Sustainability Events at Caltech
Winter 2011-2012
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
1:00am
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2/27
11:59pm
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Snowpack, climate change and water balance in a Sierra Nevada forest
Roger Bales,
Professor,
Engineering,
University of California, Merced,
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Transilience of Mass and Momentum by Convective Clouds
David Romps,
Assistant Professor,
Earth and Planetary Science,
University of California, Berkley,
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Seismic Hazards in Japan: Role of Seismology in a Modern Living Environment
Hiroo Kanamori,
John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics,
Emeritus,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Lecture
Nanorod Materials for Energy Device Applications
Dan Dapkus,
William M. Keck Professor of Engineering,
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering,
USC,
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Biological productivity in the Southern Ocean, and variability in the atmospheric CO2 concentration over long timescales
Michael Bender,
Professor of Geosciences,
Earth History and Geochemistry,
Princeton University,
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Topic to be Announced
Riley Duren,
Chief Systems Engineer,
Earth Science & Technology Directorate,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tropical and subtropical latent heat transports and their role in the general circulation of the atmosphere
Tiffany Shaw,
Assistant Professor,
Earth and Environmental Sciences & Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics,
Columbia University,
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Informing Climate and Other Contentious Decisions Under Conditions of Deep Uncertainty
Robert Lempert,
Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition,
Professor,
Pardee RAND Graduate School,
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
4:00pm
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2/28
11:59pm
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What 2000 genomes tell us about the ancient world, the modern world, and the human body
Eric Alm,
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biological Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Tracking anthropogenic emissions in megacities: ground-based network design and space-based observations
Eric Kort,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies,
JPL/Caltech,
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The salinity, temperature, and δ18O of the Glacial Deep Ocean: 10 years after the Science paper
Jake Gebbie,
Assistant Scientist,
Physical Oceanography,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Weather Underground: New speleothem records of Late Holocene climate
Kathleen Johnson,
Assistant Professor,
Earth System Science School of Physical Sciences ,
University of California, Irvine,
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Reliability of the Water Supply in Southern California
John Hall,
Professor of Civil Engineering,
Engineering and Applied Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
HAIR: History of Animals using Isotope Records
Thure Cerling,
Distinguished Professor,
Geology & Geophysics,
University of Utah,
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Linking Knowledge with Action: an approach to science grantmaking
Kai Lee,
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation,
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the Time-Varying Trend in Global-Mean Surface Temperature
Zhaohua Wu,
Assistant Professor,
Meterology,
Florida State University,
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Distributions, sources and sinks of greenhouse gases assessed using global and regional aircraft measurements
Steve Wofsy,
Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor,
Atmospheric and Environmental Science,
Harvard University,
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Smart Grid: Opportunities and Challenges in the Creation of the 21st Century Power Grid
Rajit Gadh,
Professor,
Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science,
UCLA,
Monday, March 19th, 2012
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Computational Modeling Studies of Fundamental Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
Zachary J. Lebo,
Graduate student ,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,