ees seminars

Seminars are Friday at noon in Rm. 100 Williams Hall (unless otherwise indicated). EES lunch socials precede the seminars (Friday, 11 to 12) in Rm. 102

Faculty and students are encouraged to meet with speakers during their stay, and everyone is invited to reconvene at a local watering hole, usually by 5 pm, for the second phase of discussions.

To arrange a meeting with a speaker or learn more about their visit, contact Alex Ireland, Seminar Coordinator.

Seminars for 2009-2010

August 28th

Rowena Lohman, Cornell University

"A Seismic Fault Slip - Detecting and Interpreting Strain Transients with Geodetic Data"

(host: Joan Ramage)

September 4th

Annual EES Slide Show

What we did this summer...

(host: Us)

September 11th

Robert Detrick, National Science Foundation

"Update on NSF's Earth Science Division and New Strategic Directions"

(host: Zicheng Yu)

September 18th

Derick Brown, Lehigh

"Relationship Between Bacterial Adhesion to a Surface and Cellular Bioenergetics"

(host: Steve Peters)

September 25th

Terry Engelder, Penn State University

"Marcellus Gas Formation"

(host: Frank Pazzaglia)

October 2nd

Chris Forest, Penn State University

"Understanding Uncertainty in Climate Change Predictions at Global and Local Scales"

(host: Ben Felzer)

October 9th

WATERSHED CONFERENCE

October 16th

Adam Schlosser, MIT

"Land-climate Interactions, Cold Land Porcesses, Hydrologic and Ecosystem Predictability"

(host: Ben Felzer)

October 23rd

October 30th

Rick Bennett, Arizona

"The 3D Pattern of Crustal Deformation Associated with Active Normal Fault Systems Observed Using Continuous GPS Geodesy: Implications for the mechancs of crustal extension"

(host: Frank Pazzaglia)

November 6th

Jason Smerdon, Storke-Doherty Lecturer, Columbia University

"Spaghetti Plots, Hockey Sticks, Pseudo-Realities and Congressional Oversight: A decade of attempts to reconstruct the climate of the last millennium and where we stand now"

(host: Miriam Jones and Maura Sullivan)

November 13th

Joe Kelley, University of Maine, Orono

"Fluid-Escape Craters: the largest and least understood landforms on the muddy, formerly glaciated estuaries"

(host: Ed Evenson)

November 20th

Peter W. Reiners, University of Arizona

"Burn, shock, and thaw: tales from punk thermochronology"

(host: Ryan McKeon)

November 27

THANKSGIVING

December 4th

Nigel Roulet, McGill University

"C cycle"

(host: Julie Loisel and Zicheng Yu)

 

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