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 13, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Hermann Pfefferkorn Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Time Warp: The geotectonics lecture of Prof. Lotze on October, 1960. |
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September 17, 2004 Time: 4 P.M. |
Robert Giegengack Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. The science and politics of climate change |
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September 20, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Tom Voltaggio Deputy Regional administrator in EPA Region 3 The USEPA Cleanup of the Capitol Hill Anthrax Site |
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September 24, 2004 Time: 3 P.M. |
Suzanna Richter Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Continental-Scale Patterns in Wood Cellulose delta 18O: Implications for Paleoclimate Reconstruction Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
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September 27, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Andrew Pike Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Downstream Channel Morphology Variation in Tropical Montane Streams of the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico: Geologic and Ecologic Significance |
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October 1, 2004 Time: 4 P.M. |
Benjamin P. Horton Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. The application of diatoms, foraminifera and pollen in sea-level research from active and passive coastal margins |
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October 4, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Chad Freed Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Sensing Magnetic Signatures over Buried Steel Toxic-Waste Drums; A Research Update |
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October 11, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Lisa Rodrigues Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Skeletal stable isotopes in bleached and recovering corals |
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October 15, 2004 Time: 10 A.M. |
Merrilee Guenther Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Morphometric Analysis of Growth and Phylogenetic Significance of the Hadrosaurian Postcranial Skeleton Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
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October 18, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg Professor/Director of the Center for Marine Studies, University of Queensland, Australia The Great Barrier Reef in the current century of rapid environmental change |
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October 29, 2004 Time: 3 P.M. |
Doreena Patrick Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental variations in REE content and crystallography of vertebrate fossils Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
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November 1, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Barbara Grandstaff Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Cranial Kinesis and Diet in Mawsonia |
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November 5, 2004 Time: 4 P.M. |
Elisabeth L. Sikes Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University Ocean Water Reservoir Ages and Deep Water Paleoventilation since the Last Glacial Maximum in the Southwest Pacific and Southern Ocean |
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November 15, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Kathryn Matthews Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Growth and Stable Isotopic Data from Three Eastern Pacific Corals: Species, Depth and Upwelling Effects |
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November 19, 2004 Time: 3 P.M. |
Ivana Stevanovic-Walls Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Forest Ecology and Plant Morphology in the Carboniferous Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
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November 22, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Ryan Moyer Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Coral Reefs and Land-Use Change: Initial Sampling in Puerto Rico |
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December 3, 2004 Time: 4 P.M. |
Hermann Pfefferkorn Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Ground cover over geologic time |
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December 6, 2004 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Kyo Tanoue
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Ontogeny of Euoplocephalus tutus (Ornithischia, Ankylosauridae) |
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SPRING TERM |
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January 14, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Mandela Lyon Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Comparing morphological disparity and taxonomic diversity in dicot angiosperm leaves |
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January 21, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Tim Beach Director, Center for the Environment, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Wetland Patterned Ground Formation in the Maya Lowlands: Ancient Maya and Natural Causes |
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January 24, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Sayyadul Arafin Geophysical study of a mud volcano of Trinidad |
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January 28, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Jonathan Nyquist Department of Geology, Temple University Leveling Corrections to Improve Airborne Magnetic Detection of Unexploded Bombs: Case History at the Badlands Bombing Range, South Dakota |
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January 31, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Andrea Grottoli Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Carbon Isotopes in Corals and Sclerosponges and Applications for Paloeceanography |
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February 4, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Steve Culver University of East Carolina The Outer Banks: migrating barrier islands or decaying barrier islands? |
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February 7, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Elaine Wright Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Children's Environmental Health Issues in Philadelphia: Priorities and Partnerships |
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February 11, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Ron Martin University of Delaware Taphonomy and the resolution of high-frequency paleoclimate signals in marshes |
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February 14, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Reginald Shagam Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Problems of Metamorphism in the Venezuelan Andes |
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February 18, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Ann F. Rhoads Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania A botanist's view of the influence of geology on plant diversity in eastern Pennsylvania |
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February 18, 2005 |
9:00 - 9:25 a.m. Branwen Williams Deep-water corals: proxies of productivity 9:25 - 9:50 a.m. Ian Seiferling A 750-year Record of Forest Disturbance in the Southwest Yukon, Canada Based on Lake Sediment Records: Fire History and a New Method to Reconstruct Spruce Bark Beetle Infestation Coffee Break - 9:50 - 10:05 a.m. 10:05 - 10:30 a.m. James Bedison Two decades of change in the forests of the Adirondack Mountains 10:30 - 10:55 a.m. Soni Mulmi Effects of different nitrogen sources on Chir Pine (Pinus roxburghii) seedlings 1:00 - 1:25 p.m. Lucia Antoniazzi Environmental enrichment program for a group of African lions 1:25 - 1:50 p.m. Christopher Bernhardt Natural and anthropogenic changes in plant communities within the Everglades Ecosystem 1:50 - 2:15 p.m. Simon Engelhart Mangrove Palynology: Implications for sea-level reconstructions in S.E. Sulawesi, Indonesia Coffee Break - 2:15 - 2:25 p.m. 2:25 - 2:50 p.m. Michael Yashinski Development of a Metric of Biological Complexity to Analyze Patterns in the Evolution of Archosaur Teeth 2:50 - 3:15 p.m. Justin A. Spielmann The Aberrant Archosauromoprh Trilophosaurus As An Arboreal Climber |
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February 21, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Susan Gill Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Teaching Science to Science Teachers: What, Where, Why and When |
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February 25, 2005 All day event |
Paleontology - Paleobiology - Geobiology |
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February 28, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Sophia Dillard Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Environmental Changes In The Outer Banks |
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March 18, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Ted Daeschler Academy of Natural Sciences Late Devonian Fish Fauna from the Okse Bay Group, Nunavut Territory, Canada |
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March 21, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Stan Laskowski Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. So, how are we doing? Lessons learned from 35 years of water quality management! |
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April 1, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Richard V. Pouyat USDA Forest Service, Baltimore, MD Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Urban Ecosystems |
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April 4, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Julia L. Barringer U.S. Geological Survey, Trenton, NJ Geologic and Anthropogenic Sources of Arsenic in the Wallkill River Watershed, Northwestern New Jersey |
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April 8, 2005 Time: 3 P.M. |
Jamie L. Horvath Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. INFLUENCE OF WATER ON A LOW-PRODUCTIVITY FOREST GROWING ON ULTRAMAFIC SOILS IN SOUTH-WEST PUERTO RICO Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
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April 11, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Kristopher Johnson Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Soil Carbon Modeling |
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April 15, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Arthur H. Johnson Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Detecting Changes in Forest Ecosystem Properties Over Three Decades (or, Changes you can detect over the course of an academic career) |
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April 18, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Andrew Kemp Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Preliminary results on sea level change from Kuwait and Iran |
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April 25, 2005 All day event
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SENIOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE Time: 9-4 P.M. Henry Darwin Rogers Lecture Debra A. Willard Time: 4-6 P.M. |
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June 15, 2005 Time: 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Lisa Rodrigues
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Physiology and Biogeochemistry of Bleached and Recovering Corals from Hawaii Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
