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.
2009 |
Fall Term |
Monday Sep 14, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Friday Oct 16, 2009
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No Seminar |
Monday Oct 19, 2009
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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Friday Nov 27, 2009
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No Seminar - Thanksgiving Break |
Monday Nov 30, 2009
Time: 12:00 Noon |
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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 |
Friday Dec 18, 2009
Time: 3:00 PM
| Vera Aldeias
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Earth and Env. Science
Geoarchaeological studies on site formation processes and use of fire in the middle Paleolithic in Morocco
Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
2010 |
Spring Term |
Friday Jan 22, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM
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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 |
Steve Phipps
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Earth and Env. Science
The Earthquake Sequence in Haiti |
Friday Jan 29, 2010
Time:4:00 PM |
Ryan Ewing
Princeton University, Department of Geosciences
Records of climate change in wind-blown dune deposits in the north polar region of Mars |
Monday Feb 1, 2010
Time: 12 Noon |
Eric Morchhauser
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Earth and Env. Science
The Anatomy, Taphonomy, and Phylogeny of Auroraceratops (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) From the Yujingzi Basin of Gansu Proviince, China
Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
Friday Feb 5, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM |
CANCELED
Thanos Papanicolaou
The University of Iowa
Why grains in a river group together? |
Monday Feb 8, 2010
Time: 12 Noon |
NO SEMINAR |
Friday Feb 12, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM |
Nadine McQuarry
Princeton University, Dept. of Geosciences
Himalayan mass balance: a Bhutan perspective |
Monday Feb 15, 2010
Time: 12 Noon |
Andrew McDonald
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Earth and Env. Science
The Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Basal Iquanodonts (Dinosauria: Ornithischia)
Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
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: 9:00 AM
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Visiting Prospective Graduate Student Presentations
9:00 Ayumi Shimokawa, University of North Carolina
The Lower Cretaceous time scale calibrated with zircon U-Pb geochronolgy of the Great Valley Group
9:15 Marcie Occhi, University of Maryland
Storm water delivery mechanics within the moderately urbanized Anacostia Watershed: A nested watershed study
9:30 Chelsea Nagy, Auburn University
Tropical Biogeochemistry: Natural Variation and Human Disturbance
9:45 Rosemary Fanelli, Oregon State University
Impacts of hydrologic routing on stream biogeochemistry and streamflow generation
10:00 Christina Dura, Central Washington University
Preservation of Holocene Paleo-Earthquakes, Sungai Pinang, Western Sumatra
10:15 Roman Shor, University of Pennsylvania
An investigation of Pacific Seamount
Bathymetry using single beam sonar
10:30 BREAK
10:45 Madeline Stone, Cornell University
The Impact of Anthropogenic Change on the Microbially-Driven Carbon Cycle
11:00 Sara Oser, University of Cincinnati
Paleo: Where it has taken me in the past and where I hope to go in the future
11:15 Nicholas Cohn, Boston University
Resolving storm intensity from overwash deposits: A case study at Bald Head Cove, Maine
11:30 Brandon Hedrick, Emory University
Feathered Dinosaurs and a Tetrapteryx Stage of Flight
11:45 Kimberly Litwin, San Francisco State Unversity
Influence of ice composition on tensile strength and erosion rates on Titan
12:00 Alexander Fuller, Princeton University
Airplanes and Microwaves: Using Models to Study the Climate |
CANCELED
Friday Feb 26, 2010
An All-Day Event |
CANCELED
GEOBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM XVIII
Paleontology - Paleobiology - Geobiology |
Monday Mar 1, 2010
Time: 12 Noon
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Federico Falcini
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Earth and Env. Science
A hydrodynamic theory for the formation of Mississippi Birdsfoot and tie channels |
Friday Mar 5, 2010
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No Seminar |
Monday Mar 8, 2010
Time: 12 Noon |
No Seminar - Spring Break |
Friday Mar 12, 2010
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No Seminar - Spring Break |
Monday Mar 15, 2010
Time: 12 Noon |
Simin Liu
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Earth and Env. Science
Geochemical and magnetic characteristics of the East China Sea shelf sediments off the Yangtze Estuary |
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 |
Colin Phillips
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Earth and Env. Science
Landscapes in Transition: From Puerto Rico to Alaska |
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
Effects of ocean circulation changes on carbon disequilibrium |
Friday Apr 2, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM
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Katrin Monecke
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Dept. of Geology and Planetary Science
The record of prehistoric tsunamis in coastal sediments in North Sumatra, Indonesia |
Monday Apr 5, 2010
Time: 12 Noon |
No Seminar |
Friday Apr 9, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM
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Natalie Nahill
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Earth and Env. Science
Determining the chemistry of Neoproterozoic seawater using fluid inclusions in halite |
Monday Apr 12, 2010
Time: 12 Noon
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Nicole Khan
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Earth and Env. Science
Application of δ13C and C/N ratios in sea-level reconstructions |
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 |
Raleigh Martin
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Earth and Env. Science
Ph.D. Proposal Defense
Transport fluctuations and bedform development in bedload-dominated
sedimentary systems |
Friday Apr 23, 2010
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No Seminar |
Monday Apr 26, 2010
Time: 12 Noon |
Anarma Sharkhuu
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Earth and Env. Science
Performance of two
passive warming chamber designs in a northern Mongolian steppe |
Thursday Apr 29, 2010
Time: 8 AM - 4:30 PM
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SPECIAL PROGRAM
SENIOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE |
Friday Apr 30, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Heilmeier Hall
Towne Bldg, Smith Walk |
SPECIAL EVENT
Henry Darwin Rogers Lecture & Award Ceremony
Eric A. Davidson, The Woods Hole Research Center
Manure Happens: The Environmental Consequences of Feeding Six Billion Human Carnivores |
Tuesday May 25, 2010
Time: 1:30 PM
360 Hayden |
Emma Schachner
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Earth and Env. Science
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Anatomical Reconstructions of Respiratory Morphology and Hindlimb Musculature in Poposaurus gracilis (Archosauria: Suchia) and related Dinosauriformes |
