Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies
Fall 2009 Seminar Series

All seminars are Fridays 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Science 1, Room 162.
Unless otherwise marked.

 

September 4
 Jeff Barker, Organizes the presentation of "An Active Shooter on Campus"
Presented by University Police Officers Doug Parks and Alan Saxby.
September 11

Miriam Katz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
From phytoplankton to mammals: evolutionary trajectories linked via the carbon cycle.
September 18 Holiday
Rosh Hashana
October 2

John A. Ward, (Alumni Council) PetroEdge Energy LLC.  Houston, Texas
Marcellus Shale – What is it worth per acre?
October 9

Dana Royer, Wesleyan College
Declining atmospheric CO2 during the late Middle Eocene climate transition (~40 Ma).
October 23 Chris Duffy, Pennsylvania State University
The Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory for Embedded Sensing & Simulation
October 30 OPEN!
November 6 Kamini Singha, Pennsylvania State University
Peering into the black box: quantifying anomalous solute transport behavior in heterogeneous environments with geophysics.
November 13

Mathias Vuille, SUNY Albany
21stCentury climate change projections for the tropical Andes: Implications for future glaciation and water resources.
November 20 Naomi Levin, The Johns Hopkins University
Isotopic records of environmental change in Plio-Pleistocene East Africa.
December 4 Greg Hoke, Syracuse University
Combining paleoaltimetry and paleosurface to explore the geodynamics of the Altiplano Plateau
December 11 Joe Smoot, USGS, Reston
Sedimentary constraints on climate proxies and rates of climate change in Quaternary through Holocene non-varved lake records in the western U.S.A.

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