September 2008

September 3
Linda Warren
NSF
“Deep Earthquake Mechanics, Slab Deformation, and Subduction Forces”

September 10
Lisa Prato
Lowell Observatory
“Young Planets in Visible and Infrared Light: Spots’ Tricks"

September 17
No Seminar

September 24—Cancelled
Isamu Matsuyama
DTM
“Rotational Stability and Global Tectonic Patterns of Planetary Bodies”

October 2008

October 1
Mark Harrison
UCLA
“Probing the Dark Age: Crust-Water Interactions on Hadean Earth”

October 8
No Seminar—GSA

October 15
Sridhard Anandakrishnan
Penn State
“Slip Slidin’ Away: What Every (Astronomer, Geophysicist, Seismologist, Cosmochemist) Should Know About Glaciers!”

October 22
Matt Jackson
CIW/ DTM
“The Fate of Subducted Continental Crust in the Earth’s Mantle: Evidence from the Samoan Hotspot”

October 29
Laura Herbert
University of Maryland
“A Coupled Geochemical and Geodynamic Approach to Subduction Zone Modeling"

November 2008

November 5
Mauren Long
CIW/ DTM
“Adventures in Anisotrophy at the Base of the Mantle”

November 12
Ming-Chang Liu
CIW/ DTM
“Origin of Short-Lived Radionuclides and Early Solar System Chronology”

November 19
Mercedes Lopez-Morales
CIW/ DTM
“Thermal Emission from Extrasolar Planets”

November 26
No Seminar—Thanksgiving

December 2008

December 2
Brinson Lecture
Emily Brodsky
UC-Santa Cruz
“Triggering Earthquakes by Seismic Waves”

December 10
Stephane Rondenay
MIT
“Geophysical Probing of the Slave Craton: New Insight into the Assembly of an Archean Continent”

December 17--No Seminar—AGU

December 24
No Seminar—Holidays

December 31
No Seminar—Holidays

January 2009

January 7
No Seminar

January 14
Wen-Che Yu
CIW/ DTM
“Nature of Intermediate and deep-focus earthquakes examined by repeating earthquakes in the southwest Pacific subduction zone”

January 21
Francis Nimmo
UC-Santa Cruze
“What’s Going on at Enceladus?”

January 28
Adrian Brown
NASA Ames
“Mars-South Polar Mapping by CRISM on MRO: First year of observations”

February 2009

February 4
No Seminar

February 11
No Seminar

February 18
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay
Harvard
“A ‘noble’ view mantle structure and convection”

February 25
Julie O’Leary
CIW/ DTM
“Water Cycling in Subduction Zone Systems: Constraints from the Solubility of Water in Olivine and Silicate Liquids”

March 2009

March 4
Brinson Lecture
Satoshi Ide
University of Tokyo
“The Characteristics, scaling and interpretation of slow earthquakes”

March 11
Einat Lev
MIT
“Mantle anisotropy and the unearthing of Earth’s internal flows”

March 16
Johnathan Aurnou
UCLA
“Mapping behavioral transitions in planetary fluid dynamics”

March 25
No Seminar

April 2009

April 1
Inese Ivans
Carnegie Observatories
“Clues to the Building Blocks of the Universe from Old Stellar Populations and their Chemical Compositions”

April 8
No Seminar

April 15
David Shelly
US Geological Survey
“Deciphering tremor beneath the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, CA: Implications for deep fault slip before and after the 2004 earthquake”

April 22
Lianxing Wen
SUNY Stony Brook
“Dynamics of Mars and Origin of Tharsis”

April 29
Dimitri Veras
University of Florida
“Formation, Survival, and Detectability of Planets Beyond 100 AU”

May 2009

May 4
Mark Behn
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"Mechanism for Rapid Drainage of Supra-Glacial Lakes on the Greenland ice sheet”

May 13
No Seminar

May 20
Michael Mumma
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
“Methane on Mars—Geology, Biology, Neither or Both?”

May 27
Andy Freed
Purdue University
“Detecting Viscous Flow in the Upper Mantle: Implications for Earthquake Triggering”

June 2009

June 3
Terry Plank
Columbia University
"New Geothermometers for Estimating Slab Surface Temperatures"

June 10
Conel Alexander
CIW/ DTM
“How to build a chondrite and what it tells us about the formation of the Solar System”

June 17
No Seminar

June 24
No Seminar

July 2009

July 1
No Seminar

July 8
Erik Hauri
CIW/ DTM
“Water in the Interiors of the Earth and Moon: Origins and Consequences”

July 15
No Seminar

July 22
Peter Van Keken
University of Michigan
“An Anisotropic View of Subduction Zones (and a mantle plume or two)”

July 29
Kaveh Pahlevan
Caltech
“TBD”