Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies
Fall 2006 Seminar Series

Unless otherwise marked,
All seminars are Fridays 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Science 1, Room 162.
Please note!
Fall 2006 seminars will begin at 3:00 p.m. not 3:30...


September 8

Dr. Mark Altabet, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
"High latitude climate forcing of low latitude marine nitrogen biogeochemistry across the last glacial cycle"
September 15
 Dr. Jennifer Biddle, Pennsylvania State University
"Uncultivated Archaea of the marine subsurface"
September 29
Tim Lowenstein, Binghamton University
"Elevated Eocene Atmospheric CO2 and its Subsequent Decline"
October 6

David Katz, Binghamton University
"Microclimate Change: Reforestation in Costa Rica"
October 13
 Roger Summons , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Molecular evidence for radical changes in ocean chemistry, globally, across the Permian Triassic boundary" 

October 20

CANCELLED Liviu Giosan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"Flooding of Indus delta during an early Holocene cold climate interval"
October 27 Steven Petsch, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"A geomicrobiological view of global-scale carbon cycling" 
November 3 Russ Vreeland, West Chester University
"Ancient microbes and what they tell us about evolution and the past" 
November 10

Eugene Domack, Hamilton College
"Climate induced disintegration of the Larsen Ice Shelf: How one thing leads to another"
November 17 Yongsong Huang, Brown University
To be announced
December 1 Hope Jahren, Johns Hopkins University
"Geobiology of the Arctic Eocene (~45 Ma)"

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