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Spring 2002 Visiting (Colloquium) Speakers
all talks begin at 4:15 p.m. in McDonnell Hall room 362
unless otherwise noted

when who what and where title of talk
Jan 24      
Jan 31      
Feb 7 Linda Kah Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Tennessee - Knoxville "Bedded gypsum in the Mesoproterozoic: a critical link in understanding biospheric evolution"
Feb 14 Joshua B. Smith Director of the Bahariya Dinosaur Project, also Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania "The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt: Reconstructing the Paralic Environments of Cretaceous North Africa"
Feb 19 (Tuesday) TBA TBA
Feb 21 Ganqing Jiang Graduate Research Fellow, Seismology Division, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University "Neoproterozoic Sequence and Chemostratigraphy"
Feb 28 Stefan Sievert Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology Dept., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution "Life at the oxic-anoxic interface: Molecular and organismal studies of sulfide-oxidizing microbes at hydrothermal vents"
Mar 7 none    
Mar 14 none Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston  
Mar 18
  (Monday)
Carrine Blank Postdoctoral Fellow, Mishler Lab, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of CA-Berkeley "When Did the Tree Turn Green? Using Genomic Sequences to Build a Better Bacterial Tree and the Geological Record to Probe the Origin of Oxygenic Photosynthesis"
Mar 21 none    
Mar 28 Dittmar Hahn Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry & Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Institute of Microbiology, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands "Interactions between uncultured bacterial populations in the environment"
Mar 29
  (Friday)
Ross Stein U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA "Seismicity as the Conversation Among Faults"
April 4 Eric A. Webb Assistant Scientist, Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution "Defining the molecular mechanisms of iron and phosphorus acquisition in marine cyanobacteria: New tools to monitor limitation of primary productivity"
April 5
  (Friday)
Katrina Edwards Assistant Scientist, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution "Microbial attachment to surfaces: Delineating cause and effect at bio-inorganic interfaces"
Apr 8
  (Monday)
Jennifer R. Smith Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University "Spring deposits and stone tools in the Sahara: Reading the record of climate change and hominid occupation in Egypt's Western Desert"
Apr 11 Jay Bass Professor, Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign "Seismology on microcrystals and mineralogy of the Earth's mantle"
Apr 18
location?
Bruce Jakosky Professor, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and Director of the Astrobiology Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder McDonnell Distinguished Lecturer: "Habitability and Non-Habitability of the Terrestrial Planets: Implications for Life Elsewhere"
Apr 25      

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20-Aug-2002

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