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 8, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Hermann Pfefferkorn Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Isotaphonomic versus Heterotaphonomic Data: Looking for Paleoclimatic or Environmental Signals through Different Colored Glasses |
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September 12, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
Reception for Undergraduate Students |
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September 15, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Ivana Stevanovic-Walls Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Late Mississippian Lycopsids of a Warm Temperate Climate in Gondwana (Peru) |
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September 19, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
Gary Hemming Lamont-Doherty Earth Obsevatory of Columbia University Boron isotopes in marine carbonates: Implications for reconstructing ancient atmospheric pCO2 |
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September 22, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Jerald Harris Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Publication in the "Electronic Age":How Antiquated Rules Can Adversely Affect Taxonomy |
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September 26, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
W. F. McDonough Department of Geology, University of Maryland Composition models for the Earth's core |
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September 29, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Kathryn Matthews Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. The Panamanian Pacific: Coral, Currents and Chemistry |
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October 3, 2003 Time: 3-5 P.M. STITLER RM. B21 |
Words on Water a film by Sanjay Kak Screening of film about South Asian environmental politics Followed by a discussion with the director! |
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October 6, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Suzanna Richter Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Relating Koppen's Climate Zones to the delta 18O of wood cellulose |
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October 17, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
Edward R. Cook Doherty Senior Scholar and Director, Tree-Ring Laboratory Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Extra-Tropical Northern Hemisphere Temperature Variability Over the Past 1000 years. |
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October 20, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Merrilee Guenther Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Postcranial Anatomy of Hadrosaurs: Specimens from the Royal Ontario Museum |
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October 24, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
Edwin J. Anderson and Dennis Terry Department of Geology, Temple University paleosols within an orbitally forced cyclic hierarchy in Lower Cretaceous, Purbeckian, shoreline facies, Dorset England |
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October 27, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Barbara Grandstaff Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Mawsonia and Other Coelacanths |
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October 31, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
David R. Vann Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Tree Physiology in the High Arctic |
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November 3, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Karen Poole Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. The Green River Formation of Flaming Gorge Reservoir, Southwestern Wyoming |
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November 7, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
James G. March Biology Department Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA. Ecology and conservation of freshwater shrimps in tropical island streams |
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November 10, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Jamie Horvath Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. The vegetation of Bosque Susua, Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico |
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November 14, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
Allen C. Gellis USGS, Baltimore, MD Land use, sediment supply, and the suspended-sediment conveyor belt, Puerto Rico. |
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November 17, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Doreena Patrick Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. REE Analysis of Fossils and Interpretation of the Original Paleoenvironment; Pierre Shale, South Dakota |
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November 21, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
William H. McDowell Department of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire From Hillslope to Globe: Controls on DOC Flux at multiple spatial Scales |
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November 24, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Frederick N. Scatena Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Modeling complex interactions of overlapping river and road networks in a changing landscape |
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December 1, 2003 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Claudia Jones Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. A Shock-melted Fraction of the H-chondrite Gao-Guenie: what cooling rates can tell us about a meteorite's provenance |
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December 5, 2003 Time: 4 P.M. |
Christmas Party |
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SPRING TERM |
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January 16, 2004 Time: 4 P.M. |
Mark Hermanson Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Lipophilic contaminants in tree bark and pecan nutmeats from central Mississippi |
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January 30, 2004 Time: 4 P.M. |
Mari Ito Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Atmospheric nitrogen deposition and nitrogen solutes & DOC in lake-watersheds in the Adirondack region of New York |
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February 2, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Peter Dodson Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Counting Dinosaurs 2003 |
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February 9, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Antoinette Reale Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst A Highly Resolved Speleothem Record of the Last Glacial Maximum through the Holocene Transition; Socotra Island, Yemen |
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February 13, 2004 Time: 4 P.M. |
Stephen Paul Phipps Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Roving around on Mars |
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February 16, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Jerald Harris Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Reminiscences of (NOT) a Gaucho -- My Time in Argentina |
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February 20, 2004 Time: 3-5 P.M. |
Andrea Hawkes Attached benthic foraminifera as indicators of the present and past distribution of the coral Primnoa resedaeformis on the Scotian Margin Kristopher Johnson Sarah Brownlee Tim Myers Christopher Ott |
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February 23, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Ryan Moyer Identifying Spatial Patterns in Sub-Tropical Marine Communities: A Multidisciplinary Approach Erin Ellis |
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February 27, 2004 All day event |
Paleontology - Paleobiology - Geobiology |
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March 1, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Lisa J. Rodrigues Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Energy reserves in bleached and recovering corals |
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March 5, 2004 Time: 4:00 P.M. |
Matthew Carrano Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution The evolution of body size in the Dinosauria |
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March 19, 2004 Time: 4 P.M. |
Gene C. Ulmer Department of Geology, Temple University MAGMA IN MOTION: Viscosity and Gradient; Free-Fall and Gravity and Societal Impacts |
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March 22, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Jim Palardy Univ. of Pennsylvania Heterotrophy in Stony Corals: An Experimental Approach |
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March 26, 2004 Time: 4 P.M. |
Arthur Johnson Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Tying up some loose ends from the early 1990's: Carbon storage in Forests of Vermont |
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March 29, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Stephen Paul Phipps Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Dust, Dunes, and Floods: More about Martian Landscapes |
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April 2, 2004 Time: 4 P.M. |
John M. Pandolfi Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution The Nature, Timing, and Causes of Global Coral Reef Decline |
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April 12, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Stephen Paul Phipps Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Serpentinites and Seamounts on the Pacific Coast |
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April 16, 2004 Time: 12-2 P.M. |
Matthew Lamanna Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs And Crocodylife forms From Egypt And Argentina Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
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April 16, 2004 Time: 4 P.M. |
Matthew C. Larsen U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA Suspended-Sediment Export From Four Small Montane Humid-Tropical Watersheds With Varying Land use and Lithology, Puerto Rico |
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April 19, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Stephen Paul Phipps Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. The Mars Exploration Rovers: Summary of Results from the Prime Mission |
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April 28, 2004 All day event
Heilmeier Hall |
Time: 9-4 P.M. Henry Darwin Rogers Lecture Time: 4-6 P.M. C. Wylie Poag |
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July 13, 2004 Time: 9 a.m. |
Joost Hoek
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Geobiological Controls on the Fractionation of Sulfur Isotopes at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
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August 17, 2004 Time: 1 p.m. |
Jerald Harris Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. _Suuwassea emilieae_ (Sauropoda: Flagellicaudata): description and phylogenetic, geologic, and paleobiogeographic implications. Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
