*** Note: All Geochemistry seminars for Fall 2020 have been moved online due to the COVID-19 outbreak. ***
For questions, comments and seminar suggestions, please contact the seminar coordinators:
Allie Balter-Kennedy - abalter@ldeo.columbia.edu
Craig Connolly - connolly@ldeo.columbia.edu
Matthew Jerram - mj2964@columbia.edu
Celeste Pallone - cpallone@ldeo.columbia.edu
Unless otherwise specified, Geochemistry seminars are held every Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. EST
Recordings may be available upon request from the committee.
See here for the shuttle bus schedule between the Lamont and Morningside campuses.
FALL 2020
| DATE | SPEAKER | FIELD OF STUDY | TITLE |
| January 20 |
Nathan Yee, Rutgers University |
Low temperature geochemistry
|
A Sulfate Story: From Continental Weathering to Assimilation by Microbial Life |
| January 27 |
Emily Pringle, LDEO |
Cosmotopes | Cosmochemical perspectives on the delivery and retention of volatile elements on the terrestrial planets |
| February 3 |
No Seminar |
Palaeostorms | |
| February 10 |
Carolina Muñoz Saez, LDEO |
Radiocarbon dating of silica sinter and postglacial hydrothermal activity in the Altiplano | |
| February 17 | James Leong, LDEO | Geochemistry of reduced (H2- and CH4-rich) and alkaline (pH >11) fluids generated through low-temperature (<50 °C), continental serpentinization | |
| February 24 | No seminar | ||
| March 3 | No seminar, Spring break | ||
| March 10 | Shakura Jahan, Florida State University | Reconstruction of Paleostorm History Using Geochemical Proxies in Coastal Lake Sediments from the North and Northwestern Gulf Coastal Plain of Florida | |
| March 17 | |||
| March 24 | Marty Fleisher, LDEO | Mass Spectrometry | Sector Field ICP-MS: An Introduction and Examples of its usefulness as a Geochemical Tool |
| March 31 | Miling Li, University Delware | Applying Geochemical Tools in Environmental, Ecological, and Health Science Research | |
| April 7 | Minda Monteagudo, Georgia Tech | Palaeoceanograhy | Central Equatorial Pacific Cooling during the Last Glacial Maximum |
| April 14 | Sujita Murty, SUNY Albany | ||
| April 21 | No Talk | ||
| April 28 | Claire Griffin, UVA | Hydrology, Remote Sensing, Marine Science | Ice wedges, infrastructure, and the changing Arctic landscape - local scale responses of aquatic ecosystems to climatic and cultural change on the Alaskan North Slope |