Syracuse UniversityThe College of Arts and Sciences
Syracuse University Department of Earth Sciences

~ K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series ~
~ Fall 2009 ~
Date
Speaker
Subject
September 10
Dr. Peter Molnar, University of Colorado - Boulder The Growth and Movement of Islands in Indonesia, El Nino, and the Ice Age
September 17

Dr. Steve Peters, Lehigh University

Mercury emission from the landscape to the atmosphere: Travels of a geologist through the fields of organic photochemistry and biology
September 24

Dr. Gene Hunt, Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Natural History

Evolutionary Patterns in Fossil Lineages
October 1
Dr. Matthew Lachniet -University of Nevada - Las Vegas From the Tropics to the Tundra: Late Quaternary moisture export across Central America and to Greenland:...
October 8
Dr. Dan Curewitz, Syracuse University The effects of axial obliquity and dike intrusion on fault populations at mid-ocean ridge spreading centers
October 15
Student presentations in advance of GSA TBA
October 22

No Seminar - GSA meeting

TBA
October 29
Dr. Carlos Dengo, Exxon Mobil Global Energy Challenge; Creating New Opportunities Through Geoscience Innovation

November 5

Dr Greg Hoke, Syracuse University

Paleoaltimerty in the southern Central Andes

November 12
Dr. Fred D. Day-Lewis, USGS
Geophysical Monitoring of Natural and Engineered Hydrologic Processes
November 19
Dr. D. Kirk Nordstrom, USGS Yellowstone's contaminated waters -- transport of As, F, H2S, and Hg from thermal waters to rivers and the air
December 3
Dr. Abhijit Basu, Indiana University The Purana Basins of India: Their chronology, sedimentary history, and tectonic significance
December 10
Dr. David Keiber, SUNY-ESF Production and Solar Processing of Marine Aerosols: Implications for Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate and Oceanic Feedbacks
All talks will be in 113 Heroy Geology Laboratory at 4 pm unless otherwise indicated