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Brown Bag Seminars - Spring 2013


Information for Seminar Speakers

Based on current commitments (as of August 9, 2012)
Location: National Space Science and Technology Center
320 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805, Conference Room 4065

Date/Time: Wednesdays at 12:45PM-1:45PM -- UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.


Coordinator: William W. Vaughan (UAH)


Please contact Dr. William W. Vaughan (vaughan@nsstc.uah.edu, 961-7759) or
Ms. Whitney Guerin Jewett (guerin@nsstc.uah.edu, 961-7729) concerning any
questions, suggestions, or contributions relative to the Seminar Schedule.


    Wednesday, January 9th No seminar scheduled. AMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX
    Wednesday, January 16th Kevin Laws (NOAA/NWS): "New Methods to Improve Tornado Warnings"
    Wednesday
    January 23rd

    Ruth Carmichael (Univ. South Alabama): "Multiple Remote Sensing and Biogeochemical Strategies Define Manatee Movement Patterns and Habitat Use in the nGOM (north Gulf of Mexico)" (view abstract)

    Visit Coordinator: Maury Estes (USRA)

    Wednesday, January 30th Chris Darden (NOAA/NWS): "The New NWS Huntsville: Looking Back on the First 10 years"
    Wednesday, February 6th

    Mark Lyles (NAVY/Dental Corp: "Middle East Dust: Potential Toxicity and Effects to Human Health" (view abstract)

    Visit Coordinator: Jeff Luvall (NASA/MSFC)
    Wednesday, February 13th

    Rahul Ramachandran (UAH/ESIN): "Visual Data Exploration Engine--Data Prospecting"
    (view abstract)

    Wednesday, February 20th

    Gary Jedlovec (NASA/MSFC) “Recent Accomplishments in the SPoRT Program”
    (view abstract)

    Wednesday, February 27th

    Jeff Collett, Jr (Colorado State Univ.): "Pollution Processing by Clouds and Fogs"

    Visit Coordinator: Udaysankar Nair (UAH/ATS)
    (view abstract)
    Thursday, February 28th Kwo-Sen Kuo (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): "Characterizing Scattering of PSD-Integrated Aggregate Ensembles Using A Comprehensive Particle Scattering Database "
    (view abstract)
    Friday, March 1st Christopher Lynnes (NASA/GSFC): "Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization in the Online Giovanni Tool"
    (view abstract)
    Wednesday, March 6th

    Jim Nations (National Parks Conservation Assn.: " The State of America's National Parks: From Space and On the Ground"

    Visit Coordinator: Tom Sever (UAH/ATS)
    (view abstract)
    Wednesday, March 13th

    Kevin Scharfenberg (NOAA/NWS): "NOAA's Weather Ready Nation Initiative"

    Visit Coordinator: Andrew Molthan (NASA/MSFC)
    (view abstract)
    Wednesday, March 20th

    George Chronis (Hellenic Center for Marine Research) "The Mediterranean: A Miniature Ocean"
    Visit Coordinator: Themis Chronis (UAH/ATS)
    (view abstract)

    Thursday, March 21st

    SPECIAL SEMINAR in RM 4078 (TENTATIVE)
    John Murray (NASA/LaRC): "An Overview of the NASA Applied Sciences Program Disasters Area: Recent Research and Disaster Recovery Support"
    Visit Coordinator: Gary Jedlovec (NASA/MSFC)

    Thursday, March 27th

    No seminar- Spring Break


    Tuesday, April 3rd

    Maury Estes (USRA)The NASA Applied Sciences Program in Public Health and Ecological Forecasting: Research and Data for Decision-support Systems"
    (view abstract)

    Wednesday, April 4th SPECIAL SEMINAR (Room 4078)
    Thomas Jones (NOAA/NSSL): "Improving Cloud Models with Use of Satellite and Radar Data"
    (view abstract)
    Visit Coordinator: Mariana Felix (UAH/ESSC)
    Monday, April 8th

    Special Seminar
    Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)
    Dr. Xiong Liu, Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
    (Ph.D., 2002, Atmospheric Science, UAH)
    (read abstract)

    Wednesday, April 10th

    ATS 781 STUDENT PRESENTATIONS:
    "Mass Balanced Based Irrigation Pond Model For South Alabama"
    "Land Cover Change In The Western Ghats Mountain Range Of India"
    "A Technique For Forecasting Mountain Gap Winds With Neural Networks and MERRA"
    (read abstracts)

    Wednesday, April 17th

    Keith D. Hutchison (Univ. of Texas-Austin): "Application of Manually--Generated Cloud Mask for Cloud Model Verification"

    Visit Coordinator: Sundar Christopher (UAH/ATS)
    Thursday, April 18th SPECIAL SEMINAR

    Faisal Hossain (Tenn. Technological University): "Promoting Environmental Research to Non-traditional Consumers: Crossing the Valley of Death for Societal Applications"

    Visit Coordinator: Cerese Albers (NASA/MSFC)
    Wednesday, April 24th

    ATS 781 STUDENT PRESENTATIONS: "Titles TBD"

    Wednesday, May 1st

    Burgess Howell (USRA/ESO): “First Earth Images From the ISERV Pathfinder Instrument on the International Space Station”

    Wednesday, May 8th OPEN