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Tuesday 17 Jan 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
Terry Jordan, Cornell University Co-Evolution of the Atacama Desert and the Central Andes Mountains
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Nester & Jordan, Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, 2012 The Pampa del Tamarugal forearc basin in Northern Chile: the interaction of tectonics and climatexs |
Tues. 17 Jan
Tuesday 24 Jan 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Greg Beroza Stanford University A Mechanism for Extreme Slip and Exceptional Tsunamigenesis in the 2011 Tohoku-oki Earthquake
| Ide, Baltay and Beroza, Science, 2011 Shallow Dynamic Overshoot and Energetic Deep Rupture in the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku- Oki Earthquake
| Tues. 24 Jan.
Tuesday 31 Jan 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Richard Alley Penn State Down to the sea in slips: How a lot of Penn Staters are helping figure out where the beaches will be
| Alley et al., Science 2008 Science Perspective Joughlin and Alley, Nature Geosci 2011 Stability of the West Antarctic ice sheet in a warming world
| Tue. 31 Jan.
Tuesday 7 Feb 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Heather Savage Lamont-Doherty - Columbia University What can dead plants tell us about earthquakes?
| Polissar, Savage, and Brodsky, EPSL 2011 Extractable organic material in fault zones as a tool to investigate frictional stress
| Tue. 7 Feb.
Tuesday 14 Feb 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Mark Patzkowsky Penn State Look Local, Think Global: Local and Regional Controls on Global Phanerozoic Diversity
| Patzkowski and Holland, 2007, Paleobio Diversity Partitioning of a Late Ordovician Marine Biotic Invasion: Controls on Diversity in Regional Ecosystems
| Tue. 14 Feb.
Tuesday 21 Feb 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Bill McDonough University of Maryland Geoneutrinos and Heat Production in the Earth: Constraints and Implications
| McDonough et al., 2012, Physics Today, 2012. Electron Anti-neutrinos: the Nexus for Physics, Geology and Nuclear Security,
| Tue. 21 Feb.
Tuesday 28 Feb 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Neyda Abreu Penn State Dubois Fossils from a Collapsing Protoplanetary Disk: Mineralogical and Petrological Studies of Primitive Carbonaceous Chondritic Meteorites
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| Tue. 28 Feb.
Tuesday 13 Mar 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Ramon Arrowsmith Arizona State University When did the Atacama Desert Become Dry? Geological Evidence for a Late Pliocene Drying
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| Tue. 13 Mar.
Tuesday 20 Mar 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Danny Sigman Princeton University The Isotopic Composition of Nitrogen in Foraminifera Shells: Applications in Paleobiogeochemistry
| Sigman et al., Nature, 2010. The polar ocean and glacial cycles in atmospheric CO2 concentration
| Tue. 20 Mar.
Tuesday 27 Mar 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Audrey Sawyer University of Delaware Dynamic Groundwater Responses to Currents, Tides, and Waves in a Shallow Estuary
| Sawyer and Cardenas, Water Resour. Res. 2009 Hyporheic flow and residence time distributions in heterogeneous cross-bedded sediment
| Tue. 27 Mar.
Tuesday 3 April 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Bryan Kaproth Penn State Deines Lecture Title: tbd
| Kaproth et al., JGR 2010 Deformation band formation and strength evolution in unlithified sand: The role of grain breakage
| Tue. 3 April
THURSDAY 12 April 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Ron Amundson (tentative) UC Berkley Title: tbd
| Ewing et al., 2006 A Threshold in Soil Formation at Earth's Arid-hyperarid transition Amundson et al, 2008 On the in situ Aqueous Alteration of Soils on Mars
| THU. 12 April
Tuesday 17 April 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Shanan Peters University of Wisconsin Phanerozoic Earth System Evolution and Marine Biodiversity
| Hannisdal and Peters, Science, 2011 Phanerozoic Earth System Evolution and Marine Biodiversity
| Tue. 17 April
Tuesday 24 April 4 pm
22 Deike Bldg.
| Darlene Lim NASA Ames Exploration Concepts for Field Science on Earth and Beyond
| Geological Society of America Special Paper, 2012 An historical overview of the Pavilion Lake Research Project: Analog science and exploration in an underwater environment
| Tue. 24 April
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