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

~ K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series ~
~ Spring 2009 ~
Date
Speaker
Subject
February 5th
Dr. David Finkelstein, University of Tennessee Microbial biosynthesis of wax esters during desiccation: An adaptation for colonization of the earliest terrestrial environments?
February 12th

Dr. Donald Prothero, Occidental College

Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters
February 18th

Dr. Chunmiao Zheng, University of Alabama

GSA Hydrogeology Division, Birdsall-Dreiss Lecture

Will China Run Out of Water?
February 26th
Dr. Scott Samson - SU, Dept of Earth Sciences It’s about time! or….. Do you tell the truth about your age? When sediments lie…. A tale told in three acts
March 5th
Dr. Mark Pagani, Yale University Global Climate and Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide for the Past 65 Million Years
March 12th
Spring Break No Lecture
March 19th

Dr. William F. Ruddiman, University of Virginia

Holmes Lecture

Early Farming prevented the Onset of a New Glaciation (A Small one)
March 26th
Dr. Jason Wiles, Syracuse University Department of Biology Changing minds: How geological and biological evidence, and other important factors, influence acceptance of evolution among doubters and creationist students

April 1st - Wed

10.35 am Heroy 311

Dr Andrew Gleadow,
University of Melbourne

Low-temperature thermochronology – how did we get here, and where do we go now?

 

April 1st - Wed
John R. Delaney, School of Oceanography,
University of Washington, Seattle,
Transforming Earth & Ocean Sciences with Submarine Sensor Networks
Hard-Wired to the Internet
April 3rd - Fri
Dr. Sandra Barr, Acadia University The northern Appalachians: a new look at an old orogen
April 9th
No Seminar No Seminar
April 17th

Student Symposium

Dr. Posamantier (Chevron),
Dr. Barbeau (Univ South Carolina),
Dr. Wilf (Penn State)
TBA
April 23rd

 

Dr. Holli Frey, Union College The influence of water on plagioclase and pyroxene compositions in intermediate lavas
All talks will be in 113 Heroy Geology Laboratory at 4 pm unless otherwise indicated