January 30, 2004
Dr. Gabriel Katul (Duke University)
“The structure of turbulence within tall vegetation on flat and gentle hilly terrain”

February 6, 2004
Dr. Thomas Haine (Johns Hopkins University)
“Nonlinear interactions of fast and slow modes in rotating stratified fluid flows”

February 13, 2004
Dr. John Albertson (Duke University)
“Exploring the Spatial and Temporal Controls on Lower Atmosphere Dynamics over Semi-Arid Landscapes”

February 20, 2004
Dr. Markus Hilpert (Johns Hopkins University)
“Modeling of Bacterial Chemotaxis”

February 27, 2004
Dr. Tom Hou (California Institute of Technology)
“Multiscale modeling and computation for flows in heterogeneous porous media”

March 5, 2004
Dr. Andrew Charlton (Columbia University)
“Does the Troposphere care about the Stratosphere?”

March 12, 2004
Dr. Pablo Huq (University of Delaware)
“Dissipation Rate Correction Methods”

March 19, 2004
SPRING BREAK (No Seminar)

March 26, 2004
Dr. S. Balachandar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“DNS of Particle-Turbulence Interaction”

April 2, 2004
Dr. Brian Arbic (Princeton University)
“A forward model of global ocean tides and tidal dissipation present and past”

April 2, 2004 (Special Seminar)
Dr. Gary Parker (University of Minnesota)
“Water detrainment across settling interfaces: application of a new concept in deep-sea turbidity current dynamics to reservoir sedimentation”

April 7, 2004 (Special Seminar)
Dr. Stephen Monismith (Stanford University)
“Flow effects on subtidal salinity variations in Northern San Francisco Bay”

April 9, 2004
Dr. Stephen Monismith (Stanford University)
“Mean flows under surface gravity waves”

April 16, 2004
Dr. Chongxuan Liu (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
“Microscopic Diffusion in Subsurface Sediments: Characterization and Modeling”

April 23, 2004
Dr. Steve Scorpio (Johns Hopkins University)
“Hydrodynamic Wakes of Surface Penetrating Structures”

April 30, 2004
Dr. Dick K.P. Yue (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Calculating Nonlinear Gravity Waves”

May 7, 2004
Dr. Todd Cowen (Cornell University)
“The effect of boundary conditions on turbulent transport in the environment as revealed by quantitative imaging techniques”

May 14, 2004
Dr. Carlos E. Puente (University of California, Davis)
“From Plato to Borges: Projections Galore and Treasures Inside the Bell”