Events
January 2008
Monday, January 7th, 2008
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Active Megadetachment Beneath the Western United States
Brian P. Wernicke,
Chandler Family Professor of Geology,
Caltech,
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
3:45pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
A Billion Butterflies and Weather on Mars: How Local Texture Can Determine Climate in a Radiative Environment
Michael Hecht,
project manager and co-investigator,
Mars Environmental Compatibility Assessment (MECA),
JPL,
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Biogeochemical Cycling of Iron Minerals and Humic Substances-Consequences for Pollutant Transformation and Degradation
Andreas Kappler,
assitant professor of geomicrobiology,
Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen,
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Booming Sand Dunes: Field and Laboratory Experiments
Melany Hunt,
vice provost, and professor and executive officer in mechanical engineering,
Caltech,
Monday, January 14th, 2008
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
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Research and Technology Trends Affecting the Availability of Safe, Sustainable Water Supplies
Jim Larkin,
president,
Scientific Methods, Inc.,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
New Insights from Molecular and In Situ Studies of the Role of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Environmental Metal Transformations
John Moreau,
National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate,
US Geological Survey,
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
3:45pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Kuiper Belt Size Distribution: Constraints on Accretion
Wes Fraser,
graduate student in physics,
University of Victoria,
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Elucidating Chemical Mechanisms of Aerosol Formation through Studies of the Oxidation of Simple Hydrocarbons
Paul J. Ziemann,
professor of atmospheric chemistry,
UC Riverside,
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Climate, Water Cycle, and CO2: A Geological Perspective
Jan Veizer,
professor of geology,
University of Ottawa,
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
3:45pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Recent Results in Gas Giant Meteorology from Cassini and New Horizons
Kevin Baines,
principal scientist,
JPL,
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Gyoxal as a New Tracer of Photochemical Oxidation of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds
Frank N. Keutsch,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin—Madison,
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Evolution of the Colorado River: Culmination of a Major Cenozoic Transformation of Southwest North American Drainage Patterns
Marty Grove,
ion microprobe facility manager,
UCLA,
Monday, January 28th, 2008
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Planetary Science with a Handful of Atoms
Burkhard Militzer,
assistant professor in earth and planetary science,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
3:45pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Transits of Exoplanets
Josh Winn,
assistant professor of physics,
MIT,
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—CANCELLED
Benjamin Van Mooy,
assistant scientist,
marine chemistry and geochemistry,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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Geology Club Seminar
Central Altiplano Paleoclimate during the Last Deglaciation Constrained by Cosmogenic 3He Dating, Numerical Modeling and 'Clumped-Isotope' Paleothermometry
Pierre-Henri Blard,
postdoctoral scholar in geology,
Caltech,