Date	Speaker(s)	Affiliation(s)	Title(s)*
01/07/2014	Dr. Clare Wong	JPL	XCH4:XCO2 ratio in the Los Angeles Basin
01/14/2014	Zhihong Tan	Caltech	Understanding the subtropical low-cloud feedback with a hierachy of models
01/21/2014	Dr. Ayah Lazar	Caltech	Inertial instability of oceanic submesoscale vortices: Marginal stability criterion, laboratory experiments and observations
01/28/2014	Dr. Wesley A. Traub	JPL	An Estimate of Eta-Earth, From Simulating Kepler Data
02/04/2014	Caroline Morley	UCSC	Water Clouds in Giant Planets and Y-type Brown Dwarfs
02/10/2014	Dr. Conor A. Nixon	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Titan's Chemical Complexity Revealed in the Thermal Infrared
02/18/2014	Jonathan Fraine	University of Maryland, Pontificia Catolica de Chile	Atmospheric Composition of the ExoNeptune HAT-P-11b
02/25/2014	Katherine Saad	Caltech	Development of Tropospheric Partial Columns of Methane for Global Trend Analyses
03/04/2014	Dr Yang Chen	JPL	Unusual Interaction Between Martian Surface and Mantle Volatile Reservoirs in Impact Melts in the Martian Tissint Meteorite
03/11/2014	Dr. Ru Chen	UCSD	Isopycnal eddy diffusivities in the Kuroshio Extension from an eddying ocean circulation model
03/18/2014	--	--	Spring Break
03/25/2014	Dr. Dimitris Menemenlis	JPL	A global, highly instrumented, internal-tide-resolving numerical ocean and sea ice laboratory
04/01/2014	Dr. Rolf Kuiper	Max Planck Institute for Astronomy	Line polarization of molecular lines in molecular clouds and three-dimensional arbitrary geometries
04/08/2014	Dr. Liu Chuanxi	JPL	Northern Hemisphere mid-winter vortex-displacement and vortex-split stratospheric sudden warmings: Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
04/15/2014	Dr. Sun Kwok	Hong Kong University	Organics in the solar system
04/22/2014	Dr. David Halpern	JPL	Observations of Equatorial Planetary Boundary Layer Wind Shear
04/29/2014	Dr. Sarah Stewart	Harvard University	Magma Oceans and Atmospheric Loss during Earth's Accretion
05/06/2014	Dr. Andrew Stewart	Caltech	Water Mass Exchange and Heat Transport Across the Antarctic Shelf Break
05/13/2014	Dr. Yongyun Hu	Peking University	Exo-oceanography, climate, and habitability of tidal-locking exoplanets round M dwarfs
05/20/2014	Dr. Michael Russell	JPL	Searching for the readymade free energy converters necessary to launch life
05/27/2014	Dr. Morgan Cable	JPL	Formation of Organic Co-Crystals in Titan Surface Materials
06/03/2014	Dr. Yingdi Liu	JPL	New insight into the old Mystery - Tropospheric ozonlysis of alkene reactions
06/10/2014	Dr. Yuan Wang	JPL	Impacts of Asian pollution from regional to global scales
06/17/2014	Dr. Brian Kahn	JPL	A survey of tropospheric cloud observations from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
06/24/2014	Dr. Hui Su	JPL	Observational Evidence of Moistening of Lower Stratosphere by Tropical Deep Convection
07/01/2014	--	--	OCO-2 Launch
07/08/2014	Brett McGuire	Caltech	Time-Domain TeraHertz Spectroscopy of Astrophysical Ice Analogs
07/15/2014	Dr. Alexander Ruzmaikin	JPL	On Extreme Events
07/22/2014	Dr. Peyman Tavallali	Caltech	Sparse Time-Frequency Data Analysis: A Multi-scale Approach
07/29/2014	Dr. Yuk Yung	Caltech	Silk Road Trip
08/05/2014	Yuk Group	Caltech	Seminar for summer students
08/12/2014	Dr. Edward Olsen	JPL	AIRS Retrieval of Atmospheric CO2
08/19/2014	Dr. Konstantin Batygin	Caltech	Magnetically Controlled Weather on Hot Exoplanets
08/26/2014	Dr. Hanii Takahashi	JPL	Error Analysis of Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor in CMIP5 Model using "A-Train" Satellite Observations and Reanalysis Data
09/02/2014	Peter Buhler and Christopher Spalding	Caltech	(Buhler) Deposition Strikes Back: A Short-term Stability Cycle for the Martian Residual South Polar Cap; (Spalding) Early excitation of spin-orbit misalignments and the influence of stellar magnetism
09/09/2014	Pushkar Kopparla and Xi Xi	Caltech	(Kopparla) Polarimetry holds much potential for obtaining both atmospheric properties and orbital parameters of exoplanets, (Xi) Remote sensing of CO2, CH4, CO, and H2O from geostationary orbit
09/16/2014	Xiaozhou Ruan and Zachary Erickson	Caltech	(Ruan) Boundary control of potential vorticity injection with oscillating flows (Erickson) Southern Ocean jet variability in simple models
09/23/2014	Dr. Paul Staten	JPL	Constructing a climate record from 30-years of NOAA polar orbiting satellite observations
09/30/2014	Dr. Randy Gladstone	Southwest Research Institute	New Horizons Alice Instrument Observations Near Pluto
10/07/2014	Dr. Lei Huang	JPL	Vertical distributions of cloud water content associated with different cloud types as observed by A-Train satellites
10/14/2014	Rob Zellem	University of Arizona	Observing Transiting Exoplanets: Removing Systematic Errors to Constrain Atmospheric Abundances, Structure, and Dynamics
10/21/2014	Cenlin He	UCLA	Evolution of black carbon optical properties during atmospheric aging
10/28/2014	Dr. Sha Feng	JPL	Development of Fine-Resolution Analyses and Investigation of Single-Column Model CAM5 Simulation
11/04/2014	Dr. Roland Hatzenpichler	Caltech	Aeromicrobiology: the final frontier
11/11/2014	--	--	--DPS--
11/18/2014	Prof. Rong Fu	University of Texas	Mechanism behind the spring to summer drought memory and its impact on early warning of the summer drought over US Great Plains
11/25/2014	Dr. Junjie Liu	JPL	Drivers of column CO2 variability and CO2 flux estimation using column CO2 observations
12/02/2014	Dr. Nathan Mayne	University of Exeter	Modeling the climates of (exo)planets
12/09/2014	--	--	CANCELLED
12/16/2014	--	--	--AGU--
12/23/2014	--	--	--Christmas Celebration--
12/30/2014	--	--	--New Year Celebration--