Visiting Speakers, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

when	who	what and where	title of talk
Sep 3	Subir K. Bannerjee	Professor and Director, Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota	"The Three 'Paleos:' -Magnetism, -Dynamo, and -Record of Global Change [and the mineral magnetic thread that binds them all]"
Sep 10	Frank Podosek	Professor, Washington University	"Isotopic Structure in Potassium? Well, Yes and No."
Sep 17	Maud M. Walsh	Research Assistant Professor and Association for Women Geoscientists Distinguished Lecturer, Institute for Environmental Studies, Louisiana State University	"Early Life on Earth: The Rock Record"
Sep 24	James (Jack) F. Reilly, II	Geologist and Shuttle Astronaut, NASA Johnson Space Center	"An Astronaut's Perspective of the Dynamic Earth"
Oct 1	Everett Shock	Associate Professor, Washington University	"Hydrothermal Ecosystems in a Planetary Context"
Oct 8	none
Oct 15	Anne Hofmeister	Research Associate Professor, Washington University	"Thermal and Radiative Conductivity from Phonon Lifetimes and Implications for Mantle Temperatures"
Oct 22	Karen Bartelt	Assoc. Professor of Chemistry, Eureka Collge, Eureka, IL	"The Resurgence of Young-Earth Creationism and its Impact on Science Education"
Oct 29	none	GSA annual meeting	.
Nov 5	Alexander Borisov	Senior Research Associate, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston	"Noble Metal Solubilities in Silicate Melts: Experimental Results and Geochemical Applications"
Nov 12	Nadine Barlow	Instructor of Astronomy and Director of the Robinson Observatory, University of Central Florida	"The Search for Source Craters of Martian Meteorite ALH84001"
Nov 18 (Wed.) McD 162 4 p.m.	Matt Golombek	Mars Pathfinder Project Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory	"The Mars Pathfinder Mission and Science Results"
Nov 19	cancelled	cancelled	cancelled
Nov 26	none	Thanksgiving	.
Dec 2 (Wed.) McD 361 12:00 noon	Dave Peterson	Branch Chief, Ecosystem Science and Technology Branch, Earth Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center	"Overview of Astrobiology and the Adaptation of Ecosystems to Novel Environments" abstract
Dec 3	Jill Pasteris (We are switching the brown bag and colloquium speakers this week)	Professor, Washington University	Brown Bag (or Tea Time) Seminar: "Geology, Mineralogy, and Human Welfare"