Spring 2007 Colloquium

Geological Sciences Colloquium Schedule: Spring 2008 All talks are held in the Benson Earth Sciences Conference Room (380) every Wednesday at 4:00 pm unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served at 3:30 on the 3rd floor
Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
1/16	Tanya Atwater	University of California at Santa Barbara	Western North American landscapes (animated): built by tectonic events; reshaped by ice age phenomena.
1/23	Andy Jacobsen	Northwestern University	Calcite dust and the atmospheric supply of Nd and Sr to seawater
1/30	Susan Kidwell	University of Chicago	Capture of ecological information by ordinary marine sediments
2/1 Friday	Peter Kelemen	Columbia University	Recipes for formation of continental crust via arc magmatism
2/6
2/13	Bruce Bills	NASA and Scripps Institute of Oceanography	Geodynamics of large lake basins: examples from Utah, Nevada, and Bolivia
2/20	Scott Wing	Smithsonian Institution	How plants responded to rapid global warming at the beginning of the Eocene
2/27	Hugh Sinclair	University of Edinburgh	What determined late Neogene accelerations in erosion across Europe?
2/29 Friday	Steve Hickman	USGS, Menlo Park	San Andreas Fault Drilling Project CIRES Auditorium 4 PM
3/5	Kevin Mahan	University of Colorado	Evolution of seismic crustal structure in orogens from metamorphic and deformation fabric studies
3/12	Tony Ekdale	University of Utah	Invertebrates In Vertebrates: The Sights and Sounds of Trace Fossils in Unusual Habitats
3/19	Erik Brown	University of Minnesota, Duluth	Tropical East African climate history from the Lake Malawi Drilling Project: Diatoms, D-O Events and Droughts
3/31 Monday	Hope Jahren	Johns Hopkins University	The Geobiology of the Arctic Eocene (~45 Ma)
4/2	Rich Briggs	USGS, Golden	Megathrust rupture anatomy from corals
4/9	Peter Huybers	Harvard University	Speculation on deglaciation, volcanic activity, and atmospheric CO2 during the late Pleistocene
4/16	Dan Rothman	MIT	Disordered Kinetics in Earth's Carbon Cycle
4/23	Sean Solomon	DTM Carnegie Institution of Washington	Exploring Mercury by spacecraft: Seeking clues to the formation and evolution of the inner planets
4/30	CANCELLED
Questions, comments or suggestions for future speakers may be directed to: Peter Molnar