Seminars, Winter 2008
Shanan Peters
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"The present-day elevations of ancient shallow marine sediments"
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101
Doug MacAyeal
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
"The hunt for glaciogenic seismicity"
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
location: HGS 101
1/18/2008
Andrew Campbell
University of Maryland
"Experiments and thermodynamics of the Earth's interior"
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101
1/25/2008
Fabien Kenig
University of Illinois, Chicago
"Lipids in modern and very ancient hydrothermal systems: Indicators of biological processes during the Archaean"
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101
Andrew Davis
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
"Short-lived radionuclides in the early solar system"
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
location: HGS 101
1/31/2008
Weifu Guo
Caltech
"Kinetic Isotope Effects during Clumped-Isotope Fractionation and Quantitative Speleothem Thermometry"
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
location: Goldsmith Room, HGS 176
2/1/2008
Lorenzo Polvani
Columbia University
"Does the stratosphere matter?"
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101
2/8/2008
Dan Lathrop
University of Maryland
"Building Laboratory Models of Planetary Cores"
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101
Bruce Buffett
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
"Core-mantle interactions: An energy source for the Earth's dynamo?"
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
location: HGS 101
2/15/2008
Carl Brett
University of Cincinnati
"Evolutionary Paleoecology in the Devonian of Eastern North America: Coordinated Stasis Revisited"
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101
Diana Valencia
Harvard University
"Super-Earths: one step closer to finding habitable planets"
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
location: HGS 101
2/22/2008
Marc Hirshmann
University of Minnesota
"Hydrous melting and Earth's deep H2O Cycle"
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101
Noboru Nakamura
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
"Roles of Isolated Barriers in the Global Transport"
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
location: HGS 101
2/29/2008
Yan Liang
Brown University
"Melting and melt migration in a heterogeneous mantle"
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101
Brad Sageman
Northwestern University
"Controls on Ocean Redox and Carbon Cycling: Insights from Cretaceous Ocean Anoxic Events"
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
location: HGS 101
3/7/2008
Thomas Koop
Bielefeld University
"Cold water and ice nucleation: The formation of ice clouds through the eyes of a chemist"
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
location: HGS 101
Ross Powell
Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Northern Illinois University
"Drilling Back to the Future"
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
location: HGS 101
3/14/2008
No Seminars (Reading Period)
