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.
2007 |
Fall Term |
Monday Sep 10, 2007
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Niva Kramek
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Progress on a multi-disciplinary baseline assessment for a community water supply system in rural Cameroon |
Friday Sep 14, 2007
Time: 4 P.M. |
Audrey Masciocchi
DRL Business Administration Services , Univ. of Penn.
The ins and outs of purchasing and payables
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Monday Sep 17, 2007
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Hermann Pfefferkorn
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Migrating plants, fluctuating climate, and wandering continents |
Friday Sep 21, 2007
Time: 3 P.M. |
Chris Bernhardt
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Wetland Response to Natural and Anthropogenic Forcing in the United States, Egypt, and Australia: Implications for Restoration
Ph.D. dissertation proposal defense |
Monday Sep 24, 2007
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Emma Schachner
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
A new specimen of Chirostenotes (Oviraptorosauria: Theropoda) from the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota |
Friday Sep 28, 2007
Time: 3 P.M. |
James Bedison
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Long-term changes in forest soil chemistry and carbon in the Adirondack Mountains, New York
Ph.D. dissertation proposal defense
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Monday Oct 1, 2007
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Kris Johnson
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Twentieth Century Changes in Terrestrial Carbon for a Northern Hardwood Forest |
Friday Oct 5, 2007
Time: 3 P.M. |
Merrilee Guenther
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Morphology and ontogeny of the postcranial skeleton of the Hadrosauridae
Ph.D. Dissertation defense
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Saturday Oct 6, 2007
Time: 1-4 P.M.
Beverages and appetizers will be served |
"Women in Earth Science Panel Discussion"
Carolyn Hoff Lynch Auditorium, Chemistry Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania
Please join us in the discussion with four UPenn Alumnae as they explore issues surrounding the lives of female scientists and share their own personal experiences as women in science.
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Monday Oct 8, 2007
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Andrew Kemp
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Late Holocene relative sea-level change in North Carolina and the development of an age-depth model |
Friday Oct 19, 2007
Time: 3 P.M. |
Simon Englehart
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Late Quaternary Relative Sea-Level Changes from Near-, Intermediate- and Far-Field Localities.
Ph.D. dissertation proposal defense |
Monday Oct 22, 2007
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Andrea Hawkes
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Andrea's summer field-work adventure |
Friday Oct 26, 2007
Time: 4 P.M. |
Dick Holland
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Soils and the evolution of the atmosphere |
Monday Oct 29, 2007
Time: 12:00 Noon |
John Clark
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Post-agricultural soil carbon in the Hopkins Memorial Forest |
Friday Nov 2, 2007
Time: 4 P.M. |
Arthur Johnson
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Changes in Forest Floor Mass and Chemistry in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1978-2005 |
Monday Nov 5, 2007
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Kyo Tanoue
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Jaw Structure of Hornless Horned Dinosaurs |
Monday Nov 12, 2007
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Natalie Nahill
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Reconstructing the chronology of Supernova events by measuring major variations in the cosmic ray flux incident on the Earth's surface |
Friday Nov 16, 2007
Time: 2 P.M. |
Andrew Pike
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Stream Geomorphology and Aquatic Ecology in a Tropical Montane Landscape
Ph.D. dissertation defense |
Monday Nov 19, 2007
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Candice Grand Pre
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
paleoearthquake records in northern sumatra
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Monday Nov 26, 2007
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Jerry Mead
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn.
Riparian forests, litter based carbon inputs, water
quality, and stream channel erosion across the Delaware River Basin
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Friday Nov 30, 2007
Time: 4 P.M. |
William E. Stein
Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
The ancient trees of Gilboa: evidence of Earth's earliest forests |
Monday Dec. 3, 2007
Time: 12:00 Noon
| Inigo Virto
Department of E&ES, Univ. of Penn. and Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain
Organic matter stabilization in soils: Role of microstructure |
| 2008 |
Spring Term |
Friday Jan 18, 2008
Time: 4 P.M |
Peter Dodson
School of Veterinary Medicine, Univ. of Penn.
Forty Years of Ceratophilia -- Confessions of a Dinosaur Lover
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Thursday, Jan 24, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon
| Sarah Keenan
Dinosaur Studies in Montana |
Friday Jan 25, 2008
Time: 4 P.M. |
Harold L. Dibble
University of Pennsylvania
Taphonomy and the Archaeological Record: Separating Human Behavior from its Geological Matrix |
Friday Feb 1, 2008
Time: 4 P.M. |
Phillip Lars Manning
School of Earth, Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences, The Manchester Museum
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Dissecting dinosaurs and making them walk |
Friday Feb 8, 2008
Time: 4 P.M. |
Matthew Kirwan
USGS Research Geologist and Visiting Scientist at University of Virginia
Ecogeomorphology and the response of tidal marshes to sea level change
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Monday Feb 11, 2008
Time: 12 Noon |
Matthew Nerlinger
Master of Environmental Studies Program, Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania
Tobacco-Based Biofuels
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Friday Feb 15, 2008
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(9-9:20 a.m.) Jennifer Elizabeth Anne
Paleopathology of Allosaurus fragilis
(9:20-9:40 a.m.) Andrew Tearle McDonald
Working with Dinosaurs
(9:40-10:00 a.m.) Charles Michael Romanchock
Why use plant fossils to study paleoclimate?
(1:30-1:50 p.m.) Anarmaa Sharkhuu
Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activities on Permafrost in the Hovsgol Mountain Region, Mongolia
(1:50-2:10 p.m.) Raleigh Lewis Martin
Urban hydrology and stream restoration design on Armory Run, Princeton, NJ
(2:10-2:30 p.m.) Michael Joseph Pennino
The Living Machine, Exurban Development, and Capsaicins
(2:40-3:00 p.m.) John Gartner
Urban Effects on Stream Hydrology and Geomorphology
(3:00-3:20 p.m.) Martin Bouda
Describing 18-O isotopic fractionation during soil water adsorption: method
development for examining plant water competition
Bruce Aylward (Time: 4 P.M.)
Deschutes Resources Conservancy
Economic Incentives for Upstream/ Downstream Ecosystem Restoration
Location: Fels Institute of Government, 3814 Walnut St. |
Friday Feb 22, 2008
Time: 4 P.M.
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Jon Woodruff
WHOI
Unearthing Prehistoric Hurricanes: Reconstructions from Backbarrier Sediments
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Monday Feb 25, 2008
Time: 12 Noon |
Andrew Wickert
MIT
Quantitative measures of channel mobility and floodplain reworking |
Wednesday Feb 27, 2008
Time: 12:15 P.M. |
John Shaw
The Opening Angle Method of mapping shorelines
Room 256 Hayden Hall |
| Friday Feb 29, 2008 |
GEOBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM XVI
Paleontology - Paleobiology - Geobiology
Location: Hayden Hall, Room 358
All Day Event: Program.pdf
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Charles A.S. Hall
State University of New York College of Environmental Forestry
The Great Scientific cover-up of the most important issue facing Western Society
Location: Hayden Hall, Room 256 |
Monday Mar 24, 2008
Time: 12 Noon |
Jonathan Fingerut
Saint Joseph's University
The role of fluid dynamics on the transport of insect larvae in streams |
Friday Mar 28, 2008
Time: 4 P.M. |
Jason Kaye
Pennsylvania State University
Ghosts of agriculture past in the soils of Phoenix, AZ |
Monday Mar 31, 2008
Time: 12 Noon |
Jerry Mead
Department of E&ES, University of Pennsylvania
Fish conservation and the end of cheap oil |
Friday Apr 4, 2008
Time: 4 P.M. |
Susan L. Brantley
Pennsylvania State University |
Friday Apr 11, 2008
Time: 3 P.M. |
Sergio Fagherazzi
Boston University
Physical and biological drivers of intertidal morphodynamics |
Friday Apr 18, 2008
Time: 4 P.M. |
Ruth DeFries
University of Maryland, College Park
Carbon emissions and Tropical Deforestation
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Friday Apr 25, 2008
Time: 4 P.M. |
Adam Maloof
Princeton University
Testing the true polar wander hypothesis for coincident
paleomagnetic, isotopic and sea level change in the Middle Neoproterozoic of Australia. |
Thursday May 1, 2008
Time: 9 AM - 4 PM
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SENIOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE |
Friday May 2, 2008
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Place: Heilmeier Hall, Towne Bldg. |
HENRY DARWIN ROGERS LECTURE
Kathleen A. McGinty
Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
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Friday May 9, 2008
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Friday May 14, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: Towne 315
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Andrea Hawkes
Department of E&ES, Universtiy of Pennsylvania
The application of foraminifera to characterize tsunami sediment and quantify coseismic subsidence along the Sumatra and Cascadia subduction zones
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
Friday May 16, 2008
Time: 1:00 P.M.
Place: Towne 315 |
Kristopher Johnson
Department of E&ES, Universtiy of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
