Earth Science Colloquium at the LDEO
Fridays, 3:30 pm, Monell Auditorium
2002-2003 Schedule (Organizers: David Ho and Tom Marchitto)
Fall 2002
September 13:
Jeffery Sachs (Columbia University)
"Human Ecology and Economic Development"
September 20:
Paul Falkowski (Rutgers University)
"Iron Limitation of Biogeochemical Cycles in the Ocean"
September 27:
Paul Richards (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
"Earthquake Location Location Location"
October 4:
Micheal Bender (Princeton University)
"An Accurate Orbital Tuning Timescale for the Vostok Ice Core"
October 11:
Lonnie Thompson (Ohio State University)
"Rapid Climate Change in the Earth System: Past, Present, Future"
October 18:
Dan Schrag (Harvard University)
“New Perspectives on Phanerozoic Climate Change and the Carbon Cycle”
October 25:
Tom Swetnam (University of Arizona)
“Tree-Ring Records of Inter-regional to Inter-hemispheric Synchrony of Forest Fires and Climate Variations”
November 1:
Susan Lozier (Duke University)
"Pathways and Climate of the Deep North Atlantic"
November 8:
David Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota)
"Shearing Melt out of the Mantle"
November 15:
John Delaney (University of Washington)
"NEPTUNE: A Submarine Network of Interactive Laboratories at the Scale of a Tectonic Plate: A New Paradigm in Ocean and Earth Sciences"
November 22:
Deborah Kelley (University of Washington)
"The Peridotite-Hosted Lost City Field: A New Class of Submarine Hydrothermal System"
Spring 2003
January 24:
Joe Palca (National Public Radio)
“Figuring Out the Truth When All You Have are the Facts: Reporting Science Stories in a Balanced Fashion”
January 31:
Peter Tyack (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
"Responses of Whales to Manmade Noise"
February 7:
Jerry Dickens (Rice University)
"Extreme Climates, Frozen Methane, and Exotic Microbes: Rebuilding the Global Carbon Cycle with Gas Hydrates"
February 14:
Paul Tackley (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Isotopic Evolution of the Mantle in Numerical Models of Mantle Convection and Plate Tectonics"
February 21:
Roland Burgmann (University of California, Berkeley)
"Postseismic Relaxation: Rock Mechanics Experiments of Lithospheric Dimension"
February 28:
Sue Trumbore (University of California, Irvine)
"Time Lags in the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle"
March 7:
Dennis McGillicuddy (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
"Influence of Mesoscale Eddies on Biogeochemical Cycling in the Open Ocean"
March 14:
Ofer Bar-Yosef (Harvard University)
"The Impact of Abrupt Climate Changes on Human Cultures from the Time of the Deglaciation to the mid-Holocene"
March 28:
Roger Bilham (University of Colorado)
"Global Death and Construction: Earthquakes on an Urban Planet with Examples from India"
April 4:
Gus Shaver (Marine Biological Laboratory)
"Biodiversity Regulates Biogeochemistry in Alaskan Tundra Ecosystems"
April 18:
Lou Codispoti (University of Maryland)
"Turmoil in the Oceanic Fixed-N and Nitrous Oxide Budgets"
April 25:
Jerry McManus (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
"Heinrich Event Fluxes of Ice-Rafted Debris, Foraminifera and Deep Water"
May 2:
Kevin Peterson (Dartmouth College)
"The Origin of Bilaterians and the Cambrian Explosion: Inferences from Rocks, Hox and Molecular Clocks"
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