Date

January 31

Mark A. Person

Indiana University 

Pleistocene Hydrology of the Atlantic Continental Shelf:
The Role of Ice Sheets, Sea Level Low Stands, and Submarine Canyons

February 7

John Grotzinger

California Institute of Technology

Holmes Lecture

Mars Science Laboratory 2009: The Search for Water and Biosignatures on Mars

February 14

Sara Pruss

Smith College

New Insights from Cambro-Ordovician Carbonates of Western Newfoundland

February 21

Frank Spear

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

The Secret Life of Quartz

February 28

Martin A. Perlmutter

Chevron

High Frequency Paleoclimate Analysis: The Impact on Climate Research and Exploration Strategy

March 4

** Tuesday, 4pm
*Marshall Auditorium, Marshall Hall on the ESF Campus*

Robin E. Bell

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Subglacial Lakes Linked to Ice Dynamics

March 13

No lecture

March 20

No lecture 

March 27

No lecture

April 10

Yemane Asmerom

University of New Mexico

Holocene Climate Variability and Implication for Global Warming

April 17

David S. Strait

SUNY Albany

Something to Chew On: Integrative Analysis of Hominid Feeding Biomechanics

April 24

James M. Russell

Brown University

Late Holocene Climate Change and Glaciation in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda/Congo

April 25 

Scott Miller

Syracuse University

Beyond Rock Uplift:
Landscape Evolution Models and Quantitative Geomorphology of Convergent Orogens

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