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 and MSAG students.
2012 |
Fall Term |
MONDAY July 16, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM
358 Hayden |
Wenting Feng
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
Testing the soil carbon saturation theory: Maximal carbon stabilization and stability as a function of organic carbon inputs
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense |
Monday Sep 10, 2012
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Kim Litwin
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
Laboratory investigation of abrasion due to energetic binary collisions |
Friday Sep 14, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
SPECIAL SEMINAR - EES Dept Personnel Only - Faculty, Post-Docs, PhD Students, Admin Staff
Patrice D. Miller
Associate Director, Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs
Professional and Respectful Behavior in the Workplace |
Monday Sep 17, 2012
Time: 12:00 Noon |
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Friday Sep 21, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
Jaime Palter
McGill University
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
The driving processes of deep ocean heat uptake and their temporal variability
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Monday, Sep 24, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
Georg Schwamborn
Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
Permafrost-to-lake interactions at El'gygytyn Crater lake, NE Russia |
Friday, Sep 28, 2012
Time: 3:00 PM |
Kim Litwin
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
Determining effects of abrasion mechanics on the downstream fining of river sediments
PhD Proposal Defense |
Monday, Oct 1, 2012
Time: 12 Noon |
Anarmaa Sharkhu
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
Soil Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change and Land-Use Simulations and Estimation of Carbon Stocks in Steepe and Forest Ecosystems in Northern Mongolia
PhD Dissertation Defense |
Friday Oct 5, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
Matthew "Rocky" Severs
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Environmental Science and Geology
Adakite genesis and long-term behavior at Mount St. Helens, Washington |
Monday Oct 8, 2012
Time: 12:00 Noon |
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Friday Oct 12, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
Brandon McElroy
University of Wyoming
Department of Geology & Geophysics
Not all rates are created equally- quantifying variability in topographic evolution |
Monday Oct 15, 2012
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Brandon Hedrick
University of Pennsylvania
Earth and Environmental Science
Basal ceratopsian myology: muscle relocation with inference on change in locomotion |
Friday Oct 19, 2012
Time: 3:00 PM |
Maddie Stone
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
Soil microbial communities and soil organic matter: composition and ecological functions in the Luquillo Critical Zone
PhD Proposal Defense |
Monday Oct 22, 2012
Time: 12:00 Noon |
NO SEMINAR - Fall Break |
Friday Oct 26, 2012
Time: 3:00 PM |
Tina Dura
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
Diatoms as a tool in reconstructing the Holocene history of great earthquakes above the central Chile and Alaska Aleutian megathrusts
PhD Proposal Defense |
Monday Oct 29, 2012
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Brian Kravitz
SAS Computing
Cyber Security Info Session |
Friday Nov 2, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
Katharina Billups
University of Delaware
College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
Reconstructing climate history: The evolution of Antarctic glaciation |
Monday Nov 5, 2012
Time: 12:00 Noon
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Katie Matthews
International Seafood Sustainability Foundation
Tuna, Nuclear Reactors and the Deepwater Horizon: Adventures in Science Policy |
Friday Nov 9, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
Aaron Thompson
The University of Georgia
Department of Crop and Soil Science
Modulation of soil carbon mobility, decomposition, and stability by iron redox cycling |
Monday Nov 12, 2012
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Colin Phillips
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
Hydrograph unsteadiness, tracer particles, and super diffusion |
Friday Nov 16, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM |
Andrew Wittenberg
Climate Change, Variability & Prediction Group
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Whither ENSO? Assessing El Niño risks for the coming decades |
Monday Nov 19, 2012
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Daniele Bianchi
McGill University
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Links between vertically migrating animals and open ocean oxygen minimum zones |
Friday Nov 23, 2012
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NO SEMINAR |
Monday Nov 26, 2012
Time: 12:00 Noon |
Xu Bing
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
Global patterns of ecosystem carbon fluxes in forests: a biometric data-based synthesis |
Friday Nov 30, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM
| Wesley Andrés Watters
Whitin Observatory, Wellesley College
Impact cratering on Mars: Results from recent rover and orbital missions |
Monday Dec 3, 2012
Time: 12:00 Noon
| NO GeoLunch
AGU - San Francisco |
Tuesday Dec 11, 2012
Time: 3:00 PM |
Natalie Nahill Spear
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Evaporite Rocks from the Mid-Neoproterozoic Browneformation, Officer Basin, Western Australia
PhD Dissertation Defense |
2013 |
Spring Term |
Friday Jan 11, 2013
Time: 4:00 PM |
Paul Mason
Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences
The Netherlands
Early life and global oxygenation viewed through the biogeochemical cycles of sulfur and selenium |
Monday Jan 14, 2013
Time: 12 Noon |
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Friday Jan 18, 2013
Time: 3:00 PM |
Zachary D. Sharp
The University of New Mexico
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
The use of diatoms for paleoclimate reconstruction |
Monday Jan 21, 2013
Time: 12 Noon |
No Seminar |
Friday Jan 25, 2013
Time: 4:00 PM |
Lisa Rodrigues
Villanova University
Department of Geography & the Environment
Do soft corals track changes in water quality on reefs? Some insights from Bermuda |
Monday Jan 28, 2013
Time: 12 Noon |
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Friday Feb 1, 2013
Time: 3:00 PM |
Reto Giere
Institut für Geowissenschaften
Mineralogy of the Atmosphere: Assessing Environmental and
Health Impacts of Airborne Particulate Matter
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Monday Feb 4, 2013
Time: 12 Noon |
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Friday Feb 8, 2013
Time: 4:00 PM |
HOLD |
Monday Feb 11, 2013
Time: 12 Noon |
Xigxing Hao
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
Controls on Soil biogeochemical properties in Forest Soils of the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory |
Friday Feb 15, 2013
Time: 4:00 PM |
HOLD |
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Time: 11:30 AM
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Visiting Prospective Graduate Students
John Armitage, University of Oklaoma
Palynology and climate of Oklahoma in the Late Paleozoic
Natalie Bray, Johns Hopkins University
Effects of Increasing CO2 on Leaf Litter Palatability and Chemistry for Soil Animals
Alexander Bryk, University of Illinois Urbana
The influence of channel-skewed bedforms on flow structure in high curvature meander bends
Dylan Lee, University of Florida
Matching Mud- Comparing Automated Signal Correlation Techniques
Lauren Mosley, University of California Santa Barbara
The effects of the diet and feeding behavior of the large theropod, Allosaurus, on predator paleoecology in the Morrison Formation
Brooke Osborne, Colorado State University Ft. Collins
The effects of temperature and moisture on nitrifier abundance and activity in alpine soils
Benjamin Uveges, McGill University
Adsorption of Phosphate onto Gibbsite
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Friday, Feb 22, 2013
Time: 10 AM - 5 PM
Location: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
GEOBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
Invitation
Program |
Monday Feb 25, 2013
Time: 12 Noon |
Karen Ziegler
Institute of Meteoritics
University of New Mexico
Oxygen Isotopes and their Application to
Planetary Science: an Example from Mars |
Friday, Mar 1, 2013
Time: 4:00 PM
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NO SEMINAR |
Monday Mar 4, 2013
Time: 12 Noon |
NO SEMINAR - Spring Break |
Friday Mar 8, 2013
Time: 4:00 PM |
NO SEMINAR - Spring Break |
Monday Mar 11, 2013
Time: 12 Noon |
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Friday Mar 15, 2013
Time: 4:00 PM |
Ning Lin
Princeton University
Physically-based Hurricane Surge Risk Assessment |
Monday Mar 18, 2013
Time: 12 Noon |
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Friday Mar 22, 2013
Time: 4:00 PM |
Leslie Hsu
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Marine Geology and Geophysics
Granular impacts in landscape dynamics: the rumbling of debris flows and flood-induced bedload transport |
Monday Mar 25, 2013
Time: 12 Noon |
Nicole Khan
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
Tracking sedimentation from the historic 2011 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana deltaic wetlands |
Friday Mar 29, 2013
Time: 4:00 PM |
NO SEMINAR |
Monday, Apr 1, 2013
Time: NOON |
Rachel Valletta
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
"A tale of two ages": What (re)dating calcretes tells us about the Sorbas Basin, Spain |
Friday Apr 5, 2013
Time: 3:00 PM |
Raleigh Martin
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Transient mechanics of bed load sediment transport
PhD Dissertation Defense |
Monday Apr 8, 2013
Time: 12 Noon |
Vaughan Voller
University of Minnesota
Department of Civil Engineering
Non-Local sediment transport models using fractional calculus |
Friday Apr 12, 2013
Time: 4:00 PM |
Steven T. Goldsmith
Villanova University
Department of Geography and the Environment
The importance of small mountainous rivers in the global carbon cycle |
Monday Apr 15, 2013
Time: 12 Noon |
Vanessa Boschi
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
The Behavior of Beryllium in Soils |
Friday Apr 19, 2013
Time: 4:00 PM
CANCELLED |
Anna Henderson
Congressional Science Fellow, Washington, DC
Latent power of C4 plants tip Plio-Pleistocene Climate Cooling: Organic geochemistry perspective on the evolution of the Great Plains in the context of regional and global climate
CANCELLED |
Monday Apr 22, 2013
Time: 12 Noon |
Marcie E Occhi
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Earth & Environmental Science
Tracing soil and sediment mobility at different spatial and temporal scales within the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory
PhD Proposal Defense |
THURSDAY Apr 25, 2013
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM |
SPECIAL PROGRAM
SENIOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Schedule
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FRIDAY Apr26, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Heilmeier Hall Towne Bldg, Smith Walk |
SPECIAL EVENT
Henry Darwin Rogers Lecture & Award Ceremony
Emily Brodsky
UC Santa Cruz, Seismology Lab
Earthquakes that Trigger other Earthquakes |
