Events
January 2010
Monday, January 4th, 2010
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Volcanoes to Plutons; New Methods for Interpreting High-Precision U-Pb geochronology
Blair Schoene,
assistant professor of geosciences,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
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Planetary Science Seminar
Formation of Jets and Equatorial Superrotation on Giant Planets
Junjun Liu,
researcher in planetary sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
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Geology Club Seminar
Comparison of Long Paleoseismic Records of Earthquakes on the San Jacinto and San Andreas Faults versus the North Anatolian Fault: A View into Complex Versus Simple Fault Systems
Tom Rockwell,
professor of geological sciences,
San Diego State University,
Friday, January 8th, 2010
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Simulated Deformations of Seattle High-Rise Buildings from a Hypothetical Giant Cascadian Earthquake
Tom Heaton,
professor of engineering seismology,
Caltech,
Monday, January 11th, 2010
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Climate and Landscapes
David Battisti,
professor of atmospheric sciences,
University of Washington,
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
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Planetary Science Seminar
Opportunity and HiRISE Observations of Craters, Ripples and Rocks at Meridiani Planum: Constraints on Ripple Migration and Accumulation of Meteorites
Matthew Golombek,
JPL,
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Insights from a Coastal Ocean Time Series—Biogenic and Lithogenic Sedimentation
Will Berelson,
professor of Earth science,
USC,
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Global Seismic Sensitivity: A full-wave Technique for Forward and Inverse Modeling
Tarje Nissen-Meyer,
postdoctoral research associate in geosciences,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
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Planetary Science Seminar
Small But Significant: Irregular Satellites and Main Belt Comets
David Jewitt,
professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
and Institute for Geophysics and Space Physics,
UCLA,
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Fire Contributions to Contemporary Changes in the Global Carbon Cycle and Climate System
James Randerson,
professor, Earth system science,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Location to be announced
TNOs on HST, Lessons from the Archive
César Fuentes,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Geology Club Seminar
Visualizing and Animating the Earth: Plate Tectonics, Ice Ages, and Other Geo-tales
Tanya Atwater,
professor of Earth science, emeritus,
UC Santa Barbara,
Monday, January 25th, 2010
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
From Hot Jupiters to Super-Earths: A Survey of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Heather Knutson,
research fellow in astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
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Planetary Science Seminar
Interior Structure, Evolution and Mountains of Titan
Giuseppe Mitri,
senior postdoctoral scholar in planetary science,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Why Is Monsoon Onset Rapid?
Simona Bordoni,
assistant professor of environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
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Geology Club Seminar
New Perspectives on Subduction Zone Fluids
Craig Manning,
professor of geology and geochemistry,
UCLA,
Friday, January 29th, 2010
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Spontaneous Tectonic Tremor Associated With The San Jacinto Fault, Southern California: Activity Pattern And Source Region
Gregor Hillers,
postdoctoral scholar in geophysics,
Caltech,