University of Massachusetts

Geosciences Lecture Series

2007-2008

 

 

 

September 21, 2007

Christopher Andronicos

Cornell University  

Melt Transport in the Lithosphere with Examples from New Mexico, Oman and British Columbia

 

October 12, 2007

Taylor Perron

Harvard University

Oceans on Mars and Rain on Titan: The Role of Fluids in Shaping Planetary Surfaces 

 

 

October 26, 2007

Talk held in Herter 227

George Cody

Carnegie Institution of Washington

Early Solar System History as Recorded in Extraterrestrial Organics in Meteorites and Comets

 

 

November 2, 2007

5 College GIS Day

Mei-Po Kwan

Ohio State University

Talk held in Isenberg School of Management Room 137

GIS and Spatial Social Science

 

 

 

November 16, 2007

Charlotte (Char) Mehrtens

University of Vermont

The Eastport Formation: Latest Silurian Back Arc Sedimentation in Eastern Maine and Adjacent New Brunswick

 

 

December 7, 2007

Ellen Thomas

Yale University

Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming: Earth 55 Million Years Ago

 

 

February 8, 2008

Gail Ashley

Rutgers University

The Critical Zone: A Deep Time Perspective
 
 
 

March 7, 2008

Phil Resor

Wesleyan University

Stretching the Crust - Earthquakes in Greece to Earth Structures in the Grand Canyon

 

 

 

March 28, 2008

Julia Morgan

Rice University

Landsliding and Volcanotectonics in Hawaii: New Evidence from Seismic Reflection, Tomography, and Particle Dynamics Simulations

 

 

April 8, 2008

Birdsall-Dreiss Lecture

Lecture starts at 5PM

163 Campus Center

Larry McKay

University of Tennessee

Cracks in the Clay: The Role of Fractures and Macropores in Critical Zone Hydrology

 

 

April 11, 2008

Mark Feigenson

Rutgers University

Geochemistry of Central American Lavas

 

 

April 18, 2008

Graham Young

Manitoba Museum, University of Manitoba

Insights into the Ecology of Ordovician Shorelines

 

 

April 25, 2008

Carl Renshaw

Dartmouth College

Faulting:  Going Big, Going Deep -- Lessons from Ice

 

 

May 2, 2008

Joint Oceanographic Institutions Distinguished Lecturer

Ellen Martin

University of Florida

Tales of Deep Ocean Circulation Told by Tiny Fish Teeth

 

 

May 9, 2008

Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecture Series in Ground Water Science
Michael Celia
Princeton University

Geological Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option

 

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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 October 30, 2007