Fall 2020 and Spring 2021

 

Earth & Planetary Seminar Series 

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.