University of
Massachusetts
Geosciences Lecture Series
2008-2009
September 12, 2008
Rutgers University
Thermal and Lithological
Characteristics of OIB Sources
September 19, 2008
Tony Philpotts
University of Massachusetts
Anisotropy of
Magnetic Susceptibility in Determining Flow Direction of Magma
September 26, 2008
Andreas Magganas
University of Athens
Greek Ophiolites: Their
Role in the Formation and Evolution of the Western Tethyan Mantle and
Oceanic Crust
October 15, 2008
Special Wednesday Lecture
University of
Wollongong
The Origin
of Granite: Fifty Years after Tuttle and Bowen
October 17, 2008
Talk to be held in Herter 227
University of Bristol
Biomolecular Tools for
Paleoclimatologists
October 24, 2008
Talk to be held in Herter 227
University of Arizona
Mars at Sub-Meter Scales
from MRO's HiRISE
November 7, 2008
Lafayette College
Into the Icehouse:
Northern Hemisphere Glaciation - A Sea Surface Perspective
November 14, 2008
Tufts University
Geohydrology of Faults
in Southern California
December 5, 2008
Columbia University
Calibration of the
Chaotic Evolution of the Solar System using a "Geological
Interferometer" from the Sedimentary Record
February 20, 2009
Clark University
From Sea
Ice to Peatlands: Siberia as a Harbinger of Arctic and Global Change
March 27, 2009
Talk to be held in Skinner 112
Trinity College
Magnetic Properties of
Soils and Their Use in Paleoclimate Reconstruction
April 3, 2009
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Geochemical
Extremes in South Atlantic Oceanic Basalts – Shallow Versus Deep Recycled
April 10, 2009
Indiana University
Flume Studies of
Mudstone Deposition and Erosion
May 1, 2009
Oregon State
University
Seismotectonics of the
Boundary between Thin- and Thick-Skin Thrust Faulting in Western Argentina
May 8, 2009
Talk to be held in the Integrated Science Building 221
Yale University
Extraordinary
Fossils: Windows on the Evolution of Marine Life
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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 May 5th,
2009