FEBRUARY |
2008 |
6 February
Wednesday
|
Dr. Myles R. Allen, Department of Physics,
University of Oxford
"Loading the Weather Dice: Attribution of Causes for Individual
Weather Events" |
13 February
Wednesday |
Professor Gerard Roe, Department of Earth
and Space Sciences, University of Washington
"The Shape of Things to Come: Why is Climate Sensitivity so Unpredictable (and who cares anyway)?" |
20 February
Wednesday |
NO DLS TALK - EAPS VISITING COMMITTEE |
27 February
Wednesday |
Professor Paul J. Wallace, Department of
Geological Sciences, University of Oregon
"The Role of Water in Subduction Zone Magmatism: New Insights from Melt Inclusions and Geodynamic Models for Central Mexico"
|
MARCH |
2008 |
5 March
Wednesday
|
Mr. Daniel Sheehan, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, MIT
"Integrating GIS with Matlab and Java"
|
12 March
Wednesday
|
Mr. Francis A. Macdonald, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
"Integrating Paleoceanographic Records of Neoproterozoic Environmental Change: Stratigraphic Studies in Arctic Alaska and Mongolia"
|
19 March
Wednesday
|
Professor Joseph R. Smyth, Department of
Geological Sciences, University of Colorado
"Earth's Deep Water Cycle: Constraints on Hydrogen Contents
in the Mantle" |
21 March
Friday
|
Dr. Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, School of Ocean and Earth Science,
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
"Earth's Deep Water Cycle: Constraints on Hydrogen Contents in the Mantle"
|
26 March
Wednesday
|
NO DLS TALK - SPRING BREAK |
APRIL |
2008 |
2 April
Wednesday
|
Dr. William F. Bottke, Southwest Research
Institute
"An Asteroid Breakup 160 My Ago as the Probable Source
of the K-T Impactor"
|
9 April
Wednesday
|
Professor Paul F. Hoffman, Department of
Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
"Historical Geology and the Founding of Geodynamics and
Climate Change"
|
16 April
Wednesday
|
Dr. Paul G. Silver, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington
"The Tibetan Plateau and the Orogeny Paradox" |
23 April
Wednesday
|
Professor Clifford H. Thurber, Department
of Geology and Geophysics,
"The San Andreas Fault Zone at Parkfield, California:
New Insights from Surface Geophysics and Drilling" |
30 April
Wednesday
|
Professor David J. Stevenson, Division
of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California
Institute of Technology
"The Beginning of Earth and Moon" |
MAY |
2008 |
7 May
Wednesday
|
Professor Ken Melville, Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
"The Influence of Surface Waves on Upper Ocean Processes" |
14 May
Wednesday
|
Professor Gill G. Geesey, Department of
Microbiology, Montana State University
"Novel Mineral Transformations by Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria" |
21 May
Wednesday
|
Dr. Kirsten Zickfeld, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences,
University of Victoria
"Effects of Ocean Circulation Changes on the Global Carbon Cycle" |
29 May
Thursday
|
Professor
Julian Hunt, Department of
Earth Sciences and Department of
Space and Climate Physics, University College London
"Very Inhomogeneous Turbulence and its Environmental Implications" |
All lectures are at 4:00 pm in Building 54, Room
915 unless othewise noted. |
