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
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FALL TERM |
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September 10, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Hermann W. Pfefferkorn Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. An enigmatic fossil flora from a far away place:100 years of research on Carboniferous floras in Peru |
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September 14, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Richard M. McCourt Academy of Natural Sciences Origins of drier plants from wetter algae--molecular insights into the sister group of land plants |
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September 17, 2001 12:00 Noon |
David R. Vann Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Interpretations from the physiology of an NLR: paleoenvironmental tolerance and structure of Eocene Metasequoia forests |
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September 21, 2001 |
Michael Balsai Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. THE PHYLOGENETIC POSITION OF PALAEOSANIWA AND THE EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE PLATYNOTAN (VARANOID) ANGUIMORPHS Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
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September 24, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Jerald Harris Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Necks of Sauropod Dinosaurs: Support for a Nuchal Ligament? |
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September 28, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Ben A. LePage Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Arctic Paleobotany: Update and New Directions |
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October 1, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Edward Doheny
Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania Engineering Geology: Definition, History, and Case Studies: Part II |
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October 5, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Art Johnson Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Several things about phosphorus that Jackie did't tell you. |
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October 8, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Kathryn Matthews Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Arctic Pollution: A history of pesticides in Svalbard |
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October 19, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Jim Randerson California Institute of Technology, Divisions of Engineering and Applied Science and Geological and Planetary Sciences Seasonal dynamics of atmospheric CO2: Implications for the global carbon cycle |
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October 22, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Matthew Lamanna Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. The discovery of a giant new dinosaur from Egypt |
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October 26, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Christopher J. Williams Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Reconstruction of middle-Eocene fossil forest biomass, dynamics and productivity Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
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October 29, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Mandela Lyon Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. The Sahara wasn't always so: Evidence from the Egyptian desert of tropical vegetation in the Cenomanian |
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November 9, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Andrea Grottoli Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. RADIOCARBON RECORD IN A FANNING ISLAND CORAL: Inter-decadal variability in waters upwelling in the central equatorial Pacific from 1922-1956 |
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November 12, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Barbara E. Grandstaff Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Univ. of Penn. The Ellisdale Dinosaur Site of New Jersey |
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November16, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Kathleen K. Treseder Biology Department, Univ. of Penn. The fungus among us: Mycorrhizal fungi and global change |
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November 19, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Allison R. Tumarkin Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Crocs and Birds, Cretaceous and Modern |
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November 26, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Suzie Richter Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. A palynological analysis of a non-coaly facies, Axel Heiberg |
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November 30, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Stevens Heckscher Progressive loss of diversity in an Eastern Forest |
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December 3, 2001 12:00 Noon |
Lisa Rodrigues Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Pathogens in paradise: Coral reef diseases in Bermuda |
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December 7, 2001 Time: 3 P.M. |
Timothy Bechtel Principal Geophysicist, Enviroscan, Inc. (Lancaster, Pa.) Environmental and Engineering Applications of Shallow High Resolution Geophysics |
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SPRING TERM |
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January 11, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Karimah Schoenhut Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Ultrastructural Preservation and Paleobiochemistry of Eocene Gymnosperm Flora of Axel Heiberg Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
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January 14, 2002 12:00 Noon |
Matt Kedziora Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Live-trapping wolves in Minnesota's Superior National Forest: Experiences as a USGS wildlife technition. |
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January 18, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Doreena Patrick
Department of Geology, Temple University Application of Rare Earth Element(REE) Analyses in Fossil Provenance and Fossil 'Fakes' |
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January 25, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Robert Walter Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) The First Oyster Bar: Geological Context for Early Human Occupation of the Red Sea Coast of Africa During the Last Interglacial |
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January 28, 2002 12:00 Noon |
Stan Laskowski Department of E&ES and IES, Univ. of Penn. History of Environmental Mangement strategy in the U.S. |
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February 1, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Hannes K. Brueckner Lamont-Doherty Earth Obsevatory of Columbia University Eclogites, Peridotites and a Mew Model for Mountain Building |
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February 4, 2002 12:00 Noon |
Edward Doheny Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania Engineering Geology: Definition, History, and Case Studies: Part III |
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February 8, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Joseph Wartman Drexel University, Dept. of Civil and Architectural Engineering Engineering Geology Aspects of the June 23, 2001 Southern Peru Earthquake (Mw = 8.4). |
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February 11, 2002 12:00 Noon |
Ellen C. Tarquinio Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania Atlantic Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment (AGRRA) in the Turks and Caicos Islands |
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February 15, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Mark Anders Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University The Yellowstone Hotspot: Is it Really a Hotspot? |
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February 18, 2002 12:00 Noon |
Claudia Jones Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Science and Sailhandling: 8 Days a Week |
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February 22, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Amanda M. Petel University of California, Los Angeles Searching for the Younger Dryas in the Sierra Nevada and other tales from California |
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February 25, 2002 12:00 Noon |
Mark H. Hermanson Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Bowie v. Monsanto: Will the PCB manufacturer finally be liable? |
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March 1, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Hailu You Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Mazongshan dinosaur assemblage from late Early Cretaceous of northwestern China Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
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March 4, 2002 12:00 Noon |
Johan Jungholm Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Sailing and Sediments, Adventures at SEA |
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March 8, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Margaret S. Race SETI Institute, California Planning for Mars Sample Return Missions: Integrating Geology, Biology and Rocket Science |
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March 18, 2002 12:00 Noon |
Katie Schu Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Vegetation history of a polar Paleocene/Eocene forest, Ellesmere Island, Canada |
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March 22, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Kenneth J. Lacovara Drexel University Coastal Environments along Mesozoic Epeiric Seas: Examples from North Africa and Western North America |
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March 25, 2002 12:00 Noon |
Arthur Johnson Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Ecological Indicators for the Nation |
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April 5, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Garry Karner Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University The power of Quantitative Basin Analysis in solving tectonic problems: Application to the northwest Australian margin |
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April 8, 2002 12:00 Noon |
Suzanne Lefrancois Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. An account of our field trip during spring-break |
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April 11, 2002 Time: 4 P.M. |
Roger Seymour University of Adelaide, Australia Gravity effects on the circulation and scaling of blood pressure and heart size in mammals, birds and sauropod dinosaurs |
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April 12, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Paul E. Olsen Mass Extinctions, Asteriod Impacts, and Giant Volcanic Eruptions - The Beginning and the End of the Age of Dinosaurs |
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April 15, 2002 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Hillary Mendillo Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Sea Semester: Integrating Science with Sailing |
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April 19, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Catherine Forster Department of Anatomical Sciences, State University of New York, Stony Brook Madagascar in the Late Cretaceous: Dinosaurs, Biogeography, and Plate Reconstructions |
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April 24, 2002 9-5 P.M. |
SENIOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE 100 Towne Building: Heilmeier Hall |
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July 2, 2002 1 P.M. |
Christopher Williams Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Reconstruction of high latitude Tertiary floodplain forests from the Canadian Arctic Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
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August 8, 2002 1 P.M. |
Joshua B. Smith
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. An examination of dental morphology and variation in Theropod Dinosaurs: Implications for the identification of shed teeth Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
