Events
May 2008
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
3:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Laboratory and Modeling Studies of Plutonium Subsurface Transport
Brian Powell,
postdoctoral fellow in chemical sciences,
Clemson University,
Monday, May 5th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Geobiochemical Evolution of the Metallaproteome: Physiological Proxies and Biochemical Inertia
Felisa Wolfe-Simon,
postdoctoral research fellow,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
3:30pm
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4:45pm
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Insights into the Oceanic N-cycle
Marcel Kuypers,
scientist,
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology,
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Rainfall and Erosion in the Himalaya—Processes, Timescales, and Rates
Bodo Bookhagen,
assistant professor,
Institute for Computational Earth System Science,
UC Santa Barbara,
Monday, May 12th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip: Insights from Fault Models Governed by Lab-derived Friction Laws
Nadia Lapusta,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering and geophysics,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
CO Self-Shielding in the Solar Nebula and Parent Molecular Cloud and SO2 Self-Shielding as the Source of Sulfur Mass-Independent Fractionation in Arcehan Rocks
James Lyons,
assistant research geochemist,
UCLA,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Known and Unexplored Organic Constituents in the Earth's Atmosphere
Allen Goldstein,
professor of biogeochemistry,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Verifying What Everybody Knows: New Insight into Macroevolutionary Trends
Emily Greenfest-Allen,
graduate student in computational paleobiology,
Bryn Mawr College,
Monday, May 19th, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
An Ice Age Megaflood and the 8200 BP Cold Event
Garry K. C. Clarke,
professor of geophysics, emeritus,
University of British Columbia,
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Some Coolness Concerning (Martian) Global Warming and Reflections on the Role of Surface Dust
Mark Richardson,
associate professor of planetary science,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The "*" in IPCC Predictions of Ice Sheet Contributions to Sea-Level Change
Ian Joughin,
applied physics laboratory, Polar Science Center,
University of Washington,
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Molecular Signatures of Life at the Lost City Hydrothermal Field
Alex Bradley,
graduate student in earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences,
MIT,
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Scaling Transitions in Rotating Convection
Jonathan Aurnou,
assistant professor of planetology and geophysics,
UCLA,
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Studies of Organic Aerosol Sources and Evolution with Aerosol Mass Spectrometry
Jose-Luis Jimenez,
assistant professor of chemistry and fellow,
the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES),
University of Colorado,
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
4:00pm
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