Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies

Spring 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
January 28

 Dan Brabander, Wellesley College
X-ray analysis of environmental materials: from the field portable to the synchrotron source.
February 11
 Kyger C. Lohman, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor - JOI Distinguished Speaker 2004-2005
Unraveling the archive of climate change from the marine record: integration of isotopic and elemental proxies in molluscan carbonates.
February 18

Jim Best, University of Leeds
The geomorphology and sedimentology of a big braided river: flow, form and channel management in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh.
*Special Friday Noon Seminar*
The fluid dynamics of natural, sediment-laden density currents, Lillooet Lake, British Columbia, Canada: implications for sediment dispersal and delta morphology.

February 25

David Salzberg, SAIC Ocean Sciences Division
The Dec. 26 2004 earthquake and tsunami: observations and analysis using hydroacoustic data.
March 4

 William Peck, Colgate University
Oxygen isotopes of zircon.
March 11

John Field, Field Geology Services, Farmington, ME
What is (and what isn't) stream restoration?
April 1
Don Siegel, Syracuse University
The origin of the Saratoga Springs: health, history and maybe some horses.

April 8

Robyn Hannigan, Arkansas State University
It’s the little things that “organic” matter.
April 15 Sergio Gelcich, University of Toronto
Lots of new ages of early Andean rocks; obtaining birth certificates for subduction related magmatism, batholith construction, and Kiruna type/IOCG mineralization in the coastal cordillera of northern Chile.
April 22 Kirsten Menking, Vassar College
The last 25,000 years in Estancia Basin, New Mexico: evidence for a cold, wet LGM and for enhanced La Niñas in the middle Holocene.
April 29

Available!

Postponed until Fall 2005 - Tom Lorenson, USGS
Worldwide gas hydrate accumulations - how much and where.
May 6 Available!

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