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 12, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Hermann Pfefferkorn Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. A Floral Pompeii and Burning Coal Seams in Inner Mangolia |
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September 23, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Michael Keller University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. Selective Logging in the Brazilian Amazon: Detection by Satellite Remote Sensing and Biogeochemical Effects |
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September 26, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Frederick N. Scatena Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. TMDL's and water quality trading in the Lower Delaware River Basin |
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September 30, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Alain F. Plante Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University The how and why of characterizing the stable fraction of soil organic matter |
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October 3, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Tom Voltaggio Deputy Regional administrator in EPA Region 3 A simulated biological terrorist attack in NJ and how State and Federal authorities responded |
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October 7, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Andy Jacobson Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Is there a CO2 fertilization sink? Oceanic constraints on land fluxes |
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October 10, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Mandi Lyon Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. methods for quantifying angiosperm leaf morphospace |
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October 14, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan Dept. of Zoology, University of Cape Town Unraveling the biology of dinosaurs and other extinct animals |
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October 21, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Arthur H. Johnson Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Productivity of Forests Near Treeline in Western Canada and its Relevance to the Productivity of late Tertiary Forests on Banks Island |
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October 24, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Suzanna Richter Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. The results of a 3-year nitrogen fertilization study in Southern Chile |
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October 27, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Reginald Shagam Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Thermal problems in the Paleozoic metamorphic rocks of Venezuelan Andes and the Tertiary carbonate rocks of the Mottled Zone in Israel |
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October 28, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Martha A. Scholl U.S. Geological Survey, National Center, Reston, VA. The importance of cloud water in the hydrology of tropical montane forests: investigations using stable isotopes |
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October 31, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Andrea Hawkes Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Microfossil & grain size analyses of sediment deposited by the Indian Ocean Tsunami along the west coast of The MALAY-THAI PENINSULA |
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November 4, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Alan Robock Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Using Soil Moisture Observations to Study Climate Variations, to Evaluate Climate Models, and as Ground Truth for Remote Sensing |
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November 7, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Stephen Paul Phipps Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. The Accretion and Uplift of Oceanic Rocks in Southwest Oregon |
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November 11, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
David Hart Academy of Natural Sciences Stream ecosystem responses to spatially variable land cover: linking theoretical and empirical approaches to guide riparian restoration strategies |
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November 14, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Merrilee Guenther Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Taxonomic significance of the hadrosaurid postcranial skeleton understood using morphometric techniques |
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November 18, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Kenneth G. Miller The State University of New Jersey The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-level Change |
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November 29, 2005 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Heinrich D. Holland Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University Musings on the History of the Atmosphere and the Ocean |
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December 2, 2005 Time: 4 P.M. |
Donald F. Charles Academy of Natural Sciences Using diatom algae to monitor stream water quality: some recent advances |
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SPRING TERM |
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January 23, 2006 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Stephen Paul Phipps Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. My XRD Seminar |
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January 27, 2006 Time: 3 P.M. |
Philadelphia Stream Meeting |
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February 3, 2006 Time: 4 P.M. |
Alexander van Geen Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Climate change in Eastern Pacific |
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February 6, 2006 Time: 12:00 Noon |
Joseph Bordogna Engineering School, Univ. of Pennsylvania The NSF in the 21st Century: Trends and Opportunities |
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February 10, 2006 Time: 3 P.M. |
Doreena Patrick Stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental variations in Rare Earth Element (REE) composition and crystallography of carbonated hydroxyapatite (biogenic apatite) Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
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February 13, 2006 Time: 12 Noon |
Emma Schachner Reconstructing soft tissues in extinct vertebrates: Forelimb Musculature of Tenontosaurus tilletti (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) |
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February 13, 2006 Time: 4 p.m. |
Alain Plante Villanova University The biogeochemistry of soil organic matter: Measurement & Modeling |
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February 17, 2006 Time: 3 P.M. |
Simon Masters Allosaurus forelimb use: function or phylogeny? Tyler Ranse Lyson A significant assemblage of baenid turtles from the Hell Creek Formation of Southwestern North Dakota Candace Grand Pre Holocene Paleoenvironmental Change in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina: Foraminiferal and Stable Isotopic Evidence Laine Clark-Balzan Natalie Nahill |
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February 20, 2006 Time: 4 P.M. |
Catherine Riihimaki Bryn Mawr College Tectonics or climate? Modeling the causes of landscape evolution in the Rocky Mountains |
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February 23, 2006 Time: 4 P.M. |
Stephen Porder Stanford University Geologic Controls of Nutrient Availability in Terrestrial Ecosystems |
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February 24, 2006 All day event |
Paleontology - Paleobiology - Geobiology |
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February 27, 2006 Time: 4 p.m. |
Sonja Hausmann Center of Northern Studies (CEN), Laval University Lake sediments: A key to understanding nutrient and climate dynamics |
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March 13, 2006 Time: 4 p.m. |
James Kaste Dartmouth College Top Down Biogeochemistry: Using Atmospheric Fallout as a Process Tracer in Terrestrial Environments |
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March 17, 2006 Time: 4 P.M. |
Douglas Jerolmack Massachusetts Institute of Technology The patterns, processes and preservation of alluvial rivers |
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March 20, 2006 Time: 4 p.m. |
Meredith Hastings University of Washington The Biogeochemical Climate Record: A New, Emerging Perspective |
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March 24, 2006 Time: 4 P.M. |
Jacob Sewall Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht Understanding Global Climate One Region at a Time |
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March 31, 2006 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-roled carbon-steel hazardous-waste drums Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
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April 21, 2006 Time: 3 P.M. |
Andrew Pike Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Spatial Variability of Hydrological Processes, Stream Channel Morphology, and Aquatic Biota in a Subtropical Montane Landscape Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
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April 24, 2006 |
Time: 9-4 P.M. Henry Darwin Rogers Lecture Douglas H. Erwin Time: 4-6 P.M. |
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April 26 |
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May 5, 2006 Time: 3 P.M. |
Andrea Hawkes Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Microfossil-based approach to megathrust induced earthquakes and tsunamis Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
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May 24, 2006 Time: 2 P.M. |
Suzanna Richter Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Interpreting Oxygen Isotope Ratios in Fossil Wood Cellulose Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
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May 25, 2006 Time: 1 P.M. |
Barbara Grandstaff
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. Giant fishes From The Bahariya Formation And Comparison Of The Bahariya Fauna With Late Cretaceous Faunas from North America. Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
