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Geology Colloquium
The Geology Colloquium series features presentations on new ideas in the geosciences by visiting scientists and Rutgers faculty. The colloquia are held in Wright Chemistry Auditorium at 12:00 noon on Wednesdays, unless otherwise noted. Light refreshments are provided. All are invited to attend the colloquia.
Undergraduate and graduate students may receive course credit by attending the colloquium series. Students should register for 01:460:355, 356--Geology Colloquium or 16:460:655, 656--Research Colloquium.
The coordinator for the Spring 2008 Colloquium is Dr. George McGhee (mcghee@rci.rutgers.edu).
Spring 2008 Colloquium Schedule
Time: 12:00 noon
Location: Wright Chemistry Auditorium |
Date |
Speaker, Affiliation |
Title |
| Jan 23 |
Patricia Kelley
University of North Carolina-Wilmington |
Paleontological Society Distinguished Lecturer: "The arms race from a snail's perspective: Evolution of the naticid gastropod predator-prey system" |
| Jan 30 |
Robert DeConto
University of Massachusetts |
"Cenozoic glacial history revisited: A modeling perspective" |
| Feb 6 |
Allegra LeGrande
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory |
"An assessment of the reconstruction of paleosalinity and paleotemperatures with water isotopes" |
| Feb 13 |
Dorothy Peteet
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
(Joint Quaternary Studies Program/EPS) |
"The demise of the southern margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet - tundra environments and new AMS chronologies" |
| Feb 20 |
Robert Kopp
Princeton University |
"Tracing biological magnetism in sediments: from modern bacteria to ancient global warming" |
| Feb 27 |
Andrea Borgia
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica
Rome, Italy |
"Relation between volcanic spreading and hazard at Vesuvius (alias: does volcanic spreading inhibit future Plinian eruptions?)" |
| Mar 5 |
Mark Siddall
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory |
"Long-term consistencies in the benthic oxygen-isotope record between ocean basins" |
| Mar 12 |
Michelle Goman
Cornell University
(Joint Quaternary Studies Program/EPS) |
"Deciphering the paleoclimate signal from wetlands in the semi-arid Kenyan Rift Valley" |
| Mar 19 |
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Spring Break |
| Mar 26 |
Claude Herzberg
Rutgers University |
"Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions: What makes a killer LIP?" |
| Apr 2 |
Paul Olsen
Columbia University |
"The Earth's largest igneous province and the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction: stratigraphic, biotic, and geochemical constraints" |
| Apr 9 |
Yair Rosenthal
Rutgers University |
"Reconstructing Holocene climate variability and the Indonesian throughflow in the western equatorial Pacific" |
| Apr 16 |
David Black
Stony Brook University |
"Recent tropical Atlantic variability" |
| Apr 23 |
Lucy McFadden
University of Maryland |
"Vesta and Ceres: A large asteroid and a dwarf planet" |
| Apr 30 |
Kaj Hoernle
Kiel University, Germany |
"Scientific highlights of Collaborative Research Center (SFB 574) from the Central American subduction system" |
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