Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences 270 Seminars

The UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences hosts 270 Seminars every Wednesday from 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST during the academic year. Professors, researchers, and educators from around the world present topics ranging from Oceanography, Space Physics and Planetary Systems, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and Biogeochemistry.

All seminars will be in-person unless otherwise noted. Please click under "Details" of any seminar for more information. Seminar schedules are posted quarterly and updated once information becomes available.

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Spring 2023

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
04/05/23	Yidongfang Si	UCLA	TBD	Abstract
04/12/23	Yongkang Xue	UCLA	TBD	Abstract
04/19/23	David Gonzales	UCLA	TBD	Abstract
04/25/23	Qiang Fu (Liou Seminar)	University of Washington	TBD	Abstract
05/03/23	Jane Baldwin	UC Irvine	TBD	Abstract
05/10/23	Danny Min Leung	UCLA	TBD	Abstract
05/17/23	Gavin D. Madakumbura	UCLA	TBD	Abstract
05/24/23	James Randerson (Yanai)	UC Irvine	TBD	Abstract
05/31/23	Danny McCoy	UCLA	TBD	Abstract
06/07/23	Jiaqi Shen	UCLA	TBD	Abstract

Winter 2023

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
1/11/23	William (Bill) Boos	UC Berkeley	Monsoon depressions: Mechanisms & trends of high-impact storms at the edge of the tropics	Abstract
1/18/23	Octavio Aburto-Oropeza	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Mangroves: Traveling through time 100,000 years to achieve the 2030 sustainable development goals	Abstract
1/25/23	Marilyn Raphael	UCLA	Antarctic Sea Ice Variability, Change and Linkages with the Atmospheric Circulation	Abstract
2/1/23	Lara Cushing	UCLA	Inequality & the Environment: Making the Link to Advance Health Equity	Abstract
2/8/23	Parker MacCready	University of Washington	What Controls the Estuarine Exchange Flow of the Salish Sea?	Abstract

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
9/28/22	Man Hua	UCLA	Is human control of natural radiation environment near Earth possible?	Abstract
10/5/22	Jessica Tierney	University of Arizona	Paleoclimate data assimilation: new views of past climates	Abstract
10/26/22	Weiming Ma	UCLA	Mechanisms for the Interannual Variability and Recent Trends of Atmospheric Rivers	Abstract
11/02/22	Paul Wennberg	CalTech	Climate change and the High Latitude Northern Forests	Abstract
11/09/22	Daniel Clements	UCLA	Analysis of Particulate Carbon Export in the Global Ocean, using in situ: Observations and Machine Learning	Abstract
11/23/22	Thanksgiving Week

Spring 2022

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
4/7/22 (Munk Seminar)	Alberto Garabato	University of Southampton, UK	Kinetic energy transfers between mesoscale and submesoscale motions	Abstract
5/4/22	Bjorn Stevens	Max Planck Institute for Meteorology	The Greenhouse Effect, and the Advantages of Thinking Colorfully	Abstract
5/25/22	Todd Emmenegger	UCLA	The physics behind precipitation onset bias in CMIP6 models: the pseudo-entertainment diagnostic and trade-offs between lapse rates and humidity	Abstract
6/1/22	Zoe Pierrat	UCLA	Tower-based remote sensing for understanding boreal forest carbon dynamics	Abstract

Winter 2022

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
1/15/21 REMOTE	Rong Fu	UCLA	A Machine Learning Approach Toward Understanding Droughts, Heatwaves and Fire Weather form Sub-Seasonal to Decadal Scales	Abstract
1/12/21 REMOTE	Jessica Neu	JPL	Using Satelitte Measurements to Understand Changes in Atmospheric Composition from Earth's Surface to the Stratosphere	Abstract
1/19/21 REMOTE	Jerome Guiet	UCLA	Understanding the mechanisms shaping the flow of fish biomass in the California Current	Abstract
1/26/21 REMOTE	Allison Moreno	UCLA	Controlling drivers of marine particulate respiration quotient in two ocean basins	Abstract
2/2/22 REMOTE	Cristi Proistosescu	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	The "Pattern Effect": How sea surface temperature patterns modulate radiative feedbacks and climate sensitivity	Abstract
2/9/22 REMOTE	Susan C. Van Den Heever	Colorado State University	Plunging into Cold Pools	Abstract
2/23/22 REMOTE	Jonathan Rutz	NOAA National Weather Service	An Evolving National Weather Service	Abstract
3/2/22 REMOTE	Matthew McKinney	UCLA	Bridging the Gap between Earth-like and Titan-like Hydroclimates	Abstract
3/9/22 HYBRID	Jordyn Moscoso	UCLA	Controls on Planktonic Ecosystem Structure in Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems	Abstract

Fall 2021

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
9/29/21 (REMOTE)	Allison Jaynes	University of Iowa	Energetic particles keep falling on my head	Abstract
10/6/21 (REMOTE)	Pierre Gentine	Columbia University	Bridging between climate physics and machine learning	Abstract
10/13/21	Olga Kalashnikova	JPL	Satellite and Airborne Remote Sensing Contributions to Understanding the Impact of Fires on Air Quality and Climate	Abstract
10/20/21	Yuanlong Hu	Terra-Gen LLC	Wind Project Development - an Overview	Abstract
10/27/21	Park Williams	UCLA	Why is wildfire activity increasing in the western US and how will this affect water resources?	Abstract
11/3/21	Tina Treude	UCLA	Party in the microbe dorms: Microbial element cycling in sediment of the oxygen-deficient Santa Barbara Basin	Abstract
11/10/21 (REMOTE)	Charles Jones	UCSB	Mitigating and Managing Extreme Wildfire Risk in California	Abstract
11/17/21 (REMOTE)	Armin Sorooshian	University of Arizona	Smoke, Ships, Dust, Salt and Other Feaures Interacting with Clouds: Findings from Recent Field Campaigns	Abstract
12/1/21 (REMOTE)	Kaushik Srinivasan	UCLA	A forward energy cascade at submesoscales driven by frontogenesis	Abstract

Spring 2021

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
3/31/21, 3:00PM	Elfathi Eltahir	MIT	Regional Impacts of Climate Change	Abstract
4/7/21, 3:00PM	Katie Tuite	UCLA	Nitrous acid (HONO) chemistry in two polluted environments: the urban boundary layer and wildfire smoke plumes	Abstract
4/14/21, 3:00PM	Nathaniel Brockway	UCLA	Remote Sensing of Radical Precursors in Biomass Burning Plumes	Abstract
4/21/21, 3:00PM	David Peterson	U.S. Naval Research Laboratory	The Unprecedented Pyrocumulonimbus Super Outbreak in Australia at the Dawn of 2020: Cause and Perspective	Abstract
4/28/21, 3:00PM	Jacob Bortnik	UCLA	(Machine) Learning to Live Near a Temperamental Star	Abstract
5/7/21, 3:00PM	Susan Solomon	MIT	New Challenges for the Montreal Protocol: Science and Policy	Abstract
5/12/21, 3:00PM	Yue Huang	UCLA	Observational constraints on the shape and size of desert dust: implications for global aerosol models and remote sensing retrievals	Abstract
5/19/21, 3:00PM	Yi-Hung Kuo	UCLA	Conditions for convective deep inflow from buoyancy forcing and non-local effect	Abstract
5/26/21, 3:00PM	Trevor Bowen	UC Berkeley	Turbulence and Nonlinear Processes in the Solar Atmosphere	Abstract
6/2/21, 3:00PM	Tersi Arias-Young	UCLA	Phenomenology, Dynamics, and Perseverance of Observed Mid-latitude Clouds in Saturn's Moon, Titan	Abstract

Winter 2021

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
1/13/21 3:00PM	David Siegel	UC Santa Barbara	Assessing Global Biogeochemical Processes from Satellite Observations: Progress to Date & Plans Forward	Abstract
1/20/21 3:00PM	Morgan O'Neil	Stanford University	Hydraulic jump-like dynamics above supercell thunderstorms	Abstract
2/3/21 3:00PM	Doug Capone	University of Southern California	Marine Mosaics: Emerging Patterns of Nitrogen Fixation in the Oceans	Abstract
2/10/21 3:00PM	Raleigh Martin	U.S. National Science Foundation	Navigating Policy and the Geosciences	Abstract
2/17/21 3:00PM	Roya Bahreini	UC Riverside	Sources and Characteristics of Particulate Matter in an Urban/ Agricultural/ Desert Setting	Abstract
3/3/21 3:00PM	Karen McKinnon	UCLA	The Trends and Causes of Midlatitude Heat Extremes	Abstract

Fall 2020

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
10/7/20 3:00PM	Paul O'Gorman	MIT	Regional Responses of Extreme Precipitation to Climate Change: a Role for Both Dynamical Understanding and Machine Learning	Abstract
10/14/20 3:00PM	Holly Oldroyd	UC Davis	Turbulent Land-Atmosphere Interactions and the Impacts of Steep Terrain	Abstract
10/21/20 3:00PM	Marty Ralph	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Atmospheric Rivers: Recent Developments in Science. Impacts, and Policies	Abstract
10/28/20 3:00PM	Phoebe Lam	UC Santa Cruz	Particle distribution, composition, and dynamics in three ocean basins	Abstract
11/4/20 3:00PM	Charles Ichoku	Howard University	Satellite-based estimation of biomass burning emissions for modeling smoke impacts: where we are and what we need	Abstract
11/18/20 3:00PM	Dione Rossiter	UC Berkeley	Systemic Racism in Science Communication	Abstract
12/2/20 3:00PM	Meinrat Andreae	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry	Clouds and Sinks in the Life Cycle of Pristine Aerosol	Abstract

Spring 2020

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
04/04/20	Claudie Beaulieu	UC Santa Cruz	Detection of long-term trends in ocean chlorophyll	Abstract
04/22/20	Robert Wood	University of Washington	Current and Future Cloud Brightening from Ships in Subtropical Low Clouds	Abstract
04/29/20	Adeyemi Adebiyi	UCLA	Between Smoke and Dust: How uncertainties in absorbing aerosols limit our understanding of global climate	Abstract
05/06/20	Marcelo Chamecki	UCLA	Chimneys of the Amazon: Effects of Gentle Topography on Gas Fluxes Emitted within Forests	Abstract
05/13/20	Ken Zhao	UCLA	Awakening the Sleeping Ice Giants: Ocean-Driven Glacial Melting via Fjord and Ice-Shelf Cavity Circulation	Abstract
05/20/20	Philip Fine	South Coast AQMD	The South-Coast AQMD: Air Quality Challenges and Opportunities	Abstract
06/03/20	Tomas Chor	UCLA	Mixing in Oceanic Boundary Layers: A Method to Guide Model Development	Abstract

Winter 2020

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
01/08/20	Zhiming Kuang	Harvard University	Some applications of linear response functions in atmospheric dynamics	Abstract
01/15/20	Andy Ridgwell	UC Riverside	~Isempty(intersect('biology',models))	Abstract
01/22/20	Tracey Holloway	UW-Madison	New Data and Modeling for Air Quality Management	Abstract
01/29/20	David Neelin	UCLA	The simplicity of precipitation — dialogue between diagnostics and theoretical underpinnings	Abstract
02/05/20	John Seinfeld	Caltech	Secondary Organic Aerosol	Abstract
02/12/20	Elizabeth Barnes	Colorado State Unviersity	Viewing Climate Signals through an AI Lens	Abstract
02/19/20	Naomi Maruyama	NOAA/ CIRES	Cold plasma coupling between the magnetosphere, plasmasphere, and ionosphere	Abstract
02/26/20	Heidi Nepf	MIT	How vegetation alters waves and current, and the feedbacks to environmental system function	Abstract
03/04/20	Martha Sutula	SCCWRP	Ingredients to a "Solution": Increasing Resilience to Acidification, Deoxygenation, and Harmful Algal Blooms in the Souther California Bight	Abstract
03/11/20	Charles Jones	UC Santa Barbara	The Sundowner winds in Santa Barbara, California, USA	Abstract

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
10/02/19	Adam Kellerman	UCLA	The response of cosmic noise absoprtion to electron precipitation: A new method to infer energy input into the upper atmosphere over daily to climatic scales	Abstract
10/0919	John Worden	JPL	Quantifying The Global Methane Budget and Its Uncertainties Using Satellite and Ground Measurements	Abstract
10/16/19	Nicholas Lutsko	MIT	Extending Large-Scale Dynamics From the Zonal-Mean to Regional Climates	Abstract
10/23/19	Bette Otto-Bliesner	NCAR	Sensitivity of the Greenland Ice Sheet to Warming: A View from the Past - The Last Interglacial	Abstract
10/30/19	Fiaz Ahmed	UCLA	Probing Precipitation Physics with Tropical Rainfall Statistics	Abstract
11/06/19	Mike Pritchard	UC Irvine	Turbulence Matters: Emerging Opportunities for Numerical Climate Dynamics in the Era of Exascale Computing and Deep Learning	Abstract
11/13/19	Philip Rasch	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Challenges and Prospects for the treatment of cloud and aerosol proceses in Earth System Models	Abstract
11/20/19	Daniele Bianchi	UCLA	Oceanic emissions of nitrous oxide: from global patterns to eddy-driven reactions	Abstract
12/04/19	Sarah Purkey	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	New insight into deep ocean warming from tracer data, deep argo, and another decade of repeat hyrography	Abstract

Spring 2019

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
04/03/19	Aviv Solodoch	UCLA	What Makes the Deep Western Boundary Current "Leak"?	Abstract
04/10/19	Karen McKinnon	UCLA	Predictability and Uncertainty: Two Temperature Tales	Abstract
04/17/19	Qinghua Ding	UC Santa Barbara	Fingerprints of Internal Drivers of Recent Arctic Warming	Abstract
04/24/19	Hung-I Lee	UCLA	Monsoon Onset and Precipitation Control by Mid-latitude Waves in Modern and Glacial Climates	Abstract
05/01/19	Suzan Lozier	Duke University	A 21^st Look at the Global Ocean Conveyor Belt	Abstract
05/08/19	Charlie Zender	UC Irvine	Automatic Weather Stations Reveal How Clouds Affect Greenland's Surface	Abstract
05/15/19	Aaron Ridley	University of Michigan	Modeling the Upper Atmospheric Reaction to Energy Input	Abstract
05/22/19	Alison Gray	University of Washington	The Southern Ocean’s Role in the Global Carbon Cycle: New Results from the SOCCOM Array of Biogeochemical-Argo Floats	Abstract
05/29/19	Inez Fung	UC Berkeley	Carbon Weather Data- Assimilation	Abstract
06/06/19	Rong Fu	UCLA	Interactions between Aerosols and Mesoscale Convective Lifecycle inferred from Satellite Observations	Abstract

Winter 2018

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
01/09/19	Jesus Araujo	UCLA	The Environment and the Cardiometabolic Conundrum: Is the Answer in the Mitochondria?	Abstract
01/16/19	Joyce Penner	University of Michigan	Climate impact of aerosols on large-scale cirrus clouds	Abstract
01/23/19	David Gonzalez	UCLA	Why Do Particles Make People Sick? Reactive Oxygen Species from Biomass Burning Components in Simulated and Human Lung Fluids	Abstract
01/30/19	Jose-Luis Jimenez	CU Boulder	Submicron aerosols: from the urban to the remote atmopshere	Abstract
02/06/19	Fiamma Straneo	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Glaciers on the loose: navigating Greenland's coastal margins to unravel the causes and consequences of a shrinking ice sheet	Abstract
02/13/19	Ian Faloona	UC Davis	The Importance of Seeing Turbulence, and its Multiscale Dependence, in Air Pollution Studies: Examples from California's San Joaquin Valley	Abstract
02/20/19	Chris Bretherton	University of Michigan	Boundary layer clouds and aerosols over the Souther Ocean: New observations for making better climate models.	Abstract
02/27/19	Dorian Abbot	University of Chicago	The Snowball Bifurcation on Tidally Influenced Planets	Abstract
03/06/19	Julia Hazel	UCLA	Exploring the Wind-Driven Near-Antarctic Circulation	Abstract
03/13/19	Leif Thomas	Stanford University	Interactions between Near-Inertial Waves and Balanced Currents at Ocean Fronts	Abstract

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Details
10/03/18	Duane Waliser	JPL	Atmospheric Rivers: Water Extremes that Shape Our Global Weather and Climate	Abstract
10/10/18	Dennis Baldocchi	UC Berkeley	How much water is evaporated across California during the booms and busts in rainfall?: Experiences from measuring and modeling evaporation across California between 2000 and 2017	Abstract
10/17/18	Boyi Wang	UCLA	Imaging 2D structures of transient and localized solar wind-magnetosphere interaction	Abstract
10/24/18	Cecilia Blitz	University of Washington	Drivers of Souther Ocean climate change in recent decades	Abstract
10/31/18	Victor Pinto	UCLA	Influence of the Solar Wind in the dynamics of relativistic electrons on the Earth's Radiation Belts	Abstract
11/07/18	Spencer Hill	UCLA	Back to the basics for monsoons, Hadley cells, and rotating tanks	Abstract
11/14/18	Harlan Spence	University of New Hampshire	Q: Precipitation, Kelvin-Helmholtz Waves, and Turbulence - Atmospheric Science or Space Science? A: Both!	Abstract
11/28/18	Schafer Smith	New York University	The role eddy stirring in structuring Arabian Sea oxygen distributions	Abstract
12/05/18	David Randall	Colorado State University	Interactions of convection and radiation under homogeneous boundary conditions on the sphere, with and without rotation	Abstract

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