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Support for the Visiting Scholars Program is provided by Peter C. Hein and Anne Farley
Oct 1 – Cin-Ty Lee, Rice University
Igneous Petrology
"Making andesites, copper porphyries and continental crust"
Oct 15 – Tom Williams, University of Florida
Chemical Oceanography
"Neodymium isotopes as a tracer for ocean circulation across the last glacial cycle"
Oct 29 – Steven Jaret, AMNH
Geochemistry/Planetary Science
"Impact Melts as Unique Igneous Environments – insight from isotope geochemistry"
Nov 5 – Melissa Sims, Johns Hopkins University
High Pressure Mineralogy
"Studying Meteorite Impacts Using Rapid Compression"
Nov 12 – Logan Brenner, Barnard College
"Coral record of Younger Dryas Chronozone warmth on the Great Barrier Reef with Isopora fossils"
Nov 19 – Tanya Kizovski, University of Toronto
Meteoritics
"A new type of hydrous alteration on Mars? Investigating the unique textures of olivine in Martian meteorite NWA 7042"
Dec 3 – Nick Tailby and Denton Ebel, AMNH
Experimental Petrology
"What Are We Doing in the EPS Experimental Petrology Lab?"
*Jan 21, 2021 - 11 a.m.
Erwin Dehouck, Université Claude Bernard Lyon
"Ancient aqueous alteration at Gale crater, Mars: insights from geochemistry"
Feb 25, 2021 - Philipp Heck, Field Museum
"E.T.s underground: fossil micrometeorites and meteorites from Earth’s sedimentary record"
March 4, 2021 - Catherine Davis, Yale
Paleoclimate
"TBD"
April 8, 2021 - Yves Moussallam, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
Experimental Petrology
"TBD"
April 15, 2021 - Emily H.G. Cooperdock, University of Southern California
Metamorphic Petrology
"TBD"
May 6, 2021 - Kennda Lynch, Lunar & Planetary Institute
Astrobiology
"TBD"
May 13, 2021 - Kennet Flores, Brooklyn College
Metamorphic Petrology
"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: Virtual until further notice.
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