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Events | Geosciences Colloquium 2012

Thursdays 4:00 - 5:00 PM, Haury (Anthropology) Building, Room 129
Schedule is subject to change.

Organized by Barbara Carrapa, Jon Pelletier
Meet the Speaker Coordinator:  Esther Posner

Thank you to BP for its generous support of this colloquium series.

Date Speaker Title Faculty Host/
Student Host
Jan 12Dr. Jerry MeehlSEES JOINT COLLOQUIUM

"Global warming, or not?  Understanding the role of internally-generated decadal and multi-decadal timescale variability in climate change"

Cole/Overpeck
Jan 19Dr. Josh West

The Past (and Future?) of Earth's Carbon Cycle: the Role of Weathering and Erosion

Reiners
Jan 26Dr. Katie Snell

"Paleoclimate and Paleoelevation in 
the Western US Cordillera, 
80 Ma to Present."

Lippert/Carrapa
Feb 02Dr. Joellen Russell"Southern Ocean Uptake
of Heat and Carbon "
Carrapa
Feb 09Dr. Lucy FleschEarthScope Speaker

"Kinematics and Dynamics of a Diffuse North America–Pacific–Bering Plate Boundary in Alaska and Western Canada"

Carrapa
Feb 16Dr. Derek LemonieSEES JOINT COLLOQUIUM
"Modeling Scientific Uncertainty in the Economic Evaluation
of climate Change"
Overpeck
Feb 23Dr. Alka Tripathy
DeCelles
March 1Dr. Julie Fosdick
"Flexural subsidence, burial, and exhumation of a successor retroforeland basin, southern Patagonian Andes"

Carrapa
March 8Dr. William Dickinson

"Mysterious Monte Verde: A Geologist Confronts the 
Clovis-First vs Pre-Clovis Controversy".

Cohen/Carrapa
March 22Dr. Paul Asimaw"Shock Wave Experiments and Igneous Petrology of the Lower Mantle."Ganguly
April 12Dr. Geoff AbersBeck
April 5Dr. Jay Quade"The Paleoenvironmental Context of Hominid Evolution in the Northern Ethiopian Rift."Carrapa
April 19Dr. Sumit Chakraborty"What Does the Hop of An Atom Tell Us About the Motion of Tectonic Plates?"Ganguly
Thursdays, 4:00—5:00 PM, Haury (Anthropology) Building , Room 129
(unless noted otherwise)


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