September 7
No Seminar

September 14
Ben Sugerman
Space Telescope Science Institute
"Light Echoes: The Cosmic Stealth Radar"

September 23*
Alan Kafka
Boston College, Weston Observatory
Department of Geology & Geophysics
"Where Do Large Earthquakes Occur in the Eastern United States"

September 28
Katherine Kelley
DTM
"Water, Mantle Melting, and the Geometry of Subduction Zones"

October 5
Keith Koper
St. Louis university
"Fine Scale Heterogeneity within Earth's Inner Core"

October 12
Selwyn Sacks
DTM
"Subduction Angles and Mountain Building"

October 19
Steven Beckwith
DTM Tuve Fellow
"The Hubble Ultra Deep Field: The Assembly of Young Galaxies"

October 26
Aibing Li
Univeristy of Houston
"Upper Mantle Structure of Southern Africa: A New Look"

November 2
Geoff Abers
Boston University
"Subduction of Very Thick Crust: Images, Dehydration and Geodynamics"

November 9
James Scott
GL
"Microbial Adaptiation in a Brave New World: Life in Ice VI"

November 18*
Phil Nicholson
Cornell University
"TBD"

November 23
No Seminar (Thanksgiving)

November 30
Alan Boss
DTM
"Giant Planet Formation: Theory Meets Observations"

December 7
No Seminar (Fall AGU)

December 14
Ciska Markwick-Kemper
University of Virginia
"TBD"

December 21
"TBD"

December 28
No Seminar

January 4
No Seminar

January 11
No Seminar

January 18
Peter Malin
Duke University
"Catching the Creep: New Results and Plans on Finding the Parkfield San andreas Fault at Depth"

January 25
Catherine Cooper
DTM
"Local & Global Thermal Influence of Stable Continental Lithosphere"

February 1
Derek Schutt
University of Wyoming
"The Yellowstone Hotspot and How it got that Way"

February 8
Gilles Chabrier
Ecole Normale Superieure (Lyon, France)
"Structure and Formation of Gaseous Planets: From Laboratory Experiments to Observational Constraints."

February 15
Catherine Hier-Majumder
DTM
"Iron Core Formation in Planetary Bodies"

February 22
John Collins CANCELLED
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"TBD"

March 1
Tae-Kyung Hong
Columbia University
"Another Way to Look into the Earth: Seismic Imaging from Scattered Wavefields"

March 8
Timothy Dixon
University of Miami
"TBD"

March 15
No Seminar
(Lunar Planetary Science Conference)

March 22
Ben Oppenheimer
American Museum of Natural History
"The Lyot Project: Comparative Exoplanetary Science"

March 29
No Seminar
(Astrobiology Conference)

April 5
James Elliott
Tuve Fellow (MIT)
"Exploring the Outer Solar System with Stellar Occultations"

April 12
Karen Fischer
Brown University
"The Properties and Dynamics of the Continental Lithosphere through the Lens of Seismology"

April 21*
David Jewitt
University of Hawaii
"The New Outer Solar System"

April 26
Jason Phipps Morgan
Cornell University
"Are deep lithospheric gas-explosions ('Verneshots') the origin of the 'impact signals' found at the times of continental flood basalt events and Great Mass Extinctions?"

May 3
No Seminar
(GL Centennial)

May 10
Carey Lisse
Johns Hopkins University-Applied Physics Laboratory
"Deep Impact and Comet 9P/Tempel 1: From Evolved Surface to Interior Primeval Dust"

May 17
Eugene Chiang
University of California - Berkeley
"Resonant Rings: The Kuiper Belt and Beyond"

May 24
No Seminar
(Spring AGU)

May 31
Aki Roberge
NASA Goddard
"The Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks"

June 7
Roberta Rudnick
University of Maryland
"Geochemical Insights into Continental Dynamics: The Role of Lower Crustal Recycling"

June 14
William Leeman
National Science Foundation
"A Petrologic View of the Snake River Plain - Yellowstone Magmatic System and the Problems and Opportunities it Presents"

June 21
Paul Silver
DTM
"The Orogeny Paradox, or Why it's so Hard to Make the Tibetan Plateau"

June 28
Fouad Tera
DTM
"A New Pb Isotope "Tri-clock," and some of its Unique Applications in Geochronolgy"

July 5 - CANCELLED
Lara Wagner
DTM
"TBD"

July 12
Elizabeth Cottrell
GL
"Geochemistry in a Magma Ocean"

July 19
Mark Behn
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"Foundering of Arc Lower Crust and the Seismic Structure of Volcanic Arcs"

July 26
Lianxing Wen
SUNY, Stony Brook
"Feeling the Heartbeat of the Earth?"