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Date |
Speaker |
Subject |
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February 5th |
Dr. David Finkelstein, University of Tennessee |
Microbial biosynthesis of wax esters during desiccation: An adaptation for colonization of the earliest terrestrial environments? |
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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? |
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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 |
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March 5th |
Dr. Mark Pagani, Yale University |
Global Climate and Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide for the Past 65 Million Years |
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March 12th |
Spring Break |
No Lecture |
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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?
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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 |
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April 9th |
No Seminar |
No Seminar |
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April 17th |
Student Symposium
Dr. Posamantier (Chevron),
Dr. Barbeau (Univ South Carolina),
Dr. Wilf (Penn State) |
TBA |
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Dr. Holli Frey, Union College |
The influence of water on
plagioclase and pyroxene
compositions in intermediate lavas |
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All talks will be in 113 Heroy Geology Laboratory at 4 pm unless otherwise indicated |