Brown Bag Seminar Schedule
Global Hydrology and Climate Center
320 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, Alabama 35805
All Seminars are in GHCC Room 4065, 12:45 p.m.
Wednesday, August 20
Global Warming as a Problem in Statistical Physics
Bruce West (Army Research Office)
Visit Coordinators: Henry Everitt (Army-RMSRD) and John Christy (UAH)
Wednesday, August 27
Soil Moisture Retrieval Using Remotely Sensed Microwave Observations
Ashutosh Limaye (USRA)
Wednesday, September 3
Overview of Huntsville National Weather Service Office Activities and How It Interacts with Local Community and University
Mike Coyne (NOAA/NWS)
Wednesday, September 10
On the Development of Multi-Scale Cumulus Ensemble Models with Satellite Radiance Observations and Multi-Frequency Satellite Simulations
Toshi Matsui (University of Maryland)
Visit Coordinator: Andrew Molthan (UAH)
Wednesday, September 17
Night Time Cloud Retrieval
Qingyuan Han (UAH)
Wednesday, September 24
Ice, Rain, Water, and Lightning: A Prelude to Partitioning the Precipitation Water Budget
Wiebke Deierling (UCAR)
Visit Coordinator: Walt Petersen (NASA/MSFC)
Friday, September 26 at 1:00pm
Remote Sensing of Aerosols
Dr. Duli Chand (University of Washington)
Visit Coordinator: Sundar Christopher (UAH)
Wednesday, October 1
Lightning: A Striking Phenomenon
Phil Krider (University of Arizona)
Visit Coordinator: Bill Koshak (NASA/MSFC)
Wednesday, October 8
Impacts of Anthropogenic Land Cover Change on Regional Rainfall Climatology.
Dev Niyogi (Purdue University)
Visit Coordinator: Udaysankar Nair (UAH)
Wednesday, October 15
Understanding Water Availability and Building a Water Availability Toolbox
Kenneth Odom (USGS/Alabama Water Science Center)
Visit Coordinator: Jim Smoot (NASA/MSFC)
Wednesday, October 22
Seminar Class Student Presentations
Wednesday, October 29
Real Time Mission Monitor (RTMM)
Michael Goodman with Rich Blakeslee (NASA/MSFC)
Wednesday, November 5
Seminar Class Student Presentations
Wednesday, November 12
Are Chronic Lung Diseases Caused by Environmental Factors? The Role of Dust and Endotoxins
Alan Zelicoff (University of New Mexico)
Visit Coordinator: Jeff Luvall (NASA/MSFC)
Wednesday, November 19
The Future of Severe Storm Warnings
Kevin Scharfenberg (NOAA/NWS)
Visit Coordinator: Andrew Molthan (UAH)
Wednesday, November 26
Thanksgiving Holiday – No Seminar
Wednesday, December 3
Weather Effects Relative to NASA Space Vehicle Design
Barry Roberts (NASA/MSFC)
Wednesday, December 10
Predicting and Simulating Pollen Emissions and Downwind Concentrations: A NASA Rapid Prototyping Capability
Jeff Luvall (NASA/MSFC)
Wednesday, December 17
OPEN
Wednesday, December 25
Christmas Holiday – No Seminar
Wednesday, January 7
International Priorities in Atmospheric Chemistry.
Mike Newchurch (UAH)
Wednesday, January 14
No Seminar -- AMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ
Wednesday, January 21
Huntsville Climate: A 100-year Journey Through the Numbers.
Bill Crosson (USRA)
Wednesday, January 28
Fire in the Sky: The Risks Posed by Meteoroids and Asteroids
Bill Cooke (NASA/MSFC)
Wednesday, February 4
Cause or Effect? The Cloud Feedback Conundrum.
Roy Spencer (UAH)
Wednesday, February 11
Arctic Mixed Phase Clouds: Why They Matter, What We Know, and Why We Cannot Simulate Them.
Jerry Harrington (Penn State University)
Visit Coordinator: Udaysankar Nair (UAH)
Wednesday, February 18
Measurement of Aerosol Optical Properties: Principles and Applications.
Hans Moosmuller (Desert Research Institute)
Visit Coordinator: Kirk Fuller (UAH)
Wednesday, February 25
Mars: What We Know and How It Relates to the Earth. (Tentative Title)
Hilary Justh (NASA/MSFC)
Wednesday, March 4
An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Nowcast System Development.
John Williams (UCAR)
Visit Coordinator: Wayne MacKenzie (UAH)
Wednesday, March 11
Seminar Class Student Presentations
Wednesday, March 18
No Seminar -- Spring Break
Wednesday, March 25
Invited Speaker and Title Information Forthcoming.
Sundar Christopher (UAH)
Wednesday, April 1
Seminar Class Student Presentations
Wednesday, April 8
Overview of NOAA Unmanned Aircraft System Program.
Robbie Hood (NASA/MSFC -- NOAA)
Wednesday, April 15
Measurements of Hurricanes, Winter Storms, Thunderstorms and Anything Else I Can Get My Hands on Sampled by UAH’s Severe Weather Ground Based Fleet.
Dustin Phillips (UAH)
Wednesday, April 22
Recent Severe Weather Events in Alabama (Tentative Title)
Mike Coyne (NWS)
Wednesday, April 29
OPEN
Tuesday, May 5
The Role of Earth Observations in Sustainable Development in
Mesoamerica.
Emilio Sempris (SERVIR Facility – Cathalac in Panama City, Panama):
Visit Coordinator: Tom Sever (UAH)
Wednesday, May 6
Remotely Sensed Urban Heat Islands: From Assessment to Modeling.
Qhiao Weng (UAH)