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.
2011 |
Fall Term |
Monday Sep 12, 2011
Time: 12:00 Noon |
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Friday Sep 16, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
Mark Brandon
Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics
Topographic evolution of the Sierra Nevada Range from 100 Ma to present |
Monday Sep 19, 2011
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Raleigh Martin
University of Pensylvania, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Science
Transient response of sand bedforms to changes in flow |
Friday Sep 23, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
Karl K. Turekian
Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics
Transport of osmium through an estuary (Long Island Sound) using an anthropogenic isotopic tracer: The relationship to climate variation |
Monday, Sep 26, 2011
Time: 12 Noon |
Audrey Masciocchi Caputa
DRL Business Office
Leona Joseph
Office of Research Services
Business Administrative Services: How Things Work |
Friday, Sep 30, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
Joellen L. Russell
The University of Arizona
The Ocean's Role in Climate: Southern Ocean Uptake of Heat and Carbon |
Monday, Oct 3, 2011
Time: 12 Noon |
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Friday Oct 7, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
NO SEMINAR - Fall Break |
Monday Oct 10, 2011
Time: 12:00 Noon |
NO SEMINAR - Fall Break |
Friday Oct 14, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
Marc Hijma
Tulane University
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Holocene sea-level changes along the Gulf Coast: 8.2 sea-level jump and Mid-Holocene highstand |
Monday Oct 17, 2011
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Colin Phillips
University of Pensylvania, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Science
Urbanizaton and Stream Morphology in the humid tropics |
Friday Oct 21, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
Adam Langley
Villanova University, Department of Biology
The limits of ecosystem response to global change: holding back hell and high water |
Monday Oct 24, 2011
Time: 12:00 Noon |
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Friday Oct 28, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
Erik E Cordes
Temple University, Biology Department
Impacts of the Gulf oil spill on deepwater communities |
Monday Oct 31, 2011
Time: 12:00 Noon |
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Friday Nov 4, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
Louis A. Derry
Cornell University, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Fluid transport of CO2 and heat along the Himalayan orogenic front |
Monday Nov 7, 2011
Time: 12:00 Noon
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Friday Nov 11, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
Noah Finnegan
University of California Santa, Earth and Planetary Sciences
How do rivers record climatic and tectonic change? Insights from the western U.S. Coast Ranges
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Monday Nov 14, 2011
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Raj Saha
Bowdoin College, Department of Mathematics
Sea Ice and the 1,500 year Climatic Oscillations During the Last Glacial Period |
Friday Nov 18, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM |
Craig Rasmussen
Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science
The University of Arizona
The exciting field of Environmental Pedology - at the interface of forcing, process, and landscape evolution |
Monday Nov 21, 2011
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Anne Willem Omta
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
On the potential role of marine calcifiers in glacial-interglacial dynamics |
Friday Nov 25, 2011
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NO SEMINAR |
Monday Nov 28, 2011
Time: 12:00 Noon |
LCZO
updates by Faculty,Post Docs and Students |
| Friday Dec 2, 2011
| NO SEMINAR |
Monday Dec 5, 2011
Time: 12:00 Noon
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2012 |
Spring Term |
Friday Jan 13, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
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Monday Jan 16, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
No Seminar |
Friday Jan 20, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
Anand Gnanadesikan
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
Understanding open-ocean dead zones |
Monday Jan 23, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
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Friday Jan 27, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
Douglas Jerolmack
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Internal boundary layer model for the evolution of desert dune fields |
Monday Jan 30, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
Brandon Hedrick
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Phylogenetic implications of bone histology in the Late Jurassic sauropod, Suuwassea |
Feb 2, 2012 THURSDAY
Time: 4:00 PM |
Venkataraman Lakshmi
University of South Carolina
Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Studies of the land surface hydrological cycle using modeling, observations and remote sensing |
Monday Feb 6, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
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Friday Feb 10, 2012
Time: 3:00 PM |
Andrew T. McDonald
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
The Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Basal Iguanodonts (Dinosauria: Ornithischia)
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
Monday Feb 13, 2012
Time: 11:00 AM |
Visiting Prospective Graduate Students
11:00 - Anna Woodson, Bryn Mawr College
Late Holocene Sea Level in Southern Pamlico Sound: New Data from Saltmarsh Cores on Western Point, Cedar Island, North Carolina
11:15 - Rachel Valletta, Syracuse University
Monitoring fjord floor sedimentology and geochemistry in an ice-proximal region: A case study from the Kronobreen-Kongsvegen confluent tidewater glacial system
11:30 - Logan Brenner, Skidmore College
A Tale of Two Interglacials: A Stalagmite Stable Isotope
Record Of Climate in Yucatan, Mexico Since 128 kya
11:45 - Zachary Williams, University of North Carolina Wilmington
The role of forcing in coupled human-coastline systems; when is it okay to steal from your neighbor?
12:00 - Stephen Hendricks, Bowling Green State University
The biomechanical implications of crocodilian tooth enamel
12:15 - Eric Lynch, East Tennessee State University
Cursorial adaptations in the forelimb of the giant short-faced bear, Arctodus simus, revealed by traditional and 3D landmark morphometrics
12:30 - Laura Hempel, Dartmouth College
Hydrologic Controls of Mercury Deposition onto a Floodplain and Other
Interests
12:45 - Benedett Schiraldi, Rutgers University
Tracing Glacial-Interglacial changes in water column structure in the
Southwest Pacific Ocean using foraminifera δ 13C |
THURSDAY Feb 16, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
Alexandre M. Tartakovsky
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Computational Sciences and Mathematics Division
Multiscale modeling and Uncertainty Quantification
in Complex Natural Systems |
Monday Feb 20, 2012
Time: 12 Noon
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Marcie E. Occhi
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Interpreting Be-7 measurements of suspended sediments from two catchments in NE Puerto Rico
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Friday, Feb 24, 2012
An All-Day Event |
GEOBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM XX
Paleontology - Paleobiology - Geobiology |
Monday Feb 27, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
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THURSDAY Mar 1, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM
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Nilton Renno
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
University of Michigan
Dust lifting and the effects of aerosols on clouds and climate |
Monday Mar 5, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
NO SEMINAR - Spring Break |
Friday Mar 9, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
NO SEMINAR - Spring Break |
Monday Mar 12, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
Svetlana Milutinovic
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Uncertainties in estimating ocean phytoplankton productivity from
space |
Friday Mar 16, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
Erika Marin-Spiotta
Department of Geography,
University of Wisconsin-Madison Linking Above and Belowground Dynamics in Post-Agricultural Tropical Ecosystems |
Monday Mar 19, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
Mark Kurz
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Noble gas adventures in the mantle and crust |
Friday Mar 23, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
Rich Briggs
Geologic Hazards Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
Low-tech, High-Yield Methods for Measuring Earth Surface Deformation |
Monday Mar 26, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
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THURSDAY Mar 29, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
David Goldsby
Brown University
Department of Geological Sciences
Earthquake Nucleation and Dynamic Fault Slip: A Frictional Tale |
Monday, Apr 2, 2012
Time: NOON |
Diana Karwan
Stroud Water Research Center
Sediment Fingerprinting in White Clay Creek and the Christina River Basin Critical Zone Observatory |
Friday Apr 6, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
No Seminar |
Monday Apr 9, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
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Friday Apr 13, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
William Hockaday
Baylor University
The role of fire in the Earth System |
Monday Apr 16, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
Raffa Bernardello
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Response of the ocean carbon storage to changes in ocean circulation in 21st century climate simulations |
Friday Apr 20, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM |
Eric Morschhauser
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
The Anatomy, Taphonomy, and Phylogeny of Auroraceratops (Ornithischia; ceratopsia) From The Yujingzi Basin of Gansu Province, China
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
Monday Apr 23, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
Eric Lajeunesse
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Granular dynamics of sediment transport by rivers |
TUESDAY Apr 24, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
Meredith Reitz
Department of Physics / Department of Earth & Env Science
University of Pennsylvania
Landscape-scale patterns resulting from thresholds, memory, and diffusion
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
WEDNESDAY Apr 25, 2012
Time: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM |
SPECIAL PROGRAM
SENIOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE
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THURSDAY Apr 26, 2012
Time: 4:30 PM
Location: Heilmeier Hall
Towne Bldg, Smith Walk
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SPECIAL EVENT
Henry Darwin Rogers Lecture & Award Ceremony
Gail M. Ashley
Rutgers University
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
The Paleoclimatic Framework of Human Evolution |
Friday Apr 27, 2012
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: 358 Hayden Hall |
Vera Aldeias
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvani
The Application of Geoarchaeological and Micromorphological Perspectives to Issues of Hominin Behavior in the Late Pleistocene
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
Wednesday May 9, 2012
Time: 2:00 PM |
Brandon Hedrick
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
A Reexamination of Psittacosaurus (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia): 3D Morphometrics, Myology, and Evolutionary Robotics
Ph.D. Proposal Defense |
