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June 8 - 12,
1998
THE OCEANS:
SOCIETY & SCIENCE
A Public Lecture Series
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Building 3, Auditorium
SPONSORED BY: Universities Space Research Association & NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
In tandem with the 1998 Graduate Student Summer Program (GSSP) in the Earth System Sciences, the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and the Earth Sciences Directorate of the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) have organized a lecture series to be held at the Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, June 8 - 12, 1998. The series is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the science and techniques of remote sensing and satellite observation, and to foster scientific understanding of the challenges being addressed by national programs in global change and NASA's Earth Science Enterprise.
Monday, June 8th: Context & Overview Moderator: Frank Eden
9:30 "Welcome", Frank Eden, National
Research Council & Mike Kalb, USRA
9:40 "Recent Themes in Physical Oceanography", Ferris
Webster, University of Delaware
10:50 "The Chemistry of the Oceans", Michael Bacon,
Woods Hole Oceonographic Institute
1:30 "The History and Development of Ocean Remote Sensing
Satellites through the EOS Era", William Townsend, NASA
GSFC
2:40 "Oceans & Society: Challenges and Opportunities
Relating to Living Resources" Chris D'Elia, University of
Maryland
Tuesday, June 9th: Role of the Oceans In Climate Moderator: Tony
Busalacchi
9:30 "Global Thermocline Circulation and the Conveyor Belt",
Wallace Broecker, Columbia University
10:40 "The World Ocean Circulation and it's Role in the
Climate", Carl Wunsch, MIT
1:30 "The Scientific Impact of Satellite Remote Sensing
of the Oceans", Chet Koblinsky, NASA GSFC
2:40 "Tropical Ocean, Global Atmosphere, and Land Interactions
as they Pertain to Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability",
Peter Webster, University of Colorado
Wednesday, June 10th: The Oceans & Solid Earth Moderator: Jim Heirtzler
9:30 "Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents-Exciting New Discoveries",
Richard Lutz, Rutgers University
10:40 "Volcanism Along the Great Mid-Ocean Ridge System:
Melt Generation to Eruption", Robert Detrick, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute
1:30 "Deep Sea Drilling", Margaret Leinen, University
of Rhode Island
2:40 "As the World Turns: Everything you wanted to know
about Earth's Rotation", Benjamin Chao, NASA GSFC
Thursday, June 11th: The Oceans & Ice Moderator: Claire Parkinson
9:30 "Overview of the Arctic Ocean in Climate", Edward
Carmack, Institute of Ocean Sciences
10:40 "Sea Ice", Claire Parkinson, NASA GSFC
1:30 "Remote Sensing of the Ice Sheets" , Robert Bindschadler,
NASA GSFC
2:40 "Global Glacial Isostasy and Climate System History",
Richard Peltier, University of Toronto
Friday, June 12th: Marine Ecosystems Moderator: Chuck McClain
9:30 "JGOFS: Exploring the Ocean Carbon Cycle", Hugh
Ducklow, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
10:40 "Continental Shelf Processes & Links with the
Interior Ocean", Peter Verity, University of Georgia
1:30 "The Chesapeake Bay: Physical, Chemical and Biological
Cycles", Raleigh Hood, UMD Horn Point Environmental Laboratory
2:40 "Global Oceanic Primary Production", Raymond Najjar,
Pennsylvania State University
To register for the lecture series, please forward name, affiliation, social security number and country of citizenship to georgia@cesdis.usra.edu. For additional information, please contact:
Mrs. Georgia Flanagan
USRA/GVSP Student Program Coordinator
7501 Forbes Blvd, Suite 206
Seabrook, MD 20706-2253
(301-805-8396 (voice) 301-805-8466 (fax)