Events
January 2011
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Mars Science Laboratory: One Year Before Launch
John Grotzinger,
Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
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Geology Club Seminar
Shedding Light on the Deep Subsurface Biosphere: Deep UV Fluorescence for the In Situ Detection of Microbes on Opaque Surfaces
Everett Salas,
postdoctoral scholar,
JPL,
Monday, January 10th, 2011
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Climate and Societies
Gerald Haug,
professor of climate geology,
Department of Climate Geology,
ETH Zurich,
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Francis Nimmo,
associate professor of Earth and planetary sciences,
UC Santa Cruz,
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Energetics and Potential Implications of Iceberg Calving
Jason Amundson,
postdoctoral scholar in geophysical sciences,
the University of Chicago,
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
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Geology Club Seminar
Coevolution of Earth Systems: Insights from Quantitative Analyses of the Rock Record
Shanan Peters,
assistant professor of geoscience,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Monday, January 17th, 2011
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Timothy Morton,
graduate student in astronomy,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
12:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The Remarkable Story of the Australian Plate: Climate and Geodynamics of the Continental Interior and Northern Plate Boundary in Timor Leste
Mark Quigley,
lecturer in geological sciences,
University of Canterbury,
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Using Triple O Isotopes and O2/Ar Ratios for Estimating Primary Production under Non-steady Conditions in Marginal Ice Blooms in the Bering Sea
Masha Prokopenko,
assistant research professor of Earth science,
USC,
Monday, January 24th, 2011
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GPS Lunch Seminar
Climate Change and Energy Solutions
Frank H. Shu,
professor of physics and astronomy, emeritus,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Of Ice-Water Interactions in Arctic and Alpine Landscapes: Rapid Arctic Coastline Erosion and the Sliding of Glaciers
Robert S. Anderson,
professor of geological sciences and Fellow INSTAAR,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Topic to be announced.
Jonathan Lunine,
professor,
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory,
University of Arizona,
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Field-Scale Bioremediation of a Uranium-Impacted Aquifer under Natural and Artificially Stimulated Conditions
Kate Campbell,
research biogeochemist,
Water Resources,
U. S. Geological Survey, Boulder, Colorado,
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
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Geology Club Seminar
Burial and Erosional Stripping of the Southern Sierra Nevada by the Eastern San Joaquin Basin in Relation to Mantle Lithosphere Removal
Zorka Saleeby,
geologist,
Tectonics Observatory,
Caltech,
Monday, January 31st, 2011
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Mineralogic Record of Aqueous Environments on Early Mars
Bethanny L. Ehlmann,
Marie Curie Incoming International Fellow,
Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, France,