Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies

Fall 2005 Seminar Series

Unless otherwise marked,
All seminars are Fridays 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Science 1, Room 162.


All photos are from past seminars
September 9

Dr. James Ebert, Department of Earth Sciences, SUNY - Oneonta
"Parting the Helderberg Sea: the Unintended Destruction of a Cherished Icon."
September 16
Dr. Richelle Allen-King, Department of Geology, University at Buffalo
"A Hydrogeochemist's Perspective on Organic Contaminant Transport in Groundwater."
September 30

POSTPONED...  Thomas D. Lorenson, USGS - Menlo Park
"Worldwide gas hydrate accumulations - how much and where."
October 7
Anurag Sharma, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Molecules to Microbes: a Window into Processes at Extreme."
October 14

Binghamton University
Juan Carlos Corona, Experimental Study of the Reaction:
Glaucophane + 2 Quartz = 2 Albite + Talc
Bridget McCollam, "Investigation of the stability boundary of Na-clinojimthompsonite,
a synthetic triple-chain silicate, to Na-Mg amphibole."
October 28
Ranier Lohmann, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
"Black carbon as a supersorbent?  The availability of organic pollutants."

November 4

CANCELLED...  Eric Kirby, Department of Geosciences, Penn State University

November 11 Kathy Benison, Central Michigan University
"Terrestrial battery acid and cranberry juice lakes: Clues about past environments and life on Mars?"
November 18 Gerta Keller, Princeton University
"Impacts and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction."
December 2

Ken Kodama, Lehigh University
"Tests to ensure the accuracy of the paleomagnetic inclination of sedimentary rocks."

December 9 CANCELLED...
Charles A. Ver Straeten, New York State Museum, The State Education Department
"Ash Bed Stratinomy: The fate of volcanic ash in depositional environments."

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