Department of Earth Sciences

~ K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series ~

Fall 2005

 

Date
Speaker
Subject
September 8

Constanze Weyhenmeyer

Syracuse University
Glacial-Interglacial Climate Change: A 'Story' from Groundwater Records and Cave Deposits in the Arabian Peninsula
September 15

Michael Studinger

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Subglacial Lake Vostok , Antarctica: Linking Ice Sheet Dynamics, Tectonics, and Biology with Aerogeophysical Methods
September 22

Michael L. Williams

University of Massachusetts

Monazite, Pseudosections, and the Nature of the Deep Crust: New Tools and New Interpretations from East Athabasca, Canada

September 29

Terry Plank

Boston University
Wet Melting at Subduction Zones
October 06

P. Jonathan Patchett

University of Arizona

U-Series Dating of Surficial Deposits - the Method, the Challenges, and the Rewards

Special Day:
Monday
October 10

Shanan Peters

University of Michigan

Geologic Constraints on the Macroevolutionary History of Marine Animals
October 13

Holiday - Yom Kippur
**
October 20
No Seminar – Week of Geological Society of America Meeting
**
October 27

Joel D. Blum

University of Michigan

The Nourishment of a Forest Ecosystem by Silicate Weathering

November 3

Pre-Holiday – Eid Ul-Fitr
(No classes on Friday)
**

Special Event:

Monday, November 7
7pm
Heroy Auditorium

Geoffrey O. Seltzer Memorial Lecture

Lonnie Thompson

Ohio State University

Abrupt Tropical Climate Changes:Past and Present
November 10

Alber C. Hine

University of South Florida
JOI/USSSP Distinguished Lecturer
Big Waves, Extreme Aridity, Strange Reefs, and Poisonous Gas All Seen in the Cool-Water Carbonate Sediments of the Great Australian Bight
November 17

Stephen Marshak

University of Illinois

Has the Style of Deformation in Mountain Belts Changed Since the Archean?: Insight from Field Studies in Eastern Brazil
November 24
Holiday – Thanksgiving
**
December 1

Department presentations in preparation for American Geophysical Union Meeting

 
December 8

No Seminar – Week of AGU Meeting

**
All talks will be in 113 Heroy Geology Laboratory at 4 pm unless otherwise indicated

 

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