May 12th & 13th, 2011 
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Description: Interactions among Earth’s lithosphere, surface and atmosphere; encompassing petrology, volcanology, sedimentology, issues of natural resources, volatile and carbon cycling, and paleoclimate
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Morning session
Topic: Volcanology and Exchange of Volatiles between the Mantle and Atmosphere
Keynote: Terry A. Plank, Lamont
Julia Hammer, University of Hawaii
A story of (volatile) loss and (crystal) growth
Alison Rust, University of Bristol
Afternoon session
Topic: Hydrosphere-Lithosphere Interactions and Resources
Keynote: Frieder Klein, WHOI
Redox conditions during Serpentinization of abyssal peridotite: field observations, theoretical constraints, and hydrothermal experiments
Dionysis I. Foustoukos, Geophysical lab
Chemical and isotopic equilbria relationships for C-O-H fluids at lower crust conditions
Brice Loose, WHOI
Gas transport pathways in the seasonal sea ice zone
Jaime Barnes, U. Texas Austin
Subduction Zone Cycling of Chlorine
Friday, May 13, 2011
Morning session
Topic: Hydrosphere-Lithosphere Interactions and Resources, continued
Katy Evans, Curtin University, Australia
The redox budget of subduction zones and implications for fluid transport into the mantle wedge
Andrew Tomkins, University, Australia
Metamorphic Controls on the Sulfur Cycle
Topic Atmosphere-Hydrosphere-Surface Interactions and Paleoclimates
Keynote: Page Chamberlain, Stanford
Grassland expansion and their role in altering the hydrologic balance from the Miocene to Recent
Caroline Masiello, Rice University
The oxidation states of carbon in the Earth’s organic reservoirs
Afternoon session
Topic Atmosphere-Hydrosphere-Surface Interactions and Paleoclimates, continued
Kate Maher, Stanford
Noah Planavsky, UC Riverside
Tracking the Oxidation of the Earth’s Surface.