Events
April 2009
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Meridional Energy Transport in the Atmosphere-Ocean System
Geoff Vallis,
senior scientist and professor,
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory,
Princeton University,
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
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Geology Club Seminar
Early Mars: Crustal Composition and Processes
John Mustard,
professor of geological sciences,
Brown University,
Monday, April 6th, 2009
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Chasing Streams: How One Decade of Scientific Discoveries Redefined Hydrology and Biology of Glaciated Continents
Slawek Tulaczyk,
professor of Earth and planetary sciences,
UC Santa Cruz,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
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Geology Club Seminar
Elucidating the Physiological Role and Biosynthesis of Hopanoids in an Anoxygenic Phototroph
Paula Welander,
postdoctoral fellow in biology,
MIT,
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Subglacial Hydraulics: Process Modeling and Implications for Ice Dynamics
Gwenn Flowers,
assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Glaciology,
Earth Sciences,
Simon Fraser University,
Monday, April 13th, 2009
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Unifying Themes of Exploring Planets Near and Far
Yuk Yung,
professor of planetary science,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
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Planetary Science Seminar
NASA Desert RATS: Preparing for Our Return to The Moon
James Rice,
Arizona State University,
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Composition and Chemical Aging in Atmospheric Secondary Organic Aerosols
Sergey Nizkorodov,
professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
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Geology Club Seminar
Partial Melting, Metamorphism, and Deformation in a Collapsed Orogenic Plateau
Stacia Gordon,
postdoctoral scholar in Earth sciences,
UC Santa Barbara,
Monday, April 20th, 2009
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Mechanisms and Timescales of Rapid Ice Sheet Collapse
Ian Howat,
assistant professor of Earth sciences,
Byrd Polar Research Center,
Ohio State University,
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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Planetary Science Seminar
Exploring Mars in the Thermal Infrared
Steve Ruff,
faculty research associate,
Arizona State University,
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Patchy Mixing Matters
Jennifer MacKinnon,
assistant research faculty,
physical oceanography,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
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Geology Club Seminar
Influences of Geochemistry on Biological Metal Utilization: Perspectives from Protein and Proteome Evolution
Chris Dupont,
J. Craig Venter Institute,
Monday, April 27th, 2009
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Himalayan Mass Balance: A Bhutan Perspective
Nadine McQuarrie,
assistant professor of geosciences,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
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Planetary Science Seminar
Planet Formation in Transitional and Debris Disks
Eugene Chiang,
associate professor of astronomy and Earth and planetary science,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Understanding Ice Sheet Change: Towards Improved Prediction
Ginny Catania,
research associate professor in geophysics,
the University of Texas at Austin,
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
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Geology Club Seminar
Barefoot on Hot Ground: Environments of Human Evolution in East Africa Based on the Clumped Isotope in Carbonate (D47) Thermometer
Ben Passey,
Dreyfus Postdoctoral Scholar in Environmental Geochemistry,
Caltech,