Geosciences Colloquium Series 2017-2018
Thursdays 4:00 - 5:00 PM, Haury Building, Room 129 (Please note new room for spring 2018)
Schedule is subject to change.
Organized by Andy Cohen and Chris Harig
Refreshments served at 3:30 in the Gould-Simpson lobby.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
| August 31 | Alfred McEwen, University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory | Present-Day Geologic Activity on Mars: Implications for Habitability and Future Exploration | Bennett |
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| September 14 | Scott McCoy, University of Nevada Reno | Drainage Basin Dynamics of Old and Young Orogens | McGuire |
| September 21 | Andrew Zaffos, Arizona Geological Survey | Rethinking our expectations for global biodiversity and biogeographic processes | Flessa |
| September 28 | Asish Basu, University of Texas, Arlington | From mantle transition zone to the Indus Ophiolite and selective entrainment of mantle reservoirs | DeCelles |
| October 5 | Aaron Putnam, University of Maine |
The Last Great Global Warming |
Russell |
| October 12 | Pedro DiNezio, University of Texas, Austin | Glacial lessons on tropical climate change | Tierney |
| October 19 | Laura Meredith, University of Arizona School of Natural Resources and the Environment | Microbe-mediated trace gas fluxes: linking ecosystem genomics to atmospheric composition | |
| October 26 | No colloquium - GSA meeting | ||
| November 2 | Anne Trehu, Oregon State University | Forearc crustal structure and slip during subduction zone earthquakes: results from recent experiments offshore Chile | Beck |
| November 9 | Colton Lynner, University of Arizona |
Crustal and mantle flow: insights into subduction dynamics and overthickened crustal behavior |
Beck |
| November 16 | Tripti Bhattacharya, University of Arizona |
Ice Ages and the North American Monsoon: perspectives from proxies and models |
Tierney |
| November 23 | No colloquium - Thanksgiving | ||
| November 30 | Andrew Cohen, University of Arizona |
The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: Uncovering the environmental context of human origins through scientific drilling |
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Spring 2018 |
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| January 11 | Tim Lowenstein, Binghamton University |
Closed Basin Paleoenvironmental Records: Bandwagon Bias and Dastardly Dates |
Cohen |
| January 16 |
James Rae, University of St. Andrews NOTE TUESDAY DATE
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pH and CO2 reconstruction from the Jurassic to the last deglaciation | |
| January 25 | Grant Ferguson, University of Saskatchewan. (Joint Geosciences/Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences Talk.) |
Are deep groundwater systems really isolated? |
Atmo/HWR |
| February 1 | Robbie, Gries, Priority Oil & Gas LLC |
Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology—Celebrating 100 years! |
Beck |
| February 8 | Susanna Werth, Arizona State University |
Monitoring a dynamic planet Earth: Geodetic signatures of changing water resources |
Harig |
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| February 22 | Charlotte Pearson, UA Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research |
Re-thinking Thera: Could annual tree-ring 14C resolve volcanic controversy in the second millennium BC? |
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| March 1 | Arend Meijer, University of Arizona |
Origin of Laramide Copper Porphyries in SEAZ: An Analysis of Radiogenic Isotope and Inherited Zircon Age Data |
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| March 8 | No colloquium - Spring Break | ||
| March 12 | Katherine Allen, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, University of Maine. Note Monday date. Note location: Gould-Simpson 203. Note time: 3:00 pm |
Rapid changes in Pacific Ocean carbon storage during the last glacial termination
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Russell/Goodman |
| March 15 | Birger Schmitz, Lund University. | Extraterrestrial spinels and the astronomical perspective on Earth's geological record and evolution of life - What can 50 tons of rock and 100,000 litres of hydrochloric acid tell us? | Reiners |
| March 20 | Clara Blättler, Princeton University. | Reinterpreting the rock records of carbonates and evaporites | |
| March 22 |
Elizabeth Sibert, Harvard University. |
Evolution of the Open Ocean Ecosystem: Microfossils, Fish, Mass Extinction, and Global Change | |
| March 29 |
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| April 2 | Kaustubh Thirumalai, Brown University. Location: Saguaro 202 |
Picking Extremes: Single-forams and models reveal new features of tropical climate variability |
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| April 4 | Noah Planavsky, Yale University. Location: Saguaro 202 |
Tracking the History of Earth's Oxygenation |
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| April 12 | No colloquium - GeoDaze | ||
| April 10 |
Sarah Aarons, University of Chicago. Note Location: ENR2 – Room S107 |
A tale of two transitions: Geochemical evidence for WAIS collapse during the last interglacial |
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| April 16 | Alyssa Atwood, University of California, Berkeley. Location: Saguaro 202 |
Tropical Pacific climate over the last 7,000 years - a coral ensemble approach |
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| April 19 | Diane Thompson, Boston University. Haury 129 |
Tropical climate change & coral-reef ecosystems: learning from the past and promoting future resilience |
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| April 24 | Adina Paytan, University of California, Santa Cruz. ENR2 S107 |
Corals on Acid - Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs |
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| April 26 | Tom Guilderson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Haury 129 |
A window opens from the mesopelagic: A proteinaceous deep-sea coral’s view of biogeochemistry and ecosystem change above |
Harig |
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Thursdays, 4:00—5:00 PM, Haury Building, Room 129
(unless noted otherwise) |
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