Earth and Environmental Sciences

Seminar Schedule

Seminars take place Fridays at 3:15 (Fall Semester) or 3:00 (Spring Semester) in Hutchison 229, unless otherwise noted.

Date Speaker Topic
September 18 Julie Libarkin
Michigan State University
Perceived Earth: Expert-Novice Geocognition
3:15 pm, Lander Auditorium
October 9 George Denton
University of Maine
Fairchild Colloquium - Meliora Weekend
Antarctica and the Ice Age Puzzle
3:00 pm, 2-162 Dewey Hall
October 15
Thursday
GSA Practice Talks Four Speakers
12:30pm
October 16 Robin Bell
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Changing Ice Sheets and Subglacial Lakes
October 23 Yoichi Usui
University of Rochester
The Backus-Gilbert localized estimator for inverse problems in the scanning magnetic microscopy
October 29
Thursday
Jim Lyons
University of Califormia
Los Angeles
TBA
4:00pm, Computer Science Building  209
October 30 Elizabeth Colantoni
University of Rochester
University of Rochester Archaeological Excavations in Torano, Italy
November 6 Camille Holmgren
Buffalo State University
Packrats and Paleoclimate: Reconstructing the Glacial-Interglacial History of Vegetation in Arid Environments
Joint EEB-EES Seminar
November 13 Saswata Hier-Majumder
University of Maryland
The Influence of Nanostructures on Magma Migration and Storage
November 20 Paul Wetmore
University of South Florida
The role of preexisting crustal structure in the emplacement of small volume melts into the upper crust: An example from the Henry Mountains, Utah
December 4 Steve Roecker
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
TBA
December 10 Rajesh Goteti
University of Rochester
Kinematic and mechanical evolution of relay zones in normal faulted terranes:
Integrating field studies in the Rio Grande rift of north-central New Mexico and three dimensional finite element modeling
Ph.D. Defense - 1:45pm Hutch 229
December 11 AGU Practice Talks
January 15
January 22
January 29 Frank Pazzaglia
Lehigh University
Broadband geodesy and active tectonics of the northern Apennines, Italy
Brown Bag Seminar - 12:00pm Hutch 229
New views on an old orogen, uplift, erosion, and landscape evolution in the Appalachians
3:00pm Hutch 229
February 5
February 12
February 19
February 26
March 5
March 19
March 26
April 2
April 9
April 16
April 23
April 30 Penny Higgins
University of Rochester
TBA
Joint EEB-EES Seminar