All departmental colloquia are held on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m.  in room 112 Walker Building unless otherwise noted.  Refreshments for Thursday seminars are served at 3:30 p.m. in the Alfred K. Blackadar Reading Room (529 Walker). Previous semester schedules are listed at the bottom of the page.

September 23

Dr. Jenni Evans
Department of Meteorology
Penn State University

"Rocking and Rolling with Hurricane Ivan -- or the Things You Can Find if You Leave the Classroom."

October 7

Andy Dessler
NASA/University of Maryland

"Tropical troposphere-stratosphere mass exchange"

October 14

Scott Isard
Professor of Aerobiology
Penn State University

"An Aerobiological Assessment of Soybean Rust Threat to North America"

October 21

Dave Fitzjarrald
SUNY Albany

"At the end of the day into the core of the night"

October 28

*sponsored by the Center for Advanced
Carbon-Cycle Research and Education (ACRE) in EESI

Kevin Gurney
Colorado State University

"The view from on high: Atmospheric C02 inversions to estimate carbon sources and sinks"

November 4

George Young
Department of Meteorology
Penn State University

(Fei Chen's talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for a future date.)

"Computer Languages: Choices for Accelerating Research"

November 11

Bill Ryan
Dept. of Meteorology
Penn State University

"Air Quality Forecasting: Current Practice and Recent Advances"

November 18

Tim Marshall
Haag Engineering

"Tornado Damage Surveys"

November 25

THANKSGIVING - NO
COLLOQUIUM

December 2

Brett Taubman
Department of Meteorology
Penn State University

"Impact of the 2003 blackout on atmospheric chemistry"

December 9

Bob Hart
Department of Meteorology
Florida State University

"The Karmic Afterlife of Tropical Cyclones"

December 16

FINALS WEEK - NO COLLOQUIUM

Schedules from previous semesters: