Seminars By Semester

Fall 2024

9/18 Laura Condon, UA HAS Associate Professor Exploring the role of groundwater in the terrestrial water cycle
10/2 Jonathan Frame, University of Alabama Beyond catchment boundaries: extending geospatial context for large-domain hydrological prediction
10/9 Ellis Robinson, UA Chemical and Environmental Engineering Mapping air pollutants and high spatial resolution: community exposure assessment using mobile monitoring and fast, in situ instrumentation
10/16 Jonathan Sullivan, UA Geography, Development, and Environment Using satellite-observed inundation to investigate health disparities in the aftermath of floods
10/23 Hoshin Gupta, UA HAS Regents Professor On machine learning "interpretable" and "generalizable" representations of dynamical geoscientific systems
10/30 Kau Thirumalai, UA Geosciences Future increase in extreme El Niňo supported by past glacial changes
11/6 Kathy Jacobs and Neha Gupta (HAS Alumna), UA Arizona Institute for Resilience (AIR) Arizona tri-university recharge and water supply reliability project: An update
11/13 Yuan-Heng Wang (HAS Alumnus) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory  ML-enabled physically-interpretable modeling of catchment-scale precipitation-runoff dynamics using the mass-conserving-perceptron
11/20 Clark Evans, NOAA GSC Real-time, high-resolution hurricane prediction with the model for prediction across scales
12/4 Casey Davenport, University of North Carolina-Charlotte Title to be announced

Spring 2024

1/17 Yifan Cheng, National Center for Atmospheric Research Towards more actionable hydrologic modeling in Alaska and Yukon River Basin
1/24 Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Turbulence, clouds and climate Models
1/31 Matt Becker, 2024 Darcy Lecturer Fiber optic distributed sensing as a window on subsurface flow
2/7 Marek Zreda, UA Professor, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences Measuring stream discharge using audible sound
2/14 Tyler Robinson, UA Associate Professor, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Connecting Earth to exo-Earths: Promises and challenges for Earth-like exoplanets
2/21 Clara Deser, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research Projected changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation variability over the North Pacific and North America in a coupled model large ensemble
2/28 Peter Carter, MD, Director, Climate Emergency Institute Can we better communicate (and mitigate) the climate emergency?
3/13 Addisu Semie, Ph.D., Addis Ababa University Influence of the organization of deep convection on the radiation budget and precipitation extremes in the tropics
3/20 Riley Nolan and Jesse Jankowski, State of California Water Resources California Water Rights Overview and 2021-2023 drought response in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley delta watershed
4/3 Xiaonan Tai, Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology Influence of groundwater on forest mortality, resilience, and management
4/10 Zhen Li, Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry
4/17 Erica DiFilippo, HAS Ph.D. Alumna 2008, S.S. Papadopulos &  Associates, Inc. Polymer based PFAS as long-term source to surface water in the Alabama River System
4/24 Mary Barth, Senior Scientist Section Head, National Center for Atmospheric Research Vertical transport of aerosols and trace gases in deep convection
5/1 Bo Guo, UA Assistant Professor, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences Fate and transport of PFAS in soils: controlling processes, mathematical formulation, and practical modeling approaches