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Department of Earth and Environmental Science

Seminar Series 2009 - 2010

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.

Location: Room 358, Hayden Hall, 240 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6316

2009
Fall Term
Monday Sep 14, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon

Friday Sep 25, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM
Michel C. Boufadel
Temple University, Dept of Civil & Env. Engineering
Factors affecting the persistence of the Exxon Valdez oil 20 years after the spill
Monday Sep 28, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon
 
Friday Oct 2, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM
Eric D. Galbraith
McGill University, Earth & Planetary Sciences
Wobbly plumbing in the global ocean: Impacts of past climate changes on marine nutrients and greenhouse gases
 
Monday Oct 5, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon
 
Friday Oct 9, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM
Ilya Buynevich
Temple University
Coastal and Aeolian Archives of Extreme Events: Clues from the Sand
Monday Oct 12, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon
 
Friday Oct 16, 2009
No Seminar
Monday Oct 19, 2009
No Seminar - Fall Break
Friday Oct 23, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM
Tim K. Lowenstein
Binghamton University
Secular variations in the major ion chemistry of seawater: state of the art
Monday Oct 26, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon
Wenting Feng
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Earth and Env. Science
How soil physical and chemical properties affect soil carbon saturation
Friday Oct 30, 2009
Time: 11:00 AM
Meredith Reitz
University of Pennsylvania
Channel Dynamics on River Deltas and Alluvial Fans
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense
Friday Oct 30, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM
CANCELLED
Paul Goldberg
Boston University
Micromorphology, Microfacies, and Geoarchaeological Context
Monday Nov 2, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon
 

Friday Nov 6, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM

Jorge L. Sarmiento
Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Recent trends in the global carbon cycle balance

Monday Nov 9, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon

 
Friday Nov 13, 2009
Time: NOON
SERC Conference: Building Strong Geoscience Departments
Tim Bralower, The Pennsylvania State University
Diane Doser, University of Texas-El Paso
Monday Nov 16, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon
Chuck Romanchock
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Earth and Env. Science
Everything's bigger in Texas (except the fossil plant-bearing outcrops of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Markley Formation)
Friday Nov 20, 2009
Time: 3:00 PM
Simon Engelhart
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Earth and Env. Science
Sea-level changes along the US Atlantic coast: implications for glacial isostatic adjustment models and current rates of sea-level change
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Monday Nov 23, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon
 
Friday Nov 27, 2009
No Seminar - Thanksgiving Break
Monday Nov 30, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon
 
Friday Dec 4, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM
Frank J. Pazzaglia
Lehigh University, Dept. of Earth & Env. Sciences
Broadband Geodesy and Active Tectonics of the Italian Apennines
Monday Dec 7, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon
 
2010
Spring Term
Friday Jan 22, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM
Karen Prestegaard
University of Maryland, Department of Geology
Sources of streamflow, sediment, and contaminants in a large urban watershed
Monday Jan 25, 2010
Time: 12 Noon
Raleigh Martin
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Earth and Env. Science
Title: TBA
Friday Jan 29, 2010
Time:4:00 PM
Brenden E. McNeil
West Virginia University, Dept. Geology & Geography
Title: TBA
Monday Feb 1, 2010
Time: 12 Noon
Eric Morchhauser
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Earth and Env. Science
Title: TBA
Friday Feb 5, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM
Thanos Papanicolaou
The University of Iowa
Title: TBA
Monday Feb 8, 2010
Time: 12 Noon
Andrew McDonald
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Earth and Env. Science
Title: TBA
Friday Feb 12, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM
Nadine McQuarry
Princeton University, Dept. of Geosciences
Title: TBA
Monday Feb 15, 2010
Time: 12 Noon
Colin Phillips
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Earth and Env. Science
Title: TBA
Friday Feb 19, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM
Lucinda J. Leonard
Geological Survey of Canada
Coseismic subsidence and slip in past great earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction zone
Monday Feb 22, 2010
Time:12 Noon
Anarma Sharkhuu
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Earth and Env. Science
Title: TBA
Friday Feb 26, 2010
An All-Day Event
GEOBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM XVIII
Paleontology - Paleobiology - Geobiology
Monday Mar 1, 2010
Time: 12 Noon

 
Friday Mar 5, 2010
No Seminar
Monday Mar 8, 2010
Time: 12 Noon
No Seminar - Spring Break
Friday Mar 12, 2010
No Seminar - Spring Break
Monday Mar 15, 2010
Time: 12 Noon
Simin Liu
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Earth and Env. Science
Title: TBA
Friday Mar 19, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM
Mark A. Bradford
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Soil microbial community effects on ecosystem carbon dynamics
Monday Mar 22, 2010
Time: 12 Noon
Natalie Nahill
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Earth and Env. Science
Title: TBA
Friday Mar 26, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM
James Smith
Princeton University, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Hydroclimatology of Flooding in the Eastern US
Monday Mar 29, 2010
Time: 12 Noon
Razvan Zarzu
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Earth and Env. Science
Title: TBA

Friday Apr 2, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM

Katrin Monecke
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Dept. of Geology and Planetary Science
Title: TBA
Monday Apr 5, 2010
Time: 12 Noon
Nicole Kahn
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Earth and Env. Science
Title: TBA

Friday Apr 9, 2010

 No Seminar

Monday Apr 12, 2010

 No Seminar
Friday Apr 16, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM
William Gallagher
Rider University
Drilling the K/Pg Boundary in New Jersey: Testing Alternative Scenarios of End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction

Monday Apr 19, 2010
Time: 12 Noon

 
Friday Apr 23, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM
Jamie Horvath
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Earth and Env. Science
Title: TBA
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
 
Monday Apr 26, 2010
Time: 12 Noon
 

Wednesday Apr 28, 2009
Time: 8 AM - 3:30 PM

SPECIAL PROGRAM
SENIOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Friday Apr 30, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Heilmeier Hall
Towne Bldg, Smith Walk

SPECIAL EVENT
Henry Darwin Rogers Lecture & Award Ceremony

 



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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6316