Biospheric Sciences
 

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, June 17, 2025
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
SED Director’s Seminar
Please join us for the SED Director’s Seminar hosted by the Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory, Code 667!

Speaker: Ken Carpenter/667
Topic:The Hubble Space Telescope at 35: Highlights and Future Focus

Speaker: Dana R. Louie/Catholic University Title: JWST-TST DREAMS: A Precise Water Abundance for Hot Jupiter WASP-17b from the NIRISS SOSS Transmission Spectrum

Speaker: Keighley Rockcliffe/UMBC
Topic: Exoplanet characterization: atmospheric escape

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Biospheric Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Effects of Land-Atmosphere Interactions on Convective Clouds and their Evolution
Aryeh Jacob Drager, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
GMAO Seminar Series

Sampa Das, NASA Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory
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ExtraDimensional - The Fusion of Landsat & GEDI Data

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Wildfires 101: How NASA Studies Fires in a Changing World

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