Date	Speaker(s)	Affiliation(s)	Title(s)*
01/04/2011	Prof. Yuk Yung Dr. Shuhui Wang Dr. Sally Newman	Caltech JPL Caltech	AGU Fall Meeting 2010 Highlights
01/11/2011	Prof. In-Sik Kang	Seoul National U	MJO Modeling and Prediction
01/18/2011	Dr. Tara Kahan	UC Irvine	Interactions of trace gases with ice surfaces: Experimental and theoretical observations
01/24/2011	Prof. Frank H. Shu	* Shaw Prize Winner in Astronomy 2009 * University Professor Emeritus, UCSD * Distinguished Research Fellow, Academia Sinica * Advisor to the Premier of Taiwan, Science and Technology Advisory Group	Climate Change and Energy Solutions - Venue changed: Cahill Hameetman Auditorium, Caltech. Refreshment will be served in the patio at 11:30 am
01/25/2011	Dr. Therese Encrenaz	LESIA, Paris Observatory	Study of the Martian atmosphere using ground-based and space infrared spectroscopy - 2nd YLY Seminar in the same week
02/01/2011	Dr. George H. H. Aumann	JPL	Global Cloud Feedback and the Greenhouse Effect
02/08/2011	Dr. Wolfgang Nitschke	Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines /CNRS, Marseille France	Metals, enzymes and metalloenzymes in early life; evolutionary histories as deduced from molecular phylogeny - Venue changed: 365 Salvatori Room, S. Mudd, Caltech.
02/15/2011	Dr. Joshua B. Fisher	JPL, Water & Carbon Cycles Group	Carbon, Hydrology And Nitrogen for Global Evaluation (CHANGE): Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling at JPL
02/22/2011	Dr. Ian Eisenman	Caltech	Response of the sea ice seasonal cycle to climate change
03/01/2011	Dr. Sun Wong	JPL	Closing Global Atmospheric Water Vapor and Heat Budgets with Remote-Sensing and Reanalysis Data
03/08/2011	Dr. Daniel R. Feldman	UC Berkeley	Using Observing System Simulation Experiments to Guide the Next Generation of NASA Earth-Observing Satellite Instrumentation
03/15/2011	--	--	--- YLY trip to Hong Kong University ---
03/22/2011	--	--	--- YLY Mtg in Academia Sinica, Taiwan ---
03/29/2011	Dr. David A. Garofalo	CSU Northridge	Why the universe cares about black hole spin?
04/05/2011	Dr. Jennifer L. Benson	JPL	Water ice clouds and dust in the Martian atmosphere observed by Mars Climate Sounder
04/12/2011	--	--	--- YLY Conference in Hawaii ---
04/19/2011	Prof. Douglas G. MacMynowski	Caltech	Can we test geoengineering?
04/26/2011	Mr. Peter Gao Mr. Zhihong Tan	Caltech	* (Gao) The Stability of Large Moons Around Super-Earth Exoplanets * (Tan) Can Clouds Explain the Faint Young Sun Paradox?
05/03/2011	Dr. Jung-Eun Lee	JPL	Amazon drought: Are we responsible?
05/10/2011	Dr. Karl R. Stapelfeldt	Caltech/JPL	Cutting Against the Grain: Dust Properties from Scattered Light Images of Debris Disks - Prof. Margaret Tolbert (CIRES) is going to give a seminar on Titan in Chemistry Dept at 4 pm.
05/17/2011	Dr. Zuoqiang Shi	Caltech	Adaptive Data Analysis via Sparse Time-Frequency Representation
05/24/2011	Dr. Jianjun Jin	JPL	On the Permeability of the Extratropical Tropopause
05/31/2011	Prof. Graeme L. Stephens	U Colorado JPL Climate Center	Clouds, Aerosol, Radiation and Rain - Insights Gained from Global Satellite Observations - Venue changed (Salvatori Room 365 S Mudd)
06/07/2011	--	--	--- YLY visit in Wenzhou, China ---
06/14/2011	--	--	--- YLY Mtg in Academia Sinica, Taiwan ---
06/21/2011	Dr. Daniel R. Feldman	UC Berkeley	An overview of present and future space-based infrared spectral measurements
06/28/2011	Dr. Shengji Wei	Caltech	Shaking and flooding by the 2011 Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake and the superficial simplicity of the 2010 Mw7.2 El Mayor Cucapah Earthquake
07/05/2011	Dr. Claire Perigaud	JPL	Earth-Moon-Sun alignments influencing El Niños and water/air mass momentum - Speaker changed.
07/12/2011	Dr. Keeyoon Sung	JPL	High resolution FT-IR spectroscopy of 14NH3 and 13CH4 to support (exo)planet and Titan studies - Venue Changed (Salvatori Room 365 S Mudd)
07/19/2011	Dr. Lance E. Christensen	JPL	Measurement of Sulfur Isotope Compositions in SO2 and D/H Ratios in Water by Tunable Laser Spectroscopy - First seminar of this week.
07/20/2011	Dr. Christopher Blaszczak-Boxe	JPL	Ozone and Climate Change: Knowns and Unknowns - Special seminar to be delivered on 20th July (Wednesday) at 2 pm.
07/26/2011	Prof. Yiqin Gao	Peking U	Effects of spatial confinement and electrolytes on liquid water structure and dynamics-A preliminary study - Date Changed
08/02/2011	Prof. Duane E. Waliser	JPL	The Madden-Julian Oscillation: Some Updates on Science, Forecasting and Impacts
08/09/2011	Dr. Eugene A. Ustinov	JPL	Adjoint approach to modeling and sensitivity analysis (SA) in radiative transfer
08/16/2011	Dr. Stojan M. Madzunkov	JPL	Formation of CO2, H2CO, CH3OH, HCOOH, and CH3CH2OH on an Icy Grain Analog Using Superthermal H and O Atoms
08/23/2011	Prof. Francisco Tapiador	University of Castilla-La Mancha	Remote Sensing of Precipitation for Climate Research
08/30/2011	Dr. Laura M. Barge	JPL	From Self-Assembling Inorganic Membranes to Pre-Biotic Chemistry: A Hydrothermal Origin-of-Life Model for Icy Moons
09/06/2011	Mr. Cheng Li Mr. Joshua A. Kammer	Caltech	* (Li) The Pacific-North American Teleconnection at Last Glacial Maximum; * (Kammer) Probing Titan’s Upper Atmosphere: Observations from Cassini UVIS
09/13/2011	--	--	-- YLY Mtg in Washington, DC --
09/20/2011	Dr. Jennifer D. Small	JPL	Regional and Global Analysis of the Effects of Aerosols on Cloud Properties and Precipitation Using a Multi-Satellite Approach
09/26/2011	Dr. Jack A. Kaye	NASA Headquarter	NASA Satellite Observations and Their Role in the Study of Global Change - Date/Venue changed: Monday - Cahill Hameetman Auditorium, Caltech. Refreshment will be served at 11:40 am.
09/27/2011	Prof. Yongyun Hu	Peking U	Climate over tidal-locking terrestrial exoplanets - 2nd YLY seminar in the same week
10/04/2011	Prof. Volker Michel	University of Siegen, Germany	Localized Basis Functions for Tomographic Problems in Geophysics and Elsewhere
10/11/2011	--	--	-- YLY vacation in Italy --
10/18/2011	Prof. Edmund Kar-Man Chang	Stony Brook	Storm track climatology and variability -- Do Climate models get them right?
10/21/2011	Dr. Franklin P. Mills	Australian Natl U	Update on the Characterisation of Aerosols over Australia and New Zealand and Their Effects on Surface UV Radiation
10/24/2011	Mr. Tyler Robinson	U Washington	Understanding the Pale Blue Dot: From Galileo to EPOXI - First seminar of this week
10/25/2011	Dr. Eric Kort	Caltech	Pole to pole observations of greenhouse gases: surprises in methane and nitrous oxide - (1) Prof. Yung's trip to Italy -- http://yly-mac.gps.caltech.edu/Caltech/pict11/milan%202011/. (2) Congratulations to Prof. Yung's former student Zhiming Kuang -- http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/zhiming-kuang-wins-meisinger-award-from-the-american-meteorological-society
11/01/2011	Dr. Jonathan H. Jiang	JPL	From Aura MLS to IPCC AR5: A Path to Model Evaluation using Satellite Observations
11/08/2011	--	--	-- YLY in Washington, DC --
11/15/2011	Ms. Ivria J. Doloboff	NASA USRP	Characterizing Membrane Electrochemistry in Laboratory Simulated Hydrothermal Systems
11/22/2011	Dr. Kevin W Bowman	JPL	Observational constraint on climate forcing
11/29/2011	YLY Group	Caltech	AGU Practice - There will be a special seminar on Friday.
12/02/2011	Dr. Rachel L. Smith	Caltech	Near-Infrared Observations Toward Protostars as Proxies for Solar System Chemical Evolution - Date Changed -- Friday --
12/06/2011	--	--	-- AGU Fall Meeting 2011 in San Francisco --
12/13/2011	Dr. Jean-Michel Désert	Harvard-Smithsonian	From Kepler statistics to individual characterization of exoplanets
12/20/2011	--	--	-- Christmas and New Year Celebrations --
12/27/2011	--	--	-- Christmas and New Year Celebrations --