Department Lecture Series

Professor Timothy Lyons, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside
“The Rise of Oxygen in the Early Ocean and Atmosphere”

Chad Fish, Program Manager for the College of Engineering and Center for Space Engineering, Utah State University
“Advances in Solar and Space Physics Instrumentation for Pico and Nano Satellites”

Dr. Tom Sisson, Volcano Hazards Program, USGS  
“Oxidation, Andesites, and the Composition of the Continents”
(note different day) 

Professor Meenakshi Wadhwa, Director, Center for Meteorite Studies, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University  
“From Dust to Planets: The Isotope Cosmo-chemistry Perspective from the Solar System's Earliest Solids to Crustal Rocks on Mars”