SEPTEMBER |
2009 |
9 September
Wednesday
|
Professor Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
"Mantle Flow, Mantle Mixing, and the Preservation of Heterogeneities" |
16 September
Wednesday |
Professor John M. Eiler, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology
"Quantifying Pre-Cambrian Climate" |
23 September
Wednesday |
Professor David H. Staelin, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, MIT
"Passive Millimeter-Wave Satellites: A Key New Weather, Climate, and Global Precipitation Resource" |
30 September
Wednesday |
Professor Charles Marshall, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
"Insights into the Origin of Feeding in Tetrapods, Phanerozoic Diversity Dynamics, and the Calibration of Molecular Clocks" |
OCTOBER |
|
6 October
Tuesday |
Professor Wallace S. Broecker, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
"Changing Precipitation Patterns: Lessons from the Past" |
7 October
Wednesday |
Professor Nadine McQuarrie, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
"Himalayan Mass Balance: A Bhutan Perspective"
|
14 October
Wednesday |
Professor Greg Hirth, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University
"Accummulation of Melt and Volatiles at the Asthenosphere-Lithosphere Boundary" |
21 October
Wednesday |
Dr. Aradhna Tripati, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology
"Temperatures in the Western Tropical Pacific Ocean from 13C-18O Bond Abundance in Foraminifera and Coccoliths" |
28 October
Wednesday |
Dr. Alison M. Shaw, Department of Geology & Geophysics, WHOI
"Magmatic Processes at Mid-Ocean Ridges: Deep Pooling of Low Degree Melts at the Ultra-slow Spreading Gakkel Ridge" |
29 October
Thursday |
Professor Tim Lenton, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
"Modeling the Co-evolution of Life and the Planet: from the Origin of Ecosystems to the Great Oxidation" |
NOVEMBER |
|
4 November
Wednesday |
Dr. Alan Zindler, Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
"Lunar Formation: Inconvenient Isotopic Idiosyncrasies" |
11 November
Wednesday |
NO DLS TALK –- Veteran's Day Holiday |
19 November
Thursday |
Professor Jeff P. Severinghaus, Geosciences
Research Division, University of California,
San Diego
"New Insight into the Mechanism of Glacial Termination
from Atmospheric Oxygen, Krypton, and Xenon" |
25 November
Wednesday |
No Speaker Scheduled |
DECEMBER |
|
2 December
Wednesday |
Professor John Wahr, Department of Physics, University of Colorado
"TBA" |
9 December
Wednesday |
Professor David A. Fowle, Department of Geology, University of Kansas
"TBA" |
16 December
Wednesday |
NO DLS TALK – FALL AGU MEETING |
All lectures are at 4:00 pm in Building 54, Room
915 unless othewise noted. |
