Events
May 2010
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Do Bedrock Rivers Record Climate Change?
Noah Finnegan,
assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences,
UC Santa Cruz,
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
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Planetary Science Seminar
Secular Instability: Producing Hot Jupiters and Organizing Planetary Systems
Yanqin Wu,
assistant professor of theoretical astrophysics,
University of Toronto,
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Connecting Marine Trace Metal Biogeochemical Cycles with Their Corresponding Metalloenzymes in Phytoplankton
Mak Saito,
Associate Scientist,
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
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Geology Club Seminar
Quaternary Shortening Rates across the Main Frontal Thrust Zone, Eastern Himalaya
Paul Burgess,
graduate student in Earth and space sciences,
UCLA,
Friday, May 7th, 2010
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Thermal Conductivity of MgSiO3 Perovskite and Heat Flow in the Earth's Mantle
Abby Kavner,
associate professor of Earth and space materials,
UCLA,
Monday, May 10th, 2010
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Radiation Damage in Minerals
Ekhard Salje,
professor of mineralogy and petrology,
University of Cambridge,
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
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Planetary Science Seminar
What's New on Venus? Implications for Climate and Interior
Sue Smrekar,
planetary scientist,
JPL,
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Resolving the Discrepancy between Laboratory and Field-based Reaction Rates: Insights from Isotopes and Reactive Transport Models
Kate Maher,
assistant professor of environmental isotope geochemistry,
Stanford University,
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
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Geology Club Seminar
Microbial Mat-Environment Interactions in Lake Joyce, Antarctica, and Implications for Archean Microbialites
Dawn Sumner,
professor of geology,
UC Davis,
Friday, May 14th, 2010
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Scaling of Earthquake Rupture Growth in Parkfield Area
Takahiko Uchide,
postdoctoral researcher,
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics,
UC San Diego,
Monday, May 17th, 2010
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
High Pressure Nanoprobes for Studying Earth and Planetary Interiors
Wendy Mao,
assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Golden Age of Exoplanet Spin-Orbit Measurements
John Johnson,
assistant professor of astronomy,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Wetting and Drying Effects on Soil Microbial Communities in a California Grassland Ecosystem
Patricia Holden,
professor of environmental microbiology,
UCSB,
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
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Geology Club Seminar
Apatite: Great mineral? Or the greatest mineral?
Jeremy Boyce,
visitor in geochemistry,
Caltech,
Friday, May 21st, 2010
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Rock Damage, Earthquakes and Faults
Yehuda Ben-Zion,
professor of geophysics,
USC,
Monday, May 24th, 2010
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James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lectureship in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Using the Paleorecord to Say Something about Future Water Budgets in the American West
Wallace S. Broecker,
professor of geology,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University **Kliegel Lecture**,
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Genetic Adaptation to Nutrient Stress in Marine Unicellular Cyanobacteria
Adam Martiny,
assistant professor of Earth system science,
UC Irvine,
8:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture
Titan: A Strange Yet Familiar New World
Oded Ahronson,
associate professor of planetary science,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
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Geology Club Seminar
Oxygen isotope compositions of mineral separates from SNC meteorites: Constraints on SNC parental magmas (M. Channon); The temperature and pressure dependence of Ni partitioning between olivine and silicate melt (A. Matzen)
Andrew Matzen,
graduate student in geological and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
Melanie Channon,
graduate student in geological and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
New Insights into Dynamics of Martians Mass Wasting Processes
Antoine Lucas,
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris,
Friday, May 28th, 2010
3:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Evolution of Anthropogenic Lead during the Past 250 Years
Edward A. Boyle,
professor of ocean geochemistry,
MIT,