| DATE | SPEAKER | AFFILIATION | TOPIC |
| 1/23/97 | Tom Moore | Marshall Space Flight Center | POLAR Plasma Inflows and Outflows |
| 1/30/97 | Bill Lotko | Dartmouth College | Dispersive Field Line Resonances, Intensive Electric Fields, and Auroral Arcs |
| 2/6/97 | Bill Burke | Phillips Laboratory | Science Accomplishments of the Tethered Satellite System Missions |
| 2/13/97 | Tim Killeen | University of Michigan | New Insights from Numerical Modeling of the Coupled Thermosphere/Ionosphere |
| 2/20/97 | T.Y. Cao | Department of Philosophy, Boston U. | A Philosopher Looks at Science |
| 2/27/97 | Bill Smyth | AER Inc | Understanding Io's Central Role in Juiter's Magnetosphere: Recent Advances |
| 3/6/97 | Don Williams | JHU/APL | Energetic Particles at Jupiter: Galileo Results |
| 3/13/97 | Spring Break | No Seminar | - |
| 3/20/97 | Leslie Young | Boston University | Observing Tritons Atmosphere using stellar occultation |
| 3/27/97 | - | No Seminar | - |
| 4/3/97 | Rich Vondrak | Goddard Space Flight Center | Sun-Earth Connections: Future Science |
| 4/10/97 | - | No Seminar | - |
| 4/17/97 | - | No Seminar | - |
| 4/24/97 | Rob Pfaff | GSFC | POLAR Observations of Plasma Waves in the Cusp |
| 5/1/97 | Dave Klumpar | Lookheed Palo Alto | New Results from FAST |