Events
April 2006
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Taylor Glacier, Antarctica
Kurt Cuffey,
professor of geography,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Coming Out of the Dark: Using Genomics to Shed Light on the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis
Amy Schaefer,
research scientist,
department of microbiology,
University of Washington,
Monday, April 10th, 2006
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Stardust Mission —Analyzing Samples from the Edge of the Solar System
Don Brownlee,
professor of astronomy,
University of Washington,
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Land Use and Climate Change
Professor Eugenia Kalnay,
department of meteorology,
University of Maryland, College Park,
Thursday, April 13th, 2006
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Exploration of Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Perspective from Short-Lived Radionuclides
Meenakshi Wadhwa,
curator of meteorites,
department of geology,
the Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois,
Monday, April 17th, 2006
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Evidence from Ophiolites, Blueschists, and Ultra-High Pressure Metamorphic Terranes that the Modern Episode of Plate Tectonics began in Neoproterozoic Time (1000–544 Ma)
Robert Stern,
professor of geosciences,
University of Texas, Dallas,
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Flow through Aquatic Vegetation
Heidi Nepf,
associate professor of civil and environmental engineering,
MIT,
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Rheologic Controls on the Shape and Evolution of Subducted Lithosphere in the Upper Mantle
Magali Billen,
assistant professor of geophysics,
UC Davis,
Monday, April 24th, 2006
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Evolutionary Transition from Anoxygenic to Oxygenic Photosynthesis
Robert E. Blankenship,
professor and chair,
department of chemistry and biochemistry,
Arizona State University,
Thursday, April 27th, 2006
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Lu-Hf Phosphorite and Apatite Geochronology: Constraints on Snowball Earth and Precambrian Tectonics
Gry Barfod,
associate research geologist,
UC Davis,