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 9, 2002 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Hermann W. Pfefferkorn
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Computer Identification of Fossils - The Past meets the Future in the Present |
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September 13, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Joost Hoek Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Sulfur isotope biogeochemistry at deep-sea hydrothermal vents: Implications for the evolution of the sulfur cycle Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
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September 16, 2002 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Ben A. LePage Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Recent fieldwork in Siberia |
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September 20, 2002 Time: 4 P.M. |
Mark Hermanson Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Regional variations in atmospheric deposition and sources of anthropoganic stable lead isotopes in lake sediments across the Canadian Arctic |
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September 23, 2002 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Matthew Lamanna Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. From dinosaurs to dyrosaurids: removal of the post-Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) record of Ornithischia from Africa |
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September 27, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
John Smith Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Bird vocalizations: enhancing predictability for interacting birds, and precision of demographic information for environmental monitoring |
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September 30, 2002 Time: 12:00 Noon |
David Vann Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Metasequoia ecophysiology: Using an NLR to provide insights into preferred paleoclimates, dominance in high latitudes and the origin of deciduousness |
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October 4, 2002 Time: 4 P.M. |
James Baker President and CEO, The Academy of Natural Sciences Learning to Manage the Environment: Successes and Failures in the Clinton/Gore Administration |
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October 7, 2002 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Barbara Grandstaff Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Mawsonia, the giant coelacanth from Bahariya Oasis, Egypt |
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October 14, 2002 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Arthur Johnson Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Untested new ideas about the relationship between Nitrogen mineralization and forest productivity |
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October 21, 2002 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Allison R. Tumarkin Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. If alligators are not birds, should dinosaurs be considered mammals? (And why this is less ridiculous than it sounds....). |
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October 25, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Chad Freed Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Geophysical Investigation and Interpretation of the Magnetic Properties and Signature of 55-Gallon Cold-Rolled Carbon-Steel Hazardous-Waste Drums Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
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November 1, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Anne Wibiralske Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. A Comparative Study of the Nutrient Capital of the Pocono Till Barrens in Northeastern Pennsylvania with the adjacent Eastern Hardwood Forest Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
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November 4, 2002 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Lisa Bithell Kirk Senior Geochemist, Maxim Technologies, Montana Predicting Selenium Release from the Meade Peak Member of the Phosphoria Formation Using Column Leaching Tests and In-Situ Groundwater Monitoring of Phosphate Mine Overburden from SE Idaho |
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November 8, 2002 Time: 4 P.M. |
Frederick Scatena Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Drought impacts on freshwater ecosystems and water supplies of the Caribbean |
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November 11, 2002 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Stan Laskowski Department of E&ES and IES, Univ. of Penn. Trends in environmental monitoring and assessment-- EPA efforts in the Mid-Atlantic States |
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November 15, 2002 Time: 3 P.M. |
Jerald Harris Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology and Stratigraphy Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
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November 18, 2002 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Ivana Stevanovic-Walls Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. A Paleontological study of an Early Pennsylvanian forest preserved above the Blue Creek coal seam, Pottsville Formation, northwestern Alabama |
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November 22, 2002 |
Kathryn Matthews Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Cadmium in coral skeletons: Experimental evaluations and quantitative calibration of an upwelling tracer Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
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November 25, 2002 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Andrea Grottoli Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Multi-century long stable isotope records in a Palau sclerosponge |
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December 2, 2002 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Yvette Bordeaux Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Current and Historical temperature trends in the Philadelphia Area. Is Philadelphia an Urban Heat Island? |
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December 6, 2002 Time: 4 P.M. |
Dana Royer Pennsylvania State University Using modern plants to understand ancient forests and climates |
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SPRING TERM |
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January 17, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
John Spiesberger Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Locating calling animals from differences in arrival times at widely separated receivers |
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January 27, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Merrilee Guenther Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Juvenile and Embryonic Hadrosaurs from Nestings Sites in Devil's Coulee, Alberta, Canada |
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February 3, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Suzanna Richter Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Cellulose Chemistry and its use in Climatology |
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February 10, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Doreena Patrick Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. The use of REE-Ternary Diagrams for Interpretation of Paleoenvironments |
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February 14, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
James E. Bauer School of Marine Science, College of William & Mary Sources and Transformations of Organic Matter in Rivers and Estuaries: Implications for Continent to Ocean Carbon Fluxes |
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February 24, 2002 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Mark Hermanson Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. More News From Toxic Town, Anniston, Alabama |
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February 28, 2003 All-Day Event |
GEOBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM XI Paleontology - Paleobiology - Geobiology |
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March 17, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Kathryn Hoppe Dept. of Geological & Environmental Sci., Stanford University Tracking mammoths and mastodons: Using isotopic analyses to reconstructing the paleobiology of extinct animals |
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March 18, 2003 Time: 4:00 P.M. |
Kathryn Hoppe Dept. of Geological & Environmental Sci., Stanford University Herbivore teeth as a paleoenvironmental proxy: A study of the relationship between environmental variations and the oxygen and carbon isotope ratios of modern mammals |
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March 21, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
Braddock K. Linsley University at Albany, State University of New York Evidence from South Pacific corals for variability in the coherence of Pacific-wide interdecadal climate shifts since 1700 A.D. |
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March 28, 2003 Time: 3 P.M. |
Moira K. Ridley Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University Surface Reactivity at the Mineral-Water Interface |
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March 31, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Mike Hoppus United States Forest Service Forest inventory and analysis program of the United States Forest Service |
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April 1, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. 321 Towne |
Hallie J. Sims Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Ecological innovation and the evolution of Phanerozoic plant communities |
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April 11, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
Kenneth Lepper Luminescence Geochronology Lab, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory Applications of Luminescence Geochronology to Environmental Geoscience Problems |
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April 18, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
Benjamin P. Horton University of Durham, Department of Geography, Science Laboratories, United Kingdom The application of high-resolution techniques to reconstruct sea-level change and coastal evolution from Northwest Europe, Indo-Pacific and North America |
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April 21, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Christine Graziano Maurer Dept. of Landscape Architecture &Dept. of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Harnessing the oceans: wind power design in Australia. |
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April 21, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
Daniel M. Deocampo Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom Water-Mineral-Biota Interactions: Environment and Paleoenvironment in Arid East Africa |
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April 22, 2003 Time: 3 P.M. |
Karimah Schoenhut Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Preservation of ultrastructural features in Eocene Metsequoia of Axel Heilberg: implications on senescence, diagenesis, and paleoenvironmental conditions. Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
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April 24, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
German Mora Department of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University Geochemical and Isotopic Evidence for Quaternary Climate Change in Tropical South America |
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April 25, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. Heilmeier Hall |
Roger Anderson Challenges of Resource Management in the Nation's Parks: Yellowstone as an Example |
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April 30, 2003 Time: 9 A.M. - 5 P.M. Heilmeier Hall |
Abstracts |
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May 9, 2003 Time: 2 P.M. |
Lisa Rodrigues
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Physiology and Biogeochemistry of Bleached and Recovering Corals Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
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May 12, 2003 Time: 1 P.M. |
Barbara E. Grandstaff Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Description and analysis of two new specimens of Mawsonia, a giant coelacanth from the Cenomanian of Bahariya Oasis, Egypt Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
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May 15, 2003 Time: 1 P.M. |
Mandela Lyon Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Palynofloral Composition and Variability in the Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
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June 13, 2003 Time: 3 P.M. |
Allison R. Tumarkin Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Bone Surface Textures As Ontogenetic Indicators In Extant And Fossil Archosaurs: Macroscopic And Histological Evalutions Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
