Our seminarseries 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.
2010 |
Fall Term |
Monday Sep 13, 2010
Time: 12:00 Noon |
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Friday Sep 17, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM |
Jane Willenbring
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
The Rise of Late Tertiary Erosion and Weathering Rates: a Critical Re-evaluation |
Monday Sep 20, 2010
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Roman Shor
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Distribution of Plastic in the North Atlantic Ocean |
Friday Sep 24, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM |
John Spiesberger
Scientific Innovations, Inc. and
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania
Coherence of Sound in the Sea |
Monday, Sep 27, 2010
Time: 12 Noon |
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Friday Oct 1, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM |
Wenting Feng
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
What is the maximal organic C stabilized in soils?
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
Monday Oct 4, 2010
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Frederic Herman
ETH Zurich
Quantifying the impact of tectonics and climate on erosion rates and topography from local to orogen scale |
Friday Oct 8, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM |
NO SEMINAR - Fall Break |
Monday Oct 11, 2010
Time: 12:00 Noon |
NO SEMINAR - Fall Break |
Friday Oct 15, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM |
John Clark
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Soil organic carbon content and quality from post-agricultural northern hardwood forests
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
Monday Oct 18, 2010
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Tina Dura
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Preservation of Holocene Earthquakes, Sungai Pinang, Western Sumatra |
Friday Oct 22, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM |
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Monday Oct 25, 2010
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Maddie Stone
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Using microbial enzymes to examine the effects of warming and N-fertilization on terrestrial carbon cycling |
Friday Oct 29, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM |
Daniel H. Rothman
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Singular Blow-up in the end-Permian Carbon Cycle |
Monday Nov 1, 2010
Time: 12:00 Noon |
NO SEMINAR |
Friday Nov 5, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM |
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Monday Nov 8, 2010
Time: 12:00 Noon
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Colin Phillips
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Morphology of Arctic Coastal Slumps |
Friday Nov 12, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM |
Robbie Toggweiler
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Role of Atmospheric CO2 during the Ice Ages
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Monday Nov 15, 2010
Time: 12:00 Noon |
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Friday Nov 19, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM |
Alain Plante
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Soil organic matter quality: definitions, quantification and implications for modeling |
Monday Nov 22, 2010
Time: 12:00 Noon |
NO SEMINAR |
Friday Nov 26, 2010
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NO SEMINAR |
Monday Nov 29, 2010
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Jose M. Fernandez
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Characterization of soil organic matter quality using thermal analysis technology |
Friday Dec 3, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM
| Anarma Sharkhuu
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Soil ecosystem responses to experimental
warming in northern Mongolia
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
Monday Dec 6, 2010
Time: 12:00 Noon
| Raleigh Martin
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
The physical meaning of anomalous gravel diffusion |
2011 |
Spring Term |
Friday Jan 21, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM
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David B. Weishampel
Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Transylvanian dinosaurs: history and future |
Monday Jan 24, 2011
Time: 12 Noon |
Eric Morschhauser
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
A new species of early horned dionasaur from the Western Gobi |
Friday Jan 28, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
Alessandro M. Forte
University of Quebec at Montreal
Deep-earth dynamics below North America: Implications for the uplift of the Atlantic coastal margin of the US
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Monday Jan 31, 2011
Time: 12 Noon |
Vera Aldeias
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Micromorphological observations of sediments from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco |
Friday Feb 4, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
Philip C. Bennett
University of Texas, Jackson School of Geosciences
Microbial Geochemistry: Coupling microbial ecology and mineral chemistry |
Monday Feb 7, 2011
Time: 12 Noon |
Marc Stieglitz
School of Civil & Environment Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Catchment Biogeochemical Responses to Forest Harvest |
Friday Feb 11, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
NO SEMINAR |
Monday Feb 14, 2011
Time: 12 Noon |
Marcie Occhi
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Hydrograph separation analyses to determine water sources in a large, urban watershed |
Friday Feb 18, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
Phillip Manning
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester
Trace-metals, functional-groups and biomarkers in the fossil record |
Monday Feb 21, 2011
Time: 12 Noon
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Visiting Prospective Graduate Students
Jonathan Garber
Using In Situ 10Be Soil Profiles to Date Fluvial Terraces on the South Fork of the Shenandoah River, VA
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THURSDAY Feb 24, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM
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Torbjorn Tornqvist
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
Tulane University
Illuminating the Lower Mississippi River sediment-dispersal system over orbital to centennial timescales |
Friday, Feb 25, 2011
An All-Day Event |
GEOBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM XIX
Paleontology - Paleobiology - Geobiology |
Monday Feb 28, 2011
Time: 12 Noon |
Visiting Prospective Graduate Student
Aaron Bufe, Cambridge University
The thermal aureole of the Skaergaard intrusion
Jennifer Johnson
Iron and Arsenic Cycles in a 3.2 Gya Fan Delta Environment |
Friday Mar 4, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM
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NO SEMINAR |
Monday Mar 7, 2011
Time: 12 Noon |
NO SEMINAR - Spring Break |
Friday Mar 11, 2011
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NO SEMINAR - Spring Break |
Monday Mar 14, 2011
Time: 12 Noon |
Gilles Brocard
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Processes of drainage reorganization in a deeply incised landscape, Guatemala |
Friday Mar 18, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
Brian G. McAdoo
Vassar College, Department of Earth Science and Geography
From Trench to Town- Transdisciplinary approaches to Tsunami Risk Reduction |
Monday Mar 21, 2011
Time: 12 Noon |
No Seminar |
Friday Mar 25, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
Michael Bender
Department of Geosciences
Princeton University
Hunting for old ice to extend back ice core climate records:
a progress report |
Monday Mar 28, 2011
Time: 12 Noon |
Andrew McDonald
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Horned Dinosaurs from the Two Medicine Formation of Montana and the Growing Ceratopsid Menagerie |
Friday Apr 1, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM
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Irina Marinov
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Ocean ecology and the carbon cycle in a warmer world |
Monday Apr 4, 2011
Time: 12 Noon |
Simin Liu
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Reconstructing recent sea-level rise, Indian River Lagoon, Florida |
Friday Apr 8, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
No Seminar |
Monday Apr 11, 2011
Time: 12 Noon
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Colin Phillips
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Effects of urbanization on hydrology, sediment transport, and channel morphology in the humid tropical region of North East Puerto Rico
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
Friday Apr 15, 2011
Time: 3:00 PM |
Nicole Khan
University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Earth & Env Science
The application of stable carbon isotopes and microfossils to reconstruct paleoenvironments and former relative sea levels in intermediate- and far-field locations
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Defense |
Monday Apr 18, 2011
Time: 12 Noon |
Brandon Hedrick
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Applications of Allometry to Paleontology |
Friday Apr 22, 2011
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No Seminar |
Monday Apr 25, 2011
Time: 12 Noon |
Raffaele Barnardello
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Spring phytoplankton blooms in the ocean. Theories and models |
THURSDAY Apr 28, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Heilmeier Hall
Towne Bldg, Smith Walk
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SPECIAL EVENT
Henry Darwin Rogers Lecture & Award Ceremony
Christopher Wnuk, Consulting Geologist, Reston, VA
Field Geology in Afganistan: Developing Economic Opportunities to Build Social Stability |
Friday Apr 29, 2011
Time: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM |
SPECIAL PROGRAM
SENIOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE
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Thursday May 5, 2011
Time: 10:30 AM |
Matthew Huber
Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Science,
Purdue University
Eocene climates as a window to our future |
Friday May 6, 2011
Time: 1:00 PM |
Candace Grand Pre
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
The application of macro- and microfossils to identify paleoearthquakes in Sumatra, Indonesia and to characterize geomorphic and ecologic change on a marsh platform after Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina, USA
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
