University of Massachusetts

Geosciences Lecture Series

2008-2009

 

September 12, 2008

Claude Herzberg

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

Bruce Chappell

University of Wollongong

The Origin of Granite:  Fifty Years after Tuttle and Bowen

 

October 17, 2008

Talk to be held in Herter 227

Geoffrey Eglinton

University of Bristol

Biomolecular Tools for Paleoclimatologists

 

October 24, 2008

Talk to be held in Herter 227

Alfred S. McEwen

University of Arizona

Mars at Sub-Meter Scales from MRO's HiRISE

 

November 7, 2008

Kira Lawrence

Lafayette College

Into the Icehouse: Northern Hemisphere Glaciation - A Sea Surface Perspective

 

November 14, 2008

Grant Garven

Tufts University

Geohydrology of Faults in Southern California

 

December 5, 2008

Paul Olsen

Columbia University

Calibration of the Chaotic Evolution of the Solar System using a "Geological Interferometer" from the Sedimentary Record

 

February 20, 2009

Karen Frey

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

Christoph Geiss

Trinity College

Magnetic Properties of Soils and Their Use in Paleoclimate Reconstruction

 

April 3, 2009

Cornelia Class

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Geochemical Extremes in South Atlantic Oceanic Basalts – Shallow Versus Deep Recycled 

 

April 10, 2009

Juergen Schieber

Indiana University

Flume Studies of Mudstone Deposition and Erosion

 

May 1, 2009

Andrew Meigs

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

Derek Briggs

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