Room 358, Hayden Hall On Penn's Campus
240 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6316
Our seminar series consists of two subseries. One is held on Fridays and is staffed by outside speakers (at 4 p.m.) and E&ES graduate students' dissertation or proposal defenses (at 3 p.m.) The Geolunch subseries is held on Mondays at noon and is staffed by E&ES faculty and graduate students and MES students
FALL TERM |
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September 11, 2000 12:00 Noon |
Hermann Pfefferkorn Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania "Some Current Patterns in Chinese Earth Science -- Impressions from a Recent Visit to a Conference and Research Organizations" |
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September 15, 2000 Time: 3 P.M. |
Jennifer Smith
Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania Geoarchaeology, stable isotope geochemistry, and geochronology of fossil-spring tufas, Western Desert, Egypt Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
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September 18, 2000 12:00 Noon |
David Vann Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania The effect of airline choice on nitrogen mineralization in cold-temperate forests |
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September 22, 2000 Time: 3 P.M. |
Dan Chaney The Smithsonian Institution Permian Paleobotany and Paleoecology of North Central Texas |
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September 25, 2000 12:00 Noon |
Christopher Williams Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Dawn Redwood) in Japan and its utility in paleoecological reconstructions |
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September 29, 2000 Time: 3 P.M. |
Matthew Lamanna Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania Phylogeny and biogeographic implications of new dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Egypt and Argentina Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
| October 2, 2000 | Jerald Harris |
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October 6, 2000 Time: 3 P.M. |
Donald Duke UCLA School of Public Health, Environmental Science and Engineering Program Industrial Storm Runoff and the Pollution Prevention Paradigm |
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October 9, 2000 12:00 Noon |
Mandela Lyon Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania The desert's treasures: From fossil leaves to hidden springs |
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October 16, 2000 12:00 Noon |
Chad Freed Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania Engineering Geology in Limestone: A Case Study in the Frederick Valley of Maryland |
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October 20, 2000 Time: 3 P.M. |
Allison Tumarkin Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania Bone surface textures as ontogenetic indicators in extant and fossil archosaurs--Macroscopic and histological evaluation Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
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October 23, 2000 12:00 Noon |
Karimah Schoenhut Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania The Preservation of Chloroplast Ultrastructure in Mummified Metasequoia |
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October 27, 2000 Time: 3 P.M. |
Donald Wise Franklin & Marshall College Block Mountain Tectonics of the Middle Rockies |
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October 30, 2000 12:00 Noon |
David Schneider Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania Polar wandering: Scenic views of Greenland and searching for spatial temperature patterns in West Antarctica |
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November 3, 2000 Time: 3 P.M. |
Zhiming Dong Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Chinese Academy of Sciences The Dinosaurs of China |
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November 6, 2000 12:00 Noon |
Eric Steig Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania Several things about the Holocene |
| November 9, 2000 Thursday at 12:15 |
Delia Oppo Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Millennial Scale Climate Variability in the North Atlantic The Auditorium at Wistar Institute, on Penn's campus: Spruce St. & Penn's 36th St. Walkway |
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November 20, 2000 12:00 Noon |
Kathryn Matthews Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania My adventures in the Arctic |
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November 27, 2000 12:00 Noon |
Ben LePage Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania High latitude fossil forest: New Prospectives and directions |
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December 1, 2000 Time: 3 P.M. |
Gail Ashley Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ. Geologist probe of environments of early hominid, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania |
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December 4, 2000 12:00 Noon |
Patricia Kane-Vanni Department of Animal Biology-Vet Med, School of Arts and Sciences-Environmental Studies, University of Pennsylvania An Intriguing New Jurassic Dinosaur Site, Morrison Formation of Montana |
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December 8, 2000 Time: 3 P.M. |
Juliet Crider Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College The mechanics of normal faults: Secrets revealed by California volcanoes, Oregon earthquakes, and the Colorado River |
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SPRING TERM |
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| Wednesday January 17, 2001 public symposium |
Explosive Volcanism in Human History: Environmental Crises - Past and Future? at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology- 33rd and Spruce Streets |
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January 22, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Magnus Wahlberg Denmark Norwegian sperm whale clicks observed with a receiver array |
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January 26, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Sushil Dixit Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL), Department of Biology, Queen's University Long-term Approaches to Environmental Change |
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January 29, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Ted Daeschler Vertebrate Zoology, Academy of Natural Sciences Vertebrate paleontology in the far north: Exploring for Late Devonian fossils in Nunavut |
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February 2, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Fred Scatena IITF/USDAFS Evaluating natural and anthropogenic disturbances in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico |
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February 5, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Hailu You Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania New dinosaurs from Mazongshan area, Northwest China |
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February 9, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Scott Wing The Smithsonian Institution Vegetational response to sudden warming at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary |
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February 12, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Carlos A. Jaramillo Smithsonian Institution,Washington, D.C. The effects of global warming on tropical vegetation: An example from the Eocene of Colombia |
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February 16, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Hong Yang Department of Science and Technology, Bryant College, Smithfield, Rhode Island The Legacy of Metasequoia: Geological and Genetic Information Integrated |
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February 23, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Timothy M. Lutz Dept. of Geology and Astronomy, West Chester University of Pennsylvania Dartboards, wedding cakes, combs, and other ways of visualizing the risks of 'natural' hazards |
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March 2, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
John Lundberg Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA Fossils, phylogenies and the diversification of South American fishes |
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March 5, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Andrea Grottoli EES, University of Pennsylvania Coral reef conservation and study |
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March 19, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Ben LePage EES, University of Pennsylvania Research in Nepal |
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March 23, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Gale Blackmer Pennsylvania Geological Survey A New Look at the Heart of the Pennsylvania Piedmont |
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March 26, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Edward Doheny EES, University of Pennsylvania Engineering Geology: Definition, History, and Case Studies |
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March 30, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Mervin Bartholomew University of South Carolina Research Experiences with Geological, Environmental and Political Aspects |
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April 2, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Mark Hermanson EES, University of Pennsylvania Hold Your Breath! Results of the First Three Months of Hayden Hall Air Sampling. |
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April 6, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Steven Forman
The University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences The Last Great Ice Sheet in Eurasia |
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April 10, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Jaime Hojdila EES, University of Pennsylvania An account of our field trip during spring-break |
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April 16, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Reg Shagam EES, University of Pennsylvania Results of fission-track dating of minerals from the Venezuelan Andes, and their tectonic implications. |
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April 18, 2001 Time: 4:30 P.M. |
Tullis C. Onstott Life in the Extreme Environment of the Deep Subsurface |
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April 20, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Steven Colman USGS, Woods Hole, MA Paleoenvironmental reconstruction from the sediments of Lake Baikal, Siberia, and Chesapeake Bay, USA |
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April 25, 2001 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Rob Van der Voo Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan The Dynamic Earth and its History of Continental Collisions and Break-ups |
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May 16, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Joshua Smith EES, University of Pennsylvania An examination of morphological variation in THEROPOD dinosaur dentition: implications for paleoecology and systematics Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
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June 14, 2001 Time: 2 P.M. |
Jennifer Smith EES, University of Pennsylvania Geoarchaeology, stable-isotope geochemistry, and geochronology of fossil-spring tufas, Western Desert, Egypt Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
