September 16, 2005
Dr. James Edson (University of Connecticut)
“Investigations of Momentum and Energy Exchange Near the Air-Sea Interface”

September 23, 2005
Dr. Joseph Katz (Johns Hopkins University)
“Measurements of Complex Oceanic Flows, from Turbulence in the Coastal Ocean to Interaction of Zooplankton with its Local Environment”

September 30, 2005
(No Seminar)

October 7, 2005
Dr. Genevieve Comte-Bellot (École centrale de Lyon, France)
“Special Features of the Constant Voltage Anemometer”

October 10, 2005 (Special Seminar)
Dr. Anthony Leonard (California Institute of Technology)
“Deformation of Material Lines and Surfaces in Chaotic Flows”

October 14, 2005
Dr. Kenneth Kiger (University of Maryland)
“Two-phase PIV and Particle Kinetic Stress Measurements in a Solid-liquid Horizontal Turbulent Channel Flow”

October 21, 2005
Dr. Elias Balaras (University of Maryland)
“Large-Eddy Simulations of turbulent flows interacting with dynamically moving boundaries”

October 28, 2005
Dr. Matthew Wells (Yale University)
“How Density Currents Set the Vertical Stratification of Deep Oceanic Basins and Lakes”

November 4, 2005
Dr. Peter Trayovski (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
“Observations of Wave-induced gravity flows of fluid mud on Po prodelta, Italy and Eel River shelf, Northern California”

November 11, 2005
Dr. W. H. Matthaeus (University of Delaware)
“Turbulence in the Interplanetary Medium”

November 18, 2005
Dr. Gerhard H. Jirka (University of Karlsruhe)
“Shallow Flows”

December 2, 2005
Dr. Alexander Yakhot (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
“Turbulent Flow and Heat Transfer Around a Wall-Mounted Cube: a Direct Numerical Simulation”

December 9, 2005
Dr. Alexander Yakhot (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
“Parameterizing Aerosol Cloud Interaction in Climate Models”