2013 EFD Seminars
Fall 2013 Seminars
September 3rd 2013
Atmospheric Rivers: A brief review and emerging directions
Dr. Marty Ralph
Director, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at the University of California San Diego and Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla
September 5th 2013
Wave-induced Boundary-layer Separation in the Lee of the Medicine Bow Mountains
Dr. Vanda Grubisic
Director of Earth Observing Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Spring 2013 Seminars:
January 22, 2013
Air-sea Interactions during hurricanes
Chris Fairall
Director, Environmental Technology Laboratory, NOAA
January 29, 2013
Relationship between Obukhov and Ozmidov length scales in the stable atmospheric boundary layer
Andrey Grachev
University of Colorado
February 5, 2013
Realtime Meteorological Decision Support for University Safety
Dr. Edward Bensman
Director of Engineering Computing, University of Notre Dame
February 12, 2013
Interfaces in hydrologic systems: Challenges and opportunities
Professor Tissa Illangasekera
Colorado School of Mines, Editor, Water Resources Research
February 19, 2013
Turbulent Flow Overlying Complex Surfaces: From Multi-Scale Roughness to Barchan Dunes
Professor Ken Christensen
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
February 26, 2013
Pre-Monsoon Aerosol-Cloud-Rainfall Interactions in the Central Himalayas due to Regional-Scale Pollution in the Indo-Gangetic Plains Implications for Freshwater Resources
Professor Ana Barros
Duke University
March 5, 2013
IBM Lecture: Understanding an hourglass, and other granular flows, in under an hour
Professor Melany Hunt
Vice Provost and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
March 19, 2013
Multiscale Modeling of Geophysical Flows: From the Ocean Seafloor to Surface
Dr. Allison Penko
Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center
March 26, 2013
On Helical Properties of Homogeneous Turbulence
Professor Frank Jacobitz
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of San Diego
April 2, 2013
Counting the Clouds
Professor David Randall
Director, Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes (NSF STC),Professor of Atmospheric Sciences,Colorado State University
April 9, 2013
IBM Lecture
Dr. Peggy Lemone
NAE Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research
April 16, 2013
Mass transport and aquatic ecology: Why fluid mechanics matters - Co-Sponsored by ECI
Professor Joseff Ackermann
Physical Ecology & Aquatic Science, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Canada
April 23, 2013
Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Spectral Wave/Circulation Modeling
Dr. Jessica Meixner
Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
April 30, 2013
Nearshore Hydrodynamics and the Fate and Transport of Escherichia coli at Beaches in Southern Lake Michigan
Professor Phanikumar Mantra
Michigan State University