Previous Seminars
Past seminars hosted by the Department of Earth and Planetary Science.
Thursday, August 28 – Geoffrey Howarth, Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Olivine and the origin of CLIPPIR diamonds
Thursday, September 18 – Aleksandr (Sasha) Stepanov, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Fluoride melts on Earth: Myth or reality?
Tuesday, September 30 (1:30pm) – Ellen Druffel, Professor and Fred Kavli Chair in Earth System Science at the University of California Irvine, Dissolved Organic Carbon and Radiocarbon in the World Ocean
Thursday, October 23 (1:00pm) – Aaron Wolf, Carl Sagan Center, The SETI Institute, Silicate Melts: A Driving Force in Rocky Planet Evolution
Friday, November 7 – Damanveer Grewal, Yale University, Rethinking the origin of volatiles in the inner solar system: Insights from iron meteorites
Wednesday, November 12 – Mike Rumsey, Natural History Museum, The importance of ‘depth’ in a mineral collection for systematic research - recent NHM examples
Monday, November 24 (2:00pm) – Mike Acquafredda, Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory at Rutgers, Less like mules, more like labradoodles: Atlantic surfclam subspecies (Spisula solidissima solidissima and S. s. similis) can produce fertile hybrid offspring
Friday, December 5 – Jeffrey Catalano, Washington University in St. Louis, Follow the Electrons: Mineralogical Controls and Signatures of Planetary Habitability with Jeff Catalano
Wednesday, February 19 – 11:00 am – Gideon Henderson, UK Government's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the University of Oxford, The potential and risks of atmospheric CO2 removal in net zero pathways: Science and policy reflections.
Thursday, February 27 – 11:00 am – Philipp Ruprecht, University of Nevada Reno, The natural laboratory of Puyehue-Cordón Caulle that links crustal scale magmatism to eruption dynamics: When and how do rhyolitic magmas blow up?
Wednesday, March 12 – 11:00 am – Samantha Tramontano, American Museum of Natural History, Tephra tales: linking petrologic and seismic records of volcanic processes during recent months-long basaltic eruptions.
Wednesday, April 02 – 11:00 am – Nester Korolev, American Museum of Natural History, Mineral and fluid inclusions in diamonds: insights into the water and volatile cycle in the Earth’s deep mantle.
Wednesday, April 09 – 11:00 am – Jane Alexander, College of Staten Island, Ancient earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Newark Basin rift valley - Clues from geochemical signatures in sedimentary rocks.
Tuesday, April 22 – 11:00 am – Aaron Bell, University of Colorado Boulder, Angrites - Exploring the Origins of the Most Unusual Basalts in the Solar System.
Wednesday, May 07 – 11:00 am – David McGee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Insights into Madagascar’s Climate and Megafaunal Extinctions from Speleothems.
Wednesday, May 14 – 11:00 am – Penny Wieser, University of California Berkeley, Raman Spectroscopy Analysis of Fluid Inclusions: Unveiling Secrets of Ocean Island Volcanoes and Enhancing Rapid Response during Eruptions.
Tuesday, September 17 – Chris Piecuch, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, W(h)ither the Gulf Stream?
Wednesday, September 25 – Maarten de Moor, OVSICORI-UNA, Exploring the Hydrothermal to Magmatic Transition from a Volcanic Gas Perspective: Implications for Eruption Forecasting and Global Gas Emissions Budgets.
Tuesday, October 22 – Cassandra Seltzer, MIT, LDEO, Deformation of LL6 Chondrites under Confining Pressures Relevant to Icy Moon Interiors.
Wednesday, November 13 – Sigurður Reynir Gíslason, University of Iceland, Carbon Capture and Storage in Minerals: The CarbFix Method.
Tuesday, December 3 – Laura Haynes, Vassar College, Reconstructing the Past, Predicting the Future: Insights from Foraminifera Culture Experiments.
March 20 – Juan Carlos de Obeso, University of Utah (MSA distinguished lecture), Sparkling Water and Peridotite: Serpentinization and Carbonation in the Mantle Wedge
April 3 – Benjamin J. Andrews, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Why Are Obsidians Crystal-Free?
April 17 – Liam S. Morrissey, Memorial University, Atomistic Approaches to Better Understand the Surface-Exosphere Connection on the Moon and Mercury
April 24 – Celine Martin, American Museum of Natural History, Fluid Paths in Subduction Zones: Insights from Boron Isotopes in Serpentinites
May 1 – Leanne Melbourne, American Museum of Natural History, To Break or Not to Break: Engineering Approaches to Coastal Ecosystems
May 8 – Cin-Ty Lee, Rice University, From Mantle to Crust and the Making of Magmatic Ore Deposits
May 15 – Federico Caro, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Earth Sciences in an Art Museum: How Scientific Research Helps Understanding and Preserving Works of Art
September 6 – Yakov Weiss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Isotope Analyses and Compositions of Diamond-Forming Fluids - Past, Present and Future
October 4 – Russell Bicknell, American Museum of Natural History, Expanding the Understanding of Predatory Arthropods Using Virtual Palaeobiological Tools
November 1 – Ilana Wainer, Universidade de São Paolo, Tracing AMOC Shifts: Insights from the South Atlantic's Climate Past and Future
November 8 – Alyssa Atwood, Florida State University, Tropical Pacific Climate Change Over the Last 7,000 Years - A Coral Ensemble Approach
November 15 – Bradley Pitcher, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Sub-Millennial Timescales of Eruptible Rhyolite Accumulation Prior to the Caldera-Forming Eruption of Aira, Japan
November 29 – Annie Bauer, University of Wisconsin - Madison, The Tectonic Regimes of the Earliest Continents
December 6 – Laura Haynes, Vassar College, Foraminifera as Recorders of Past Climate and Bellwethers of Future Change
January 13 – Esteban Gazel, Cornell University, New Fluid Inclusions Frontiers for Volcanic Eruptions
January 25 – Peter Kelemen, LDEO Columbia University, Carbon Mineralization for CO2 Removal from Air and Permanent Solid Storage
February 1 – James Dottin, Carnegie Institution for Science, Isotopic Constraints on the Lunar Sulfur Cycle
February 15 – Steven Jaret, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, Minerals Under Extreme Conditions
March 14 – Yvonne Sawall, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, Coral Thermal Tolerance and Thermal Stress Mitigation
March 15 – Damian Grundle, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, Nitrous Oxide Cycling in the Ocean: It’s No Laughing (Gas) Matter
March 22 – Chloe Bonamici, University of Wisconsin–Madison, High-Temperature Water-Rock Interactions in Metamorphic Core Complexes
March 29 – Niels de Winter, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Sclerochronogy: Reading Mollusk Shell Archives of Short-Term Climate Change
April 5 – Sidney Hemmings, LDEO Columbia University, Probing Antarctica’s Glacial History with Marine Sediments
April 10 – Alberto Vitaleb, Università di Bologna, Extreme Energy from the Deepest Roots of Serpentinization at Convergent Margins
April 19 – Marc-Antoine Longpré, Queens College, CUNY, Linking Melt Composition to Monitoring Data at Cumbre Vieja Volcano
May 3 – Andrew Cross, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Phase Transformations as a Source of Transient Weakening in Earth’s Crust and Mantle
May 10 – Sherilyn Williams-Stroud, Illinois State Geological Survey, The Illinois Basin – Decatur Project: Characterization, Monitoring, and Machine Teaching
May 17 - Gabriela Farfan, Smithsonian Institute of Natural History, A Mineral Perspective on How Biominerals Record Their Environments
October 19 – Dr. Eleanor Armstrong (Stockholm University) and Kopo Oromeng (University of Delaware), Labors of Unearthing the Collection
October 26 – Ryan Glaubke (Rutgers University), A Deglacial History of the El Niño - Southern Oscillation from the Eastern Equatorial Pacific
November 16 – Professor Michael Weisberg (Kingsborough Community College), Enstatite Chondrites - Their Complex History and Relationship to the Terrestrial Planets
November 30 – Dr. Evan Smith (Gemological Institute of America), The Superdeep Frontier of Diamonds
December 9 – Professor Donna Whitney (University of Minnesota), Lawsonite Composition as a Tracer of Subduction Processes
January 19 - Kelsey Young, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, “Preparations for Artemis and the Return to the Moon”
January 26 - Sarah Penniston-Dorland, University of Maryland, "Applying crystal clocks to metamorphic rocks: Using Li isotopes in garnet to constrain fluid flow processes during subduction metamorphism”
February 9 - Kelsey Prissel, Ph.D. JACOBS NASA Johnson Space Center
February 16 - Aaron Palke, Gemological Institute of America
February 23 - Kris Karnauskas, University of Colorado Boulder, “The equatorial current system from underwater gliders off the Galápagos Islands”
March 2 - Danna Titelboim, Oxford, "Too hot to handle? The effect of future warming on benthic foraminifera."
March 23 - Ben Bostick, Lamont
March 30 - Thomas Bauska, British Antarctic Survey and University of Cambridge, Field of study: ice cores, isotopes, and climate.
April 6 - Joellen Russell, University of Arizona
April 20 - Aidan Starr, Rutgers, “Circumpolar flow and deep stratification through the mid-Pleistocene Southern Ocean”
April 27 - Emily Cooperdock
May 4 - Shaunna Morrison, Carnegie, “Driving Curiosity: Exploring martian geology and habitability through mineralogy”
Wednesday Oct 20 - Patrick Rafter, University of California, Irvine. Keck Carbon Cycle Laboratory, Paleoceanography and Radiocarbon
Wednesday Oct 27 - Riovie Ramos,William Paterson University, Can past climates constrain parameterizations in climate models?
Wednesday Nov 3 - Kelsi Singer, Southwest Research Institute, Planetary Geology -- Pluto and New Horizons
Wednesday Nov 17 - Kat Allen University of Maine, Carbon storage and ocean circulation during the last ice age
Wednesday Dec 8 - Munir Humayun, Florida State University, Meteoritics
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, Paleoclimate, 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 - Erwin Dehouck, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Mars Geology, Ancient aqueous alteration at Gale crater, Mars: insights from geochemistry.
Feb 25, 2021 - Philipp Heck, Field Museum, Meteoritics, E.T.s underground: fossil micrometeorites and meteorites from Earth’s sedimentary record.
March 4, 2021 - Catherine Davis, Yale University, Paleoclimate, Big stories in tiny shells: Tales from the pelagic oxygen minimum zone.
April 8, 2021 - Yves Moussallam, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University, Experimental Petrology, What do volcanic gases tell us?
April 22, 2021 - Dr. George Guice, Smithsonian Institution, Metamorphic Petrology, Using ultramafic rocks to reconstruct complex geological evolution: case studies from Maryland (USA) and Scotland (UK).
May 6, 2021 - Kennda Lynch, Lunar & Planetary Institute, Astrobiology, Life Finds A Way: Ascertaining the Characteristics of Perchlorate-supported Ecosystems on Habitable Worlds in our Solar System.
May 13, 2021 - Kennet Flores, Brooklyn College, Metamorphic Petrology, Record of fluid-rock interaction on a long-lived subduction channel.
*January 16 - 11 a.m.
John Wilkin, Rutgers University
"Using satellites, radars, robots, trawlers, turtles, computers and calculus to forecast the oceanography of northeast U.S. coastal and shelf waters"
January 23
Shannon Valley, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Since the Last Glaciation"
*Wednesday, January 29
Lujendra Ojha, Rutgers University
"An Early Hot Mars as a Solution to the Faint Young Sun Paradox"
February 6
Jason E. Smerdon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
"Models, Matrices, and Megadroughts: A paleoclimatic perspective for a hotter planet"
February 13
Carolina Muñoz Saez, CUNY
"The onset of hydrothermal activity and its implications for the post-glacial history of the Central Andes"
February 20
Troy Rasbury, Stony Brook University
"Boron Isotopes in Brachiopods: A Look at Controls and Secular Variation Through the Phanerozoic"
February 27
Wentao Cao, SUNY Fredonia
"Partial melting in deep mountain roots: insights from exhumed eclogites"
March 5
Sophie Hines, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
"Abrupt Climate Change: Insight into glacial ocean dynamics through simple physical models and deep-sea coral measurements"
October 17, 2019
Daniele Cherniak, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Diffusion studies using accelerator-based ion beam techniques"
October 24, 2019
Cecilia McHugh, Queens College
"Submarine paleoseismology as a tool for identifying earthquakes and tsunamis: Lessons learned and future challenges"
October 31, 2019
Nick Tailby, AMNH
"Evaluating the pressure-temperature history of the Manhattan Prong"
November 7, 2019
Val Finlayson, University of Maryland
"Rurutu-Arago: A third long-lived (>120 Myr) Pacific hotspot track"
*Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 3:15 p.m.
Scott Harris, Fernbank Science Center
"C.S.I. Earth: The Forensics of Extraterrestrial Assaults on our Planet"
November 14, 2019
Tim Fagan, Waseda University, Japan
"Petrologic pathways from mafic to granitic rocks on the Moon: Constraints from the NWA 773 clan of lunar meteorites"
December 5, 2019
Luke Daly, University of Glasgow
"An atom's eye view of the formation of our solar system""
December 12, 2019
Natalie Umling, AMNH
"The deglacial CO2 problem: reconstructing ventilation and carbon storage in the eastern equatorial Pacific"
December 19, 2019
Denton Ebel, AMNH
"Mineral Condensation in the Early Solar System"
*January 10, 2019 - 3 p.m.
Barbara Ratschbacher, California Institute of Technology, Research Scientist search presentation
"Amphibole chemistry as a tool to understand the oxidation state of arc magmas"
*Monday, January 14, 2019 - 10:15 a.m.
Jack Hietpas, The Pennsylvania State University, Research Scientist search presentation
"Provenance assessment using single accessory mineral geochemical and isotopic signatures"
*January 17, 2019
Xiaofei Pu, University of Michigan, Research Scientist search presentation
"New Temperature Constraints on Hydrous Arc Basalts: Calibrations and Applications"
*February 5, 2019
Céline Martin, University North Carolina, Charlotte, Research Scientist search presentation
"The fate of subduction zones: insights from new in-situ methods "
February 7, 2019
Nicole Lunning, Rutgers University
"From Crusts to Cores: Investigating Asteroids Using Meteorites and Experiments"
February 21, 2019
Frances Rivera Hernandez, Dartmouth College and Stony Brook University
"From Grains to Landscapes: Reconstructing Martian Environments at Multiple Scales"
February 28, 2019
Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Geophysics of Pluto"
March 7, 2019
Jenny Middleton, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Glacially-driven changes in submarine hydrothermal activity"
March 28, 2019
Juliana Troch, ETH Zurich / Brown University
"The dark side of zircon: Tracing the magmatic-hydrothermal transition in the subvolcanic Yellowstone magma reservoir"
April 11, 2019
Elisabeth Sikes, Rutgers University
"Southern Ocean insights on how the ocean exhales: carbon sequestration and release since the last glacial maximum"
April 18, 2019
Jesse Reimink, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution for Science
"Growth of continental crust on the early Earth"
April 25, 2019
Bill Bottke, Southwest Research Institute
"Exploring the Echos of Giant Planet Migration -- Lost Neptunes and Early Bombardment"
May 2, 2019
Michael Williams, University of Massachusetts
"The Rise and Fall of Mountains: Dating Tectonic Processes with Monazite Geochronology"
May 9, 2019
Hilairy Hartnett, Arizona State University
"Habitability from hotsprings to exoplanets: A geochemical perspective on an ecology problem"
May 16, 2019
Gordon Moore, University of California, Davis
"Quantifying the behavior of H2O in Igneous Systems"
*Monday, June 10, 2019 - 12:30 p.m.
Andrew M. Davis, University of Chicago
"Iron-60 in the early Solar System: fossil, fuel, or fizzle?"
*Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Claudio Scarpati, University of Napoli Federico II
"Pompeii: the fateful day"
September 27
TAMARA CARLEY, Lafayette College
"Investigating proto-continental crust construction using very young (Icelandic) and very old (Hadean) zircon"
October 25
BENJAMIN BLACK, The City College of New York
"Magmatism and mass extinction: revisiting the flood basalt carbon quandary"
November 1
CELINE MARTIN, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
"Destabilization reactions in eclogites: origin and significance"
November 15
VANESSA COLÁS GINÉS, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
"Chromitites: new messages from the ancient Mexican lithosphere"
*Tuesday, November 20
CAROLINE BOUVET DE LA MAISONNEUVE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
"The influence of conduit and reservoir processes on eruption intensity and style"
December 18, 2018 - 1:30 p.m.
TRICIA NADEAU, U.S. Geological Survey
"The 2018 Eruption of Kīlauea Volcano: Chronology and Tales from a Gas Perspective"
February 15 @ 1 PM:
NICK TAILBY, AMNH
calibration for apatite: development and application of a new redox sensor
March 1 @ 1 PM - ** Note change in venue - Perkin Library in Astrophysics Department:
RAQUEL ALONSO-PEREZ, Mineralogical and Geological Museum, Harvard University
"The history of a pegmatite in a gemstone"
April 5 @ 2 PM - * Note change in venue - RGGS Lecture Hall - 5th floor
MEGAN HOLYCROSS, Smithsonian Institution
"Trace element diffusion in silicate melts: using atomic-scale processes to decode magmatic events"
May 10 @ 1:15 PM - Note change in venue - Perkin Library in Astrophysics Department:
KATHARINA LODDERS, Washington University in St. Louis
"Abundances of the Chemical Elements of the Solar System"
May 31 @ 1:30 PM - * Note change in venue - RGGS Lecture Hall - 5th floor
PAUL FALKOWSKI, Rutgers University
"How corals make rocks"
October 26:
CHERYL HAYASHI, AMNH
"Spider silk: evolution of diverse, high-performance biomolecules"
November 2:
PETER SCHULTZ, Brown University
"The Impact Record in the Argentine Pampas"
November 9:
MARTIN REICH, Universidad de Chile
"Climatic and tectonic triggers for ore deposition"
** rescheduled for Friday, November 17:
OLIVIER NAMUR, University of Leuven, Belgium
"Mantle-crust differentiation of the planet Mercury"
November 30:
DAVID LINDO-ATICHATI, CUNY, College of Staten Island; CUNY, Graduate Center
"Ocean eddies: physical-biogeochemical interactions in the Gulf of Mexico, the Belizean Barrier Reef, and the Hawaiian Archipelago"
December 7:
BRANDON MAHAN, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
"Pebbles & bam-bam: Insights into Earth’s source material, accretion and differentiation through HP-HT metal-silicate partitioning of moderately volatile elements"
January 12:
KIMBERLY MYERS, Texas A&M University
"Biogeochemical arsenic, iron, and sulfur cycles in Archean environments: what can the distant past teach us about the present?"
January 19:
GORDANA GARAPIC, SUNY New Paltz
"Insights into mid-ocean ridge processes: Plagioclase-dunites from the Krivaja peridotite massif in the Dinarides"
January 26 - 1 PM:
CAREY LISSE, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
"The New Horizons Flyby of Pluto"
February 2:
MICHAEL ACKERSON, Carnegie Institution for Science
"Low-temperature crystallization of granites: case study from the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite"
February 16:
NICK TAILBY, AMNH
"Temperature, time and titanium - a cautionary tale from magmatic quartz"
February 23:
MEGAN NEWCOMBE, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"What drives lunar fire fountain eruptions? Insights from water solubility and diffusion experiments"
*Wednesday, March 15 - 12:30 PM
MOHAMED RAMY EL MAARRY, University of Bern
"Rosetta mission to comet 67P: A two-years-voyage with a geological wonderworld"
March 30:
NICHOLAS TOSCA, University of Oxford
"Experimental insight into the origins of Precambrian banded iron formation"
April 6:
CONEL ALEXANDER, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution for Science
"Interstellar inheritance: The extent of reprocessing of molecular cloud material in the early solar nebula"
*Monday, April 10 - 11 AM:
*Note: This RGGS/Paleo/EPS Seminar will be held in the RGGS Lecture Hall on the 5th floor
MARC LAFLAMME, University of Toronto Mississauga
"The First Mass Extinction of Complex Life"
June 1:
LEONID V. DANYUSHEVSKY, University of Tasmania
"Geological applications for Time-Of-Flight detectors in Laser-ablation-ICPMS"
September 15:
THOMAS GIACHETTI, University of Oregon
"The eruptive conditions necessary for the stability of Plinian eruption of rhyolitic magma"
September 29: GSA Meeting - NO SEMINAR
October 6:
ANDREAS ERTL, Museum of Natural History, Vienna
Tourmaline: not only beautiful, but also scientifically interesting”
October 13:
DANIEL VIETE, Johns Hopkins University
"Records of pressure (and fluid) pulses during subduction”
October 20:
JEFFREY MARSH, Queens College
"A Field Geology course in the Paleozoic rocks of southeastern New York” and "Titanite petrogenesis and U-Pb systematics in an anatectic, high pressure granulite"
October 27:
ALEX ZIRAKPARVAR, AMNH
"The pre-Atlantic Hf isotope evolution of the east Laurentian continental margin: Insights from zircon in basement rocks and glacial tillites from northern New Jersey and southeastern New York”
November 3:
ZOLTAN ZAJACZ, University of Toronto
"Sulfur degassing from magmas and its implications for magmatic-hydrothermal ore genesis"
November 10:
EINAT LEV, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Looking at lavas in flows and lakes"
November 17:
FRANCESCO VETERE, University of Perugia, Italy
Interplay between rheology and crystallization kinetics in magmatic systems: toward a unifying conceptual model"
November 24: Thanksgiving Day - NO SEMINAR
December 1: Cancelled
December 8:
DUSTIN TRAIL, University of Rochester
"The environment of early Earth: where we are, and what we still need to know"
December 15: AGU Fall Meeting - NO SEMINAR
February 18:
TIMOTHY GLOTCH, Stony Brook University
"Spectral, thermophysical, and geologic characterization of late stage halite-bearing evaporite deposits on Mars"
March 3:
DANIEL CZICZO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Ice Nucleation : From the Earth to Mars and places in between”
March 10:
PIERRE LANARI, Bern University, Switzerland
"A geek’s approach to unravel the history of metamorphic rocks"
March 24: No seminar (Lunar and Planetary Science Conference)
March 31:
HARALD BEHRENS, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
"Hydrogen in feldspars: How trace elements can affect tectonics and mineral reaction in rocks"
April 7:
TAMARA CARLEY, Lafayette College
"The generation and evolution of silicic magma and juvenile crust: Insights from elemental, isotopic, and geochronological studies of Icelandic zircon"
April 14:
ANDREW DAVIS, University of Chicago
"Stardust in the Laboratory"
April 21:
ERIK HAURI, Carnegie Institution of Washington
"Water in the Moon’s Interior: Truth and Consequences"
April 28:
STEPHEN PARMAN, Brown University
"Making and Melting Mercury’s Mantle"
May 5:
EDWARD YOUNG, University of California, Los Angeles
"The origin of solar radionuclides: the case for an unexceptional origin for the solar system"
May 12:
ROBERT LINNEN, University of Western Ontario
"Syenite-hosted gold mineralization in the Abitibi Sub-Province of Ontario: Orogenic or Orthomagmatic?"
May 19:
THORSTEN KLEINE, Munster University, Germany
"Isotope anomalies, the origin of chondrules and a fundamental dichotomy of meteorites"
June 2:
NICK TAILBY, AMNH
"Compositional variability on magmatic quartz"
July 7 - *2:15 p.m. - RGGS Lecture Hall:
CHARLES MERGUERIAN, Duke Geological Laboratory, Hofstra University
"The geology of New York parks"
*Friday, September 11 - 12:45 PM
MEHMET YESILTAS, Stony Brook University
"Synchrotron-based infrared microspectroscopy of meteorites"
*September 17 - **12:15 PM:
ALICIA CRUZ-URIBE, University of Maine
"Arc magma genesis from melting of mélange diapirs"
October 1:
CATHLEEN DOHERTY, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Geochemical Evolution of the Lithospheric Mantle in the West Antarctic Rift System"
October 8: No seminar
October 15:
ELISE RUMPF, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Thicknesses of lunar lava flows: Comparison of layered mare units with terrestrial analogs"
October 22:
NILS BIGGE, Bochum Universiteit – Kade Fellow
"Symplectites in eclogites: P, T, X conditions of formation"
October 29:
GSA Presentations
November 5: GSA meeting in Baltimore – NO SEMINAR
November 12:
KENNET FLORES, Brooklyn College
"The formation of Middle America and the Pacific basin - Evidence from the HP-LT record"
November 19:
HEATHER WATSON, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Core formation in planetesimals: Results from x-ray microtomography and electrical conductivity experiments"
November 26: Thanksgiving Day - NO SEMINAR
December 3:
December 10: - 12:45 PM
PATRICIA NADEAU, AMNH
"Digging into Augustine Volcano's Silicic Past"
December 17: AGU Fall Meeting - NO SEMINAR
Thursday, January 29:
ALEX ZIRAKPARVAR, AMNH
"The Lu-Hf Isotope Record of Craton Stabilization"
Thursday, February 5 - @ 2:00 PM
SASKIA VAN MANEN, Environment, Earth and Ecosystems, The Open University
"Participation to empower disaster risk management: a case study from Turrialba volcano, Costa Rica"
Thursday, February 26 @ 1:30 PM
JOHN BIGOLSKI, CUNY Graduate Center
"Fine-grained rims in unequilibrated ordinary chondrites: records of accretion and heating during the chondrule-forming epoch"
Thursday, March 5:
KAREN HANGHØJ, The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
"Important and Critical Minerals –Geology and Exploration in Greenland"
*Thursday, March 12 @ 11:30 AM - Research Scientist search presentation
PAUL BARTHOLOMEW, University of New Haven
"Raman for the Geoscience Masses"
Thursday, March 12
WILLIAM HERBST, Wesleyan University
"Chondrules, V582 Mon (KH 15D) and the Formation of Terrestrial Planets"
Thursday, March 19: Lunar & Planetary Science Conference - No Seminar
Monday, April 6 - 11:00 AM - RGGS Lecture Hall
JOCELYN SESSA, AMNH - merged with AMNH Comparative Biology Seminar Series
"Catastrophe and climate: controls on Cretaceous through Neogene marine mollusk biodiversity"
*Thursday, April 9 - 1:30 PM Research Scientist search presentation
ADRIAN FIEGE, University of Michigan
"From the magma chamber to the surface: Behavior of Volatiles and Metals during Magma-Mixing and Decompression-Induced Degassing"
*Wednesday, April 22 - 1:30 PM Research Scientist search presentation
J. BRIAN BALTA, University of Pittsburgh
"Measuring micron-sized minerals and magmas: mars, meteorites, and more"
Thursday, April 23:
YAKOV WEISS, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Diamond-forming fluids and metasomatism of the continental lithosphere"
Thursday, April 30:
GOKCE USTUNISIK, AMNH
"From a Wet Moon to the Stability of First Solids in the Solar System: Experimental Investigations into Planetary Volatiles"
Thursday, May 7:
STEVEN JARET, Stony Brook University
"The products of impact craters: a microscopic view"
Thursday, May 14 - RGGS Lecture Hall
ANDREW KNOLL, Harvard University
"The Early Evolution of Eukaryotes"
Thursday, May 21:
ROBERTO COMPAGNONI, University of Turin, Italy
"The Alpine whiteschists: the case of the UHP pyrope-coesite rock from the Dora-Maira massif, Western Italian Alps"
Thursday, January 29:
ALEX ZIRAKPARVAR, AMNH
"The Lu-Hf Isotope Record of Craton Stabilization"
Thursday, February 5 - @ 2:00 PM
SASKIA VAN MANEN, Environment, Earth and Ecosystems, The Open University
"Participation to empower disaster risk management: a case study from Turrialba volcano, Costa Rica"
Thursday, February 26 @ 1:30 PM
JOHN BIGOLSKI, CUNY Graduate Center
"Fine-grained rims in unequilibrated ordinary chondrites: records of accretion and heating during the chondrule-forming epoch"
Thursday, March 5:
KAREN HANGHØJ, The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
"Important and Critical Minerals –Geology and Exploration in Greenland"
*Thursday, March 12 @ 11:30 AM - Research Scientist search presentation
PAUL BARTHOLOMEW, University of New Haven
"Raman for the Geoscience Masses"
Thursday, March 12
WILLIAM HERBST, Wesleyan University
"Chondrules, V582 Mon (KH 15D) and the Formation of Terrestrial Planets"
Thursday, March 19: Lunar & Planetary Science Conference - No Seminar
Monday, April 6 - 11:00 AM - RGGS Lecture Hall
JOCELYN SESSA, AMNH - merged with AMNH Comparative Biology Seminar Series
"Catastrophe and climate: controls on Cretaceous through Neogene marine mollusk biodiversity"
*Thursday, April 9 - 1:30 PM Research Scientist search presentation
ADRIAN FIEGE, University of Michigan
"From the magma chamber to the surface: Behavior of Volatiles and Metals during Magma-Mixing and Decompression-Induced Degassing"
*Wednesday, April 22 - 1:30 PM Research Scientist search presentation
J. BRIAN BALTA, University of Pittsburgh
"Measuring micron-sized minerals and magmas: mars, meteorites, and more"
Thursday, April 23:
YAKOV WEISS, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Diamond-forming fluids and metasomatism of the continental lithosphere"
Thursday, April 30:
GOKCE USTUNISIK, AMNH
"From a Wet Moon to the Stability of First Solids in the Solar System: Experimental Investigations into Planetary Volatiles"
Thursday, May 7:
STEVEN JARET, Stony Brook University
"The products of impact craters: a microscopic view"
Thursday, May 14 - RGGS Lecture Hall
ANDREW KNOLL, Harvard University
"The Early Evolution of Eukaryotes"
Thursday, May 21:
ROBERTO COMPAGNONI, University of Turin, Italy
"The Alpine whiteschists: the case of the UHP pyrope-coesite rock from the Dora-Maira massif, Western Italian Alps"
Thursday, May 28:
CÉLINE MARTIN, AMNH
“Boron Isotopes in Antigorite from the Guatemala Suture Zone Serpentinite Mélanges, Guatemala: Origin of the Serpentinite"
Thursday, June 18
JANI RADEBAUGH, Brigham Young University
"The Surface of Saturn's Moon Titan from the Cassini Mission"
Thursday, September 25:
Jill VanTongeren, Rutgers University
"Structure and accretion of the lower crust of Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau"
Thursday, October 2:
Philip Orton, Stevens Institute of Technology
Thursday, October 9 at 2:00 p.m.:
Meenakshi Wadhwa, Arizona State University
Thursday, October 16: No Seminar
Thursday, October 23: GSA meeting in Vancouver – No Seminar
Thursday, October 30:
Marc-Antoine Longpré, Queens College
"Volatile-rich magmas and explosive volcanic eruptions"
Thursday, November 6:
Steve Kidder, The City College of New York
"Microstructural and Trace Element Constraints on Stress and Temperature in the Middle Crust"
Thursday, November 13:
Jeffrey Marsh, Queens College
"High-pressure metamorphism and exhumation of mafic complexes in a large, hot orogen: Insights from the Canadian Grenville Province"
Thursday, November 20:
Sarah Lambart-Brosson, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Pyroxenites in magma source: why should we care?"
Thursday, November 27: Thanksgiving Day - No Seminar
Thursday, December 4:
Yann Sonzogni, Lunar and Planetary Institute
"Melt inclusions: from planetary bodies formation to crystal growth kinetics"
Thursday, December 11: No Seminar
Thursday, December 18: AGU Fall Meeting - No Seminar
Thursday, January 9:
H. RICHARD NASLUND - Binghamton University
"Crystal settling and in-situ differentiation in Proterozoic sills from the Franklin Igneous Province, arctic Canada"
Friday, January 17 @ 2 p.m.:
ED STOLPER - Caltech
"On the origin of Ni-rich olivines from the mantle"
Thursday, January 23 @ 1:30 p.m.:
MARC HIRSCHMANN - University of Minnesota
"Reduced Volatiles and Early Planetary Volcanogenic Atmospheres"
Thursday, January 30 - 1:15 p.m.:
CELINE MARTIN - AMNH
"Trace Element Mobility during Metamorphism"
Thursday, February 6:
TOMOAKI MORISHITA - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Graphite in black jadeitites and an arc-metasomatized peridotite xenolith: Implications for carbon recycling"
Tuesday, February 11 - 1:30 p.m.:
RICHARD DENNE - Marathon Oil
"Massive Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary deposit and initial incision of the ancestral Desoto Canyon: New evidence for widespread Chicxulub-induced slope failure in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico"
Thursday, February 20:
ROGER L. NIELSEN - Oregon State University
"Plagioclase as a Petrologic Probe: New Developments and Examples from Experiments, Arcs and Ridges"
Thursday, February 27:
ELIZABETH FERRISS - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"'Water' Diffusion in Olivine and Clinopyroxene
Thursday, March 6:
JOE DUFEK - Georgia Institute of Technology
"The Assembly and Dynamics of Explosive Volcanic Eruptions"
*Wednesday, March 12:
JOHN HUGHES - University of Vermont
"The many facets of apatite"
Thursday, March 20: No Seminar - Lunar & Planetary Science Conference
Thursday, March 27:
GUILHERME GUALDA - Vanderbilt University
"Understanding the structure and evolution of giant magma bodies using rhyolite-MELTS geobarometry and quartz geospeedometry"
Thursday, April 3:
JEFF VERVOORT - Washington State University
"Growth and Evolution of Earth's Earliest Crust"
*Friday, April 11:
AUDREY BOUVIER - University of Western Ontario
"How modern mass spectrometry is driving new discoveries in cosmochemistry"
Thursday, April 17:
GEORGE HARLOW - AMNH
"The Mogok Stone Tract, Myanmar: A Geological Marvel"
*Wednesday, April 23:
MARK TWICKLER, University of New Hampshire
"West Antarctic Ice Sheet - Divide Ice Core 2005-13"
Thursday, May 1:
HAROLD C. CONNOLLY, JR. - CUNY - Kingsborough Community College
"Constraining our Origin and Securing our Future through an Asteroid Sample Return Mission: OSIRIS-REx"
Thursday, May 15: **CANCELLED**
JILL A. VANTONGEREN - Rutgers University
“Structure and accretion of the lower crust of oceanic plateaus”
Thursday, May 22:
OLIVER JAGOUTZ - MIT
“Unravelling some mysteries of continental crust formation”
Thursday, September 12:
RICHARD GASCHNIG - University of Maryland
"The many (and sometimes lost) arcs of Idaho"
Thursday, September 19:
ABBY KAVNER - University of California, Los Angeles
"The Electrochemical Earth"
Thursday, September 26:
ALEX ZIRAKPARVAR - AMNH
"An enriched mantle source for the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa: Evidence from Hf in zircon"
Thursday, October 3:
JOHN W. SHERVAIS - Utah State University
"Inside the subduction factory: melt depletion and fluid enrichment in the mantle wedge"
Thursday, October 10:
RYAN MATHUR - Juniata College
"Examples of Fingerprinting Metal Sources in Geologic Materials and Metallic Artifacts with the Use of Copper Isotope Ratios"
Thursday, October 17:
MICHELLE COOMBS - US Geological Survey, Anchorage, Alaska Area
"Rhyolite magma generation and eruption in the eastern Aleutian arc, Alaska"
Thursday, October 24:
HORST MARSCHALL - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"The hard-rock isotope geochemistry of boron: obstacles, potential, and recent analytical progress at WHOI"
Thursday, October 31:
AARON S. BELL - University of New Mexico
"XANES Measurements of Cr Valence in Olivine and their Applications to Planetary Basalts"
Thursday, November 7:
AKI TAKIGAWA - Carnegie Institution
"Laboratory studies filling a large gap between circumstellar dust and presolar grains"
*Friday, November 8 @ 3 p.m.:
JISUN PARK - Rutgers University
"Ar age dating of Tissint, Martian Meteorite"
Thursday, November 14: CANCELED
TIM GLOTCH - Stony Brook University
"Lunar swirls and space weathering processes on the Moon"
*Friday, November 22 @ 10 a.m.:
TYRONE O. ROONEY - Michigan State University
"From initiation to termination - the critical role of magma in rift evolution"
Thursday, December 5:
GILBERT N. HANSON - Stony Brook University
"How research by earth science teachers, science education students and high school students has influenced the understanding of Long Island Geology"
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
"Petrogenesis and metal budget of Eocene magmas from north-central Nevada, Carlin-type Au country: A melt inclusion study"
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
"Fractional Condensation: Evidence from Chemical Variations in Ca-, Al-rich Inclusions in CO Chondrites"
Thursday, MAY 30:
PHILIPP RUPRECHT - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"The Highway from Hell: Mafic recharge and its role in volcanic eruptions at stratovolcanoes"
Thursday, September 13:
ALEX ZIRAKPARVAR - AMNH
"Geochemical and Geochronological Constraints on the Origin and Evolution of Rocks in the Active Woodlark Rift of Papua New Guinea"
Thursday, September 20 - 1:30PM:
ALAN ANDERSON - St. Francis Xavier University
"Are silicate-rich inclusions in pegmatite minerals crystallized aliquots of boundary-layer melt?"
Thursday, September 27:
BOB KOPP - Rutgers University
"Interpreting the noisy geological record of ancient sea level changes: What can the past tell us about the future?"
Thursday, October 4:
ROGER FU - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Early core formation and dynamo generation in asteroids: The case of Vesta"
Thursday, October 11:
CYNTHIA WERNER - USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory
"Degassing related to the 2009 Eruption of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska"
Thursday, October 18:
HITESH CHANGELA - Naval Research Laboratory/Carnegie Institute of Science
"Analytical Studies of Solid Organics in Primitive Carbonaceous Chondrites"
*Friday, October 26:
HOMAR BARCENA - CUNY- Kingsborough Community College
"Mass-Dependent vs Mass-Independent Oxygen Isotope Fractionation"
Thursday, November 1: CANCELED
TIM GROVE - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Lunar magma ocean cumulate remelting: evidence from lunar ultramafic glasses"
Thursday, November 15:
SARAH BROWNLEE - Wayne State University
"Combining mineralogy, geophysics, and geochemistry to understand seismic anisotropy in the crust and lithosphere"
*Friday, November 30:
KIEREN HOWARD - CUNY- Kingsborough Community College
"Biomass capture during meteorite impact"
Thursday, December 13 - *1:30 PM:
SUZANNE BALDWIN - Syracuse University
"Linking mantle dynamics and plate tectonics in New Guinea: insights from exhumed (U)HP rocks"
Thursdays at 12 Noon, EPS Conference Room
Thursday, January 26:
JAMES GARDNER - University of Texas at Austin
"Spherulites as Proxy Thermometers in Lavas: Constraints on Obsidian Lavas Erupted in Yellowstone National Park"
Thursday, February 2:
MORDECAI MAC LOW - AMNH
"Puzzles of Planet Formation"
Thursday, February 16:
OPEN -
Tuesday, February 21 @ 12:30 p.m.:
MARK HARRISON - Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA
"A Search for Extraterrestrial Impact Signatures in Jack Hills Zircons"
Thursday, February 23:
ELIZABETH FERRISS - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Modeling the Effect of Pressure on the Ti-in-Zircon Geothermometer"
Thursday, March 8: @ 1:00 p.m.:
EINAT LEV - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Investigating Lava Rheology Using Man-Made Flows, Video Analysis and Numerical Models"
Thursday, March 15:
OPEN -
Thursday, March 22:
No Seminar - Lunar & Planetary Sciences Conference
Thursday, March 29:
JUSTIN FILIBERTO - Southern Illinois University
"Comparing the Effects of Volatile Species (H2O, F and Cl) on Near-Liquidus Phase Equilibria of a Basalt"
Thursday, April 12:
TIM LOWENSTEIN - Binghamton University
"Microbial Communities in Fluid and Long-Term Survival in Halite"
Thursday, April 19: Canceled
SUZANNE BALDWIN - Syracuse University
"Linking mantle dynamics and plate tectonics in New Guinea: insights from exhumed (U)HP rocks"
Thursday, April 26:
ANGELA DOHERTY - AMNH/Virginia Tech
"Understanding the evolution of the Monte dei Porri volcanic system, Salina, Aeolian Islands, southern Italy: a melt inclusion approach"
Thursday, May 3:
ADAM SIMON - University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"Field and experimental constraints on metal ratios in magmatic ore systems"
Thursdays at 1:30pm, EPS Conference Room
Thursday, September 29:
HANNA NEKVASIL - Stony Brook University
"The Role of Magmatic Volatiles in the Crustal Evolution of Mars and the Moon"
Thursday, October 20:
JANELLE HOMBURG - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Viscous Shear Heating Instabilities in a 1-D Viscoelastic Shear Zone"
Thursday, October 27:
MARK S. GHIORSO - OFM Research Inc.
"What do we Really Know About Pre-Eruptive Conditions in Large, Potentially Explosive, Silicic Magma Bodies?"
Tuesday, November 1:
MICHAEL WEISBERG - Kingsborough Community College
"Enstatite Chondrites: Building Blocks of the Inner Planets"
Thursday, November 3 - 2 p.m. :
KIM KASTENS - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Earth Science Education: Thoughts on what prospective teachers should know, understand, and be able to do"
Thursday, November 10:
MICHAEL HOCHELLA - Virginia Tech
"The World's Smallest Minerals and their Global Consequences"
Monday, November 14 12 p.m. - Brown Bag Lunch:
ALLAN H. TREIMAN - Lunar and Planetary Institute
Thursday, November 17:
SHOSHANA WEIDER - Carnegie Institution of Washington
"Dead, grey and... boring? Geochemical tales of the Moon and Mercury"
Friday, November 18 - 11 a.m. :
TOBIAS FISCHER - University of New Mexico
Thursday, December 1:
JAMES BRENAN - University of Toronto
"Experiments and Observations Bearing on the Behavior of Siderophile Elements During Terrestrial Accretion and Magmatic Differentiation"
Thursday, December 8: AGU Conference - NO SEMINAR
Thursday, December 15:
CLAIRE BENDERSKY - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Petrologic and volatile evidence of the LAB from the Transition Zone between the Colorado Plateau and Basin & Range"
Thursdays at 1:30pm, EPS Conference Room
Thursday, February 17: STERNS A. MORSE - University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
"Plagioclase An-Range and Residual Porosity in Igneous Cumulates
of the Kiglapait Intrusion"
Thursday, February 24: AARON S. BELL - AMNH
"Degassing Induced Changes in Magmatic Oxidation State: Implications for Modeling Phase Equilibria and Ore Forming Processes"
Thursday, March 3: OPEN
Thursday, March 10: Lunar & Planetary Science Conference - NO SEMINAR
Thursday, March 17: GEORGE E. HARLOW & KENNET FLORES - AMNH
"Report on the November 2010 Guatemala Expedition: Resolving geodynamic interpretation of NOAM-Caribbean Plate interaction history. A Niarchos Fund expedition"
Tuesday, March 29: HORST MARSCHALL - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"Physico-chemical transport and differentiation processes in subduction zones: mixing at the slab-mantle interface and melting of mélange rocks in mantle-wedge plumes?"
Thursday*, March 31: CHRISTOPHER HERD - University of Alberta
"Heterogeneity of the Tagish Lake Meteorite: insights into nebular and parent body processing of organic matter"
*NOTE: Seminar will start at 1:00 PM
Thursday, April 7: POSTPONED
Thursday, April 14: MICHAEL DaSILVA - AMNH
"Ridge subduction volcanism: Southern Patagonian Andes"
Thursday, April 21: CONEL M. O'D. ALEXANDER - DTM - Carnegie Institution of Washington
"The origin of organics and water in chondrites, and implications for transport in the solar protoplanetary disk"
Thursday, April 28: DON R. BAKER - McGill University
“Some of the equilibrium and kinetic behavior of sulfur in magmatic systems”
Thursday, May 5: DANIEL SAVIN - Columbia University
"The Genesis projects: laboratory studies in molecular astrophysics from the first star to the beginnings of organic chemistry"
Thursday, May 12: ROBERT L. LINNEN - University of Waterloo
"Rare Metals and Pegmatites - a Look at Extreme Magmatic Processes"
Monday, May 16: JILL VANTONGEREN - Columbia University - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - AMNH
"The 'Ins' and 'Outs' of the Bushveld Complex Upper Zone"
Thursday, May 19: CLAUDE T. HERZBERG - Rutgers University
"Thermal history of the Earth: new views on deep Archean and Hadean time"
Thursday, May 26: MICHAEL D. GREENBERG - AMNH
"Reconstructing Stardust: Insights from 3D Imaging and XRF Mapping of Whole Tracks"
Please join us for the Research Scientist search presentations
beginning on May 26 at 1:30 PM (unless otherwise noted):
Thursday, May 26 - 11:30 AM: PAVEL IZBEKOV - Geophysics Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
"Compositional and textural stratigraphy of plagioclase: Implications for magma processes at active volcanoes"
Thursday, June 2: JOSEPH BOESENBERG - AMNH
"Pallasites: Mantles of Differentiated Asteroids"
Thursday, June 9: JULIANE GROSS - Lunar & Planetary Institute
"Constraints on the geochemical variations and complex evolution of the lunar highlands: ALHA81005’s view from the farside"
Thursday, September 23: NO SEMINAR
Thursday, September 30: STACIA GORDON - University of Nevada, Reno
"Timescales of Migmatization, Metamorphism, and Deformation in a Collapsed Orogenic Plateau"
Thursday, October 7: ROGER N. Anderson - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
"Smart Grid and its impact on Alternative Energy sources and sinks in NYC"
Thursday, October 14: OPEN
Thursday, October 21: B.R. FROST - University of Wyoming
"Serpentinization and silica activity"
Tuesday, October 26: Ellen Graber - Israel Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences
"From the Pre-Columbian Amazonian Indians to Climate Change Mitigation: How to get from there to here"
Thursday, November 4: GSA Annual Meeting - NO SEMINAR
Thursday, November 11: Veterans Day - NO SEMINAR
Thursday, November 18: OPEN
Thursday, November 25: Thanksgiving Day - NO SEMINAR
Thursday, December 2: KENNETH G. MILLER - Rutgers University
"100 million years of sea-level change: Should I sell my shore house"
Thursday, December 9: OPEN
Thursday, December 16: AGU Fall Meeting - NO SEMINAR
Thursday, January 28
PHILIPP RUPRECHT - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
"Decomposing Magma Mixing: Effects on Crystal Residence Time Scales and Eruptive Behavior"
Thursday, February 4
JILL VAN TONGEREN - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
"The 'Ins' and 'Outs' of the Bushveld Complex Upper Zone"
Thursday, February 18
DAVID LONDON - University of Oklahoma
"Gem-bearing Pegmatites: Nature's "Fancy" Rocks"
Thursday, February 25
STEPHEN MOJZSIS - University of Colorado
"The Oldest Earth Rocks (4.02-3.75 Ga) and What They Tell us of the Nature of the Surface Environment"
Thursday, March 11
BRUCE MARSH - Johns Hopkins University
"An Intimate Dynamic History of a Bimodal Magma Chamber: Isle au Haut, Maine"
Thursday, March 18
ANTONIO BUONO - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
"Understanding Core Evolution through High Pressure Phase Equilibria"
Thursday, March 25, in the RGGS Classroom, 5th Floor
PAUL FALKOWSKI, N.A.S. - Rutgers University
"Microbes, the Invisible Stewards of Earth"
Thursday, April 1
ANTONIO GARCIA CASCO - University of Granada, Spain
"Thermal Evolution of Subducted Slabs: A Metamorphic Perspective with Examples from the Northern Edge of the Caribbean Plate"
Thursday, April 22
JEFFREY POST - Smithsonian Institute
"Manganese Oxide Minerals: Soils to Synchrotrons"
Thursday, May 6, in the RGGS Classroom, 5th Floor
DAVID JOHNSTON - Harvard University
"Evaluating Earth's Second 'Great Oxidation': A Closer Look at Neoproterozoic Ocean Chemistry and the Rise of Animals"
Thursday, May 13
KEVIN McKEEGAN - University of California, Los Angeles
"The Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Captured Solar Wind and Implications for the Early Solar System"
Thursday, May 27
DAVID HOLLAND - New York University
"Glacier-Ocean Interaction in Greenland and Antarctica: Observations and Model Results"
Thursday, June 10
LEONID DANYUSHEVSKY - University of Tasmania
"Subduction Factory Unroofed: Submarime Magmatism at the Southern Termination of the North Fiji Backarc Basin, Southwest Pacific"
Thursday, October 8: BERNARD EVANS - University of Washington
"Why on Earth Study Serpentinites?"
Thursday, October 15: JEREMY DELANEY - Rutgers University
"Accretionary Stratigraphy, Oxygen Isotopes and Vesta"
Thursday, October 22: GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MEETING - NO SEMINAR
Thursday, October 29: JOEL CRACRAFT - AMNH
"The Amazon Basin is Young: A New Paleogeography Derived from Biological and Geological Data"
Thursday, November 5: KEIKO HATTORI - University of Ottawa
"The Recycling of Elements in Subduction Zones and the Role of Forearc Serpentinites"
Thursday, November 12: RICHARD PEARSON - AMNH
"Are Conservationists Crying Wolf Over Climate Change?"
**Wednesday, November 18: DAVE WALKER - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
"Exploring a Leaky Core"
Thursday, November 26: THANKSGIVING - NO SEMINAR
Thursday, December 3: ALISON SHAW - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
"Magmatic Processes at Mid-Ocean Ridges: Deep Pooling of Low Degree Melts at the Ultra-slow Spreading Gakkel Ridge"
Thursday, December 10: PETER DeMENOCAL - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
"Climate Change and Human Evolution"
Thursday, January 8: SARAH PENNISTON-DORLAND - University of Maryland
"Multiple sulfur isotopes reveal a magmatic origin for the Platreef PGE deposit, Bushveld Complex"
Thursday, January 15: THOMAS DUFFY - Princeton University
"Journey to the core-mantle boundary"
Thursday, January 22: NJOKI GITAHI - AMNH
"Climate Change Skeptics"
Thursday, January 29: ELIZABETH COTTRELL - Smithsonian Institution NMNH
"The oxidation state of basalt as a function of tectonic setting and water content"
Thursday, February 5: KAREN HANGHOJ - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"Composition and Genesis of Depleted Mantle Peridotites from the Wadi Tayin Massif, Oman ophiolite. Major and trace element geochemistry, and Os isotope and PGE systematics"
Thursday, February 19: FRANCIS McCUBBIN - Stony Brook University
"Magmatic volatiles in the martian interior:Inferences from the martian meteorites Chassigny and MIL 03346"
Thursday, March 5: DAVID M. JENKINS - Binghamton University
"Defining the limits of glaucophane stability"
Thursday, March 12: MAUREEN FEINEMAN - Pennsylvania State University
"Boron and lithium isotope fractionation in basaltic melt inclusions"
Thursday, March 19: JAY THOMAS - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"TitaniQ Under Pressure: Assessing the Effect of Pressure on the Ti-in-Quartz Geothermometer"
Thursday, March 26: No speaker, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Thursday, April 2: CINZIA FARNETANI, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, & ALBRECHT HOFMANN, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University
"Anatomy of the Hawaiian Plume"
Thursday, April 9: JIM WEBSTER - AMNH
"Magmatic Fluids from Mantle to Volcanoes: The Role of Volatiles in Generating Magmatic-Hydrothermal Mineralization"
Thursday, April 16: JUN KORENAGA - Yale University
"Plate tectonics and the evolution of Earth's oceans"
Tuesday, April 21: 12:30pm TIMOTHY GLOTCH - Stony Brook University
"The History of Carbonates on Mars as Revealed by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer"
Thursday, April 30: TIMOTHY GROVE - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Melt generation processes in subduction zones"
Thursday, May 14: MIKE WIZEVICH - Central Connecticut State University
"Spectacular Seismites in the Late Cretaceous Wahweap Formation, Southern Utah: Insights & Enigmas"
Thursday, May 21: No Seminar
Thursday, May 28: SHUHEI ONO - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Total sulfur isotope (32-33-34-36) constraints on subseafloor sulfur cycles and the deep biosphere"
Thursday, June 11: JEFFREY GROSSMAN - U.S. Geological Survey-Reston
"New insights into asteroids provided by explosive growth of our meteorite collections"
Thursday, September 11: BRADLEY DE GREGORIO - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
"Pre- and Post-Accretionary Carbonates in the Renazzo CR Chondrite"
Thursday, September 18, 12:30pm: EDMOND MATHEZ - AMNH
"A Preview to the Climate Change Exhibit"
Thursday, September 25: JIM BEARD - Virginia Museum of Natural History
"Silica Activity and Serpentinization"
Thursday, October 2: MALCOLM RUTHERFORD - Brown University
"Recent Advances in Understanding Volcanism at Phlegrean Fields Italy"
Thursday, October 9: no speaker, GSA Meeting, Yom Kippur
Thursday, October 16: JILL VANTONGEREN - LDEO-AMNH
"Linking the Rooiberg Group Lavas to the Upper Zone of the Bushveld Complex"
Thursday, October 23: MICHAEL WEISBERG - AMNH/CUNY Kingsborough
"Stardust Comet Samples and their relationship to chondrites"
Thursday, October 30: TERRY PLANK - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University
"Water in Arc Magmas"
Thursday, November 6: MICHAEL WISE - Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
"Mineralogical and geochemical study of the Hiddenite emerald deposit, Hiddenite, North Carolina"
Thursday, November 13: MICHAEL KAPLAN - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University
"Past Glacial and Climate Changes in the Southern Hemisphere Based on Be-10 Cosmogenic Exposure Dating"
Thursday, November 20: BRANDON BROWNE - California State University, Fullerton
"Mammoth Mountain's Next Volcanic Eruption?"
Thursday, November 27: Thanksgiving Holiday, no speaker
Thursday, December 4: THOMAS DUFFY - Princeton University CANCELED
"New Views of Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary"
Thursday, December 11: MARTHA GILMORE - Wesleyan University
"The Oldest Rocks on Venus"
Thursday, January 17, 2008 - ARLIN CROTTS - Columbia University "Lunar Outgassing and Transient Events"
Thursday, January 24, 2008 - ALBERTO SAAL - Brown University "The Volatile Content of the Lunar Volcanic Glasses: Evidence for the Presence of Water in the Moon's Interior"
Thursday, January 31, 2008 - MICHAEL OPPENHEIMER - Princeton University "Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, and the Future of the Icesheets"
Thursday, February 7, 2008 - ALAN ROBOCK - Rutgers University "Volcanic Eruptions and Climate: Comparing Climatic Response to Low and High Latitude Volcanic Eruptions"
Thursday, February 14, 2008 - NO SPEAKER SCHEDULED
Thursday, February 21, 2008 - RICHARD REEDER - SUNY Stonybrook "Transformations of Organizationally Challenged Biominerals"
Thursday, February 28, 2008 - BRIAN FAGAN - University of Southern California Santa Barbara "Peasantry, Pre-Columbian Lords, and the Flail of God: An Archaeologist Looks at the Medieval Warm Period (or Climatic Anomaly) and the Little Ice Age"
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - MARC HIRSCHMANN - University of Minnesota "Hydrous Partial Melting of the Upper Mantle As Judged From Mineral/Melt Partition Coefficients"
Thursday, March 13, 2008 - Lunar Planetary Science Conference, NO SPEAKER SCHEDULED
Thursday, March 20, 2008 - BEN HOLTZMAN - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University "Towards Mapping from Seismic Velocity to Viscosity at Plate Boundaries"
Thursday, March 27, 2008 - ROBERT BURRUSS - United States Geological Survey "Geological Sequestration of CO2 and the Conundrum of Dangerous Interference with the Climate System"
Thursday, April 3, 2008 - BARBARA JOHN - University of Wyoming "How Does the Ocean Crust Grow: Constraints From Geo- and Thermochrometry"
Thursday, April 10, 2008 - KATHERINE KELLY - University of Rhode Island "Water and Melting in the Mantle Wedge of Subduction Zones"
Thursday, April 17, 2008 - GRAY BEBOUT - Lehigh University "Fate and Geochemical Imprint of Deeply Subducting Sediments: Evidence from HP/UHP Metamorphic Suites"
Thursday, April 24, 2008 - MARK SIDDALL - Univ. Bristol & Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory "From the Last Glacial Cycle to the Future - Paleo-Constraints on Future Sea-level Rise"
Thursday, May 1, 2008 - THOMAS WATTERS - Smithsonian Institution "A New View of the Tectonics of Mercury from MESSENGER's First Flyby"
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - MICHAEL CHEADLE - University of Wyoming "Layered Intrusions: Some New Techniques/Thoughts Applied to Old Problems"
Thursday, May 15, 2008 - BRANDON BROWNE - Cal State Fullerton CANCELLED "Petrologic Constraints on the Input of Basalt into the Magma Reservoir beneath Mammoth Mountain, Eastern California"
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - NO SPEAKER SCHEDULED
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - JON BLUNDY - University of Bristol "The Subterranean Machinations of Mount St. Helens Volcano"
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - David Archer - University of Chicago "Global Warming in the Deep Future"
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - Jonathan Levine - Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry, University of Chicago "Nuclear Astrophysics on the Micron Scale: Resonance Ionization Mass Spectrometry on Presolar Grains and Interplanetary Dust Particles"
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - Scott Messenger - Johnson Space Center "Submicrometer Organic Grains: Widespread Constituents of the Early Solar System"
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - Sylvie Demouchy - Lunar and Planetary Institute and University of Minnesota "Diffusivity of Water in the Deep Earth: Reports from the Lab, Rumors from Patagonia..."
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 - Gavin Schmidt - NASA: Goddard Institute for Space Studies "Climate Forcings, Climate Models and Climate Change"
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - Peter Heaney - Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment "Imaging Mineral Reactions at the Atomic Scale Using Time-Resolved X-ray Diffraction"
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - Joop Varekamp - Wesleyan University "Arc and Back-Arc Volcanism at Copahue Volcano, Argentina"
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - Greg Hirth - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute "Rheology of the Lower Crust: Comparing Predictions from the Lab to Observations from the Earth"
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 - Katharina Panhke - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory "Changes in Eastern Tropical Pacific Precipitation During the Past 27,000 years Recorded by D/H Ratios in Alkenones"
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - Tom Sharp - Arizona State University "H2O and Metastable Olivine in the Transition Zone"
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - OPEN
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - Bruce Marsh - Johns Hopkins University "A Magmatic Mush Column in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica"
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - Jason Smerdon - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory "Deconstructing Millennial Climate Reconstructions"
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - OPEN (AGU week)
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - Ben Weiss - Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Paleomagnetic and thermochronologic studies of Martian meteorites"
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 - Lloyd Kaufman - New York University The Moon Illusion
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - Dan Britt - University of Central Florida Meteorite Density and Porosity: Implications for the Structure of Small Bodies
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - Mark Brandon - Yale University Active Subduction, Extension and Mantle Flow beneath Northern Italy
Thursday, February 1, 2007 - Cyrena Goodrich - Kingsborough College - CUNY New Investigations of "Knorringite-Uvarovite Garnet" and "Cr-Eskola Pyroxene" in Ureilites LEW 88774 and NWA 766
Tuesday, February 6, 2007 - S.A.(Tony) Morse - University of Massachusetts Multiphase Rayleigh Fractionation and the Infinite Magma Reservoir
Friday, February 9, 2007 - 2:30PM John Hanchar - Memorial University of Newfoundland Trace Elements in Accessory Minerals: A Window into Crustal Processes
Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - OPEN
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - Gisela Winckler - Lamont Dougherty Earth Observatory Cosmic Dust in Polar Ice and Marine Sediments: What it can tell us about Climate
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - Hubert King - ExxonMobile Multi-Lengthscale Study of Growth Features on Quartz Surfaces
Tuesday, March 6, 2007 - Bernard Evans - Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington Dacite, Fire, and Brimstone: A Path to Peraluminous Rhyolite
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - Lunar and Planetary Science Conference week
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - OPEN
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - Frank Hawthorne - University of Manitoba The Key Role of Weakly Bonded Constituents in Oxysalt Minerals: A Deductive Approach
Tuesday, April 3, 2007 - John Power - Alaska Volcano Observatory Geophysical Observations of the 2006 Eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - Adam Kent - Oregon State University Insights into the Formation and Evolution of Continental Flood Basalts from Silicate Melt Inclusions
Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 2:30PM in the Astro Conference Room Carey Lisse - Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory TBA
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - OPEN
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - Glenn Gaetani - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute From Crystals to Climate: Using Precipitation Experiments to Decipher the Temperature Signal in Coral Skeleton
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 - Jill Van Tongeren - Lamont Dougherty Earth Observatory Micromill Use #682: Seasonal Temperature Estimates from Cretaceous Marine Bivalves
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - Conel Alexander - Department of Terrestrial Magnetism Meteorites: Recorders of the Prehistory and Early History of the Solar System
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - Lucy McFadden - University of Maryland Deep Impact: New Views of Comets
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 - Jessica Larsen - University of Alaska Petrology and Geochemistry of the 2006 Eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - Jon Friedrich - Fordham University Techniques for the Quantitative 3D Petrographic Analysis of Chondrites
Thursday, May 31, 2007 - Eric Ferre - Southern Illinois University The Bushveld Igneous Complex: A View from the Top
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 - Guy Consolmagno - Specola, Vatican - (Fordham) Classifying Meteorites by Density and Susceptibility: Better, Faster, Cheaper?
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - OPEN
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 - OPEN
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - Charlie Merguerian - Hofstra University New Insights on the Structural Geology of New York City.
Tuesday, October 3, 2006 - Wuyi Wang - Gemological Institute of America, NYC Gem Treatment and Identification - A Story of Crystal Defects
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - Al Duba - Earth and Planetary Sciences, AMNH Tales of the North Pacific--the Frozen Part of the Ring of Fire: "Baked Alaska, Baked Kamchatka."
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - Bill McDonough - University of Maryland Geoneutrinos and the Composition of the Earth's Core.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - Nancy Chabot - Johns Hopkins University Understanding Earth's Core Formation Through Experiments.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - Dan Harlov - University of Potsdam (GeoForschungsZentrum) Fluid-mineral interaction along grain boundaries: metasomatism and the evolution of mineral and fluid phases as a function of P-T-X.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - Mike Carr - Rutgers University Element Fluxes from the Volcanic Front of Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - Hap McSween - University of Tennessee Petrogenesis of Alkaline Rocks in Gusev Crater, Mars.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - Nobu Shimizu - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Chemical Structure of the Hawaiian Plume, based on in-situ Pb isotopes.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - Geoffrey Plumlee - US Geological Survey Science in the international hot seat: Results of an independent interdisciplinary assessment of mining-related environmental problems, Marinduque Island, Philippines.
Thursday, December 7, 2006 - Alan Rice - Earth and Planetary Sciences, AMNH Multiple meteoroid impact in Antarctica?