Department of Geology & Geophysics Colloquium

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

Fall 2008
DateSpeakerTitle
Sep. 3 Matt Pritchard
Cornell University
"Imaging sub-centimeter ground deformation on the continental scale from space: Earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciers, and mountains" (abstract)
Sep. 8-11 David Battisti
University of Washington
Flint lecture 1 Sept. 8 2-3:30 102 KGL "Climate and Landscapes"
Flint lecture 2 Sept. 10 4-5:30 123 KGL "El Nino/Southern Oscillation: past present and future"
Flint lecture 3 Sept. 11 2-3:30 102 KGL "A new hypothesis for Dansgaard Oeschger Events"
Sep. 17 Matthew Pasek
University of Arizona
"Phosphorus redox biogeochemistry: perspectives from early and modern life" (abstract)
Sep. 24 Linda Hinnov
Johns Hopkins University
"Assembling the Astronomical Time Scale for Earth History" (abstract)
Oct. 1 Robert S. Anderson
University of Colorado Boulder
"Glacial landscapes: of stepped valleys, fjords and Yosemite's polished walls" (abstract)
Oct. 8 Cancelled
Oct. 15 Joan Alexander
NorthWest Research Associates
"Atmospheric Gravity Waves and Equatorial Waves" (abstract)
Oct. 22 Bradley R. Hacker
University of California, Santa Barbara
(abstract)
Oct. 29 Bruce Runnegar
University of California, Los Angeles
(abstract)
Nov. 5 Diana Valencia
Harvard University
"Super-Earths: a missing link" (abstract)
Nov. 12 Matthew T. Hurtgen
Northwestern University
"Neoproterozoic and Cambrian Sulfur Isotopes and the Rise (and Fall) of Oxygen" (abstract)
Nov. 19 Harold Brooks
National Severe Storms Laboratory
"Severe Thunderstorms and Climate Change" (abstract)
Dec. 3 Mark Webster
University of Chicago
(abstract)

Past colloquia

Spring 2008, 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).
Peter Douglas, Thomas Hegna, Keith Laskowski, Devin McPhillips, Kazuhiko Otsuka, Melissa Spannuth, Erik Sperling, Bryan Woods, Prof. Mark Pagani