Date	Speaker(s)	Affiliation(s)	Title(s)*
01/06/2021	Dr. Wenbo Wu	Caltech	Seismic ocean thermometry using land-based seismometers and hydrophones
01/13/2021	Dr. Joe Pinto Mr. Jiazheng Li Dr. Frank Mills	UNC Chapel Hill Caltech ANU/SSI	Sulfur monoxide dimer chemistry as a possible source of polysulfur in the upper atmosphere of Venus
01/20/2021	Dr. Peter Martin		Modern Perchlorate in Ancient Martian Rocks: Implications, Next Steps, and Future Analyses
01/27/2021	Dr. Ed Thiemann		Solar Flare Impacts on Planetary Atmospheres
02/03/2021	Dr. Ni Dai	UCLA	Convective aggregation and the amplification of the tropical precipitation extremes
02/10/2021	Dr. Ni Dai	UCLA	Convective aggregation and the amplification of the tropical precipitation extremes
02/17/2021	--	--	---- Cancelled ----
02/24/2021	--	--	---- Cancelled ----
03/03/2021	Prof. King-Fai Li	UC Riverside	Impact of Amazonian Fires on Atmospheric CO2
03/10/2021	Dr. Andy Ingersoll	Caltech	Reverse Hadley cells: How eddies drive the mean flow in Jupiter's atmosphere
03/17/2021	Dr. Mike Garay	JPL	The Godzilla Dust Storm of June 2020
03/24/2021	Dr. Zhao-Cheng Zeng	Caltech	Observation constrained methane emissions in Los Angeles in the 2010s
03/31/2021	Cancelled		Yuk is on travel; we will resume next week!
04/07/2021	TBA	Caltech	Select Term Presentations from Astrobiology Class
04/14/2021	Dr. Suniti Sanghavi	JPL	Cloudy Atmospheres on Directly Imaged Exoplanets: The Need for Accurate Particulate Representation in Photopolarimetric Simulations
04/21/2021	Dr. Eric Anslyn	UT Austin	TBD
04/28/2021	Dr. Kuhan Chandru	Nat. U Malaysia	A rethinking of the Origins of Life
05/05/2021	Dr. Jun Yang	Peking University	Clouds, Habitable Zone, and Observational Characteristics of Tidally Locked Habitable Planets
05/12/2021	Dr. Qiang Fu	Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington	Stratospheric circulations during the last glacial maximum
05/19/2021
05/26/2021	Dr. Charles Elachi	Caltech	Europa Clipper and NISAR
06/02/2021	Dr. Elliott Campbell	UC Santa Cruz	Measuring photosynthesis from space
06/09/2021	Dr. Sun Kwok	University of British Columbia and The University of Hong Kong	Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution
06/16/2021	Dr. Jonathan Jiang	JPL	“Habitable Zones” in the Universe
06/23/2021	Dr. Hui Su	JPL	Emergent Constraints on Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6
06/28/2021	Dr. Rich Flagan	Caltech	Venus Science Seminar: Aerosol Formation
06/30/2021	Professor Andy Ingersoll	Caltech	A model for the evolution of intelligence and technology, from the Big Bang to the present, and its application to the Drake Equation
07/07/2021	Dr. Joe Michalski	The University of Hong Kong	New Perspectives on Ancient Mars
07/14/2021	Danica Adams	Caltech	H:O:C Escape from Mars Through Time
07/19/2021	Dr. Peter Gao	UC Santa Cruz	Venus Aerosols / Venus Conference
07/20/2021	Dr. Paul Rimmer	Cambridge University	Venus Aerosol Salts / Venus Conference
07/21/2021	Dr. Sanjay Limaye	University of Wisconsin	Venus, an Astrobiology Target
07/28/2021	Dr. Ralf Kaiser	University of Hawaii at Manoa	An Aromatic Universe - A Physical Chemists Perspective
08/02/2021	Dr. Brian Toon	UC/LASP	Sulfuric Acid Aerosols on Earth and Venus
08/04/2021	Dr. Anezina Solomonidou	Caltech	A global chemical composition map for Titan and its implications for habitability
08/11/2021	Kayla Smith, Jaylen Shawcross, Katerina Gorou, Camilla Power, Kimia Hassibi	Caltech SURF	Solving the Mystery of Life on Mars Using Sulfur Isotopic Fractionation (Kayla), Using Nitrogen Isotopes to Constrain Nitrogen Escape from Mars through Time (Jaylen), Impact of Updated HOx Chemistry and Deuterium Kinetic Isotope Effects on Simulations of Water Escape from Mars (Kat), Formamide's Potential Role in Stratospheric HCN Chemistry (Camilla), The Effect of HCN2 on HCN at Titan and Early Earth (Kimia)
08/18/2021	Dr. Jeehyun Yang	MIT	Experiment and Modeling Combined Kinetic Study of Bottom-up Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Formations
08/25/2021	Jiani Yang	Caltech	From COVID-19 to Future Electrification: Assessing Traffic Impacts on Air Quality by a Machine-learning Model
09/01/2021	Dr. Kazuyuki Miyazaki	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Global tropospheric ozone responses to reduced NOx emissions linked to the COVID-19 worldwide lockdowns
09/08/2021			-- break --
09/15/2021			-- break --
09/22/2021	Dr. Markus Scheucher	JPL, DLR Berlin	Habitability of Terrestrial Planets around active M-stars: The Effect of Stellar Radiation and Cosmic Rays upon Climate and Photochemistry
09/29/2021			-- break --
10/06/2021	--	--	--- DPS Meeting ---
10/13/2021	Dr. Alireza Farahmand	JPL	Frameworks for Improving Monitoring and Prediction of Hydro-Climate Extremes
10/20/2021	Dr. Michael Russell	NIS Universita` degli Studi di Torino	Order from Order: How Life Emerged from Complex 2D Fe-minerals at a Convection-driven Submarine Spring
10/27/2021	Dr. Laiyin Zhu	Western Michigan University	Tropical Cyclone Precipitation: From Observations to Modeling
11/03/2021	Dr. Colin Raymond	JPL	Drivers of Global and Regional Patterns of Heat Stress
11/10/2021	Mr. Howard Chen	Northwestern University	Stellar Flare, UV Radiation, and Circulation Driven Warm Exoplanet Atmospheres
11/17/2021	Prof. Shaw Liu	Jinan University	Recent Increasing Trends in Surface Ozone in Eastern China
11/24/2021	--	--	--- Thanksgiving ---
12/01/2021	Dr. Kimberley Rain Miner	JPL	Biotoxicological Risks and Hazards of a Warming Arctic
12/08/2021	Dr. Stephen S. Leroy	Atmospheric and Environmental Research	Optimal Fingerprinting: A Retrospective of Climate Signal Detection and Attribution
12/15/2021	--	--	--- AGU Fall Meeting ---
12/22/2021	--	--	--- Christmas Holiday ---
12/29/2021	--	--	--- New Year Holiday ---