Department of Geology & Geophysics Colloquium

Wednesdays 4-5 PM, Kline Geology Laboratory, Room 123

Spring 2008
DateSpeakerTitle
Jan. 16 Chelle Gentemann
Remote Sensing Systems		 Satellite sea surface temperatures (abstract)
Jan. 23 Kim Cobb
Georgia Institute of Technology		 Stalagmite records of western tropical Pacific hydrology since the Last Glacial Maximum
Jan. 30 Nick Butterfield
Cambridge University		 The Great Divide: Life on Earth before and after the Ediacaran (abstract)
Feb. 6 Frank Pazzaglia
Lehigh University		 Rivers, incision, erosion, and the geodynamics of the northern Apennines (abstract)
Feb. 13 Bernard Hallet
University of Washington		 Self-organized patterns in soils and rock breakdown in high mountains: products of ice growth in porous media (abstract)
Feb. 20 Jennifer Kay
NCAR/CGD		 The contribution of cloud and radiation anomalies to the 2007 Arctic sea ice loss (abstract)
Feb. 27 James Farquhar
University of Maryland		 New approaches to studying the sulfate reduction metabolism using sulfur and oxygen isotopes (abstract)
Mar. 5 Ulrich Christensen
Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research		 Modeling of planetary dynamos (abstract)
Mar. 26 Anna Wahlin
Oslo University		 Horizontal convection in water heated by infrared radiation and cooled by evaporation: Experimental results and scaling analysis
Apr. 2 Roger Bilham
University of Colorado, Boulder		 Great Himalayan earthquakes and the Tibetan Plateau (abstract)
Apr. 9 Bernard Degnan
University of Queensland		 Insights into the genesis of the pan-metazoan toolkit from the sponge genome (abstract)
Apr. 16 Jason Phipps Morgan
Cornell University		 More evidence that a plume-fed asthenosphere underlies all but thick cratonic lithosphere (abstract)
Apr. 23 Christopher Beaumont
Dalhousie University		 The Himalayan-Tibetan system: Models of long-term lithosphere-mantle interactions and the short-term tectonic response to variable denudation (abstract)

Past colloquia

Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004

Contact

Please address inquiries to the colloquium committee (Email: colloquium [at] earth.geology.yale.edu).
Faysal Bibi, Peter Douglas, Devin McPhillips, Kazuhiko Otsuka, Daniel Peppe, Melissa Spannuth, Erik Sperling, Bryan Woods, Prof. Mark Pagani