Wednesdays 4-5 p.m., Kline Geology Lab, Room 123
| Sep.12 | Sarah Stewart Harvard University |
Origin of the Earth and Moon. (abstract) |
| Sep.19 | Sandra Yuter North Carolina State University |
Atmospheric Characteristics of Cool Season Intermittent Precipitation near Portland, Oregon. (abstract) |
| Sep.26 | Mark Caddick Virginia Tech |
Depths, temperatures & durations: petrologic constraints on rates of orogenic processes (abstract) |
| Oct.3 | David Piper Geological Survey of Canada(Atlantic) |
Controls on variability in turbidity currents and turbidites. (abstract) |
| Oct.10 | Donna Whitney University of Minnesota |
Flow of partially molten crust in orogeny and continental subduction: mechanisms, magnitudes, and consequences. (abstract) |
| Oct.17 | William Young Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Propagation of ocean waves on planetary scales: where the swell begins. (abstract) |
| Oct.24 | Guy Narbonne Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario |
When Life Got Big: Ediacaran Glaciation, Oxidation, and the Rise of Complexity (abstract) |
| Oct.31 |
Miaki Ishii |
Dissecting Giant Earthquakes: Things We Didn’t Know… (abstract) |
| Nov.7 | Mark Brandon Yale University |
Modeling Tectonic Deformation in a Sandbox (abstract) |
| Nov. 14 | Ann Pearson Harvard University |
Lipid biomarker insights to marine export production, past and present. (abstract) |
| Nov. 28 | Henk Dijkstra Utrecht University |
North Atlantic Multidecadal Variability: a Synthesis View (abstract) |
| Dec. 5 | Anna K. Behrensmeyer Smithsonian Museum |
Did climate change control human evolution in Africa?. (abstract) |
| Dec. 12 | Mark Uhen George Mason University |
The Origin(s) of Whales. (abstract) |
| Jan 23 | Elisabeth Vrba Yale University |
The Special Role of Global Cooling in Mamalian Evolution with emphasis on Hominidae [* Talk will be in KGL 123] |
| Jan 30 | Tim Eglinton Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
Radiocarbon and neodymium as complementary tracers in carbon cycle studies |
| Feb 27 | Peter Driscoll Yale University |
Divergence of Earth and Venus: Coupling climate, tectonics, thermal history, and magnetic field |
| Apr 3 | Leif Thomas Stanford University |
Ocean fronts: surf zones for internal waves and the implications for the ocean’s energy budget. |
| Apr 17 | Miaki Ishii | |
| Apr 24 | Brian Farrell | |
Contact
Please address inquiries to the colloquium committee (Email: colloquium@earth.geology.yale.edu).
AOCD: Alison Nugent, Georgy Manucharyan Geochemistry: Sarah Vorhies, Shikma Zaarur, Xu Chu, Yige Zhang Geophysics: Erin Wirth, Tolulope Olugboji Paleontology: Simon Darroch Tectonics: Joseph Panzik, Keith Laskowski
Faculty: Prof. Hagit Affek, Prof. William Boos, Prof. Storelvmo Trude