Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

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Monday, January 9, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
The many flavors of oxygen-minimum zones present and past
Donald Canfield, Professor of Ecology, Institute of Biology, Professor of Ecology, Institute of Biology
Monday, January 16, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Monday, January 23, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Chemical Heterogeneity in the Earth's Deep Mantle
To be Determined
Thomas S. Duffy, Professor of Geosciences. Associate Chair, Department of Geosciences., Princeton University
Monday, January 30, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Sedimentation in lakes versus the ocean: is salinity a necessary condition for the subaqueous formation of continental shelves?
Gary Parker, W. H. Johnson Professor of Geology, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois
Monday, February 6, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Molecular Phylogenetic Perspective on Deep Evolution
Norman Pace, Distinguished Professor of MCD Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder
Monday, February 20, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Monday, February 27, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Monday, April 2, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
How meltwater drives ice sheet dynamics
Christian Schoof, Assistant Professor glaciology, fluid dynamics, applied mathematics, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia
Monday, April 9, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Revisiting the history of the global carbon cycle
Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University
Monday, April 16, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
The Tibet-Himalaya Accommodation Zone: New Perspectives on Quaternary Tectonics
Kip Hodges, Foundation Professor of Geological Sciences, Director, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University
Monday, April 23, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Atoms in motion: Access to Earth's interior
Jennifer Jackson, Assistant Professor of Mineral Physics, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech
Monday, April 30, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
The energy balance of the Earth’s climate system
Graeme Stephens, Director of the Center for Climate Sciences, JPL, JPL
Monday, May 7, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Exceptional fossils and new technologies: revealing the big steps in our early evolution
John Long, Vice President, Research and Collections , Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Monday, May 14, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
MESSENGER at Mercury: The Surprising Innermost Planet
Sean Solomon, Research Staff Member and Director Emeritus, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Monday, May 21, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Measuring time-lapse changes from noise and earthquakes
Roel Snieder, W.M. Keck Distinguished Professor of Basic Exploration Science , Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines
Monday, October 1, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Mantle seismic structure beneath EarthScope's USArray, new insights into multi-scale convection and the origin of the Yellowstone hotspot
Brandon Schmandt, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech
Monday, October 8, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Can we see earthquakes before they happen?
Brendan Meade, Associate Professor , Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences , Harvard University
Monday, October 15, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Magmatic volatile reservoirs on the Moon as inferred from apatite
Francis McCubbin, Senior Research Scientist 3, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences , University of New Mexico
Monday, October 22, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Methodology for reconstructing wind direction, wind speed and duration of wind events from aeolian dune deposits
Gary Kocurek, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin
Monday, October 29, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Radon and the tracing of geological fluids
Frederic Perrier, Professor, University of Paris Diderot, IPGP
Monday, November 5, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Planets of 1-4 Earth-Radii: Masses, Radii, and Densities
Geoff Marcy, Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Monday, November 12, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Formation and Evolution of Early Planetary Crusts: Magma Ocean Constraints
Carle Pieters, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University
Monday, November 19, 2012
4:00 pm
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
Ice cores, trapped atmosphere, and climate change
Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Professor of Geosciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego