September 2009

September 9
John Chambers
CIW/ DTM
“Planetesimal Formation by Turbulent Concentration”

September 16
Elizabeth Turtle
Applied Physics Laboratory
“Cassini-Huygens Observations on the Surface of Titan"


September 23
Jim Sanborn
“Terrestrial Physics: Connecting Art and Science”

Maryland artist Jim Sanborn's newest exhibition, "Terrestrial Physics," is inspired by the night of 28 January 1939 when Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi used DTM's particle accelerator to smash an atom, confirming that nuclear fission was possible. Among the installations in "Terrestrial Physics" is a large-scale copy of DTM's Van de Graff Generator.

September 30
James Day
University of Maryland
“Constraining Planet Formation Using the Highly Siderophile Elements"

October 2009

October 7
CIW/ DTM
“Behind the Arc Volcanism--Why?”

October 14
Mercedes Lopez-Morales
CIW/ DTM
“Present and Future of Exoplanet Atmosphere Ground-Based Studies”

October 21
Ben Holtzman
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/ Columbia University
“Feedbacks in the Melt Transport and the Dynamics of Divergent Plate Boundaries"

October 28
U.J. Sofia
American University
“Interstellar Dust: The Universe Through Rose-Colored Glasses”

November 2009

November 4
Pascal Audet
University of California, Berkeley
“The Seismic Signature of Water in the Forearc of Cascadia”

November 11
No Seminar--Veterans Day Holiday

November 18
Wen-che Yu
CIW/ DTM
“Monitoring Structural Change Along the Sumatra Subduction Zone Using Repeating Earthquakes”

November 25
No Seminar—Thanksgiving

December 2009

December 2
David James
CIW/ DTM
“The Snake River Plain/ Yellowstone Story: A Cautionary Tale of Problematic Plumes and Shifting Plates”

December 8 (Tuesday)
Darcy Ogden
Stanford University
“Rockets Made of Rocks? The Dynamics and Hazards of Volcanic Jets"

December 16

No Seminar—AGU

December 24
No Seminar—Winter Holiday

December 31
No Seminar--Winter Holiday

January 2010

January 6
Karin Sigloch
University of Munich
“The Mantle Beneath Yellowstone: Lots of Slab, But is There a Plume?”

January 13
Chin-Wu Chen
CIW/ DTM
“Teleseismic Imaging of the Slave Craton and Implications for the Assembly of Cratonic Lithosphere"

January 20
Michael Bostock
University of British Columbia
“Continental Evolution and the Telseismic Signature of Fossil Subduction”

January 27
Colleen Dalton
Boston University
“Imaging and Interpreting Seismic Attenuation in the Mantle”

February 2010

February 3
Diana Roman
University of South Florida
“Cryptovolcanic Earthquake Swarms: A Synthesis of Cast Studies from the Aleutian Arc"

February 10
Elizabeth Cochran
University of California, Riverside
“Using Innovative Sensing and Distributed Compuing to Build Dense Seismic Networks”

February 17
Vala Hjorleifsdottir
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
“Imaging Earthquake Sources by Reversing Time"

February 24
Margaret Boettcher
University of New Hampshire
“Oceanic Transform Fault Seismicity: Predictable Earthquakes”

March 2010

March 4
No Seminar

March 10
Seth Redfield
Wesleyan University
“Comparative Exoplanetology: Observing the Atmospheres of Transitive Exoplanets”

March 17
Katelyn Allers
Bucknell University
“Needles in the Haystack: Efficient Methods for Finding Young Brown Dwarfs”

March 24
Stefanie Hautmann
DTM/ University of Bristol
“Magma Chamber Dynamics of the Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat”

March 31
Keivan Stassun
Vanderbilt University
“Building Bridges to Diversity in Physics and Astronomy”

April 2010

April 7
Daoyuan Sun
CIW/ DTM
“Upper Mantle Structures Beneath USArray Derived from Waveform Complexity”

April 14
Ernst Zinner - DTM Merle A. Tuve Fellow
Washington University, St. Louis
“Stardust in the Laboratory: Where do we Stand?”


April 21
No Seminar


April 27 (Tuesday, 2:00 p.m.)
Albrecht Hofmann
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
“A Journey into the Hawaiian Plume: From Top to Bottom and Back”

April 28
Elizabeth Cochran
University of California, Los Angeles
“Using Innovative Sensing and Distributed Computing to Build Dense Seismic Networks"

May 2010

May 5
Nick Schmerr
CIW/ DTM
"Imaging Seismic Discontinuities: Evidence for Thermal and Chemical Heterogeneity in Earth's Mantle”

May 12
Michael Cushing
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
“Ultracool Atmospheres: From Brown Dwarfs to Exoplanets”

May 19
Jonathan Wynn
University of South Florida
“Differing decomposition rates of soil carbon derived from C30- and C4- plants: implications for global carbon cycle accounting”

May 26
Mathieu Touboul
University of Maryland
“Late formation of the Moon deduced from 182Hf-182W chronometry and implications for Earth's accretion and differentiation”

June 2010

June 3
No Seminar


June 10
Peter Baines
University of Melbourne
“Patterns of Decadel Climate Variability”

June 16
Alan Boss
CIW/ DTM
“Supernovae, Short-lived and Stable Isotopes, and the Solar Nebula”

June 23
Axel Schmidt
University of California, Los Angeles
“Crystal Messengers from the Plutonic Roots of Arc Volcanoes”

June 30
Simon Thode
Johns Hopkins University
“Science at Sea: the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism Pacific Ocean Survey and the Ship as Magnetic Observatory”

July 2010

July 7
No Seminar

July 14
No Seminar

July 21
Vera Rubin
CIW/ DTM
“What We Know and What We Don't Know About the Cosmos”

July 28
No Seminar