Earth Science Colloquium at the LDEO
Fridays, 3:30 pm, Monell Auditorium
2007-2008 Schedule (Organizer: Jason Smerdon)
Fall 2007
September 7:
Director's Award Lecture - Richard Seager (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
"North American Drought: From Medieval Megadroughts to the Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate"
September 14:
William Schlesinger (Institute of Ecosystem Studies)
"Trees and the Carbon Cycle: An Update of Results from the Duke Forest CO2
Enrichment (FACE) Experiment"
September 21:
Cindy Ebinger (University of Rochester)
"Snap, Crackle, Pop: The 2005-6 Dabbahu, Afar Dike Intrusion Episode"
September 28:
Katharina Billups (University of Delaware)
"Millennial-Scale Climate Variability During the Mid Pleistocene"
October 5:
Heidi Cullen (The Weather Channel)
"The Science of Television"
October 12:
Bridget Scanlon (University of Texas at Austin)
"Impacts of Changing Land Use on Subsurface Water Resources in Semiarid Regions"
October 19:
Director’s Series on the Science of Diversity -
Daniel Ames (Columbia University)
"Interpersonal Assertiveness and Constructive Conflict"
October 26:
Larry Edwards (University of Minnesota)
"How to Terminate a Glacial Period: Constraints from Cave Climate Records"
November 2:
Andreas Teske (University of North Carolina)
"Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Subsurface Biosphere"
November 9:
David Evans (Yale University)
"Deep-Time Geophysics and Paleoclimate, Sprinkled with Ice and Salt"
November 16:
Greg Beroza (Stanford University)
"Slow Earthquakes and the Mechanism of Deep Tremor"
November 23:
Thanksgiving Break
November 30:
Opening Ceremony for the Geochemistry Building
December 7 - January 18:
AGU/Winter Break
Spring 2008
January 25:
Mark Leckie (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
"Closure of the Indonesian Seaway during the middle to late Miocene: Early history of the Western Pacific Warm Pool"
February 1:
TBD
"TBD"
February 8:
Jeffrey Karson (Syracuse University)
"Faults, fluids and fauna at the Lost City Hydrothermal Field: From Mantle to Microbes"
February 15:
Peter Doran (University of Illinois, Chicago)
"TBD"
February 22:
Michael Watkins (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
"TBD"
February 29:
Brian Fagan (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Peasantry, Pre-Columbian Lords, and the Flail of God: An Archaeologist looks at the Medieval Warm Period (or Climatic Anomaly) and the Little Ice Age"
March 7:
Donna Whitney (University of Minnesota)
"TBD"
March 14:
Karen Von Damm (University of New Hampshire)
"TBD"
March 21:
Ed Garnero (Arizona State University)
"TBD"
March 28:
Bette Otto-Bliesner (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
"TBD"
April 4:
Barbara John (University of Wyoming)
"TBD"
April 11:
Julie Brigham-Grette (University of Massechusetts Amherst)
"TBD"
April 18:
Antonio Busalacchi (University of Maryland)
"TBD"
April 25:
Peter van Keken (University of Michigan)
"TBD"
May 2:
Deborah Bronk (Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences)
"TBD"
May 9:
Director's Series on the Science of Diversity - Elizabeth Spelke (Harvard University)
"TBD"
Last updated: November 19, 2007
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