Seminars
Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Seminars, presentations and speakers.
Seminars
Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Seminars, presentations and speakers.
Seminars
All seminars are held Tuesdays from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm in 258 Fitzpatrick Hall unless otherwise noted.
Special seminars will be announced as necessary
Fluid Mechanics Course Offerings
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Fairall, Director, Environmental Technology Laboratory, NOAA | Air-sea Interactions during hurricanes | January 22, 2013 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Andrey Grachev, University of Colorado | Relationship between Obukhov and Ozmidov length scales in the stable atmospheric boundary layer | January 29, 2013 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Dr. Edward Bensman, Director of Engineering Computing, University of Notre Dame | Realtime Meteorological Decision Support for University Safety | February 5, 2013 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Tissa Illangasekera, Colorado School of Mines, Editor, Water Resources Research | Interfaces in hydrologic systems: Challenges and opportunities | February 12, 2013 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Ken Christensen, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign | Turbulent Flow Overlying Complex Surfaces: From Multi-Scale Roughness to Barchan Dunes | Februart 19, 2013 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Ana Barros, Duke University | Pre-Monsoon Aerosol-Cloud-Rainfall Interactions in the Central Himalayas due to Regional-Scale Pollution in the Indo-Gangetic Plains – Implications for Freshwater Resources | February 26, 2013 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Melany Hunt, Vice Provost and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology | IBM Lecture: Understanding an hourglass, and other granular flows, in under an hour | March 5, 2013 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Dr. Allison Penko, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center | Multiscale Modeling of Geophysical Flows: From the Ocean Seafloor to Surface | March 19, 2013 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Frank Jacobitz, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of San Diego | On Helical Properties of Homogeneous Turbulence | March 26, 2013 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor David Randall, Director, Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes (NSF STC),Professor of Atmospheric Sciences,Colorado State University | Counting the Clouds | April 2, 2013 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Dr. Peggy Lemone, NAE Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research | IBM Lecture: | April 9, 2013 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Joseff Ackermann, Physical Ecology & Aquatic Science, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Canada | Mass transport and aquatic ecology: Why fluid mechanics matters - Co-Sponsored by ECI | April 16, 2013 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Dr. Jessica Meixner, Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin | Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Spectral Wave/Circulation Modeling | April 23, 2013 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Phanikumar Mantra, Michigan State University | Nearshore Hydrodynamics and the Fate and Transport of Escherichia coli at Beaches in Southern Lake Michigan | April 30, 2013 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Greg Holland, NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research , Head Climate Group | Regional climate modeling of extremes | August 28th, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Johny Wuest, EAWAG/EPFL/ETH, Switzerland | Double diffusion and methane in Lake Kivu – “Interfacing” environmental science and engineering | September 4th, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Emma Marris, National Journalist, Nature | Communicating controversial environmental science: reporting on the paradigm shift in conservation biology. | September 11th, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Dr. Ashish Sharma Post Doctoral Fellow, Notre Dame | Climate Modeling & Downscaling and interactions with Ecosystems | September 18th, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Reneta Dimitrova, Geophysical Institute, Bulgaria, and Notre Dame | Simulations of Thermal Circulation for MATERHORN | September 25th, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor David Hyndman, Professor of Civil Engineering, Michigan State University | Simulating Impacts of Changes in Climate and Land Use on Water Sustainability and Crop Yields | October 2nd, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Manuel Figueroa, CICESE, Ensenada, B.C., México Mexico | The Gulf of California, their physics and the Salsipuedes Channel | October 9th, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Jessica Hellman, Biological Sciences, Notre Dame | Climate Change Adaptation for Nature | October 23rd, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Aaron Packman, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University | River-groundwater interactions: Problems, processes, and predictions | October 30th, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Chiang Mei, Donald and Martha Harleman Professor, NAE, MIT | Edison Lecture: Homogenization Method for Multiscale Problems in Fluids Engineering | November 6th, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Dr. Jeff Weil, NCAR, Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research | Dispersion in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: Simulations, Observations, and Models | November 13th, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Cheng-Gang Wang,Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology/Dr. MinJuan Mao,Senior Engineer, Zhejiang Institute of Meteorological Science | Research in China: Remote Sensing and Modeling of Atmospheric Environments | November 27th, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Jonathan Fink, VP for Research, Portland State University | Life after Geology: Simulating Lava Flows, Cities and Academic Organizations | December 4th, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Julian Hunt, University of Cambridge | Climate Change Science and Policy Developments | January 24, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick | Professor Jose Fuentes, Penn State University | Turbulent Transport and Chemistry of Floral Volatiles | January 31, 2012 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Speaker | Title | Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edison Lecture; Professor Peter Olson, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University | Edison Lecture: Probing the Geodynamo with Laboratory and Numerical Experiments | August 30th, 2011 | 11:00 a.m. | The Oak Room, 2nd floor of South Dining Hall |
| Professor Silvana Di Sabatino, University of Lecce, Italy and University of Notre Dame | Fluid dynamics and morphometric based approaches for city management and sustainability | Tuesday September 6th, 2011 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Amilcare Porporato, Duke University | Hydrologic Controls on Soil Nutrients: the role of soil moisture, stoichiometry and topography | Tuesday September 13th, 2011 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Dr. Dan Liberzon,Tel Aviv University and University of Notre Dame | Experimental study of the initial stages of wind waves' spatial evolution | Tuesday September 20th, 2011 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Andre Van der Westhuysen,The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | High-resolution nearshore wave and flow modeling: infrastructure, numeric and physics | Tuesday September 27th, 2011 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Enrique Vivoni, Arizona State University | The Challenge of Fully-Predictive Hydrologic Models Supported by Observations: Recent Experiences and Prospects in Semiarid Systems | Monday October 3rd, 2011 | 3:00 p.m | The Oak Room, 2nd floor of South Dining Hall |
| Lyndon Valicenti, WRD Environmental Project Manager to the Chicago Department of Environment | The City of Chicago's Science-Driven Sustainability Initiatives | Tuesday October 25th, 2011 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Don Boyer, Arizona State University | The Role of Physical Modeling in Understanding Environmental Flows | Tuesday November 1st, 2011 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Carey Troy, Purdue University | Near-Inertial Poincare Waves in Lake Michigan: Observations and Consequences | Tuesday November 8th, 2011 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Mark Meeschaert, Michigan State University | Fractional Diffusion | Tuesday November 15th, 2011 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
| Professor Peter Sullivan, National Center for Atmospheric Research | Langmuir Turbulance in The Ocean Boundry Layer Forced By Hurricane Winds and Waves | Tuesday November 29th , 2011 | 11:00 a.m. | Fitzpatrick |
