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"