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Tuesday 15 Jan, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
Christie Rowe, McGill University Subduction Megathrusts in the Rock Record
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Rowe et al., Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2011 Textural record of the seismic cycle: strain-rate variation in an ancient subduction thrust |
Tue. 15 Jan
Tuesday 22 Jan, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Nadine McQuarrie University of Pittsburgh Accommodating Convergence in the Eastern Himalaya: The Impact of Variable Slip Rates on Orogen Scale Strain
| Robinson and McQuarrie, 2012 Pulsed deformation and variable slip rates within the central Himalayan thrust belt
| Tue. 22 Jan
Tuesday 29 Jan, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Jennifer Balch Dept. of Geography, Penn State Frontier fire in the Amazon: Local to global consequences of human-altered fire regimes in tropical forests
| Bowman, Balch et al. Science 2009 Fire in the Earth System
| Wed. 30 Jan
Tuesday 5 Feb, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Christopher Gorski Penn State Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering Measuring mineral redox properties.
| Gorski et al., Environ. Sci. Technol. 2012 Redox Properties of Structural Fe in Clay Minerals. 2. Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Characterization of Electron Transfer Irreversibility in Ferruginous Smectite, SWa-1
| Tue. 5 Feb
Monday 11 Feb, 4 pm
301 STEIDLE
| Matthew J. Kohn Boise State University Making the Himalaya: Oozing, Squashing or Sliding?
| Kohn, GSA Bulletin, 2008 P-T-t data from central Nepal support critical taper and repudiate large- scale channel flow of the Greater Himalayan Sequence
| Monday 11 Feb
Thursday 14 Feb, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Andrew Luhmann University of Minnesota Water Temperature as a Tracer in Karst Aquifers
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| Thurs 14 Feb
Tuesday 19 Feb, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Benjamin Mirus USGS, Menlo Park Towards improved simulation of coupled groundwater / surface water flow systems
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| Wed. 20 Feb
Thursday 21 Feb, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Nathaniel Warner, Duke University Evaluating Possible Environmental Impacts from Shale Gas Development and Hydraulic Fracturing
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| Fri. 22 Feb
Tuesday 26 Feb, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Crystal Ng USGS, Menlo Park
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| Wed. 27 Feb
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Tuesday 12 Mar, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| James R. Rice Harvard University Antarctic Ice Streams: Could marginal melting control their width?
| Perol and Rice, JGR, in Press, 2013 Control of the width of active Western Antarctic Siple Coast ice streams by internal melting at their margins
| Tue. 12 Mar
Tuesday 19 Mar, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| James Brenan University of Toronto Experimental constraints on late accretion of the Earth and Moon
| Bennett and Brenan, EPSL, 2013 Controls on the solubility of rhenium in silicate melt: Implications for the osmium isotopic composition of Earth's mantle
| Tue. 19 Mar
Tuesday 26 Mar, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Youyi Ruan Brown University Cyber-enabled Seismology: Imaging 3-D Anelasticity and Wavespeed Structures of the Earth's Deep Interior
| Abstract for the talk Cyber-enabled Seismology
| Wed. 27 Mar
Thursday 28 Mar, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Margarete Jadamec Brown University Implications of a Strain Rate Dependent Viscosity on Three-Dimensional Subduction Processes
| Abstract for the talk Strain Rate Dependent Viscosity and Subduction
| Fri. 29 Mar
Tuesday 2 Apr, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Bob Kopp Rutgers University Interpreting the noisy geological record of ancient sea level changes: What can the Quaternary tell us about ice sheet stability?
Abstract for the talk Noisy Geologic Records and Ice Sheet Stability |
| Wed. 3 Apr,
Thursday 4 Apr, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Christelle Wauthier Carnegie Institution of Washington Magma-tectonic interactions revealed by satellite geodesy and modeling
Abstract for the talk Magma-tectonic interactions |
| Fri. 5 Apr
Tuesday 9 Apr ,4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Pennilyn Higgins University of Rochester Flexing Your Mussels: Climate and Environmental Change Associated with the PETM
| Higgins, PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, 2012 Climate Change at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary: New Insights from Mollusks and Organic Carbon in the Hanna Basin of WyominG
| Tue. 9 Apr
Tuesday 16 Apr, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Brian Toon University of Colorado The Effects of Impacts on Planetary Climates: From Dead Dinosaurs on Earth to the River Valleys on Mars
| Toon, Segura, and Zahnle, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 2010 The Formation of Martian River Valleys by Impacts
| Tue. 16 Apr
Tuesday 23 Apr, 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Beth Herndon The Pennsylvania State University 2012 Peter Deines Memorial Lecture
Movement of manganese contamination through the Critical Zone
| Herndon et al 2011 Soils Reveal Widespread Manganese Enrichment from Industrial Inputs
| Monday 22 Apr
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