Earth Science Colloquium at the LDEO
Fridays, 3:30 pm, Monell Auditorium
2001-2002 Schedule (Organizer: Alberto Saal)
Fall 2001
September 21:
Joe Pedlosky (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
"Steady Baroclinic Flow Through Ridges with Narrow Gaps"
September 28:
Bob Berner (Yale University)
"Plants, C02 and Their Long-Term Carbon Cycle"
October 5:
Greg van der Vink (Princeton University)
"Why Are We Becoming More Vulnerable to Nature Disasters?"
October 12:
Edouard Bard (University Aix-Marseille, France)
"Alkenones and Heinrich Events"
October 19:
Kerry Emanuel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"A Simple Model of Multiple Climate Regimes"
October 26:
Ed Boyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“The Global Anthropogenic Lead Experiment: New Tools Applied to and Old Problem”
November 2:
Klaus Lackner (Columbia University)
“Free Market Approaches to Controlling Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere”
November 9:
Charlie Langmuir (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
"Initial Results from Exploration of the Arctic's Gakkel Ridge on the Maiden Research Voyage of USCGC Healy"
November 16:
Dogan Seber (Cornell University)
"The Role of Geoinformatics in Earth Science Research and Education: Case Studies on the Geodynamics of the US and Middle East and Undergraduate Education"
November 30:
Albrecht Hofmann (Max-Plank Institute fur Chemie)
"The Spaghetti Structure of the Hawaiian Plume"
Spring 2002
January 25:
Jim Head (Brown University)
“The History of Water on Mars: New Insights from Mars Global Surveyor”
February 1:
Jim Ehleringer (University of Utah)
"C3-C4 Photosynthesis and Atmospheric CO2"
February 8:
Erik Hauri (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
"Osmium Isotopes and the Mantle Convection Connection"
February 15:
Dick Lindzen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"What do Climate Claims Mean: Four Simple Exercises, Plus Some Additonal Thoughts and Results"
February 22:
Ed Stolper (California Institute of Technology)
"A Simple Analysis of Adiabatic Melting of the Mantle"
March 1:
Jeff Mount (University of California, Davis)
"The Flood Control Paradox: What to do about it and why we don't"
March 8:
Zoe Cardon (University of Connecticut)
"Studying the Rhizosphere Without Pulling Out a Trowel: Harnessing Microbes and Enzymes"
March 15:
Jim Bischoff (USGS California)
"800 kyrs of Climate History of the Sierra Nevada from Sediment Chemistry of Owens Lake, California"
March 29:
Bob Anderson (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
"Reassessing Paleo-Productivity and Fluxes of Mineral Aerosols (dust) to the Ocean using Constant-Flux Proxies"
April 5:
Hugh Ducklow (College of William and Mary)
"Oceanic Bacterial Production: Regional Variations, DOC Utilization and Models"
April 12:
Mark Kurz (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
"Does Helium-3 Come from the Lower Mantle? New Evidence from Hawaii and Galapagos"
April 19:
Jackie Dixon (University of Miami)
"Hotspots, Wetspots, and Dampspots: Evidence for Efficient Dehydration of Recycled Crust and Sediments"
April 26:
Wally Broecker (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
May 3:
Sun-ichiro Karato (Yale University)
"Where on Earth is the Ocean? Mapping Water Content in the Earth's Mantle"
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