Dana Club presents...
Geosciences Colloquium Series

Fall 2004

Wednesdays, 4-5 pm Kline Geology Laboratory Rm 123

 

Date

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

 

 

 

 

September 8

Martin Kennedy

Mineral surface control of organic carbon burial:  Secular rise of clay mineral deposition in the Precambrian and the rise of oxygen

University of California, Riverside

September 15

Ethan Baxter

Transport and partitioning of noble gases in the crust: Implications
for geochronology

Boston University

September 22

Bruce Buffett

Sediments at the top of Earth's Core

University of Chicago

September 29

Paul Myrow

Gondwanan Assemblage: Views from Antarctica and the Himalayas: An integrated stratigraphic, paleontologic, and geochronologic approach

Colorado College

October 6

John Grotzinger

Aqueous sedimentary depositional environments at Meridiani Planum, Mars

M.I.T.

October 13

Ed Garnero

The connection between Earth's surface observations and the dynamic deep interior

Arizona State University

October 20

Isabel Montanez

Fossil soils as archives of the paleo - CO2 - climate link

U.C. Davis

October 27

Kerry Emanuel

An hypothesis for tropical climate stability and extratropical instability

M.I.T.

November 4*

Richard Fortey

The living Trilobite

Natural History Museum

November 17

Chris Poulsen

Precambrian climate stability: factors that inhibit Snowball Earth

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

December 1

Olivier Rieppel

Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Stem-Group Sauropterygians

Field Museum

 * Please note change of date to Thursday, November 4th.

Please address inquiries to the colloquium committee: colloquium@geology.yale.edu


Brian Andres ; Megan AndrewsJerome NeufeldTim RaubTheresa Raub ; Eben Rose ; Erik Thomson ; Prof. Jun Korenaga

 

Last edited: 5:00 pm Sept. 16, 2004