January 2008

Monday, January 7, 2008
4:00 pm -  5:00 pm	Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Active Megadetachment Beneath the Western United States Brian P. Wernicke, Chandler Family Professor of Geology, Caltech

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
3:45 pm -  5:00 pm	Planetary Science Seminar South Mudd 365 A Billion Butterflies and Weather on Mars: How Local Texture Can Determine Climate in a Radiative Environment Michael Hecht, project manager and co-investigator, Mars Environmental Compatibility Assessment (MECA), JPL

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
3:40 pm -  5:00 pm	Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar Keck 142 Biogeochemical Cycling of Iron Minerals and Humic Substances-Consequences for Pollutant Transformation and Degradation Andreas Kappler, assitant professor of geomicrobiology, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen

Thursday, January 10, 2008
4:00 pm -  5:00 pm	Geology Club Seminar Arms 151 (Buwalda Room) Booming Sand Dunes: Field and Laboratory Experiments Melany Hunt, vice provost, and professor and executive officer in mechanical engineering, Caltech

Monday, January 14, 2008
4:00 pm -  5:00 pm	Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar See event detail for location Research and Technology Trends Affecting the Availability of Safe, Sustainable Water Supplies Jim Larkin, president, Scientific Methods, Inc.
4:00 pm -  5:00 pm	Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) New Insights from Molecular and In Situ Studies of the Role of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Environmental Metal Transformations John Moreau, National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate, US Geological Survey

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
3:45 pm -  5:00 pm	Planetary Science Seminar South Mudd 365 The Kuiper Belt Size Distribution: Constraints on Accretion Wes Fraser, graduate student in physics, University of Victoria

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
3:40 pm -  5:00 pm	Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar Keck 142 Elucidating Chemical Mechanisms of Aerosol Formation through Studies of the Oxidation of Simple Hydrocarbons Paul J. Ziemann, professor of atmospheric chemistry, UC Riverside

Thursday, January 17, 2008
9:00 am -  10:00 am	ESE & Society Discussion Group Arms 151 (Buwalda Room) Will the "Big One" Collapse Our Big Buildings? Swaminathan Krishnan, assistant professor of civil engineering, Caltech
4:00 pm -  5:00 pm	Geology Club Seminar Arms 151 (Buwalda Room) Climate, Water Cycle, and CO2: A Geological Perspective Jan Veizer, professor of geology, University of Ottawa

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
3:45 pm -  5:00 pm	Planetary Science Seminar South Mudd 365 Recent Results in Gas Giant Meteorology from Cassini and New Horizons Kevin Baines, principal scientist, JPL

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
3:40 pm -  5:00 pm	Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar Keck 142 Gyoxal as a New Tracer of Photochemical Oxidation of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds Frank N. Keutsch, assistant professor of chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Thursday, January 24, 2008
9:00 am -  10:00 am	ESE & Society Discussion Group Arms 151 (Buwalda Room) Goods Movement and Air Pollution: How Many People Died for your Nikes? David Pettit, senior attorney and director, Southern California Air Quality Project, Natural Resources Defense Council
4:00 pm -  5:00 pm	Geology Club Seminar Arms 151 (Buwalda Room) Evolution of the Colorado River: Culmination of a Major Cenozoic Transformation of Southwest North American Drainage Patterns Marty Grove, ion microprobe facility manager, UCLA

Monday, January 28, 2008
4:00 pm -  5:00 pm	Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Planetary Science with a Handful of Atoms Burkhard Militzer, assistant professor in earth and planetary science, UC Berkeley

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
3:45 pm -  5:00 pm	Planetary Science Seminar South Mudd 365 The Transits of Exoplanets Josh Winn, assistant professor of physics, MIT

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
3:40 pm -  5:00 pm	Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—CANCELLED Keck 142 Benjamin Van Mooy, assistant scientist, marine chemistry and geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Thursday, January 31, 2008
9:00 am -  10:00 am	ESE & Society Discussion Group Arms 151 (Buwalda Room) Markets and Environmental Regulation John Ledyard, Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor, Econimics and Social Sciences, Caltech
4:00 pm -  5:00 pm	Geology Club Seminar Arms 151 (Buwalda Room) Central Altiplano Paleoclimate during the Last Deglaciation Constrained by Cosmogenic 3He Dating, Numerical Modeling and 'Clumped-Isotope' Paleothermometry Pierre-Henri Blard, postdoctoral scholar in geology, Caltech