*Spring Dept. Seminars will be on Mondays unless otherwise noted.*

Jan 7	First Day of Classes
Jan 14	*CANCELLED* Department Seminar, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 1216 Jordan Addition. Rudy L. Slingerland, Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, "Deltas as Self-Organized Morphodynamic Systems" (hosted by P. Liu and K. Wegmann) Abstract
Jan 16	Special Seminar, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Russ Lea, CEO of NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network), "An Introduction to NEON--The National Ecological Observatory Network"  Bio
Jan 21	Holiday - no classes
Jan 28	No seminar
Feb 4	Department Seminar, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 1216 Jordan Addition. Chuck Nittrouer, School of Oceanography, University of Washington, "Some New Insights into Tidally Dominated Sedimentary Environments and Processes" (hosted by D. DeMaster) Bio
Feb 8	Graduate Student Seminar, 12:25 pm - 1:15 pm, 1220 Jordan Addition. Alison Moyer - "Color of Dinosaurs...Fact or Fiction? A Study Comparing Feather Melanosomes and Bacteria" Kara Smith - "The Use of CORDEX to Evaluate Dam Operation Policies for the Hydroelectric Power Industry in East Africa"
Feb 11	Department Seminar, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 1216 Jordan Addition. Jeff McDonnell, Professor, University of Saskatchewan, and Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor, UNC-CH and Duke University, "Watersheds, Boundary Conditions and Re-thinking Hydrology from the Bottom Up" (hosted by D. Genereux)
Feb 15	Graduate Student Seminar, 12:25 pm - 1:15 pm, 1220 Jordan Addition. Andrew Hall - TBD
Feb 18	Department Seminar, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 1216 Jordan Addition. Jesse McNinch, USACE, Army Corps of Engineering, "Beach Erosion during Storms: Sensitivity to Inner Surf-zone Morphology and Geology" (hosted by R. He) Abstract
Feb 21	Special Seminar, 10:00 - 11:30 am, 1214 Jordan Addition. Austin Todd, Florida State University, "Circulation Dynamics and Larval Transport Mechanisms in the Florida Big Bend"  (hosted by R. He)
Feb 22	Graduate Student Seminar, 12:25 pm - 1:15 pm, 1220 Jordan Addition. Jonathan Trueblood - "Improving the Gap Between Models and Observations: A Novel Formation Mechanism of Volatile Organic Compounds over the Remote Marine Regions" Jordan Dale - "Diagnosing Processes Affecting Precipitation Distribution from Hurricane Ernesto (2006)"
Feb 25	Department Seminar, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 1216 Jordan Addition. Robert Levy, NASA/GSFC, “Developing a global aerosol climate data record: From MODIS to VIIRS and beyond” (hosted by N. Meskhidze) Profile
Feb 26	Special Brown Bag Seminar, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Bruce Herbert, Texas A&M University, "Organic Carbon: Mechanisms, Materials, and Systems" (hosted by W. Robinson) Bio
Mar 1	Graduate Student Seminar, 12:25 pm - 1:15 pm, 1220 Jordan Addition. Jeffrey Craft - "Forecast Verification Metrics For Wind Ramp Events" Christopher Nunalee - "Understanding the Behavior of Atmospheric Von Kármán Vortex Streets and Their Impact on Optical Turbulence"
Mar 4-8	Spring Break - no classes
Mar 11	Department Seminar, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 1216 Jordan Addition. Ken Lacovara, Associate Professor, Geology, Drexel University, "Giants at the End of the World: Recent Dinosaur Discoveries from Southernmost Patagonia, Argentina" (hosted by M. Schweitzer)
Mar 15	Graduate Student Seminar, 12:25 pm - 1:15 pm, 1220 Jordan Addition. Khairunnisa Yahya - "Regional Modeling of Air Quality and Climate with WRF/Chem" Jian He - "Improvement of Inorganic Aerosol Treatments in CESM/CAM5"
Mar 18	Department Seminar, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 1216 Jordan Addition. Peter Clift, Charles T. McCord Professor of Petroleum Geology, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, “  “The Asian Monsoon and its links to Cenozoic Orogenesis and Global Climate Changes” (hosted by P. Liu)
Mar 21	Ph.D. Graduate Student Defense, 3:00 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Sean Gallen, Earth Science, "The Development of Topography in Ancient and Active Orogens: Case-Studies of Landscape Evolution in the Southern Appalachians, U.S.A and Crete, Greece"
Mar 22	Graduate Student Seminar, 12:25 pm - 1:15 pm, 1220 Jordan Addition. Christopher Marciano -  "How Will Climate Change Impact US East Coast Cyclones?" Xue Feng - "Construction of Temperature and Salinity Climatology for the U.S. east coastal Ocean and Caribbean Sea using Data Interpolating Variational Analysis"
Mar 25	*CANCELLED* - Department Seminar, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 1216 Jordan Addition. Dr. Bruce G. Doddridge, Head of Chemistry and Dynamics Branch, NASA Langley Research Center (hosted by W. Robinson)
Mar 26	Special Brown Bag Seminar, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Peter Thorne, CICS - Asheville,  "Creating Land Surface Air Temperature Datasets for 21st Century Science and Societal Needs" (hosted by W. Robinson)
Mar 29	M.S. Graduate Student Defense, 2:00 pm, 1220 Jordan Addition. Jonathan Trueblood, Atmospheric Science, "Improving the Gap between Model Predictions and Observations of Formaldehyde over the Remote Marine Regions" (N. Meskhidze)
Mar 28-29	Spring Holiday - No Class
Apr 1	Department Seminar, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 1216 Jordan Addition. Chris Osburn, NCSU-MEAS, "Using Fluorescence to Model Sources of Organic Nitrogen to the Neuse River Estuary"
Apr 5	Graduate Student Seminar, 12:25 pm - 1:15 pm, 1220 Jordan Addition. Andrew Stieneke - "The Role of Moisture in the Tropical Wave to Cyclone Transition of Hurricane Ernesto (2006)" Sarah Suda - "Quantifying the Effect of Changing Molecular Functional Groups on Organic Aerosol Hygroscopicity"
Apr 8	*CANCELED* Department Seminar, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 1216 Jordan Addition. Karl Wegmann, NCSU-MEAS, "Miocene (Recent) Rejuvenation of Topographic Relief in the Southern Appalachians... or how old are those pretty North Carolina Waterfalls, anyway?"
Apr 12	Graduate Student Seminar, 12:25 pm - 1:15 pm, 1220 Jordan Addition. David Zietlow - "Energy and Water Balance of Contrasting Forest Types in the Lower North Carolina Coastal Plain" Priya Pillai - "Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Biofuel Crops and its Biogeochemical Modeling"
Apr 15	Department Seminar, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 1216 Jordan Addition. Fuqing Zhang, Penn State University, "Predictability of Severe Weather and Tropical Cyclones" (hosted by S. Yuter)
Apr 19	Graduate Student Seminar, 12:25 pm - 1:15 pm, 1220 Jordan Addition. Ellen Craig - "Petrology, Geochemistry, and Mineralogy of Basaltic to Andesitic Lavas Forming Sugarloaf Mountain, Central Arizona" Masilin Gudoshava - "Evaluation of a Regional Air Quality Model"
Apr 22	Department Seminar, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, 1216 Jordan Addition. Richard Seager, Columbia University, "North American Droughts of the Past, Present and Future" (hosted by W. Robinson)
Apr 23	Special Brown Bag Seminar, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Richard Seager, Columbia University, "The Importance of the Montreal Protocol for Protecting the Earth's Hydroclimate" (hosted by W. Robinson)
Apr 26	Special Seminar, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Dr. Paul Mattern of Dalhousie University, "When Ocean Models Meet Observations - Using Statistical Techniques to Gain Insights into 3D Physical-biological Models" Abstract (hosted by R. He) Graduate Student Seminar, 12:25 pm - 1:15 pm, 1220 Jordan Addition. K.V. Praju - "Dynamical Systems Approach to Atmospheric Turbulence: An Application to Short-term Wind Forecasting" Ying-Jung Chen - TBD M.S. Graduate Student Defense, 1:00 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Alet Terblanche, Earth Science, "Geology of the Wilderness, VA Area: Evaluation of a Purported Paleozoic Successor Basin"
Apr 30	M.S. Graduate Student Defense, 2:00 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Matt Wilbanks, Atmospheric Science, "Near Surface Density Currents Observed in the Southeast Pacific Stratocumulus-Topped Marine Boundary Layer"
May 6	M.S. Graduate Student Defense, 1:30 pm, 1108 Jordan Hall. LeeAnna Chapman, Atmospheric Science, "Estimating Net Nitrogen Mineralization in Natural Ecosystems across the Conterminous U.S."
May 9	M.S. Graduate Student Defense, 2:00 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Adeline Brym, Marine Science, "Base-extracted Organic Matter Fluorescence Properties and Multivariate Statistics for Tracing the Sources and Transformations of Estuarine Particles"
May 10	M.S. Graduate Student Defense, 1:00 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Scott Becker, Earth Science, "Assessing the Use of Dissolved Silica as a Proxy for Groundwater Age: Literature Summary and New Data From the North Carolina Coastal Plain"
May 13	M.S. Graduate Student Defense, 2:00 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Keith Sherburn, Atmospheric Science, "Improving the Understanding and Detection of Severe High Shear, Low CAPE Environments"
May 22	Special Seminar, 10:30am -12:00 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Ben Knight, Marine Biophysical Scientist, Cawthron Institute, New Zealand. "Alexandrium catenella and Its Potential Impact on Shellfish Aquaculture in New Zealand" (hosted by R. He) Abstract
May 28	M.S. Graduate Student Defense, 2:00 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Michelle Cipullo, Atmospheric Science, “High-resolution Modeling Studies of the Changing Risks of Damage from Extratropical Cyclones”
May 29	M.S. Graduate Student Defense, 1:30 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Robert Dunn, Marine Sciences, "Oyster Demographics and Cliona Boring Sponge on Potential Reef-Building Substrates - Implications for Oyster Restoration"
May 31	Ph.D. Graduate Student Defense, 1:00 pm, 1132 Jordan Hall. Brandon Puckett, Marine Science, "Metapopulation Dynamics of a Marine Reserve Network: Interacting Effects of Demography and Connectivity"

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