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UPCOMING EAPS MEETINGS

EAPS STAFF MEETINGS Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014

9:00-10:00 a.m. HAMP 2201

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ EAPS RECEPTIONS AT CONFERENCES

AGU (SAN FRANCISCO) Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014

7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Thirsty Bear-Billar Room

AMS (PHOENIX) Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015

6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ FALL FACULTY MEETING SCHEDULE

Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014 3:00-4:30 p.m. HAMP 3201

SPRING FACULTY MEETING SCHEDULE

Tuesday, Jan. 27th, Feb. 10th (Dean’s Visit to Dept.), Mar. 24th, and Apr. 14th, 2015

3:00-4:30 p.m. HAMP 3201

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ EXTERNAL REVIEW

Nov. 3rd & 4th

Detailed schedule was placed in faculty mailboxes and emailed to all faculty and staff.

EAPS COLLOQUIA

“Andean Foreland Basins: A Thermochronologic Perspective on Sediment Provenance, Deformation, and

Basin Thermal Histories.” Julie Fosdick

Indiana University Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014 at 3:30 p.m.

HAMP 1252

“Profiling Developing Tropical Storm Environments Using GPS Airborne Radio Occultation”

Brian Murphy PhD Candidate

Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014 at 4:00 p.m. HAMP 2201

(Please see attached fall 2014 EAPS Colloquia)

EAPS NEWS

Recently, Professor Cushman gave a plenary lecture at the 2014 International Conference on Mathematics,

Computation and Information Science which was held at Beihang University (formerly Beijing University of

Aeronautical and Astronautical Sciences). Beihang is one of China’s top engineering schools. The title of Prof

Cushman’s talk was “Theories of Anomalous Diffusion: Non-Linear Clocks, Renormalization Group Classification, Multiscaling with Application to Real-World Data”. The talk was given in memory of Howard Brenner Chem Eng. Prof at MIT; 1929-2014) for initiating Dr.

Cushman’s interest in mixing.

EAPS HOG ROAST EAPS GSA Cordially invites you and yours to the annual

EAPS hog roast November 8, 2014

Prof Ken Ridgway’s Place Please see flyer for more details.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NEW PROCESS FOR ORDERING COMPUTER EQUIPMENT THROUGH COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – EAPS

1. The faculty/staff will email sciencehelp@purdue.edu and request what they would like to purchase. If they email the business office, the business office can forward to Science IT Help to assist.

2. The Science IT staff will help get the quote/pricing details for the equipment from approved vendors. Science IT staff will work with the faculty/staff requestor for confirmation of details on order and price. The Science IT staff will then request an email for approval and account number from faculty/staff.

3. IT Staff will send information including quote, approval, and account number to the business office at (eapsbo@purdue.edu) so the business office can input the information into Ariba. If it is something that needs to be shipped somewhere else other than the business office, this needs to be specified in the email with quote. Once the equipment is received, the business office will open the box to make sure everything was received, retrieve the packing slip, and then enter the goods receipt into Ariba. The business office will email the requestor AND Science IT that the equipment has arrived, allowing Science IT to pick up and set up the equipment. Science IT and the requestor will work out the pickup and setup of the equipment via the ticketing system.

UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENT INFORMATION

AN EVENING WITH JULIAN BOND

Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. Loeb Playhouse. Julian Bond, a social activist, politician, professor, author, and

leader in the American civil rights movement, will deliver an incisive reflection on the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights

Act and its renewed sense of relevance.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ COFFEE & CONVERSATION

Careers in Education. November 6th, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. C&C brings students together with Purdue alumni from a particular field. On November 6th, alumni with careers in education will share their experiences, tell you about their profession, and answer your questions about how to be a competitive candidate in today’s job market. RSVP: Careers

or email harring0@purdue.edu.

BRIAN GREENE

Theoretical physicist and best-selling author Brian Greene will speak on Thursday, Nov. 6th at 7:00 p.m. at Purdue University's Elliott Hall of Music. Greene's national bestseller "The Elegant Universe," which recounts the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics,

introduced string theory, a concept that might be the key to a unified theory of the universe. Greene's latest bestseller is "The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos.” Free seating passes are required for entry to this general admission lecture. Passes are available for pickup at the Stewart Center box office or by calling the box office at 765-494-3933. There is a limit of two seating

passes per person.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DINING ETIQUETTE WITH MR. ANTHONY CAWDRON

Purdue students are invited to a Professional Dining Etiquette Event with Mr. Anthony Cawdron in the Union's

west faculty lounge November 10th from 6-7p.m. The event is presented by Purdue CCO, Alpha Kappa Psi and Beta Alpha Psi and sponsored by ArcelorMittal. Mr. Anthony Cawdron is a dining etiquette expert and coordinator of Westwood (President Daniel’s residence). Students can reserve a seat for the presentation any time before the

event (11/10) using this link. View the Facebook event page here .

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ REGISTRATION FOR SPRING 2015

Registration for spring 2015 courses will begin October 28, 2014 (for specified groups each week) and continue

through January 2015.

OTHER NEWS

SPACE STILL AVAILABLE HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING WITH MPI MINI COURSE

Space is still available in a free workshop on high-performance computing with MPI Nov. 5th-6th. The mini course is for students, staff and faculty looking to gain a working knowledge of how to write codes using MPI, the standard programming tool of scalable parallel computing.

The mini course, which includes hands-on lab sessions, is designed to give C and Fortran programmers an

introduction to MPI programming. The National Science Foundation and ITaP Research Computing (RCAC) are

sponsoring the event.

More information: https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/697. Questions: rcac-help@purdue.edu.

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PURDUE UNIVERSITY Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

Colloquia – Fall 2014Thursdays at 3:30 PM, Room 1252 HAMP (unless noted)

Sept. 4 When Engineering Geology Meets Geotechnical Engineering

Sept. 9

Gary Luce, Knight Piesold & Co., AEG President

The Impact of Climate Change and Agricultural Activities on Water

Host: West

Cycling in Northern Eurasia Yaling Liu, PhD Candidate Advisor: Zhuang

Tuesday, 4:00PM, Room 2201/HAMP

Sept. 11 The DOE Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy Project Dr. Robert Jacob, Argonne National Laboratory Host: Harshvardhan

Sept. 18 The Origins of Volatile-rich Solids and Organics in the Outer Solar Nebula Prof. Fred Ciesla, University of Chicago Host: Minton

Sept. 25 Long-term Morphological Changes in Mature Supercell Thunderstorms Following Merger with Nascent Supercells

Prof. Ryan Hastings, Purdue University Sept. 30 Making Weather and Climate Data More Usable for Agriculture Across

the U.S. Corn Belt Olivia Kellner, PhD Candidate Advisor: Niyogi

Tuesday, 4:00PM, Room 2201/HAMP

Oct. 2 New Perspectives on Tidewater Glacier Mass Change Dr. Tim Bartholomaus, University of Texas-Austin Host: Elliott

Oct. 9 Sulfur Cycling on Mars from a Perspective of Sulfur-Rich Terrestrial Analogs Prof. Anna Szynkiewicz, University of Tennessee Host: Horgan

Oct. 16 Climate Impacts and Extremes in Large Earth System Model Ensembles Prof. Ryan Sriver, University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana Host: Wu

Oct. 21 Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Modeling of Soil Carbon Decomposition for Earth System Models

Yujie He, PhD Candidate Advisor: Zhuang Tuesday, 4:00PM, Room 2201/HAMP

Oct. 23 Anthropogenic Signals in InSAR Prof. Rowena Lohman, Cornell University Host: Elliott/Flesch

Oct. 28 Giant Impacts on the Asteroid Vesta Tim Bowling, PhD Candidate Advisor: Melosh

Tuesday, 4:00PM, Room 2201/HAMP

Oct. 30 Abiotic and Biogeochemical Controls on Reactive Nitrogen Cycling on Boundary Layer Surfaces

Prof. Jonathan Raff, Indiana University Host: Shepson

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PURDUE UNIVERSITY Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

Colloquia – Fall 2014 (cont.)

Nov. 6 Andean Foreland Basins: A Thermochronologic Perspective on Sediment Provenance, Deformation, and Basin Thermal Histories

Prof. Julie Fosdick, Indiana University Host: Ridgway

Nov. 11 Profiling Developing Tropical Storm Environments Using GPS Airborne Radio Occultation

Brian Murphy, PhD Candidate Advisor: Sun/Haase Tuesday, 4:00PM, Room 2201/HAMP

Nov. 13 Shale Gas Development and the Environment Prof. Mark Zoback, Stanford University Host: Nowack

Thursday, 4:00pm, Room 210/MTHW (joint with the Physics Dept.)

Nov. 20 The Role of Monsoon Circulation on Tropopause Variability Prof. Yutian Wu, Purdue University

Dec. 4 CSI Patagonia: Tracking Glacial and Climate Dynamics over the Last Glacial Cycle Alessa Geiger, University of Glasgow Host: Harbor

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Departmental Colloquium

Julie Fosdick Indiana University

Thursday, November 6, 2014

3:30 p.m. Room 1252 HAMP

Refreshments at 3:00 pm Room2201/HAMP

PURDU UNIVERSJT

Andean Foreland Basins: A Thermochronologic Perspective on Sediment

Provenance, Deformation, and Basin Thermal Histories

Departmental Colloquium

Brian Murphy

PhD Candidate

Earth -Atmo pneric Plane ary Sciences

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

4:00 p.m.

Room 1252 HAMP

Refreshments at 3:30 pm Room 2201 I HAMP

PURDUE UNIVERSITY

Profiling Developing Tropical Storm Environments Using GPS Airborne Radio Occultation

An extensive set of airborne radio occultation (ARO) data has been collected by GISMOS, the GNSS Instrument System for Multi-static and Occultation Sensing, while deployed during the PRE-Depression Investigation of Cloud systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) experiment in 2010 to study developing tropical storms in the southern Atlantic and Caribbean region. This is the first time RO observations have been used to investigate the spatial and vertical variability of moisture with sufficient density (~ 7 profiles within 450 km of the storm center ) to characterize the mesoscale storm environment. GISMOS applies the radio occultation technique to remotely sense the atmosphere by measuring the phase delay and amplitude of received GPS radio signals due to the density and water vapor content of the atmosphere. High resolution vertical profiles of atmospheric refractivity below the aircraft altitude are obtained from the ARO data. Both geodetic GPS receivers using conventional phase-lock loop tracking and a high rate 10 MHz GPS recording system were used to collect GPS signal data over twenty-six missions. The ARO profiles retrieved from the geodetic receivers consistently agree within ~2 % of refractivity profiles calculated from the European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) model interim re-analyses as well as from nearby dropsondes and radiosondes. The number of profiles and the minimum altitude sampled by the profiles obtained from the geodetic receivers were limited by the conventional phase-lock loop tracking which does not perform optimally in the lower tropical atmosphere where moisture levels result in sharp changes in refractivity causing rapid changes in GPS signal phase. A much larger set of profiles extending farther below aircraft height is obtained from the 10 MHz recorded GPS signal data using an open loop tracking algorithm, which is implemented in a software receiver. We will demonstrate the consistency of the combined dropsonde and RO dataset with increasing moisture in the mid-to-upper tropopause over the hurricane genesis time period for Karl.

EAPS GSA Cordially Invites you and yours to the Annual

EAPS Hog roast When: November 8th, 2014

Where: Ken Ridgway’s Place See accompanying email for directions What to bring: Any dish or beverage you feel like preparing or purchasing & sharing. There will be games, great food and a bonfire!