Events for Fall 2011-2012 - Caltech: Geological and Planetary Sciences

September 21 2011 12:00 PM

Christian Pelties, Munich University

Modeling 3D dynamic rupture on complex fault systems with a high-order Discontinuous Galerkin method

Geophysics Brown Bag Seminar

256 S. Mudd, Benioff Room

September 23 2011 04:00 PM

Kazuki Koketsu

A Unified Source Model for the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake

Dix Seismo Lab Seminar

256 S. Mudd, Benioff Room

September 26 2011 04:00 PM

Joann M. Stock, professor of geology and geophysics, Caltech

Plate boundary development in the Gulf of California and the Salton Trough

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

September 27 2011 12:00 PM

Luca Malatesta

Landscape Evolution and Lateral Growth of the Southwest Tain Shan, Uzbekistan

Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar Series

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

September 28 2011 12:00 PM

Danielle Sumy, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting in the southern Gulf of California

Geophysics Brown Bag Seminar

256 S. Mudd, Benioff Room

September 29 2011 04:00 PM

Roland Hatzenpichler, Earl Postdoctoral Scholar in Geobiology

Topic to be Announced

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

September 30 2011 04:00 PM

Victor Tsai, Assistant Professor of Geophysics

Topic to be Announced

Dix Seismo Lab Seminar

256 S. Mudd, Benioff Room

October 03 2011 04:00 PM

Josef Dufek, assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences , Georgia Institute of Technology

Emergent Dynamics in Multiphase Geophysical Flows: From Magma Chambers to Atmospheric Dynamics

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

October 04 2011 12:00 PM

Tohoku-Oki earthquake:Recent developments

Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar Series

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

October 05 2011 04:00 PM

Ron Cohen, Professor of Chemistry and of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkley

Space-based Measurements of NO2: Urban Trends, Rural Farms and Thoughts on OH

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

October 06 2011 04:00 PM

Ed Young, Professor, UCLA

Topic to be Announced

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

October 07 2011 04:00 PM

Scott King

Topic to be Announced

Dix Seismo Lab Seminar

256 S. Mudd, Benioff Room

October 10 2011 04:00 PM

H. Rodger Harvey, professor and chair, Old Dominion University

The Sources and Cycling of Organic Matter in a Changing Arctic Ocean: Patterns, Proxies and Processes

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

October 11 2011 12:00 PM

Luca Malatesta

Landscape Evolution and Lateral Growth of the Southwest Tian Shan, Uzbekistan

Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar Series

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

October 12 2011 04:00 PM

Pieter Tans, Senior Research Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Climate Change and the End of Exponential Growth

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

October 12 2011 05:00 PM

GMT

GPS Resource Seminar

162 Mudd Laboratory, South

October 13 2011 04:00 PM

Victor Tsai, Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Caltech

Making Use of Ambient Seismic Noise

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

October 14 2011 04:00 PM

Zacharie Duputel, IPG Strasbourg

Topic to be Announced

Dix Seismo Lab Seminar

256 S. Mudd, Benioff Room

October 17 2011 04:00 PM

Shuhei Ono, assistant professor of geochemistry, MIT

S-33 insights into Archean and Proterozoic Oxygenations

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

October 18 2011 12:00 PM

Maud Deves

Process zones of distributed deformation in continents:a new strain heating mechanism for the origin of a continental magmatism

Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar Series

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

October 19 2011 04:00 PM

Mick Follows, Senior Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

On the Organisation of Diverse Phytoplankton Communities in the Ocean

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

October 19 2011 05:00 PM

Matlab

GPS Resource Seminar

162 Mudd Laboratory, South

October 20 2011 04:00 PM

Tim Lyons, Professor of Biogeochemistry, University of California, Riverside

Metals, microbes, and mass balance: Evolving views of the early ocean

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

October 21 2011 03:00 PM

Memorial observance honoring W. Barclay Kamb, Barbara and Stanley R. Rawn, Jr., Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Emeritus

Athenaeum

October 21 2011 04:00 PM

Yoshi Kaneko, Scripps Postdoctoral Fellow

Topic to be Announced

Dix Seismo Lab Seminar

256 S. Mudd, Benioff Room

October 24 2011 04:00 PM

John M. Eiler, Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and Professor of Geochemistry, Caltech

Reconstructing the body temperatures of dinosaurs

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

October 25 2011 12:00 PM

Francois Ayoub

Monitoring Mars dunes and sand ripples migration from HiRISE image time-series

Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar Series

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

October 26 2011 04:00 PM

No Seminar this week

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

October 26 2011 05:00 PM

Python

GPS Resource Seminar

162 Mudd Laboratory, South

October 27 2011 04:00 PM

Katie Snell, Postdoctoral Scholar in Geology

Paleoclimate and paleoelevation in the western US Cordillera, 80 Ma to Present

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

October 31 2011 04:00 PM

Gwenn Flowers, associate professor of Earth sciences and Canada Research Chair in Glaciology, Simon Fraser University

Internal versus external controls on fast glacier flow

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

November 01 2011 12:00 PM

Branson Schmandt

Intermittent upwelling of hot lower mantle beneath Yellowstone

Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar Series

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

November 02 2011 04:00 PM

Shaily Mahendra, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Molecular Tools for Monitoring Biodegradation of Emerging Water Contaminants

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

November 02 2011 05:00 PM

Latex

GPS Resource Seminar

162 Mudd Laboratory, South

November 03 2011 04:00 PM

Sarah Lambart, Postdoctoral Scholar in Geology, Caltech

Mantle melting: Don't forget the pyroxenites

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

November 07 2011 04:00 PM

Alexander Simms, Assistant Professor , UC Santa Barbara

New Approaches to Reconstructing Holocene sea levels

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

November 09 2011 04:00 PM

Gillian Galford, Postdoctoral Fellow

Remote sensing of African smallholder farmers and their environment: Impacts of agricultural subsidies and climate adaptation

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

November 09 2011 05:00 PM

C

GPS Resource Seminar

162 Mudd Laboratory, South

November 10 2011 04:00 PM

Ann Blythe, Professor, Occidental College

Tracking faults with low-temperature thermochronology: examples from Southern California

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

November 14 2011 04:00 PM

Bill Bottke, senior research scientist, Southwest Research Institute

Exploring the Early Bombardment of the Moon and Terrestrial Planets

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

November 15 2011 04:00 PM

Heather Viles, Professor, University of Oxford

Microbial Geomorphology

Planetary Science Seminar

162 Mudd Laboratory, South

November 16 2011 04:00 PM

Rodney Weber, Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology

CalTech vs GaTech: Secondary organic aerosol and soluble brown carbon

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

November 17 2011 04:00 PM

Katie Stack

Emily Hamecher

Beds, Bed Thickness, and Bed Thickness Distributions on Mars:An Orbital Perspective and Modeling molar volumes of mantle minerals

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

November 21 2011 04:00 PM

Bodo Bookhagen, Assistant Professor , UC Santa Barbara

Hydrologic Gradients, Climatic Extremes, and Surface Erosion in the Himalaya

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

November 28 2011 01:30 PM

Arthur G. Fitzmaurice, Graduate student, UCLA (Detached Duty Caltech)

The role of pesticide-induced aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibition in the pathogenesis of Parkinsons disease

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

24 Beckman Labs

November 29 2011 12:00 PM

Jamshid Hassanzadeh

Subduction initiation in the Neotethys, Iran

Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar Series

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

November 30 2011 04:00 PM

Alan Townsend, Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Let it rain: A convergence of carbon and biodiversity hotspots in the wettest of tropical forests

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

November 30 2011 05:00 PM

Fortran

GPS Resource Seminar

162 Mudd Laboratory, South

December 01 2011 04:00 PM

Don Canfield

Topic to be Announced

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

December 12 2011 04:00 PM

Anne Mangeney, Professor of Geoscience, Head of the Seismology Group, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

Numerical modeling of landquakes

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall