Date	Speaker(s)	Affiliation(s)	Title(s)*
01/01/2013	--	--	-- NEW YEARS CELEBRATIONS --
01/08/2013	Dr. King-Fai Li	Caltech	Solar Cycle and Climate
01/15/2013	Renyu Hu	MIT	Atmospheric Photochemistry and Potential Biosignatures on Terrestrial Exoplanets
01/22/2013	Prof. Gerald J. Wasserburg	Caltech	The status of 26Al in the Early solar Sytem & the Issues at Hand - Venue Changed to 365 Salvatori Room S. Mudd
01/29/2013	Dr. Frank Li	JPL	Systematic and Related Biases in Cloud Ice/Liquid and Radiation in CMIP3/5 Simulations: Implications for Neglecting Impact of Precipitating/Convective Hydrometeors on Radiation
02/05/2013	Dr. Yang Liu	JPL	Water on the Moon
02/12/2013	Cheng Li	Caltech	Discussion about WRF model - SPEAKER AND TITLE CHANGE
02/19/2013	Dr. Matt Siegler	JPL	New Views on Lunar Heat Flow
02/26/2013	Dr. Michael Werner	JPL	Spitzer and Exoplanets
03/05/2013	Mr. Erik Petigura	UC Berkeley	A Plateau in the Planet Population at Twice the Size of Earth
03/12/2013	--	--	-- no seminar this week --
03/19/2013	Dr. Nicholas Klingaman	University of Reading	Improving the Madden-Julian oscillation in the Hadley Centre model: Why air-sea coupling matters (sometimes)
03/26/2013	--	--	- -- No seminar this week: Spring Break! --
04/02/2013	Prof. Jason Wright	Penn State University	A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall on the Dark Side of the Moon
04/09/2013	Dr. Baijun Tian	JPL	Evaluating CMIP5 Models using AIRS Tropospheric Air Temperature and Specific Humidity
04/16/2013	Dr. Robert Carlson	JPL	Chromophores from Photolyzed Ammonia Reacting with Acetylene: Application to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
04/23/2013	Dr. Jeffrey L. Linsky	University of Colorado	Lyman-alpha and Extreme-UV Emission from Exoplanet Host Stars and Proposed HST Observations
04/30/2013	Dr. Paul Hayne	JPL	Seasonal Carbon Dioxide Snowfall at the Poles of Mars
05/07/2013	Dr. Chris Holloway	University of Reading	Simulating deep atmospheric convection over large tropical domains
05/14/2013	Dr. Justin Stachnik	UCLA/JPL	Observed Characteristics of Clouds and Precipitating Systems Associated with the Tropical Circulation
05/21/2013	Jinqiang Chen	Caltech	A New Look into Large-scale Processes Governing the East Asian Summer Monsoon
05/28/2013	Prof. Bin Zou	UCLA	China Ocean Satellite Development and its Application
06/04/2013	Dr. Chi O. Ao	JPL	Tropospheric humidity inferred from GPS radio occultation measurements: Accuracy and recent progress
06/11/2013	Dr. David Schimel	JPL	Observational constraints on the climate sensitivity of the terrestrial biosphere
06/18/2013	Lauren White	UCSB/JPL	Alkaline hydrothermal vents: Discovering the origins of organic synthesis
06/25/2013	Dr. Hui Su	JPL	Using satellite observations to constrain climate sensitivity
07/02/2013	--	--	-- Independence Day Celebrations --
07/09/2013	Xi Xi, Dr. Christopher Parkinson	Caltech	(Xi) Using remotely sensed data to quantify the characteristics of Southeast Asian forest fires (Parkinson) TBD - Two 30 minute talks this week
07/16/2013	Prof. Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang	Utah State University	Two different worlds portrayed by GRACE and why they happen
07/23/2013	Prof. Andrew Thompson	Caltech	The Antarctic Circumpolar Current flexes its muscles: Equilibration via stationary meanders
07/30/2013	Dr. Christophe Sotin	JPL	Are terrestrial exoplanets Earth-like, Venus-like, or the remnants of gas- or ice-giants?
08/06/2013	Dr. Jihyun Oh	JPL	The Interaction between the MJO and the Diurnal cycle over the Maritime Continent during Boreal winter
08/13/2013	Pushkar Kopparla, Ian Wong	Caltech	(Kopparla) On the stability of Super Earth atmospheres (Wong) The magnitude distribution of the Jupiter Trojans: Evidence for two distinct populations - Two 30 minute talks this week
08/20/2013	Dr. Jill Craven	Caltech	Airborne Chemical Characterization of Los Angeles Urban Aerosol
08/27/2013	Dr. Paul Nerenberg	Claremont McKenna College	Molecular simulations of the lakes of Titan
09/03/2013	Dr. Mike Pritchard	UC Irvine	Critical sensitivities of the superparameterized Madden-Julian Oscillation consistent with moisture mode dynamics.
09/10/2013	Eric Lopez	UCSC	Understanding Kepler's Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes: Insights from Thermal Evolution and Photo-evaporation
09/17/2013	--	--	-- Planetary Science 50th Year Celebrations --
09/24/2013	Dr. Sloane Wiktorowicz	UCSC	Direct Detection of Spatially Unresolved Exoplanets with Polarimetry
10/01/2013	Dr. Preeti Rao	Caltech	Analysis of carbon and nitrogen along Boston's urbanization gradient using field, remotely sensed and socioeconomic data
10/08/2013	--	--	-- DPS Conference --
10/14/2013	Prof. Darrell F. Strobel	Johns Hopkins University	Pluto's Atmosphere: Escape and the Relationship to its Density and Thermal Structure - Note date change - Monday. Note location change - Salvatori room.
10/22/2013	Prof. Andrew Ingersoll	Caltech	Volatiles on the Moon and Mercury
10/29/2013	Dr. Vlada Stamenkovic	MIT	The Distribution of Plate Tectonics Planets in The Galaxy
11/05/2013	Jennifer Fernando	University Paris-Sud at Orsay	CRISM mapping of surface photometric parameters for the physical characterization of surface materials from orbit.
11/12/2013	Dr. Mark R. Swain	JPL	What Hubble spectroscopy is teaching us about exoplanets atmospheres and why we need a dedicated mission.
11/19/2013	Prof. Kelvin Richards	University of Hawaii	Influences on El Nino: the importance of ocean mixing
11/26/2013	Dr. Murat Aydin	UC Irvine	Carbonyl sulfide hydrolysis in Antarctic ice cores and an atmospheric history for the last 8,000 years
12/03/2013	Matteo Brogi	Leiden Observatory	Exoplanet atmospheres at high spectral resolution
12/10/2013	--	--	-- AGU Conference --
12/17/2013	--	--	-- Winter Vacation --
12/24/2013	--	--	-- Christmas Celebrations --
12/31/2013	--	--	-- New Years Celebrations --