Department Seminar
Spring 2011
| January 11 | Pinaki Chakraborty, University of Illinois, "Turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities: a tale of two volcanoes," Host: Allan Rubin (Abstract) |
| February 1 | James Badro, IPGP, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris "Experimental constraints on core composition and the paradigm of core formation," Host: Tom Duffy |
| February 8 | Michael Hren, University of Michigan, "Proxy Records of Past Climate and Predictions for Future Change," Host: Daniel Sigmn |
| February 15 | Jessica Tierney, LDEO, Columbia University, "From molecules to climate models: Fossil lipid insights into tropical paleoclimate, " Host: Daniel Sigman |
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February 22
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David McGee, University of Minnesota, "New insights into past water balance changes in the U.S. Great Basin from cave records," Host: Daniel Sigman |
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March 1
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John Higgins, Princeton University, "Cenozoic climate and seawater chemistry - insights from Mg isotopes, " Host: Daniel Sigman |
| March 8 | Jimin Yu, LDEO, "Carbon Cycle during the last deglacial: evidence from new proxies," Daniel Sigman & Mathis Hain |
| March 15 | Break Week |
| March 22 | Cancelled |
| March 29 | Jonathan Payne, Stanford University, "Ocean acidification and end-Permian mass extinction," Host: Adam Maloof |
| April 5 |
Alexander Gagnon, "Reconstructing the Past Ocean Using a Geochemical Understanding of Biomineralization," Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, TBD, Host: Daniel Sigman & Anne O'Leary
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| April 12 |
Aaron Putnam, University of Maine, "Ice ages, terminations, and the climate battle between the hemipheres: New insights from the global record of mountain glaciers and pluvial lakes" Host: Daniel Sigman
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| April 19 |
Peter Swart, University of Miami, "Adventures with the C and O isotopic composition of marine sediments"
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April 20
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William D'Andrea, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Developing alkenone paleothermometry in lakes: Biomarker evidence for Holocene climate change in the Arctic"
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| April 26 | Anders Carlson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Sensitivity of the southern Greenland Ice Sheet to Interglacial Climate Warming," Host: Daniel Sigman |
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