Spring 2009 Seminar Series

Date Speaker Topic
1/15 Michael Mendillo
Boston University
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1/22 Jack Mustard
Brown University
Hydrated Minerals on Mars and their Geologic Environments: Implications
for the History of Water
1/29 Marina Galand
Imperial College
The Weird Ionosphere of Titan Revealed by Cassini
2/5 Stephen Fuselier
Lockheed Martin
Progress on Understanding Magnetic Reconnection Using Observations
from Earth’s Magnetospheric Cusps
2/12 Larisa Goncharenko
Haystack Obs/MIT
Are Fluctuations in the Ionosphere Linked to Sudden Warming
in the Stratosphere?
2/19 Jeff Thayer
University of Colorado
Solar Wind – Thermosphere Coupling: A Newly Discovered Breathing
Mode of the Upper Atmosphere
2/26 Mark Miesch
HAO/NCAR
Convection, Magnetism and the Inner Turmoil of Stars
3/5 Katia Matcheva
University of Florida
Gravity Waves in Planetary Atmosphere
3/19 Rosanna Sattler
Posternak Blankstein & Lund
Space Law
3/26 Margaret Campbell-Brown
University of Western Ontario
Meteors: Watch Out!
4/2 Joe Giacalone
University of Arizona
New Stuff About the Heliosphere
4/9 Nick Kanas
University of California, San Francisco
Psychological and Psychiatric Issues in Space
4/13 Steven Miller
University College London
The role of H3+ in planetary atmospheres
4/23 Ingo Mueller-Wodarg
Imperial College
Energy Crisis at Saturn: The Role of Thermosphere-Ionosphere
Coupling
5/21 Aaron Ridley
University of Michigan
Hemispheric Asymmetries