University of Massachusetts

Geosciences Lecture Series

2009-2010

 

September 18, 2009

Linda Elkins-Tanton

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

M. Lee Allison

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

Martin Brasier

Department of Earth Science

 Oxford University

Darwin's Lost World: Searching for the Hidden History of Animal Life

 

 

October 9, 2009

Ronald Eastman

Department of Geography

Clark University

Earth System Information Science

 

 

October 16, 2009

James “Whitey” Hagadorn

Department of Geology

Amherst College

Surfing Prevegetated Shorelines: The First Animals on Land

 

 

 

October 23, 2009

John Mustard

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

Peter Huybers

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Harvard University

Orbital Pacing of Glacial Cycles During the Pleistocene

 

 

November 6, 2009

Allen Gontz

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

Anji Seth

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

Alexander Murphy

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

John Brady

Department of Geosciences

Smith College

Pseudomorphs after Lawsonite, Syros, Greece

 

 

April 2, 2010

Andrew Knoll

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Harvard University

The Deep History of Life

 

 

April 9, 2010

Mea Cook

Department of Geosciences

Williams College

Methane Release from Bering Sea Sediments during the Last Glacial Period

 

 

April 16, 2010

Katharine V. Cashman

Sponsored by the Mineralogical Society of America

Department of Geological Sciences

University of Oregon

TBA

 

 

April 30, 2010

Elizabeth Screaton

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