Department of Environmental Sciences

Seminar Schedule Spring 2018


February 01, 2019
Speaker: Sara Thomas, Molecular Environmental Geochemistry Group, Princeton University
Title: MERCURY (Hg) COORDINATION IN BACTERIA BY HIGH ENERGY RESOLUTION (HR)-XANES SPECTROSCOPY
Host: Nathan Yee, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
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February 22, 2019
Speaker: Yang Deng, Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair State University
Title: Innovative Water Treatment Solutions to Urban Water Challenges
Host: Donna Fennell, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
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March 01, 2019
Speaker: Daniel Gilford, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University
Title: Investigating 21st Century Antarctic Contributions to Sea Level Rise with a Supervised Machine Learning Technique
Host: Tony Broccoli, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
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March 08, 2019
Speaker: Mitchell Erickson, Visiting Scientist, DIMACS, Rutgers University, Science Advisor at U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Title: ENVIRONMENTAL PCB FORENSICS: PROCESSES AND ISSUES
Host: Lisa Rodenburg, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
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March 29, 2019
Speaker: Ryan Fogt , Geography Department, Ohio University
Title: A 20th century perspective of Antarctic pressure marked by variability, extremes, and change
Host: Kyle Clem, Rutgers University
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April 12, 2019
Speaker: Matthew Rhodes , Department of Biology, College of Charleston
Title: The Oceans X10: Life at the limit of salinity
Host: Kat Dawson, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
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Friday, April 26, 2019, 11:00 am, refreshments at 10:45 am
ENR building, room 334
Speaker: Allison Collow , Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD. NASA GSFC Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD.
Title: An Overview of MERRA-2 and the Influence of Prescribed Boundary Conditions on Near-Surface Temperature over the Arctic
Host: Tony Broccoli, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
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April 26, 2019
Speaker: Clay Tabor , Department of Geography, University of Connecticut
Title: Exploring the Climate Responses to the Asteroid Impact at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary
Host: Tony Broccoli, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
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May 03, 2019
Speaker: Craig Phelps, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
Title: Sophronia's Gardens: Teaching Microbiology in the Progressive Age
Host: Donna Fennell, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
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May 10, 2019
Speaker: Salvatore Pascale, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Title: Current and Future Variations of the North American Moonsoon in a Warming Climate
Host: Ben Lintner, Director, Graduate Program in Atmospheric Science, Rutgers University
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