Earth and Planetary Sciences Spring 2013 Seminars

Thursdays at 1 p.m., EPS Conference Room

 

Thursday, January 24:
PATRICIA NADEAU - AMNH
"Ultraviolet digital imaging of volcanic plumes: Implementation and application to magmatic processes at basaltic volcanoes"

*Friday, February 8 - 1:30 PM :
        *Note: Seminar will be held in the RGGS Lecture Hall (5th floor, across from the Mammalogy Dept)
MATT KOHN - Boise State University.  Matt Kohn is one of this year’s “Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturers.”
"How to become a fossil: a geochemist's guide"

Thursday, February 14:
ALEXANDRA NAVROTSKY - University of California, Davis
"Mineral Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale"

Thursday, February 21:
FRANCIS McCUBBIN - Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico
"Magmatic volatiles in the inner solar system: Constraints from apatite in planetary materials and apatite-melt partitioning experiments"

Thursday, February 28:  No Seminar

Thursday, March 7 - 1:30 PM:
ALEX HUBBARD - AMNH
"Short Circuits: Lightning in Protoplanetary Disks"

Thursday, MARCH 14 - 1:30 PM:
ALFREDO PETROV - MINDAT
"Collecting minerals on Japanese volcanoes"

Thursday, MARCH 21:
No Seminar - Lunar & Planetary Science Conference

Thursday, March 28: 
DAVID LONDON - University of Oklahoma
"Chemical Diffusion in Granitic Liquids, with Applications"

Thursday, April 4:
BLAIR SCHOENE - Princeton University
"Combined zircon geochemistry and high-precision U-Pb geochronology as monitors of magmatic processes"

Thursday, April 11: No Seminar

Thursday, April 18:
CLIVE OPPENHEIMER - University of Cambridge
"Erebus volcano: an outstanding laboratory in Antarctica"

*Friday, April 26 - 1:30 PM:
        *Note: Seminar will be held in the RGGS Lecture Hall (5th floor, across from the Mammalogy Dept)
HAROLD CONNOLLY, JR. - CUNY - Kingsborough Community College
"OSIRIS-REx: NASA - New Frontiers Program Asteroid Sample Return Mission"

Thursday, May 2:
CELESTE MERCER - USGS - DENVER
"TBD"

Thursday, MAY 9:
JON ABBATT - Centre for Global Change Science, University of Toronto
"Atmospheric Aerosols: Sources, Reactivity and Potential Impacts"

Thursday, MAY 16:
ELLEN CRAPSTER-PREGONT - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"TBD"

Thursday, MAY 30:
PHILIPP RUPRECHT - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"TBD"

When: The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the American Museum of Natural History holds seminars on most Thursdays during the academic year. Please refer to the current schedule for more details.

Where: Seminars are held in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences conference room.

Directions: The department is located on the fourth floor close to the Information Desk in the Wallach Orientation Center on the south or 77th Street side of the building. The entrance to the department is to the right of the movie screen. A phone at the door can be used to contact Tricia Nadeau (x5314) or Nanette Nicholson (x5390) for entry. Visitors who wish to attend the seminar are invited to contact Tricia or Nanette in advance for more detailed directions, or to arrange for someone to meet you at one of the museum entrances.

Mailing list: Information about upcoming seminars are sent via e-mail a few days before the scheduled date. If you would like to be on the mailing list to receive information about our seminars, please send an e-mail to pnadeau@amnh.org.