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Department Lecture Series

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.


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