Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2009

 

All talks are held in the Benson Earth Sciences Auditorium (180)
every Wednesday at 4:00 pm unless otherwise noted.
**Refreshments are served at 3:30 on the 3rd floor**

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
9/2 Alexis Templeton University of Colorado - Boulder Deciphering microbial communities in submarine volcanoes: do bacteria live in the rocks, on the rocks or make the rocks?
9/9 Jaelyn Eberle University of Colorado - Boulder Mammalian paleontology and paleoecology in an early Eocene, High Arctic swamp forest
9/16 Whitney Hagadorn Amherst College First Animals on Land: Who, What, Where, Why, When and How?
9/23 Kate Huntington University of Washington Constraints on Late Tertiary climate and elevation of the Colorado Plateau from clumped isotope thermometry
9/30 Tom Marchitto University of Colorado - Boulder ENSO-like response of the tropical Pacific Ocean to solar forcing during the Holocene
10/7 Nigel Kelly Colorado School of Mines Insights into deep crustal processes seen through the behavior of accessory minerals in melts
10/14 Cindy Shellito University of Northern Colorado Unraveling the Mysteries of Hot-House Climate - Using climate models and data to understand global warming in Earth's past
10/21

GSA - No talk

10/28 Joe Galewsky University of New Mexico Orographic precipitation isotopic ratios in stratified atmospheric flows: Implications for paleoelevation studies
11/4

Derek Schutt

Colorado State University The effects of composition and temperature on the seismic velocity, density, and stability of cratonic mantle
11/11

Matt Fouch

Arizona State University Hotsheets and Cool Drips: New Views of Western United States Crust and Mantle Dynamics
11/18

Steve Martel

University of Hawaii Formation of Sheeting Joints: A New View
11/25

Thanksgiving

12/2 Cin-Ty Lee Rice University What can basalts tell us about the temperature and composition of the mantle with implications for tectonics
12/9 Valier Galy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutions Export and Burial of Organic Carbon in the Himalayan System: a new look at the long and short term C cycles

Questions, comments or suggestions for future speakers may be directed to:
Chuck Stern