GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES AT BROWN UNIVERSITY
Colloquia > Spring 2008

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4:00 P.M. Thursdays, 115 MacMillan Hall

Spring Semester 2008 Colloquia
Department of Geological Sciences
(as of 12/05/07)

January 31:
Professor Ken Miller, Rutgers University
"Global Sea-Level Changes Over the Past 100 Million Years" (JW)

February 7:
"Careers Day" (JAT)

February 14:
Professor Andrew J. Cohen, University of Arizona, Tucson
"The Lake Malawi Drilling Project: Quaternary Climate Surprises For Tropical Africa And Their Ecological Implications" (JMR)

February 21:
Professor Meredith Nettles, Lamont-Doherty/Columbia University
"Glacier flow and glacial earthquakes at Helheim glacier, East Greenland"

February 28:
Professor Dennis V. Kent, Rutgers University & Lamont-Doherty
"Early Jurassic magnetostratigraphy and paleolatitudes from the Hartford basin: testing for polarity bias and abrupt polar wander in association with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province"

March 6:
Professor Donald J. DePaolo, University of California, Berkeley
"Isotopic molecular geochemisty: insights from CA isotopes" (AES)

March 13:
No Colloquium

March 20:
Dr. Slava Solomatov, Washington University, St. Louis
"Grain Size Evolution and Chemical Mixing in the Earth's Mantle" (JWH)

March 27:
Spring Recess - No Colloquium

April 3:
Professor Bill Ruddiman, University of Virginia
"The Early Athropogenic Hypothesis: Challenges and Responses" (WLP)

April 10:
Dr. Jeffrey J. McGuire, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"Short and Longterm Predictability of Oceanic Transform Fault Earthquakes" (DWF)

April 17: Thomas A. Mutch Lecture
Dr. Alan Howard, University of Virginia (JWH)
"Deciphering the climate of early Mars based upon geomorphic evidence"

April 24:
Dr. Juli Morgan, Rice University (TET)
"Landsliding and volcanotectonics in Hawaii: New insights from seismic reflection, tomography, and particle dynamics simulations"

May 1:
Professor Cindy Ebinger, University of Rochester
"Achieving Extension via Dike Intrusions During Continental Rifting:
Capturing the Process in Africa" (DWF)

Stay tuned for the Fall 2008 Schedule!

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