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Next Event - June 16, 2023

The Ike Dike Project to Protect Texas Coasts

Responding to Rapid Climate and Land Use Change

William Merrell & Sam Brody

Texas A&M University at Galveston

Past Event - June 2, 2023

Einstein’s Real Equation

Mass, Energy and the Curvature of Space-Time

Sean Carroll

Johns Hopkins University

Past Event - May 19, 2023

Architecture for the New Space Age

Learning to Work and Live Beyond Earth

Paul Kessler, Eleanor Morgan, Daniel Inocente, and Corky Clinton

NASA, Lockheed Martin, Blue Origin, NASA

Past Event - April 28, 2023

Ancient Lives Preserved in Cuneiform

Impressions of Mesopotamian Society Over 3,500 Years Ago

Amanda Podany

CalPoly Pomona

Past Event - March 31, 2023

Using Experiments in Nature to Study Evolution

Research on Lizard Island Adaptations in Real Time

Jonathan Losos

Living Earth Collaborative

Past Event - March 17, 2023

Comets, Centaurs, and Trans-Neptunian Objects

Exploring the Echoes of Formation in the Outer Solar System

Walter Harris

University of Arizona Space Institute

Past Event - March 3, 2023

The “All of Us” Research Program

NIH's Plan to Build a Million Person Health Metric Database

Andrea Ramirez

National Institutes of Health

Past Event - February 3, 2023

Whispers from Other Worlds

NASA's Search for Life in the Cosmos

Thomas Zurbuchen & Nadia Drake

NASA

Past Event - January 20, 2023

Post-Quantum Cryptography

Cornerstone for Security in the Coming Quantum Computing Era

Lily Chen

National Institute of Standards of Technology

Past Event - December 16, 2022

Back to the Moon to Stay

Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium

Brett Denevi and Wesley Fuhrman

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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June 16, 2023 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,479 Sponsored by PSW Science Members Brett Magaram & Robin Taylor and Larry Millstein
The Ike Dike Project to Protect Texas Coasts

Responding to Rapid Climate and Land Use Change

William Merrell & Sam Brody
William Merrell
Professor and George P. Mitchell Chair
Department of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science
Texas A&M University at Galveston

Sam Brody
Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science
Texas A&M University at Galveston
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