Department of Environmental Sciences

Seminar Schedule Fall 2017


September 8, 2017
Speaker: Alan Robock and Brian Zambri, Rutgers University
Title: Did Smoke from Burning Japanese Cities in 1945 Cause Global Cooling?
Host: Alan Robock
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September 15, 2017
Speaker: Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia University
Title: Why has the tropical lower stratosphere stopped cooling for the last 20 years?
Host: Tony Broccoli
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September 29, 2017
Speaker: Jonathan Alan King, MIT Dept. of Biology
Title: Investing in Minds or Missiles? Congressional Budget Choices.
Host: Alan Robock
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October 6, 2017
Speaker: Daniel Van Abs, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University
Title: How Much Water People Use: Estimating Residential Per Capita Demands in New Jersey
Host: Donna Fennell
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October 27, 2017
Speaker: Clara Orbe, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Title: Large-Scale Tropospheric Transport: Constraints from Models and Observations
Host: Ben Lintner
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December 1, 2017
Speaker: Jamie Lead, University of South Carolina
Title: Implications and applications of nanotechnology
Host: Gedi Mainelis
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