The Department of Geological Sciences hosts a lecture series throughout the Fall and Winter terms. Lectures are generally Friday afternoons. They are held in Room 1528 C. C. Little from 4:00 to 5:00 PM. A reception is held afterwards in room 2540 C. C. Little. The events are free and open to the public. The organizer for this year's lecture series is Ingrid Hendy. Contact Professor Ingrid Hendy by e-mail.
| Date | Speaker | Institution |
Title
|
Host |
| 7-Jan | Eugene W. Domack | Hamilton College | The Catastrophic Decay of Antarctic Ice Shelves: Global Warming or Natural Variability? | Ingrid Hendy |
| 14-Jan | Oliver Chadwick | UC Santa Barbara | Environmental Constraints on Polynesian Agriculture and Society in Hawaii | Joel Blum |
| 21-Jan | David Loope | University of Nebraska | Records of Seasonality and Climate Change in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone | Henry Pollack |
| 28-Jan | Jennifer McElwain | Field Museum, Chicago | Oceanic anoxic events, mass extinction and global climate change: new insights from fossil plant stomata | Robyn Burnham |
| 11-Feb | Susan Kidwell | Univ. Chicago | Does the Calcite Bias of the Fossil Record Matter? | Catherine Badgley |
| 18-Feb | Isabel Montanez (Dorr Lecture) | UC Davis | Fossil Soil Archives of Past Linkages Between Atmospheric pCO2 and Climate | Todd Ehlers |
| 4-Mar |
Trond Torsvik (Special Lecture) |
Norwegian Geological Survey | Plate Tectonics, Supercontinents, Large Igneous Provinces and the Deep Earth | Rob van der Voo |
| 11-Mar | Ye Zhang | Indiana University | Benzene migration in sedimentary basins | Lynn Walter |
| 18-Mar | Zach Sharp | Univ. New Mexico | The effect of Cl on subducting fluids and the global chlorine cycle | Eric Essene |
| 25-Mar | Rob Coe | UC Santa Cruz | Understanding Reversals: Is the next one Imminent? | Rob van der Voo |
| 1-Apr | Greg Hirth | WHOI | Lattice Preferred Orientations in Naturally Deformed Peridotites: A Link from the Lab to Mantle Dynamics | Peter van Keken |
| 8-Apr | Fabien Kenig | Univ. of Illinois, Chicago | Lipids in modern hydrothermal fluids and very ancient sediments: Indicators of biological processes in aging basaltic crust and the Archaean | Clara Castro/Phil Meyers |
| 15-Apr | Henry Pollack | Univ. of Michigan | The State of the Department: a 45 Year Perspective | Kacey Lohmann |
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