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.
2006 |
Fall Term |
Monday Sep 11, 2006
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Hermann Pfefferkorn, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Plants as a Proxy for Climate during the Beginning, Height, and End of the Late Carboniferous Ice Age |
Friday Sep 15, 2006
Time: 4 P.M. |
Jason Downs, Academy of Natural Sciences.
Placoderm histology and the origin of the jawed vertebrate skeleton |
Monday Sep 18, 2006
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Mandela Lyon, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Dicot Leaf Morphospace Occupation along a Latitudinal Gradient |
Friday Sep 22, 2006
Time: 4 P.M. |
Moira K. Ridley, Texas Tech University, Department of Geosciences, Lubbock, Texas
Surface phenomena of nanoparticles: Implication for processes in the environment and materials science |
Monday Sep 25, 2006
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Kathryn Matthews, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Coral Cd/Ca: Natural variation via a novel ID-ICP-MS method |
Friday Sep 29, 2006
Time: 3 P.M. |
Kristopher Johnson, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Estimation of Soil Organic Matter Storage in Three Landscapes: Patterns, Processes and Policies. Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense. |
Monday Oct 2, 2006
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Stan Laskowski, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
The Global Water and Sanitation Crisis-- what is being done about it and how you can help. |
Friday Oct 6, 2006
Time: 3 P.M. |
Kyo Tanoue, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Comparative Anatomy and the Masticatory System of Basal Ceratopsia(Ornithischia, Dinosauria) Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense. |
Monday Oct 9, 2006
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Merrilee Guenther, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Heterochronic Influences On The Development Of Postcranial Characters In Hadrosaurid Dinosaurs. |
Friday Oct 13, 2006
Time: 4 P.M. |
William A. DiMichele, The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History.
Response of tropical vegetation to the late Paleozoic icehouse-to-greenhouse transition. |
Monday Oct 16, 2006
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Jamie Horvath, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Under the Trees: Soil Characteristics in Bosque Susoea, Puerto Rico |
Friday Oct 20, 2006
Time: 4 P.M. |
Venkatachalam Ramaswamy Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University Forrestal Campus, Princeton, NJ |
Friday Oct 27, 2006
Time: 12:15 P.M. |
Andrew Kemp, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Foraminifera as indicators of sea-level change on the Outer Banks, North Carolina. Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
Friday Oct 27, 2006
Time: 4 P.M. |
Jen Smith, Washington University in St. Louis.
Climate of the Eastern Sahara during the Pleistocene: Implications for hominid occupation |
Monday Oct 30, 2006
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Christopher Bernhardt, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Climate Variability, Native American Tree Island Occupation, and Wetland Development in the Florida Everglades |
Friday Nov 3, 2006
Time: 4 P.M. |
Heather L. Buss, NRC Research Associate, US Geological Survey.
Biogeochemical iron cycling at the bedrock-saprolite interface in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico |
Monday Nov 6, 2006
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Simon Engelhart, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
A Validated Sea-level Database for the Eastern Seaboard of North America: Implications for Geophysical Modelling |
Friday Nov 10, 2006
Time: 4 P.M. |
Robert A. Gastaldo, Department of Geology, Colby College, Waterville, Maine.
In situ, Erect Forests are Evidence for Large-Magnitude, Coseismic Base-level Changes in Carboniferous Cyclothems of Alabama. |
Monday Nov 13, 2006
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Andrew Pike, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Application of digital terrain analysis to estimate hydrological variables in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico |
Friday Nov 17, 2006
Time: 4 P.M. |
Steve Salisbury, Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Paleontology in Outback Down Under: New discoveries of dinosaurs and other vertebrates from the mid-Cretaceous Winton Formation of central-western Queensland, Australia. |
Monday Nov 20, 2006
Time: 12:00 Noon |
James Bedison, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Decadal-scale changes in Adirondack Forests. |
Monday Nov 27, 2006
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Frederick J. Swanson, Oregon State University.
Studies of physical processes (e.g., fire, flood, volcanic eruption) in Pacific Northwest ecosystems - lessons from Mount St. Helens and Andrews Forest LTER site. |
Friday Dec 1, 2006
Time: 4 P.M. |
Jim Kasting, Pennsylvania State University.
Gaia Revisited: The interplay of climate and life on the early Earth |
Monday Dec 4, 2006
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Andrea Hawkes, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Preliminary transfer function coseismic subsidence estimates from the 1700AD earthquake in Oregon |
| 2007 |
Spring Term |
Friday Jan 12, 2007
Time: 4 P.M |
Peter Dodson,
School of Veterinary Medicine, Univ. of Penn.
Canada's Place in the World of Dinosaurs
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Friday Jan 26, 2007
Time: 4 P.M. |
Brent Helliker, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Penn.
Oxygen isotopes in plants: towards environmental and eco-physiological reconstruction |
Monday Jan 29, 2007
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Hermann Pfefferkorn, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Not so deep time -- The history of our department and the departmental archives |
Friday Feb 2, 2007
Time: 4 P.M. |
Benjamin P. Horton, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Holocene sea-level records: driving mechanisms and coastal responses |
Monday Feb 5, 2007
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Eric Morschhauser
Why name one when you can name two for twice the price? New details of the anatomy of Longirostravis (Aves, Enantiornithes) from Liaoning, China
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Friday Feb 9, 2007
9-11 a.m.
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Vincent Poirier
Tillage and Fertilization Inlfuences on Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration in a
Quebec Agricultural Soil
Vivian Leung
Establishing an Unambiguous Connection between Grain Size, Basal Shear Stress and Style of Sediment Transport in the Lower Niobrara River, Nebraska
Michael Bubb
Major and minor element chemistry of pegmatite feldspars Topsham, ME: Implications for future research in pegmatite genesis
Vera Aldeias
My Field Experience in Old-World Archeology
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Friday Feb 9, 2007
Time: 4 P.M. |
Dorothy Merritts & Robert C. Walter
Franklin and Marshall College
Natural Streams and the Legacy of Water Powered Mills |
Monday Feb 12, 2007
Time: 12 Noon |
Veronica Rossi, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
University of Bologna and sea-level research
Andrew Kemp,Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Durham - Its environs and university
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Friday Feb 16, 2007
Time: 3 P.M. |
Kathryn Matthews, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Cadmium in coral skeleton: Natural variability and in situ calibration
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
Monday Feb 19, 2007
Time: 12 Noon |
Alain F. Plante, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
How far can soil C sequestration go? |
Friday Feb 23, 2007
All day event @
Smithsonian Institution |
GEOBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM XV
Paleontology - Paleobiology - Geobiology
Will be held @
Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Please e-mail Bill DiMichele (dimichel@si.edu) if you want to give a talk |
Monday Feb 26, 2007
Time: 12 Noon |
Kyo Tanoue, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Vertebrate Paleontology in Japan
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Friday Mar 2, 2007
Time: 4 P.M. |
Jerry V. Mead, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Maximum power, stream geomorphology, and primary productivity: A spatial simulation of periphyton production in a small temperate stream. |
Monday Mar 12, 2007
Time: 12 Noon |
Anthony K. Aufdenkampe, Stroud Water Research Center
The role of mineral complexation in controling the composition and turnover of organic carbon |
Friday Mar 16, 2007
Time: 4 P.M. |
Andrew Knoll, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. |
Monday Mar 19, 2007
Time: 12 Noon |
Allison R. Tumarkin-Deratzian, Temple University
On and Under Darwin's Islands
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Friday Mar 23, 2007
Time: 4 P.M. |
S. Jeffress Williams, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA.
Coastal change hazards: from hurricanes to sea-level rise |
Monday Mar 26, 2007
Time: 12 Noon |
Claudia Jones, Department of Earth & Planetary Science University of California, Berkeley.
Textural and geochemical consequences of extremophile colonization of a hypersaline system |
Friday, Mar 30, 2007
Time: 3 P.M. |
Mandela A. Lyon, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
Monday Apr 2, 2007
Time: 12 Noon |
Dick Holland , Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
The history of sea water |
Monday Apr 9, 2007
Time: 12 Noon |
David R. Vann, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Nitrogen in the Forested Landscape: Limiting, or Just Costly?
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Friday Apr 13, 2007
Time: 4 P.M. |
Andy Moore, Kent State University
Sedimentation from the 17 July 2006 Java tsunami |
Monday Apr 16, 2007
Time: 12 Noon |
Christina Gravatt, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Agriculture's Effect on the Soils and Landscape of the Northern Half of the Isle of Arran, Scotland |
| April 2007 |
SENIOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE, Time: 9-4 P.M.
Henry Darwin Rogers Lecture, Time: 4-6 P.M. |
Friday May 25, 2007
Time: 1 P.M. |
Merrilee Guenther, Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
