University of
Massachusetts
Geosciences Lecture Series
2009-2010
September 18, 2009
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and
Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Consequences of
Planetary Accretion: The Crust and Mantle before Convection
October 2, 2009
Talk to be held in Herter 227
State Geologist & Director
Arizona Geological Survey
Intelligent Design and
the Assault on Science and Religion
October 8, 2009
Special Thursday Lecture
Talk to be held in Morrill 4 South Room
159
Department of Earth Science
Oxford University
Darwin's Lost World: Searching
for the Hidden History of Animal Life
October 9, 2009
Department of Geography
Clark University
Earth
System Information Science
October 16, 2009
Department of Geology
Amherst College
Surfing Prevegetated Shorelines: The First Animals on Land
October 23, 2009
Department of Geological Sciences
Brown University
New Understanding of
Mars' Geologic Evolution
October 29, 2009
Special Thursday Lecture
Talk to be held in
Morrill 3 Room 203
Marvin (Nick) Saines and Dick Heeley
UMass Geosciences Alumnus
Preservation of Geologic
Features in Massachusetts and Nevada
October 30, 2009
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard University
Orbital
Pacing of Glacial Cycles During the Pleistocene
November 6, 2009
Department of Environmental Earth and
Ocean Sciences
University of Massachusetts-Boston
Holocene Landscape Evolution of
Boston Harbor – Cases from Rainsford Island and
Dorchester Bay
November 13, 2009
Department of Geography
University of Connecticut
Projected Precipitation Shifts in
the Annual Cycle of the Monsoons
November 20, 2009
Denis LeBlanc
United States Geological Survey
Cape Cod Toxic Substances Hydrology
Research Site
The Billion-Dollar
Groundwater Cleanup at the Massachusetts Military Reservation -- The Hydrologic
Story
December 4, 2009
Department of Geography
University of Oregon
The Geopolitical Implications of
Climate Change
January 29, 2010
David Snoeyenbos
Chesterfield, MA
Evidence of
Ultrahigh-pressure Metamorphism in Western Massachusetts
February 5, 2010
Department of Geosciences
Smith College
Pseudomorphs after Lawsonite, Syros, Greece
April 2, 2010
Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences
Harvard University
The Deep History of Life
April 9, 2010
Department of Geosciences
Williams College
Methane Release from
Bering Sea Sediments during the Last Glacial Period
April 16, 2010
Sponsored
by the Mineralogical Society of America
Department of
Geological Sciences
University of
Oregon
TBA
April
30, 2010
Ocean Leadership Distinguished
Lecturer Series
Department
of Geology
University
of Florida
From the Seafloor to the Seismogenic Zone: Fluid Flow in Earthquakes
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All lectures will be held in Morrill II,
room 136 at 3:30 PM unless otherwise noted.
For additional information, please
contact:
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts
611 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003-9297
Tel: (413) 545-2286
Fax (413) 545-1200
E-mail: lecture@geo.umass.edu
Updated
November 9, 2009