2001 SPRING SEMINAR SERIES
| DATE: | SPEAKER: | TITLE: |
| February 9 | Dr. Sallie Baliunas Senior Staff Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Deputy Director of Mount Wilson Observatory. *** PLACE: 104 Gore Hall *** TIME: 3:45 P.M. **** |
"The Sun Climate Connection." |
| February 16 | Dr. Harry Lins U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA |
"Wetter But Less Extreme. 20th Century Trends in Floods, Droughts, and Everything In Between." |
| February 23 | Michelle Stevenson Department of Geography University of Delaware |
M.S. Thesis Presentation "Estimating Precipitation Over the Amazon Basin from Satellite and Insitu Measurements." |
| March 2 | NO SEMINAR. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York City | |
| March 9 | Dr. James Doolittle U.S. Department of Agriculture, Chester, PA |
"Ground-Penetrating Radar and Electromagnetic Radiation: Use and Application Within the U.S.D.A." |
| March 16 | Tad Yancheski Tetra Tech, Inc. |
Environmental consulting title to be announced. |
| March 23 | Group presentation University of Delaware Department of Geography Faculty and Students |
"Favorite Geographically-Related Internet Sites." plus and exciting geographic world music contest. |
| March 30 | NO SEMINAR. Spring Recess. | |
| April 6 | Dr. Gail Ashley Departmentof Geography The Rutgers University |
"Reconstructing the Paleoenvironment of Early Hominids, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania." |
| April 13 | Dr. Keith Henderson Department of Geography Villanova University |
"Twentieth Century Precipitation Changes in the Northeastern U.S." |
| April 20 | Dr. Ralph Begleiter Rosenberg Professor of Communication and Distinguished Journalist in Residence. Communications Department University of Delaware |
Title to be announced. |
| April 27 | Dr. John Nese Franklin Institute Philadelphia, PA |
"The Philadelphia-Area Weather Story." |
| May 4 | Jill Derby Department of Geography University of Delaware |
M.S. Thesis Presentation "The Development of a Relative Comfort Index for Environmental Analysis." |
| May 11 | Cheryl Duffy Department of Geography University of Delaware |
M.S. Thesis Presentation "A Climatology of Thunderstorms in the Northeastern United States." |
