Dana Club presents...


Geosciences Colloquium Series
Spring 2005

Wednesdays, 4-5 pm Kline Geology Laboratory Rm 123

 

Date

Speaker

Title

Affiliation

 

 

 

 

January 12

C. Page Chamberlain

Topographic History of Cenozoic Mountain Belts

Stanford University

January 19

Dan Rothman

Decoding the Geochemical Record of Biological and Environmental Coevolution

M.I.T.

January 26

Shun Karato

Where on Earth is the Ocean?

Yale University

Wildt Lecture

February 2

Andrew Davis

Stardust in the laboratory: Tiny witnesses to stellar nucleosynthesis

University of Chicago

February 9

Ben Weiss

Martian magnetism, climate, and life: The meteorite record

M.I.T.

Flint Lecture Series*

February 14-16

Richard Alley

Flint Lecture 1 ( Feb. 14)  "See saws and sea ice: An update on abrupt climate change" (2-3:30 pm, KGL102)

Flint Lecture 2 (Feb. 15)  "How glaciers do what they do: Making sense of  glacial geomorphology" (2 pm , KGL102)

 

Flint Lecture 3 (Feb. 16) "Fraying at the Edges: Ice-sheet Collapse and Sea Level Rise" (4-5 pm, KGL123)

Pennsylvania State University

February 23

Herbert Huppert

Explosive Volcanic Eruptions

Cambridge University

March 2

Rob van der Hilst

Multi-scale exploration of Earth's deep interior with seismic tomography and inverse scattering

M.I.T.

March 23

Henry Dick

A New Ultraslow Class of Ocean Ridge

Woods Hole Oceanograhic Institute

March30

Richard Cloutier

Developmental modularity and saltatory ontogeny in fossil fishes

Université du Québec à Rimouski

April 6

David Grimaldi

Cretaceous radiations of insects and implications for global terrestrial ecology

American Museum of Natural History

April 13

Richard D. Pancost

Membrane Lipids Preserved in Sedimentary Materials: How well are they preserved and what can they tell us

University of Bristol

April 20

Richard Ernst

The Global LIP Atlas Project.

Geological Survey of Canada

*Please note times and dates for Flint Lecture series.

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

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

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