2008-9

September 10

Mark Siddall, University of Bristol/LDEO

Paleo-constraints on future sea-level rise

Special Location: Lamont Hall

September 17

Lex van Geen, LDEO

Ocean variability over anoxic Soledad Basin off Baja California (25N, 113W) over the past 50 years: Comparison of climate indices and instrumental data with sediment records of paleoproxies Uk37, Cd, and Mo at annual resolution

September 24

No seminar

October 1

Ivan Mihajlov and Karrie Radloff, LDEO

In-situ determination of As sorption dynamics in Bangladesh aquifers: New application of push-pull tests to look at As adsorption and desorption when aquifer equilibrium is disturbed

October 8

Stephen Cox, Elizabeth Pierce and Elena Steponaitis, LDEO/CU

Indirect methods for unraveling the geologic history of East Antarctica: sedimentary and thermochronologic approaches

October 15

Bob Anderson, LDEO

Wind-driven upwelling in the Southern Ocean and the deglacial rise in atmospheric CO2

(click here for abstract)

October 22

No seminar

October 27 (Monday) 2 pm

Figen Mekik, Grand Valley State University

The deglacial deep-sea ventilation hypothesis: Where is the carbonate preservation maximum?

October 29: Two seminars

10 AM: Alison Keimowitz, LDEO

Arsenic cycling in Union Lake

2 PM: James Zachos, University of California at Santa Cruz

Title TBA

November 5

Meredith Kelly, Dartmouth College/LDEO

Late-glacial and Holocene fluctuations of Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru

November 12

Peter Huybers, Harvard University

Glacial cycles on Earth and Mars: orbital control in the shadow of uncertain timing

November 19

Kevin Jones, LDEO

December 3

Adi Torfstein, LDEO

Combined U-series and oxygen isotope chronology of a mid-Pleistocene lacustrine sequence: the Amora Formation, Dead Sea basin, Israel

December 10

AGU practice talks