Date	Speaker(s)	Affiliation(s)	Title(s)*
01/03/2012	Dr. Charles E. Miller	JPL	The Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE): Results from 2011 Engineering Test Flights
01/10/2012	Dr. Everetts C. Salas	JPL	Probing deep: studying intraterrestrials to understand extraterrestrials.
01/17/2012	YLY Group	Caltech	AGU Highlights
01/24/2012	Dr. Thomas H. Painter	JPL	Response of Colorado River runoff to dust radiative forcing in mountain snow
01/31/2012	Dr. Yuxuan Wang	Tsinghua University, Beijing, China	Understanding China's air pollution through species correlations
02/02/2012	Prof. Roger V. Yelle	University of Arizona	Thermal Structure of Titan's Middle and Upper Atmosphere - 2nd seminar of this week - Venue changed
02/07/2012	Dr. Heidar Th. Thrastarson	JPL	General Circulation Modeling of Close-in Extrasolar Planets
02/14/2012	Dr. Kentaro Suzuki	JPL	Cloud microphysics and its interaction with aerosols: modeling and satellite observations
02/21/2012	Dr. Kyle R. Stewart	JPL	Orbiting Cool Halo Gas: Observing the End of Cold Mode Gas Accretion onto Galaxies
02/28/2012	YLY Group	Caltech	YLY Group Discussion
03/06/2012	Dr. Wei-Ting Anne Chen	JPL	Clouds and Moisture Associated with MJO: Characterization Using the YOTC CloudSat-Centric, Collocated A-Train and ECMWF Data Set
03/13/2012	Dr. Clare Wong	JPL	Daytime Nitrous Acid (HONO) Chemistry in the Urban Boundary Layer
03/20/2012	Dr. Elisabeth Moyer	University of Chicago	The isotopic composition of atmospheric water vapor as a tracer of convection and cirrus formation - Afternoon seminar - 2:30 pm
03/27/2012	Dr. Hsin-Hung Ou	Caltech	Artificial photosynthesis of C1 to C3 hydrocarbons from water and CO2 on sub-stoichiometric sodium trititanate nanotubes, NaxH2-xTi3O7, functionalized with elemental copper and CdS quantum dots
04/03/2012	Dr. Edwin Mierkiewicz	University of Wisconsin	Earth's Hydrogen Corona
04/10/2012	Adam Waszczak	Caltech	The origin of Martian volatiles as late-accreting primitive materials: A model for hydrogen and nitrogen isotopes
04/17/2012	Dr. Ching-Hui Liao	National Taiwan University	A challenging approach for renewable energy market development
04/24/2012	- - - - -	- - - - -	- No seminar this week
05/01/2012	Dr. Yan Qu	Caltech	Photo-induced Hydrated Electrons (eaq-) Reductive Degradation of Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)
05/08/2012	Dr. Andreas Zuend	Caltech	Gas-aerosol partitioning of semivolatile organic compounds in the atmosphere: the importance of vapor pressure estimation and non-ideal thermodynamics
05/15/2012	- - - - -	- - - - -	- No seminar this week
05/22/2012	Dr. Murthy Gudipati	JPL	How deep under the surface of Europa could organic matter survive?
05/29/2012	Dr. Claire Newman	Ashima Research	Investigating Titan's atmosphere-surface system using general circulation models
06/05/2012	Dr. Gilbert Brunet	Environment Canada	The importance of Vortex Rossby wave breaking and radiation for angular momentum transport in hurricanes
06/12/2012	Dr. Hartmut Aumann	JPL	Trends in Severe Storms from Nine Years of AIRS Data
06/19/2012	Dr. Amanda Hendrix	JPL	Cassini at Saturn and LRO at the Moon: UV Signatures of Water and Weathering Processes on Moons
06/26/2012	Dr. David Halpern	JPL	Sustained Satellite Missions for Climate Data Records
07/03/2012	- - - - -	- - - - -	- No seminar this week
07/10/2012	Dr. Laurence Yeung	UCLA	Measurements of 18O18O and 17O18O in the atmosphere
07/17/2012	- - - - -	- - - - -	- No seminar this week
07/23/2012	Dr. Gin-Rong Liu	National Central University, Taiwan	Predictions of Tropical Cyclone Formation and Rainfall Potential - Note date change - Monday
07/31/2012	Dr. Ragu Murtugudde	University of Maryland	Big History: Earth, Life, and Sustainability
08/07/2012	Dr. Corey Jamieson	JPL	Grain size and temperature effects on the interpretation of remote-sensing spectra
08/14/2012	Qiong Zhang	Caltech	The Influence of Extreme Stratospheric Events on Northern Hemisphere Winter Weather
08/21/2012	Peter Gao	Caltech	Nonhydrostatic Structures in the Solar System and their Effects on Planetary Interior Models
08/28/2012	Danielle Piskorz, Ruixiong Zhang	Caltech, Peking University	Coronae Formation on Venus via Extension and Lithospheric Instability (Piskorz), Utilizing OMI NO2 Level 2 data (Zhang) - Two 30 minute talks this week
09/04/2012	- - - - -	- - - - -	- No seminar this week
09/11/2012	Dr. Armin Kleinboehl	JPL	Mars Climate Sounder: An overview on instrument, retrieval, and scientific results
09/12/2012	Dr. Jack Kaye	NASA HQ	NASA Earth Science Research in the Context of National Global Environmental Research Initiatives - Second seminar of this week
09/18/2012	Dr. Avi Shporer	Caltech	Doing More with Photometry: Studying binary companions with photometric orbital modulations
09/25/2012	Dr. Junjun Liu	Caltech	Predictions of Thermal and Gravitational Signals of Jupiter's Deep Zonal Winds
10/02/2012	Dr. Rodrigo Caballero	Stockholm University	The transition to equatorial superrotation in warm Earth climates
10/09/2012	Joe O'Rourke, Xavier Levine	Caltech	(O'Rourke) Thermal and Chemical Evolution of Super-Venus Planets, (Levine) The influence of moist baroclinic waves on the termination of the Hadley circulation: an idealized GCM study. - Two 30-minute talks this week
10/16/2012	- - - - -	- - - - -	- No seminar this week - DPS conference
10/23/2012	Dr. Jay Pasachoff	Williams College (Hopkins Observatory) and Caltech (GPS)	Transits of Venus and Mercury: Exoplanet Analogs in Our Solar System
10/30/2012	Dr. Ashwin Vasavada	JPL	Curiosity: Initial Results from the First 80 Sols
10/31/2012	Dr. Robert Kopp	Rutgers University	Interpreting the Noisy Geological Record of Ancient Sea Level Changes - Second seminar of this week
11/06/2012	Dr. Woody Fischer	Caltech	Coupled Behavior of Redox and Acid-Base Processes on Ancient Earth and Mars
11/13/2012	Bjoern Benneke	MIT	Characterization of Super-Earth Exoplanets Using Transmission Spectroscopy: Applications to GJ1214b
11/20/2012	- - - - -	- - - - -	- No seminar this week
11/27/2012	Dr. Longtao Wu	JIFRESSE/UCLA	Aerosol Impacts on Cloud, Precipitation, and Moisture: Modeling and Analysis
12/04/2012	- - - - -	- - - - -	- No seminar this week - AGU conference
12/11/2012	Dr. Kevin Baines	JPL	The Depths of Saturn: New Insights into the Dynamics and Chemistry of Saturn’s Tropospheric Meteorology revealed by Cassini/VIMS and RADAR Imagery and Spectra
12/18/2012	--	--	-- Christmas Vacation --
12/25/2012	--	--	-- Christmas Celebrations --