chair	Pawan Bhartia
Anand Bhatia	Ruth Lieberman	Compton Tucker	Peter Colarco
Jim Foster	Alexander Marshak	Dot Zukor	George Huffman
Diego Janches	Robert Michell		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, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2022 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2022 (chronological)

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