September 6

Carmala N. Garzione

University of Rochester

The Rise of the Andes: Pulsed Surface Uplift of Orogenic Plateaus

September 13

Michal Kowalewski

Virginia Tech

The Phanerozoic Fossil Record of Marine Biodiversity

September 20

Tim K. Lowenstein

SUNY Binghamton

Tracking Changes in the Chemistry of Ancient Seawater

Ethan F. Baxter

Boston University

Excess Ar, Multi-path Diffusion, and Partitioning: The Untold Story of Noble Gas Thermochronology

Ethan F. Baxter

Boston University

How Fast, How Much, and For How Long: Teasing Time Out of Earth's Evolving Crust

Robert J. Stern

University of Texas at Dallas

Links Between Neoproterozoic Glaciations and Igneous Activity

Robert J. Stern

University of Texas at Dallas

When Did Modern-Style Plate Tectonics Begin?

Bridget R. Scanlon

University of Texas at Austin
Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer in Hydrogeology

  Impacts of Changing Land Use and Land Cover on Subsurface Water Resources

Taury B. Smith

New York State Museum

Structurally Controlled Hydrothermal Alteration of Carbonate Reservoirs: A Fundamental Process

S. Adam Soule

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Volcanic processes at the East Pacific Rise: Insight from the 2005-06 eruption

No lecture – Geological Society of America Annual Meeting

Kenneth G. Miller

Rutgers University

Phanerozoic Sea-level Changes: (I)ODP Constrains the Last 100 m.y

Amory Lovins

Chair and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
Geoffrey O. Seltzer Lecture

Profitable Solutions to Climate, Oil, and Proliferation Problems

No lecture - Thanksgiving

Suzanne M. Carbotte

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Rifting Induced by Magmatism at Seafloor Spreading Centers: Not all
Axial Valleys are Alike

Igor Villa

University of Bern, Institut fur Geologie

Disequilibrium tectures and Equilibrium Modelling: Geochronology at the Crossroads

Yildirim Dilek

Miami University at Ohio

Ophiolite Tectonics in Earth History