Seminars By Semester

Fall 2024

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

Spring 2024

1/17Yifan Cheng, National Center for Atmospheric ResearchTowards more actionable hydrologic modeling in Alaska and Yukon River Basin
1/24Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion LaboratoryTurbulence, clouds and climate Models
1/31Matt Becker, 2024 Darcy LecturerFiber optic distributed sensing as a window on subsurface flow
2/7Marek Zreda, UA Professor, Hydrology and Atmospheric SciencesMeasuring stream discharge using audible sound
2/14Tyler Robinson, UA Associate Professor, Lunar and Planetary LaboratoryConnecting Earth to exo-Earths: Promises and challenges for Earth-like exoplanets
2/21Clara Deser, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric ResearchProjected changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation variability over the North Pacific and North America in a coupled model large ensemble
2/28Peter Carter, MD, Director, Climate Emergency InstituteCan we better communicate (and mitigate) the climate emergency?
3/13Addisu Semie, Ph.D., Addis Ababa UniversityInfluence of the organization of deep convection on the radiation budget and precipitation extremes in the tropics
3/20Riley Nolan and Jesse Jankowski, State of California Water ResourcesCalifornia Water Rights Overview and 2021-2023 drought response in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley delta watershed
4/3Xiaonan Tai, Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of TechnologyInfluence of groundwater on forest mortality, resilience, and management
4/10Zhen Li, Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryA framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry
4/17Erica 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
4/24Mary Barth, Senior Scientist Section Head, National Center for Atmospheric ResearchVertical transport of aerosols and trace gases in deep convection
5/1Bo Guo, UA Assistant Professor, Hydrology and Atmospheric SciencesFate and transport of PFAS in soils: controlling processes, mathematical formulation, and practical modeling approaches