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.
2008 |
Fall Term |
Monday Sep 8, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Hermann Pfefferkorn
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Science>
Geologic Gardens -- An introduction and guided tour of the Class of 1957 Geologic Garden
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Friday Sep 12, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM |
Jean-Daniel Stanley
National Museum of Natural History, Geoarchaeology Program Smithsonian Institution
Cities Under the Sea in the Mediterranean
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Monday Sep 15, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon |
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Friday Sep 19, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM |
Andrew Ashton
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
A Directional Change in Thinking About Coastline Shape
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Monday Sep 22, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon |
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Friday Sep 26, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM |
Bruce Douglas
Florida International University, International Hurricane Research Center
The Sea Also Rises: Global Sea Level Rise in the 20th and 21st Centuries |
Monday Sep 29, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon |
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Friday Oct 3, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM |
Douglas N. Reusch
University of Maine at Farmington
Rapid exhumation of basic rocks and carbon burial: Did continent-arc collision
in the western Pacific cool the globe? |
Monday Oct 6, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Melanie Cedrone
University of Pennsylvania
Tools for bibliographic searches and management |
Friday Oct 10, 2008
Time: 12:00 NOON
360 Hayden |
Emma Schachner
Dept of Earth & Env. Science, University of Pennsylvania
Osteology, Functional Morphology and Respiratory Biology of Basal Archosaurs
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
Friday Oct 10, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM |
Phil Manning
School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Science University of Manchester
Dinosaurs, Space-shuttles and Synchrotrons |
Friday Oct 17, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM |
Kyungsoo Yoo
University of Delaware, Plant & Soil Sciences Department
Integration of Geomorphic and Biogeochemical Processes on Hillslopes
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Monday Oct 20, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon |
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Friday Oct 24, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM |
Daria Nikitina
West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Department of Geology and Astronomy
Sea Level Rise and Environmental Changes along the Delaware Bay coast in late Holocene |
Monday Oct 27, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon |
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Friday Oct 31, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM
CANCELLED - To Be Rescheduled |
Mihaela Enache
The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA
Title: TBA
CANCELLED - To Be Rescheduled |
Monday Nov 3, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon
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Natalie Nahill
Dept of Earth & Env. Science,University of Pennsylvania
Reconstructing the exhumation history of a sedimentary column through a multi-proxy approach: Determining the shielding history of halite deposits to measure major variations in the cosmic-ray flux incident on the Earth's surface
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
Friday Nov 7, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM |
Douglas Howard
George Mason University, Earth Systems and Geoinformation Sciences
Quantitative Hydraulic Modeling and Geomorphology of Jokulhlaup-type Outflow Channels on Earth and Mars: Application of Comparative Geomorphology and Remote Sensing |
Monday Nov 10, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Douglas Jerolmack
Dept of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania
Quantitative Sedimentology on Mars
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Friday Nov 14, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM |
Chris Oze
Bryn Mawr College, Department of Geology
Biogeochemical Synchronicity of Life, Death, and Ultramafic Material |
Monday Nov 17, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Raleigh Martin
Dept of Earth & Env. Science, University of Pennsylvania
A granular model for step-pool bedform topography and implications for sediment transport |
Friday Nov 21, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM |
Peter N. Adams
University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences
Watching and Listening to Coastal Erosion; Instrumentation of the
Alaska and California Coasts |
Monday Nov 24, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Andrew McDonald
Dept of Earth & Env. Science,University of Pennsylvania
Iguanodontia: What 183 Years of Study Have Wrought and What's In Store |
Monday Dec. 1, 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon
| Anarmaa Sharkhuu
Dept of Earth & Env. Science, University of Pennsylvania
Ecosystem responses to experimental warming in Hovsgol, northern Mongolia |
2009 |
Spring Term |
Friday Jan 16, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM |
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Friday Jan 23, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM
| Robert Kopp
Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs,Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
A Magnetic Mystery: The Transformation of the Iron Cycle During Severe Global Warming in the Initial Eocene" |
Monday Jan 26, 2009
Time: 12 Noon |
John Clark
Dept of Earth & Env. Science,University of Pennsylvania
Carbon Quantities and Qualities from Post-Agricultural Northern Hardwood Forest
Soils
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
Friday Jan 30, 2009
Time: 3:00 P.M. |
Christopher Bernhardt
Dept of Earth & Env. Science, University of Pennsylvania
Wetland vegetation response to natural and anthropogenic forcing, Florida Everglades and Nile Delta
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
Monday Feb 2, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Candy Grand Pre
Dept of Earth & Env. Science, University of Pennsylvania
The Application of Microfossils to Reconstruct Paleoenvironments on Passive and Active Margins: An Examination of Great Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Relative Sea-Level Change
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense
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Friday Feb 6, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM |
Nicholas Davatzes
Temple University
Geothermal Energy: Active faulting, stress, & fluid flow at the Coso Geothermal Field |
Monday Feb 9, 2009
Time: 12 Noon |
Meredith Reitz
Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
Floods and ripping rivers: channel dynamics on experimental alluvial fans |
Friday Feb 13, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM. |
Markus Kleber
Oregon State University, Department of Crop and Soil Science
A new geochemical model for environmental Black Carbon (Char) and its implications for the persistence of BC in terrestrial environments |
Monday Feb 16, 2009
Time: 1:00 PM
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Visiting Prospective Graduate Student Presentations
1:00 - Kenneth Takagi, Pennsylvania State University
The "3M" approach to understanding soil moisture at the Shale Hills CZO: Monitoring, Mapping and Modeling
1:15 - Sarah Baumgardner, M IT
Sediment
Sorting in Depositional Systems
1:30 - L. Camille Jones, Bryn Mawr College
The geochemical interplay of serpentinization, methanogenesis, and carbonate formation in hydrothermal environments
1:45 - Nicole Khan, Boston University
Influence of storm events and sea level rise on Maine barriers
2:00 - Vincent Pellerito, University of Delaware
Technological Solutions, Amino Acid Racemization and Research on the Atlantic Coastal Plain of North Carolina
2:15 - Kyle Trostle, Franklin and Marshall College
The Mineralogy and Chemistry of Fossilized Trees from the Chickaloon Formation
2:30 - Alex Handwerger, Boston University
Morphology of Tidal Deltas
2:45 - Colin Phillips, University of California at Berkeley
Hot Particle and Water interactions Relating to Pyroclastic Flows
3:00 - Mariela Salas De La Cruz, Brown University
Rayleigh-wave tomography in the Nicaragua-Costa Rica Subduction Zone
3:15 - Eric Prokocki, Louisiana State University
The evolution of the Lower Mississippi River (LMR) from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the present: Yazoo Basin, MS
3:30 - Christopher McManus, Yale University
Research and Applications of GIS |
Friday Feb 20, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM |
Rowena Lohman
Cornell University, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Atmospheric, Crustal and Parameterization Errors: At what point do they significantly affect our models of moderate to large earthquakes?
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Monday Feb 23, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM
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Anne L. Cohen
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Coral Records of Climate Change: a window on the last 500 years |
Friday Feb 27, 2009
An All-Day Event
Washington, DC |
GEOBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM XVII
Paleontology - Paleobiology - Geobiology
PROGRAM
Letter of Invitation |
TUESDAY Mar 3, 2009
Time: NOON
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Jane Willenbring
Institut fur Mineralogie Universitat Hannover
Quantifying Quaternary Sediment Sources and Sinks |
Monday Mar 16, 2009
Time: 12 Noon |
Vera Aldeias
Dept of Earth & Env. Science, University of Pennsylvania
Site Formation Processes at Contrebandiers' Cave, Morocco |
Friday Mar 20, 2009
Time: 3:00 PM |
Andrew Kemp
Dept of Earth & Env. Science, University of Pennsylvania
High resolution studies of late Holocene relative sea-level
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
Monday Mar 23, 2009
Time: 12 Noon |
Eric Morschhauser
Dept of Earth & Env. Science, University of Pennsylvania
The Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of China: behavioral and taxonomic implications |
Friday Mar 27, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM |
Magali I. Billen
University of California, Davis, Department of Geology
Creating a Window into Subduction Zones: The Power of Seismic Observations,
Surface Deformation and Numerical Modeling |
Monday Mar 30, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM |
Asa K. Rennermalm
UCLA, Department of Geography
The Pan-arctic - Why does it matter to us? |
Friday Apr 3, 2009
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No Seminar |
Monday Apr 6, 2009
Time: 12 Noon |
No Seminar |
Monday Apr 13, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM |
Linda Warren
EarthScope Program, Division of Earth Sciences, National Science Foundation
Deep Earthquakes, Slab Deformation, and Subduction Forces
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Friday Apr 17, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM |
Ruth DeFries
Columbia University
Soil Carbon and Tropical Deforestation
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Wednesday Apr 29, 2009
Time: 8 AM - 3:30 PM
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SPECIAL PPROGEAM
SENIOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE
PROGRAM |
Friday May 1, 2009
Time: 8 AM - 3:30 PM
Location: Chemistry Bldg
(34th & Spruce) Room 102 |
SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM
Responses, Risks, and Adaptation to Climate Change
Brent Helliker,University of Pennsylvania
Ron Stouffer, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Tony Broccoli, Rutgers University
Student Poster Session NOON - 1 PM, Nobel Hall of Fame
Eric Orts, University of Pennsylvania
Roberto Schaeffer, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
Friday May 1, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Heilmeier Hall
Towne Bldg, Smith Walk |
SPECIAL EVENT
Henry Darwin Rogers Lecture & Award Ceremony
Grace S. Brush, The Johns Hopkins University
Historical land use and coastal eutrophication: nitrogen matters |
Wednesday May 13, 2009
Time: 3:00 P.M. |
Jamie Bedison
Dept of Earth & Env. Science, University of Pennsylvania
Decadal-Scale Comparisons of Vegetation and Soil Properties in Forests of the Adirondak Mountains, New York
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
