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Friday Seminars, Spring 2008

Seminars, Winter Quarter 2008


4/3/2008

Kurt House
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Engineering Oceanic and Atmospheric Composition: Promise and Difficulties
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
location: HGS 101


4/4/2008

Tim Bralower
Penn State
What happens when 2000 gigatons of carbon are rapidly added to the Ocean-Atmosphere? Lessons from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (55 Ma)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101

Kurt House
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
The Energetics and Economic Geology of Carbon Capture and Storage
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
location: HGS 101

4/11/2008

Steve Grand
The University of Texas at Austin
Mantle flow determined by joint seismic/geodynamic inversions
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101


4/18/2008

Andrew Westphal
University of California, Berkeley
Stardust: first bona fide samples from a comet and the first solid samples from the local interstellar medium
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101

Jung-Eun Lee
UC Berkeley
Inferring paleoclimates from water isotopes: A GCM study
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
location: HGS 101

4/24/2008

Wolfgang Kiessling
Humboldt University and Berlin Museum of Natural History
Evolutionary Impacts of Aragonite and Calcite Seas
12:00 PM
location: HGS 228


4/25/2008


5/2/2008

Pavel Berloff
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
On formation of multiple zonal jets in the oceans
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101


5/8/2008

Erin Pettit
USGS Fairbanks
Ride of the Ice Valkyries
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
location: HGS 176


5/9/2008

Steve Dornbos
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Paleoecology of the Cambrian Radiation
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101

Erin Pettit
USGS Fairbanks
Interpreting climate history from physical characteristics of ice
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
location: HGS 101

5/16/2008

Keith Koper
Saint Louis University
Small Wavelength Heterogeneity in Earth's Deep Interior
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101

Jean-Francois Gaillard
Northwestern University
Low Temperature Authigenic Manganese Oxides: Formation and Structure
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
location: HGS 101

5/23/2008

James Van Orman
Case Western Reserve University
Experimental constraints on core-mantle interaction
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101

Jim Lyons
UCLA

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
location: HGS 101

5/30/2008

Francis Albarede
Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
Reconciling Mars surface observations with SNC chronology
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101

Sasha Turchyn
University of Cambridge

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
location: HGS 101

6/6/2008

Thorsten Becker
University of Southern California
Plates, slabs, and keels: Deciphering Earth's convective history from seismology, mineral physics and geodynamics
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101

TBA


3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
location: HGS 101