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The Department holds seminars every Wednesday at 11:00 AM in the Lecture Hall of the David Greenewalt Building. Exceptions to this schedule and additional seminars are marked below with *. There are no seminars during the month of August. Coffee, tea, and a continental breakfast are served before the presentations at 10:30 a.m. Please call 202-478-8820 to confirm that there have been no cancellations.
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February 2012
February 1
Chris Hamilton
NASA Goddard
"Lava-water interactions on Earth and Mars"
February 8
Adrian Jones
University College London
"CO2 degassing and the role of volcanoes in delivering deep carbon to the atmosphere"
February 15
Andy Rivkin
JHU:APL
"Water, Hydroxyl, and Ice in the Asteroid Belt"
February 22
Helge Gonnerman
Rice Univeresity
TBA
February 29
Rob Moucha
Syracuse University
"Coupling Climate, Surface Processes and Mantle Convection"
January 2012
January 4
NO SEMINAR
January 11
Karl Hibbitts
JHU:APL
"Our Moon: an icy or dry desert"
January 18
Debbie Smith
CIW:DTM
"Magnitude Dependent Seismic Quiescence"
January 19--THURSDAY at 3 p.m.
Rick Carlson
CIW:DTM
"Mongolia: A historic and geologic travelogue"
January 25
Tobias Fischer
UNM: NSF
"Volatiles in the mantle below the East African Rift"
January 26--THURSDAY at 3 p.m.
Dave Bercovici
Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics
"Generation of plate tectonics on Earth and other planets"
December 2011
December 7
NO SEMINAR
AGU Fall Meeting
December 14
Larry Nittler
CIW:DTM
"Hermeochemistry: The composition of Mercury from MESSENGER X-ray, Gamma-ray, and neutron measurements"
December 15--THURSDAY
Karn Meech
University of Hawaii: Institute for Astronomy
"TBA"
December 21
NO SEMINAR
Holiday Break
Holiday Break
November 2011
November 2
Emily Brodsky
Merle A. Tuve Senior Fellow, UC Santa Cruz
"Fault Bumps"
November 9
Francis Nimmo
Merle A. Tuve Senior Fellow, UC Santa Cruz
"The early Moon: cosmochemical and magnetic constraints"
November 15--TUESDAY
Freysteinn Sigmundsson
University of Iceland
“Anatomy of Iceland's Volcanoes: Crustal Deformation and Magma Movements”
November 16
CelâL Sengör
Merle A. Tuve Senior Fellow, Istanbul Technical University
“Palaeo-Tethys and the Permian extinction: The role of closed oceans on the Ptolemaic Earth”
November 18--FRIDAY at 2:00 p.m.
CelâL Sengör
Merle A. Tuve Senior Fellow, Istanbul Technical University
“The North Anatolian Fault and the next big earthquake and possible tsunami to hit Istanbul”
November 28--MONDAY at 2:00 p.m.
Richard Arculus
Australian National University
“Arc-Backarc magmatism: new insights from the western Pacific”
October 2011
October 5
Selwyn Sacks
CIW: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
"What strainmeters tell us about volcanoes and eruptions; the view from below"
October 12
Matt Pritchard
Cornell University
"Towards a global census of volcano deformation by satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar"
October 19
Lijun Liu
UC San Diego/Scripps Oceanographic Institute
“Understanding subduction dynamics on Earth with numerical simulations based on data assimilation”
October 26
Guillem Anglada
CIW: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
"Precision astrometry and radial velocities of low mass stars - A data analysis approach to the detection of mini-solar systems"
September 2011
September 7
Alan Boss
CIW: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
"Challenges for Planet Formation Theories from Kepler and Microlensing"
September 14
Christian Klimczak
CIW: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
“Fracturing behavior of elastoplastic materials following Coulomb constitutive laws during anisochoric brittle deformation”
September 21
Benjamin Andrews
Smithsonian Institute
“Experimental insights into pyroclastic density currents and coignimbrites”
September 28
Martin Van Kranendonk
Geological Survey of Western Australia
“Contingent Events Leading to an Oxygenated Environment”
September 30--THURSDAY, 2:00 p.m.
Martin Van Kranendonk
Geological Survey of Western Australia
"VERTICAL TO HORIZONTAL TECTONICS: Secular evolution of the Archean Pilbara Craton, Western Australia”
July 2011
July 6
Alex Bortvin
CIW: Department of Embryology
"The taming of the dark matter of the genome"
July 20
Amy McAdam
"Interpreting the Signatures of Aqueous Alteration on Mars"
July 27
Julio Chaname
CIW/DTM
"The versatility of wide stellar binaries: from low-mass stars to the nature of dark matter"
June 2011
June 1
Thomas Statler
NSF
"Spinning Little Asteroids Up and Down"
June 2--THURSDAY
Maxim Ballmer
University of Hawaii
"Beyond classical mantle plume theory: new insights into the origin of Hawaiian volcanism"
June 8
Susan Benecchi
"Tracing the Migration of the Giant Planets using Small Bodies in the Outer Solar System"
June 15
"Finding the Needle in the Haystack: How Exozodiacal Dust May Obscure Images of ExoEarths"
June 22
"Geochemical insights into early volcanism in the East African Rift System"
June 29
"Cometary origin of the zodiacal cloud, micrometeorites and radar meteors"
May 2011
May 4
Christian Miller
CIW/DTM
"New thoughts on rhenium and molybdenum: Chasing after the ancient organic carbon cycle"
May 11
NO SEMINAR
MESSENGER STM
May 17
Jorge Vazquez
USGS
"Dating the evolution of voluminous rhyolite at Quaternary calderas using ion microprobe analysis"
May 18
Josef Dufek
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Multi-scale Dynamics in in Eruptive Processes"
May 25
Albert Fahey
NIST
"Further Studies of Post-detonation Nuclear debris: Surfaces, Fallout and Fission-Product Isotopic Systems"
April 2011
April 1--FRIDAY
Meghan Miller
USC
"From structure to dynamics: New insights into the Western US from the Earthscope USArray Project"
April 6
Christopher Herd
University of Alberta
"Heterogeneous Organic Matter in the Tagish Lake Meteorite"
April 13
Julia Lee
Harvard- Smithsonian, CFA
"Condensed Matter Astrophysics: A New Technique for Determining the Quantity and Composition of Interstellar Dust using X-rays from Black Holes"
April 20
Erwan Mazarico
NASA Goddard
"Planetary Geodesy: the Moon and beyond"
April 27
Marion Le Voyer
NIST
"Volatiles in arc volcanoes: insights from melt inclusions and their host mineral"
March 2011
March 1-- TUESDAY
Ed Garnero
Arizona State University
"Using Seismology to Decipher Multi-Scale Processes in Planetary Interiors"
March 2
No Seminar
March 9
No Seminar
LPSC Conference
March 16
Jonathan O'Neil
CIW/DTM
"A window through the Hadean time: The Nuvuaggittuq greenstone belt as a vestige of Earth's primitive crust"
March 23
Scott Tremaine
Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
"Black holes in the centers of nearby galaxies"
March 30
Eli Dwek
NASA Goddard
"The Origin of Dust in the Early Universe"
February 2011
February 2
Sebastian Tappe
University of Alberta
"The Carbonatite Conundrum: Perspectives from a diamond province in Greenland-Labrador"
February 3--THURSDAY
Amy Barr
Southwest Research Institute
"Fingerprints of Planet Formation and Dynamical Evolution Recorded on Jupiter's Moon Casllisto"
February 9
Wendy Nelson
CIW/ DTM
"Geochemical insights into early volcanism in the East African Rift System"
February 16
Craig Manning
UCLA
"Geofluids at the Extremes: Terrestrial and Planetary Contexts"
February 18--FRIDAY
Richard Carlson
CIW/DTM
"A recipe for Earth formation"
February 23
Linda T. Elkins-Tanton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Magma oceans and the early evolution of terrestrial planets"
February 25--FRIDAY
Edward Young
UCLA
"Astronomical and cosmochemical stable isotopic perspectives on the birth of the solar system: a tale of transdisciplinary science"
January 2011
January 5
No Seminar
January 13--THURSDAY
Thorsten Becker
University of Southern California
"Convective dynamics of the upper mantle from global geodynamic modeling and structural seismology"
January 19
Evgenya Shkolnik
CIW/ DTM
"Star-Planet Interactions: The Tidal and Magnetic Influence of Hot Jupiter on their Host Stars"
January 26
Nick Moskovitz
CIW/ DTM
"Differentiation of the earliest planetary bodies in the Solar System"
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