September 2007

September 5
Ann Nguyen
DTM
"Abundant Silicate Stardust in Extraterrestrial Materials"

September 12
Alycia Weinberger
DTM
"Compositions of Circumstellar Disks and Implications for Planets Within Them"

September 19
Marc Kuchner
NASA Goddard
"Terrestrial Planet Finding 1,2,3"

September 26
Alan Boss
DTM
"A Heretic's Approach to Solar System Formation"

October 2007

October 3
Andy Fruchter
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
"Gamma-Ray Bursts from a Safe Distance"

October 10
Edward Guinan
Villanova
"Living with a Red Dwarf: Dynamo-generated X-ray-UV Emissions and Effects on Hosted Planets"

October 17
Lara Wagner
DTM
"Lies, damned lies, and seismic tomography: Limits on constraining upper mantle compositions using tomographically determined seismic velocities"

October 24
Bruce Campbell
Smithsonian Institution
"New Radar Studies of the Moon and Mars"

October 31
Stephen Richardson
University of Cape Town
"Episodic Diamond Genesis and Archean Craton Evolution"

November 2007

November 7
Laurent Montesi
University of Maryland
"Mantle Flow and Melting and Ultraslow and Oblique Mid-Ocean Ridges"

November 14
Drake Deming
NASA Goddard
"Infrared Light from Extrasolar Planets"

November 21
No Seminar-Thanksgiving Holiday

November 28
Erik Hauri
DTM
What Comes Around Goes Around: Mantle Convection and the Meaning of Mantle Isochrons

December 2007

December 5
No Seminar

December 12
Angelle Tanner
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
"Are M Dwarfs Good Targets for Planet Finding and Do We Care?"

December 19 - Rescheduled
Amandine-Marie Cagnioncle
Brown University
"Fluid Distribution and Melt Production at Subduction Zones"

December 26
No Seminar-Winter Break

January 2008

January 2
No Seminar

January 9
Amandine-Marie Cagnioncle
Brown University
"Fluid Distribution and Melt Production at Subduction Zones"

January 16 - Cancelled
Meenakshi Wadhwa
Arizona State University
"TBA"

January 23
Glenn MacPherson
Smithsonian Institution
"Stardust, Comet Dust, and a Grain Named Inti: An Alternative View"

January 30
Liping Qin
DTM
"High-Preccision Isotope Analyses and the Early Solar System"

February 2008

February 6
Alex Song
DTM
"Slab Meltin and Serpentinization: A Seismological Perspective"

February 13
John Debes
DTM
"Tracking Planetesimals from the Cradle to the Grave"

February 20
Hersh Gilbert
Purdue University
"Lithospheric Foundering in Continental Deformation"

February 27
DTM Staff Extravaganza
DTM
Join us in the lecture hall for series of presentations by DTM's Staff Members that will highlight their current research and interests

March 2008

March 6 (Thursday)
Erwan Martin
University of Oregon
"Sulfer and Triple Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry of Soluble Sulfate in Detailed 'Supervolcanic' Ash Record"

March 12
No Seminar-LPSC Conference

March 19
Max Bernstein
SETI Institute
"Extraterrestrial Carbon Compounds and the Search for Life in the Solar System: Radiation Chemistry as a Source of False Biomarkers"

March 26
DTM Postdoc Extravaganza
DTM
Join us in the lecture hall for series of presentations by DTM's Postdocs that will highlight their current research and interests

April 2008

April 2
Alberto Saal
Brown University
"The Volatile Content of the Lunar Volcanic Glasses: Evidence for the Presence of Water in the Moon's Interior"

April 9
Stacy McGaugh
University of Maryland
"Cosmic Flights of Fancy: Mass and the Gravity that Moves it"

April 16
Matt Fouch
Arizona State University (DTM Visiting Investigator)
"Mantle Structure and Dynamics of the Northwestern United States"

April 23
Greg Beroza
Stanford University
"Episodic Tremor and Slip: Close Relatives in the Slow Earthquake Family"

April 30
Edo Berger
Princeton University
"Gamma Ray Bursts: From Progenitors to Probes"

May 2008

May 7
Doug Rumble
CIW/GL
"Astronomers do it with Light, Cosmochemists do it with Isotopes"

May 14
Carey Lisse
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
"Dusty Disks and Comets: Clues to the Formation and Evolution of the Solar System"

May 21
Christine Chen
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
"The Origin and Evolution of Dust and Gas in Debris Disks"

May 28
No Seminar-Spring AGU

June 2008

June 4
No Seminar

June 11
Bob Hazen
CIW/GL
"Mineralogical co-evolution of the geo- and biospheres"

June 18
Jonathan Aurnou
UCLA
"Models of libration-driven sub-surface fluid dynamics"

June 25
Moritz Heimpel
University of Alberta
"Numerical models of planetary magnetic fields: Is Mercury a special case?"

July 2008

July 2

July 9
Jeff McGuire, Brinson Lecture
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"Earthquake Swarms Triggered by Aseismic Fault Slip"

July 16
Neta Bahcall
Princeton University
"Weighing the Universe"

July 23

July 30

*Friday Seminar