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

when	who	what and where	title of talk
14-Jan	none	none	none
21-Jan	Shun Karato	Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota	"How Strong are the Subducted Slabs?"
27-Jan Wed 11:00	Wallace Broecker	Newberry Professor of Geological Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	University Assembly Series: "Surprises in the Greenhouse" (in Graham Chapel)
27-Jan Wed 4:00 McD 361	Wallace Broecker	Newberry Professor of Geological Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	Colloquium: "Climate History of Deserts as Reconstructed from Lake Levels and Rock Varnish"
04-Feb	none	none	none
11-Feb	none	none	none
18-Feb	Dave Wronkiewicz	Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ. of Missouri - Rolla	"Influence of Uranyl Phases on the Alteration of Spent Nuclear Fuel and the Migration of Radionuclides"
25-Feb	Catherine Skinner	Research Affiliate, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University	"Minerals and Life Forms" An overview of different minerals and their physico-chemical relationships to biological/organismal function. Examples of normal apatite, CaCO₃ and some pathological examples including "asbestos"
04-Mar	spring break	none	none
11-Mar (Thur)	none scheduled
18-Mar	LPSC	none	none
23-Mar (Tues)	Christopher House	UCLA	"From Genomes to Microfossils: The Search for Ancient Biochemical Diversity"
25-Mar (Thur)	Jan Amend	Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University	"'Geochemical Habitats' for Microorganisms Examples from Shallow Marine Hot Springs"
30-Mar (Tues) 162 McD 4:10	Susan Welch	Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin	tba
01-Apr (Thur)	Paul Pinet	Professor, Department of Geology, Colgate University National Association of Geoscience Teachers Distinguished Lecturer	"Geoecology, ethics, and wilderness: How are they connected and what is their meaning for education?" abstract
6-Apr (Tues)	Ruth Blake	Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University	"Oxygen isotope systematics of microbial phosphate metabolism: Implications for biogeochemical cycling of P and apatite diagenesis"
08-Apr	Paul Lucey	Professor, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii	"Derivation of Elemental Composition from Reflectance Spectroscopy of Planetary Surface."
15-Apr	none scheduled
22-Apr	Hal Helgeson	Professor of Geochemistry, Geology & Geophysics Department, University of California, Berkely	"New perspectives on the generation of petroleum in the Earth"