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Earth and Planetary Sciences Weekly Colloquium
EPS' Weekly Colloquium features exciting new research in the geosciences by Rutgers and visiting scholars. Colloquia are held in Wright Chemistry Auditorium at 12:00 noon on Wednesdays, unless otherwise noted. Pizza and soda will follow with the cost partially covered by the department. All are invited to attend.
Undergraduate and graduate students may receive course credit by attending the colloquium series. Undergraduate students should register for 01:460:355 for the Fall Semester and 01:460:356 for the Spring (course title: Geology Colloquium). Graduate students should register for 16:460:655 for the Fall and 16:460:656 for the Spring (course title: Research Colloquium). Please contact the coordinator for course requirement details.
Coordinator for Fall-2009 Colloquium is Dr. Ying Fan Reinfelder (yingfan@rci.rutgers.edu).
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EPS Colloquium Schedule, Fall Semester, 2009
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Time: 12:00 noon
Location: Wright Labs, Chemistry Auditorium ...click here for Directions to EPS / Wright Labs Auditorium |
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Speaker / Affiliation
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Sept 09
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Gail Ashley Rutgers |
The paleoclimatic framework of human evolution, examples from Olduvai Gorge
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Craig Feibel
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Sept 16
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Danielle Stroup Sumy LDEO
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Tidal Triggering of Microearthquakes at 9º50'N East Pacific Rise
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Vadim Levin
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Sept 23
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Maya Elrick U.New Mexico
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Stratigraphic and oxygen isotope evidence for My-scale glaciation driving eustasy in the Early–Middle Devonian greenhouse world
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Ken Miller
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Sept 30
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Yair Rosenthal Rutgers
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Plio-Pleistocene climate evolution: a view from the deep ocean
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Carl Swisher
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Oct 07
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Lee Kump Penn State U
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End-Permian Mass Extinction by Stink Bomb
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Dennis Kent
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Oct 14 |
Jian Lin WHOI |
Ultra-slow ocean ridges: A cold end-member of global seafloor spreading
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Peter Rona |
Oct 21
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Mindy Zimmer Exxonmobil
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The Role
of Water in Arc Magmas
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Mike Carr
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Oct 28 |
Alan Werner Mt. Holyoke U |
What controls annual sediment deposition in a glacier-fed lake? Results from the Svalbard REU project, Spitsbergen, Norway. |
Gail Ashley
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Nov 04
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John Tarduno U. of Rochester
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Mantle plumes and true polar wander
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Dennis Kent
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Nov 18
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Gene Humphreys U. of Oregon
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Driving forces of western North America tectonic processes
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Vadim Levin
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Nov 25
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No Talk - Before Thanksgiving
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TBA
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Dec 02
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Gray Bebout Lehigh U
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Metamorphism, melting, magmatism, marl, microbes, and (maybe) MarsL a Nitrogen isotope perspective
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Linda Godfrey |
Dec 09
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Student Practice for AGU
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TBA
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