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2008 Colloquia

March 26, 2008 : "PV-Induced Forcing of Gravity Waves in a Shallow Water Model" Wednesday, 3:30 pm GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Mr. Marshall Ward GFDI Florida State University Tallahassee, FL

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2007 Colloquia

January 8, 2007 : "Variability in the North Indian Ocean as Seen in a Numerical Hindcast of Years 1993-2005" Monday, 3:30 pm GFDI Reading Room 018 Keen Presented by: Dr. Lakshmi Kantha University of Colorado Boulder, CO Click here to download a full sized version

February 29, 2007 : "Turbulence in Open Shear Flows and Boundary layers" Monday, 3:00 pm GFDI Reading Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Hannah Liang Applied Physics Laboratory & School of Oceanography University of Washington Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department University of Southern California Click here to download a full sized version

March 5, 2007 : "Hydrogeologic Characterization of the Woodville Karst Plain: HKI Report of Investigations 2--5-2006, parts I-III" Monday, 3:30 pm GFDI Reading Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Todd Kincaid Hazlett-Kincaid Inc. Reno, Nevada Click here to download a full sized version

March 19, 2007 : "A Groundwater Flow Model of the Woodvile Karst Plain" Monday, 3:30 pm GFDI Reading Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Timothy Hazlett Hazlett-Kincaid Inc. Reno, NV Click here to download a full sized version

March 27, 2007 : "On the Baroclinic Instability of Time-depndent, Sub-Critical Zonal Currents" - Dr. Melvin Stern Lecture Tuesday, 3:30 pm Rm 101 Love Building Presented by: Dr. Joseph Pedlosky Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Woods Hole, MA Click here to download a full sized version

April 2, 2007: "Sea-ice: The Glacial Cycles Climate Switch" - Joint with Oceanography Monday, 3:30 pm GFDI Reading Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Hezi Gildor Department of Environmental Science & Energy Research (ESER) The Weisman Institute for Science Isreal Click here to download a full sized version

April 3, 2007 : "Double-diffusive Fingering in Porous Media" Tuesday, 11:30 am GFDI Reading Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Mr. Christopher Werner GFDI Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Click here to download a full sized version

September 18, 1007 : "An Overview of the Environmental Modeling Center of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction" Tuesday 3:30pm Room 101 Love Building Presented by: Dr. Stephen Lord Director, NCEP/EMC Washington, D.C. Click here to download a full sized version

October 8, 2007 : "Importance of Three-dimensional Aspects in Wildfire Behavior" Monday, 3:30 pm GFDI Reading Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Mr. Jesse Canfield Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM Click here to download a full sized version

November 19, 2007 : "Radiometric Meteorology" - Joint with Meteorology Presented by: Dr. Mark Greenfield International Christian School Tokyo, Japan

December 14, 2007 : "Retroflection from Slanted Coastline-modeling Rings Injection into the South Atlantic During Glacials/interglacials" Friday, 10:30 am GFDI Reading Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Mr. Volodymyr Zharkov GFDI Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Click here to download a full sized version

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2006 Colloquia

January 6, 2006: "Dynamics of Convectively Driven Banded Jets in the Laboratory" Joint with Department of Oceanography Presented by: Dr. Peter Reed Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics University of Oxford Oxford, UK Click here to download a full sized version

January 23, 2006: "Climate Variability and its Influence on Varied Physiographic Settings: Evidence from Long Island Salt Marshes" 3:00 pm GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Alexander Kolker Marine Sciences Research Center Stony Brook University NY Click here to download a full sized version

Februaray 14, 2006 : "Assessment of Tephrafall Hazard for Montserrut West Indies" Tuesday, 3:30pm GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Costanza Bonadonna Department of Geology University of South Florida Tampa, FL Click here to download a full sized version

February 20, 2006 : "Application of a Multiphase Modeling Framework to Simulate Density Currents on Mars" Monday, 3:00 pm GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. jon Reisner Earth and Environmental Division Los Alamos National lab Los Alamos, NM Click here to download a full sized version

February 22, 2006 : "Toward Understanding Wakulla Springs" - A Joint Colloquium with Geological Sceinces and Hydrogeology Consortium Wednesday, 3:00pm 7th Floor Conf. Room Keen Building Presented by: Dr. David Loper GFDI Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Click here to download a full sized version

March 1, 2006 : "The Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring: Achievements and Future Plans" Wednesday, 3:00 pm 7th Floor Conference Room Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Joerg Schulz Deutscher Wetterdienst Germany Click here to download a full sized version

March 3, 2006 : "Formation and Behavior of Bars in the Inter-tidal Zone" - Joint Colloquium with Geological Sciences Friday, 3:30pm Room 103 Carraway Building Presented by: Dr. Christopher Houser University of Florida Gainesville, FL Click here to download a full sized version

March 16, 2006: "Computer Simulations of Shallow and Deep Water Depositional Systems" - Joint Colloquium with Geological Sciences Thursday, 3:30pm Room 499 Dirac Science Library Presented by: Dr. Tao Sun Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company Click here to download a full sized version

March 23, 2006 : "Seismic and Rheological Behavior of the Asthenosphere Beneath Intraplate Seamount Chains in the South Pacific" - Joint with SCS and Geological Sciences Thursday, 3:3opm Room 499 Dirac Science Library Presented by: Dr. Dayanthie S. Weerarantne Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and Seismology Carnegie Institute of Washington Washington, D.C. Click here to download a full sized version

March 27, 2006 : "Computational Modeling in Uncertainty Assessment and Site Characterization of Hydrologic Systems" - Joint with CSE and Geological Sciences Monday, 11:15 am Room 499 Dirac Science Library Presented by: Dr. Ming Ye Division of Hydrologic Sciences and Engineering Desert Research Institute Click here to download a full sized version

March 30, 2006 : "Scaling Properties of Aftershocks: Empirical Laws and Theoretical Models" - Joint with SCS and Geological Sciences Thursday 3:30 pm Room 499 Dirac Science Library Presented by: Dr. Robert Scherbakov Center for Computational Science & Engineering and Department of Geology University of California at Davis Davis, CA Click here to download a full sized version

April 17, 2006 : "Coexistence of Coupled Unstable Equatorial Modes for ENSO" Monday, 3:00 pm GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Mr. Luis Bejarano GFDI Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Click here to download a full sized version

April 24, 2006 : "Stirring Up Trouble: Multi-Scale Measrues of Mixing for Steady Scalar Sources" - Joint with SCS and Mathematics Monday, 3:00pm GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Charles Doering Department of Mathematics and Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Click here to download a full sized version

September 11, 2006 : "Quantifying Wakulla Springs" Monday, 3:00 pm GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. David Loper GFDI Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Click here to download a full sized version

October 12, 2006 : "Collaboration and Data Sharing: Lessons Learned from Watershed Management" Thursday, 4:00 pm GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. James Silvanima Watershed Monitoring Section FLDEP Tallahassee, FL Click here to download a full sized version

October 23, 2006 : "Karst Features Within the Wakulla Springs Springshed" Monday, 3:30 pm GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Harley Means Florida Geological Survey Tallahassee, FL Click here to download a full sized version

October 26, 2006 : "Hurricanes and Global Warming" Wednesday, 3:00pm GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Judith Curry Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA Click here to download a full sized version

November 6, 2006 : "Statistical Tools for Wakulla Springs Flow" Monday, 3:30pm GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Eric Chicken Department of Statistics Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Click here to download a full sized version

November 20, 2006 : "Using Chemical and Biological Indicators to Assess the Impacts of the Land Application of Treated Municipal Water Quality in the Karstic Floridian Aquifer" Monday, 3:30 pm GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Brian Katz US Geological Survey Click here to download a full sized version

December 4, 2006 : "Simulation of the Movement of Reclaimed Wastewater from the Southeast Farm Facility Through the Upper Floridian Aquifer, Leon and Wakulla Counties, Florida" Monday, 3:30 pm GFDI Seminar Room 018 Keen Building Presented by: Dr. Hal Davis US Geological Survey Click here to download a full sized version

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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

April 4, 2005 : "Modeling Mantle Flow Beneath Oceanic Plate Boundary Triple Junctions" Presented by: Dr. Jennifer Georgen Department of Geological Sciences Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Click here to download a full sized version

April 22, 2005 : "Controls On the Fate of Finegraned Fluvial Sediments in the Ocean" Joint with Geological Sciences Presented by: Dr. J.P. Walsh Department of Geological Sciences Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Click here to download a full sized version

July 7, 2005 : "On Parameterizing Air-Sea Fluxes" Presented by: Dr. William Drennan Applied Marine Physics University of Miami Miami, FL Click here to download a full sized version

July 28, 2005 : "A History of research on the Air-Sea Momentum Flux with Upcoming Challenges" Presented by: Dr. G. Geernaert Director of the Institue of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM Click here to download a full sized version

September 12, 2005: "Mathematical Analysis of Sedimentation of a Rigid Body in Newtonian and Viscoelastic Liquids" Presented by: Dr. Ashwin Vaidya Department of Mathematics Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Click here to download a full sized version

November 28, 2005 : "Ground Water Flow and Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Media: Geo-Statistics, Stochastic Theory and Inverse Calculation" Presented by: Dr. Bill Hu Department of Geological Sciences Florida State University Tallahassee, FL

December 5 : "Fluid and Particle Transport at the Shallow Sea Floor" Presented by: Dr. Marcus Huettel Department of Oceaongraphy Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Click here to download a full sized version

December 8, 2005 : "Salt Fingers, Steps, and mixing in the Tropical Atlantic" Joint with Department of Oceanography Presented by: Dr. Ray Schmitt Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA Click here to download a full sized version

December 9, 2005 : "High Resolution Air-Sea Coupling Studies" Joint with Department of Oceanography Presented by: Dr. Julie Pullen Marine Meteorology Division National Research Lab. Monterey, CA 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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