Date	Speaker(s)	Affiliation(s)	Title(s)*
01/03/2018	--	--	Canceled
01/10/2018	Dr. Junjie Liu	JPL	Deciphering terrestrial biosphere carbon-climate feedbacks from space
01/17/2018	Dr. Hyman Hartman	Institute for Advanced Studies in Biology	The origin and evolution of Metabolism and the Thioester world.
01/24/2018	Prof. Woodward Fischer	Caltech	What if Oxygenic Photosynthesis Isn’t That Old
01/31/2018	Dr. Chao Liu	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	A two-habit model for the microphysical and optical properties of ice clouds
02/07/2018	Dr. Timothy Lyons	UC Riverside	How Earth's early history can help guide our search for life beyond our solar system
02/14/2018	Dr. Stuart Bartlett	Earth Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology	Dissipation - Decisions of Dynamical Systems
02/21/2018	Mr. John Zanazzi	Cornell	The Dynamics of Protoplanetary Disks in Binary Star Systems
02/28/2018	Dr. Shahab Arabshahi	JPL	Natural particle accelerators producing antimatter inside planetary atmospheres
03/07/2018	Dr. Ian G. Fenty	JPL	NASA'S Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission
03/14/2018	--	--	Canceled
03/21/2018	Dr. Merino, Nancy	Earth Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology	Microbial Life in a Serpentinite-Hosted System, Hakuba Happo Hot Springs: Revealing Microbial Interactions and Novel Taxa through Single-Cell Genomics
03/28/2018	Prof. Frank Mills	ANU College of Science	Atmospheric chemistry on Venus: An overview of unresolved issues
04/04/2018	Dr. Yang Chen	UC Irvine	Fire predictability in the Earth system
04/11/2018	Ms. Juliette Becker	University of Michigan	Forming Hot Jupiters: Observational Constraints on Gas Giant Formation and Migration
04/18/2018	Dr. David Thompson	JPL	Atmospheric Correction with Closure of Uncertainties: Optimal Estimation for Surface Reflectance Retrievals by Airborne Visible / Shortwave IR Imaging Spectrometers
04/25/2018	--	--	Cancelled
05/02/2018	Ms. Jamie S. Rankin	Caltech	Voyager 1 Observations of Galactic Cosmic-Ray Anisotropies in the Local Interstellar Medium
05/09/2018	Dr. Hai M. Nguyen	JPL	Consequences of misspecification of the prior mean and the prior covariance for Optimal Estimation retrievals
05/16/2018	Prof. Tinetti, Giovanna	UCL	A chemical survey of exoplanets
05/23/2018	Prof. Yuk Yung	Caltech	Yung's family trip to Machu Picchu
05/30/2018	Dr. Trevor David	JPL	Towards measuring temporal trends in exoplanet properties and occurrence
06/06/2018	Dr. Virginie Faramaz	JPL	Eccentric Planets & Debris Disks Interactions
06/13/2018	Dr. Jonathan Jiang	JPL	Judging the Chess Games: Climate Model Evaluation and Analysis Using Satellite Observations
06/20/2018	Dr. Yasuhiro Hasegawa	JPL	Planet Formation in Star-Forming Regions: from the Solar System to Other Worlds
06/27/2018	Dr. Jonathan Jiang	JPL	Time Series of Pale Blue Dots
07/04/2018	--	--	Cancelled
07/11/2018	Dr. Zhan Su	Caltech	Decadal Trend in Antarctic Sea Ice
07/18/2018	Dr. Kurt D. Retherford	Southwest Research Institute	Europa-UVS, JUICE-UVS, and Hubble Observations of Galilean Satellite Atmospheres
07/25/2018	Mr. Max Joshua	Blue Skies Space Ltd	Twinkle – a low-Earth orbit visible and infrared exoplanet spectroscopy observatory
08/01/2018	Dr. Mingjie Shi	JPL	Understanding the Carbon–Nitrogen–Water Interactions in Earth System Models with Multiple Satellite Observations
08/08/2018	Dr. Qing Yue	JPL	Cloud Feedback and ENSO from A-Train
08/15/2018	Mr. Jiazheng Li & Dr. Stuart Bartlett	Caltech	"Study of terrestrial glints based on DSCOVR observation" & "ALife 2018: Highlights from Odaiba, Tokyo"
08/22/2018	--	--	Cancelled
08/29/2018	Mr. Yangcheng Luo & Miss. Danica Adams	Caltech GPS (New Grad Students)	(Yangcheng): The Ozone Layer over Tidally Locked Exoplanets around M Dwarfs & (Danica): Aggregate Hazes in Exoplanet Atmospheres
09/05/2018	Dr. Hui Su	JPL	Robust Changes of Tropical Circulation in a Warming Climate
09/12/2018	Mr. Boer Zhang & Mr. Jason Yang	Peking University & Nanjing University	(Boer): Comparative study of multiple measures on temporal irreversibility of daily temperature anomaly variations over China& (Jason): Long-term changes in criteria air pollutants over the United States revealed by EPA’s Outdoor Air Quality Data
09/19/2018	Mr. Yuanlong Huang	Caltech	OH Oxidation of Surface-Active Species at the Air-Water Interface
09/26/2018	Mr. Matt Alessi	McMaster University	Dust Evolution & Planet Traps: Effects on Planet Populations
10/03/2018	Dr. Stuart Bartlett	Caltech	Charting the Course: A Possible Route to a Fully Renewable Swiss Power System
10/10/2018	--	--	Cancelled
10/17/2018	Mr. Zhaoxi Zhang	Caltech	Modelling and retrievals of exoplanet atmospheres with PLATON
10/24/2018	--	--	Cancelled
10/31/2018	Dr. Armineh Barkhordarian	JPL	Detection of anthropogenic climate change over tropical South America
11/07/2018	Dr. Linda Forster	Caltech	From remote sensing of ice crystal properties to 3D tomographic cloud reconstruction
11/14/2018	Dr. Yang Liu	JPL	Martian Breccias NWA 7034 and 7533: A treasure chest for studying diverse hydrothermal activities on Mars
11/21/2018	Dr. Siddharth Krishnamoorthy	JPL	Listening for Quakes and Volcanoes while Floating on Balloons
11/28/2018	Prof. Benjamin Weiss	MIT	History of the solar nebula from meteorite and cometary paleomagnetism
12/05/2018	--	--	Cancelled
12/12/2018	--	--	Cancelled
12/19/2018	--	--	Cancelled
12/26/2018	--	--	Cancelled