Seminars, Spring 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
5/21/2008
Zhengyu Liu
Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin
Abrupt Change of Northern Africa Climate-Ecosystem in the Holocene: Modeling, Mechanism and Implications
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
location: HGS 176
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
Sulfur and oxygen isotopes in the atmospheres of Earth and Mars
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
Oxygen isotopes in Marine Sulfate: A progress report and future research directions
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
