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Spring
2001 Visiting
(Colloquium) Speakers |
| when | who | what and where | title of talk |
| Jan 25 | Susan L. Brantley | Professor, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University | "Life on the Rocks: How Minerals Act as Trace Metal Supplements for Soil Microbes" |
| Feb 1 | H. Richard Naslund | Professor, Dept. of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton | "Volcanic Features at El Laco, Chile: Compelling Evidence for the Existence of Iron-oxide Magmas." |
| Feb 8 | Frank M. Richter | Sewel L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor, Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago | "Elemental and Isotopic Fractionation by Evaporation of Silicate Liquids: Theory, Experiments, and Application to the Thermal Evolution of CAIs" |
| Feb 13 Tuesday McD 162 |
Chad Hall | Geological Sciences Dept., Brown University | "Mantle Flow in Subduction Zones: Geodynamic and Seismic Constraints" |
| Feb 15 | Michael F. Hochella, Jr. | Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) | "Nuclear and Mining Wastes: A Scientific and Societal Look at Lessons We Have (and Haven't) Learned" |
| Feb 20 Tuesday McD 162 |
Jonathan Aurnou |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington |
"Generation of Zonal Winds by Thermal Convection in Rapidly Rotating Spherical Shells" |
| Feb 22 | |||
| Mar 1 |
Magali Billen |
Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology | "Dynamics of the Tonga-Kermadec Subduction Zone: Integrating Observational Constraints and Numerical Models" |
| Mar 6 Tuesday McD 162 |
Jun Korenaga | Dept of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | "The Origin of the Iceland ‘Hotspot’" |
| Mar 8 | Stephen Zatman |
Miller Research Fellow in Geology & Geophysics, Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley |
"High Frequency Geomagnetism: The Rapidly Changing State of the Earth’s Core" |
| Mar 15 |
none |
Spring Break & Lunar & Planetary Science Conf. |
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| Mar 22 | David Walker | Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University |
"RbClO4, oxygen volumes, and core/mantle interaction" |
| Mar 26 Monday McD 162 |
Laurent Montesi | Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | "Fault spacing in the central India basin: Relation with the strength profile of the lithosphere" |
| Mar 29 | Nick Beeler | U.S.G.S. | "Why earthquakes correlate poorly with Earth tides (the effect of periodic stressing on the rate and probability of earthquake occurrence)" |
| Apr 12 | Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champagne | "Microbial rDNA Diversity Linked to Travertine Depositional Environments at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park" | |
| Apr 19 | Head, Astrochemistry Branch, Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | "Successive Approximations to the Solar Nebula: Evidence from Everywhere." | |
| Apr 26 |
none |
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| May 3 | Professor, College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University | cancelled |
| Last revised: 25-Apr-2001 |
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