Dana Club presents...

Department of Geology & Geophysics Colloquium
Spring 2006

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

Date Speaker Title Affiliation
January 11 Josh Roering At what scale do landscapes approximate steady state? Deciphering the pattern of erosional efflux in the Oregon Coast Range University of Oregon
January 18 Peter Wilf Ancient South American Biodiversity: Discoveries from Early Cenozoic Patagonia Pennsylvania State University
January 25 Michael Wysession Imaging the mantle with seismic velocities and attenuation: Distinguishing hot spots from wet spots Washington University, St. Louis
February 1 Slava Solomatov Fluid dynamics of magma oceans and primordial mantle differentiation Washington University, St. Louis
February 8 Peter Kelemen A viscous shear heating mechanism for intermediate depth earthquakes Columbia University
February 15 Tom Warner Challenges in arid-land meteorology (abstract) University of Colorado
February 22 John Bush Walking on water MIT
March 1 John Parkes Deep sub-seafloor floor sediments: the largest prokaryotic habitat on Earth? University of Cardiff, UK
March 22 Kevin Peterson Molecular paleobiological insights into the Cambrian explosion and the evolution of animal phyla Dartmouth College
March 29 Mark Cane Drought in North America: The Solar-ENSO connection (abstract) Columbia University
April 5 Jim Marshall Rediscovery of the Elements: Finding the elements in their original discovery sites University of North Texas
April 12 David Kohlstedt Shearing melt out of the mantle: The relation among mantle flow, melt migration, and seismic anisotropy University of Minnesota
April 19   no colloquium due to conflict with the YIBS talk "What Darwin Saw" by Niles Eldridge  

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

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

Madalyn Blondes, Tim Raub, Dan Peppe, Krister Smith, Ondrej Sramek, Erik Thomson, Brett Tipple, Prof. Jun Korenaga

Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University

Last edited: Mar 16, 2006, 10:52 am