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2005 Colloquia

January 31, 2005: "Future challenges for NCEP operational data assimilation" Monday, 4:00 PM Room 353, Love Building. Presented by: Dr. John Derber National Center for Environmental Prediction Click here to download a full sized version

February 3, 2005: "A Fascination with Fluids: Vortices and Vortex Breakdown" Thursday, 12:30 PM GFDI New Reading Room. 018 Keen Building. Reception following the seminar. Presented by: Tony Maxworthy Smith International Professor of Mechanical Engineering University of Southern California Click here to download a full sized version

February 7, 2005: "The Influence of Water Waves on Surface Turbulent Fluxes" Monday, 3:00 PM GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Mark A. Bourassa GFDI and Meteorology Colloquia. Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies FSU Department of Meteorology A GFDI and Meteorology sponsored Colloquia. Click here to download a full sized version

February 21, 2005: "Dynamical Amplifier of the Global Warming due to Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases and Thermodynamical Feedbacks" Monday, 3:00 PM GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Ming Cai A GFDI and Meteorology sponsored Colloquia. Click here to download a full sized version

February 28, 2005: "Baroclinic Adjustment Revisited" Monday, 3:00 PM GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Masahiro Watanabe Graduate Schoool of Environmental Earth Science Hokkaido University Click here to download a full sized version

March 3, 2005: "Birth-Death of Parametrically Forced Limit Cycles: Bifurcatrions in a Simple ENSO Model" Monday, 3:00 PM GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Albert Barcilon Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute and Meteorology Joint Colloquium Click here to download a full sized version

March 21, 2005: "Ocean Tides and Heinrich Events" Monday, 4:00 PM Room 327 OSB Presented by: Dr. Brian Arbic Princeton University Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute and Chemical Oceanography Joint Colloquium Click here to download a full sized version

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2004 Colloquia

• March 8, 2004 : George Veronis.
  • Yale University
  • Geology Department
  • New Haven, CT
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• March 15, 2004 : Dr. David Erickson
  • Director of the Climate and Carbon Research Institute
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Oak Ridge, TN
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• March 22, 2004 : Dr. Lakshmi
  • Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
  • University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Boulder, CO
  
  
  

March 29, 2004 : "Recent Work in Stratified Turbulence: Pancake Vortices & Wave Saturation" - Dr. Peter Bartello McGill Uniersity Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Montreal, Quebec Canada Click here to download a full sized version of the poster.

April 12, 2004: "A Laboratory Model of Thermocline Depth and Exchange Fluxes Across Circumpolar Fronts." - Dr. Claudia Cenedese Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Time: 2:30 PM GFDI Reading Room, 018 Keen Bldg. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m. Click here to download a full sized version of the poster.

April 16, 2004: "All about Mars, Exploration of the Red Planet - 2004." - FSU Department of Geosciences. Friday, 3:30 PM Room 101 Carraway Building Presented by: Joseph Cain - GFDI Stephen Kish - Geology

May 19, 2004: "Nonlinear Waves: Characteristics and Interactions." Wednesday, 2:30 PM Presented by: Dr. Brian Barr, University of FL Click here to download a full sized version of the poster.

September 3, 2004: "Global scale energy inputs, cascade processes, and turbulent mixing in the deep ocean.." Friday, 2:30 PM. Room 327, OSB. Presented by: Dr. Louis St. Laurent, Dept. of Oceanography & GFDI, FSU. Click here to download a full sized version of the poster.

September 13, 2004: "Tidal Flow Field in a Small Basin." Monday, 3:00 PM GFDI Reading Room. 018 Keen Building. Presented by: Dr. Sergio Fagherazzi, CSIT and Department of Geological Sciences, FSU. Click here to download a full sized version of the poster.

October 7, 2004: "Exploring the secrets of Wakulla Springs." Thursday, 7:00-8:30 PM. R. W. Gray Building Auditorium 500 South Bronough Street Tallahassee, FL. A Special Presentation of Recent Discoveries About the Wonders Under Our Feet. Jim Stevenson, Florida Springs Task Force. Dr. Todd Kincaid, Hazlett-Kincaid, Inc. Sandy Cook, Manager, Wakulla Springs State Park. Click here to download a full sized version of the poster. [pdf]

November 1, 2004: "Laboratory Simulation of Solute Transport and Retention in a Karst Aquifer." Monday, 3:30 PM GFDI Reading Room. 018 Keen Building. Dissertation defense will follow the Colloquium. Presented by: Guangquan Li, GFD PH.D. Student. Click here to download a full sized version

November 8, 2004: "Modeling mantle flow beneath oceanic boundary triple junctions" Monday, 3:30 PM 499 Dirac Science Libray Presented by: Dr. Jennifer Georgen, Dept. of Geological Sciences, FSU Click here to download a full sized version

November 15, 2004: "Design and Implementation of an Urban Mesoscale Meteorological Data Network: Miami's REALM Project" Monday, 3:00 PM 499 Dirac Science Library Presented by: Dr. Paul Ruscher, Department of Meteorology, FSU Click here to download a full sized version

November 22, 2004: "Buoyant Plumes in a Cross Flow: Numerical Simulations and Laboratory Experiments" Monday, 3:00 PM 499 Dirac Science Library Presented by: Dr. Philip Cunningham: FSU Department of Meteorology GFDI Associate GFDI Summer Scholar Awardee Click here to download a full sized version

November 29, 2004: "Models and Observations of Bores" Monday, 3:00 PM 499 Dirac Science Library Presented by: Dr. Michael Reeder Department of Meteorology & Oceanography Monash University, Australia Click here to download a full sized version

December 6, 2004: "Flow and Solute Transport Through the Salem and Springfield Plateaus of Missouri" Monday, 3:00 PM 499 Dirac Science Library Presented by: Dr. Carol Wicks University of Missouri Click here to download a full sized version

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2003 Colloquia

• February 19, 2003: "Aurora Borealis at the Gulf of Mexico: Secondary Res Auroras at Low Latitudes as Singlet Molecular Oxygen Generated Via Solar Proton Coronial Mass Ejection" - Michael Kash, Department of Chemistry, Florida State University.
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  • Joint Sponsorship: GFDI and Department of Physics.
  
  
  
• March 6, 2003: "Vortices Attached to Seamounts" - Dr. Thomas Nycander, Department of Meteorology, University of Stockholm.
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• April 15, 2003: "El Niñ o "Symphony": Understanding ENSO Beyond the Simple Oscillator Paradigm" - Dr. Fei-Fei Jin, Professor, Department of Meteorology, SOEST, University of Hawaii.
  
  
• July 27-29, 2003: "Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics"
  • A symposium to showcase emerging challenges in fluid dynamics research across disciplines.
  • In Honor of:
    • David Loper
    • Christopher Hunter
  • Co-Hosted by: The Center for Earth Science and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute.
  
  
  
• November 3, 2003: "High-resolution, multi-scale modeling of watershed hydrology" - Enrique Vivoni, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Tech.
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• November 17th, 2003: "Eddies in the Skagerrak: Insight from Models" - Lars Petter Rø ed , Norwegian Meteorological Institute and University of Oslo.
  • Presented by Physical Oceanography and GFDI of Florida State University.
  
  
  

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2001 Colloquia

• January 19, 2001: "3-D Salt Fingers in an Unbounded Thermocline with Application to the Centeral Ocean" - Prof. Melvin Stern, Oceanography and GFDI, Florida State University.
  
  
• January 22, 2001: "Buoyant Coastal Gravity Currents Over a Slope: theory and Experiments" - Dr. Karl Helfrich, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
  
  
• January 31, 2001: "What's wrong with Plate Tectonics" - Dr. David Loper, Department of Geological Sciences and GFDI, Florida State University.
  
  
• February 19, 2001: "Air Circulation and Contaminant Dispersion in Complex-terrain Airsheds" - H. J. S. Fernando, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University.
  
  
• March 19, 2001: "Numerical Modeling of Messoscopic Flows by Discrete Particle Methods" - David A. Yuen, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota.
  • Presented by: The School of Computational Science and Information Technology and GFDI.
  
  
  
• March 20, 2001: "Application of Multidimensional Wavelets in Visualizing Multiscale Geophysics" - David A. Yuen, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota.
  • Presented by: The School of Computational Science and Information Technology and GFDI.
  
  
  
• April 23, 2001: "Ocean Thermocline Penetration by Buoyant Plumes" - Dr. Kevin Speer, FSU Oceanography.
  
  
• September 10, 2001: "Land-Atmosphere Interactions Using Large Eddy Simulations " - Dr. Parlange, Johns-Hopkins University.
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• September 17, 2001: "Double Diffusivity Transports" - Dr. Ruby Krishnamurti, Professor of Oceanography, GFDI, Florida State University.
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• October 8, 2001: "Balanced and Unbalanced Dynamics of Upper-Tropospheric Jets" - Dr. Phillip Cunningham, FSU Meteorology.
  
  
• October 15, 2001: "Ground and Surface Water in Karst Terrains: What are the Differences" - Dr. Joe Martin, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida.
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  • Presented by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute and the Hydrogeology Consortium.
  
  
  
• October 23, 2001: "National Cave and Karst Research-The Initial Phase" - Zelda Chapman Bailey, Interim Director, National Cave and Karst Institute
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  • Presented by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute and the Hydrogeology Consortium.
  
  
  
• October 29, 2001: "Mechanisms for Groundwater/Surface Water Exchange in the Floridian Karst" - Dr. Todd Kincaid, Consultant, Hazlett-Kincaid, Inc.
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  • Presented by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute and the Hydrogeology Consortium.
  
  
  
• November 1, 2001: "Comparison of Methodologies for Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting" - Dr. Richard Pfeffer, Rossby Professor of Meteorology, GFDI, Florida State University.
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• November 14, 2001: "The Edwards Aquifer in South-Centeral Texas- A National Treasue" - Mr. Geary Schindel, Chief Technical Officer, Edwards Aquifer Authority, San Antonio Texas.
  • Presented by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute and the Hydrogeology Consortium.
  
  
  
• November 19, 2001: "Hybrid Modeling Approaches to Flow in Conduit-Dominated Karst Aquifers" - Dr. Timothy Hazlett, Hazlett-Kincaid, Inc. and GFDI, FSU.
  • Presented by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute and the Hydrogeology Consortium.
  
  
  
• December 3, 2001: "Temperature Inversions and Thermally Driven Wind Systems in Valleys and Basins of the Western United States" - Charles D. Whiteman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
  
  

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2000 Colloquia

• February 21, 2000: "The stability of creeping soil and implications for hillslope evolution" - Proffessor David Furbish, Department of Geological Sciences, Florida State University.
  • Presented by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute and Geological Sciences.
  
  
  
• April 14, 2000: "4-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation Study for tropical Cyclone Development in Early States" - Qiang Zhao, GFDI, Florida State University.
  
  
• October 9, 2000: "Observations of Abyssal Eddies in the Brazil Basin" - Proffessor Georges Weatherly, Department of Oceanography, Florida State University.
  • Presented by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute and Department of Oceanography.
  
  
  
• October 23, 2000: "River Discharge as a Tool for regional Assessment of Gloal Climate Models" - Lydia Dümenil Gates, Associate Research Scientist, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Institute of Global Environmental and Society, Inc.
  • Presented by the School of Computational Science and Information Technology the Department of Meterology.
  
  
  
• October 30, 2000: "Things to consider when assimilating GPS occultatin data" - Xiolei Zou, Meterology and GFDI, Florida State University.
  
  
• November 15, 2000: "Faraday Waves" - Prof. Jorge Viñals, CSIT and Chemical Engineering, Florida State University.
  
  
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