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Events for Spring 2008-2009

March 30 2009 04:00 PM
Nicolas Dauphas, associate professor of geophysical sciences, Enrico Fermi Institute, the University of Chicago
Iron Isotopes Reveal the Conditions of Mantle Melting from Archean to Present
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
March 31 2009 03:45 PM
Sally Dodson-Robinson, Spitzer Postdoctoral Fellow—NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, the University of Texas at Austin
Planet Formation in Solid-rich Feeding Zones
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
April 01 2009 04:00 PM
Geoff Vallis, senior scientist and professor, Princeton University
Meridional Energy Transport in the Atmosphere-Ocean System
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
April 02 2009 04:00 PM
John Mustard, professor of geological sciences, Brown University
Early Mars: Crustal Composition and Processes
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
April 06 2009 04:00 PM
Slawek Tulaczyk, professor of Earth and planetary sciences, UC Santa Cruz
Chasing Streams: How One Decade of Scientific Discoveries Redefined Hydrology and Biology of Glaciated Continents
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
April 07 2009 04:00 PM
Paula Welander, postdoctoral fellow in biology, MIT
Elucidating the Physiological Role and Biosynthesis of Hopanoids in an Anoxygenic Phototroph
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
April 08 2009 04:00 PM
Gwenn Flowers, assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Glaciology, Simon Fraser University
Subglacial Hydraulics: Process Modeling and Implications for Ice Dynamics
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
April 09 2009 09:00 AM
Carol Carmichael, member of Pasadena's Environmental Advisory Commission and faculty associate, Caltech
What I Learned about Public Power in Pasadena
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
April 13 2009 04:00 PM
Yuk Yung, professor of planetary science, Caltech
Unifying Themes of Exploring Planets Near and Far
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
April 14 2009 03:45 PM
James Rice, Arizona State University
NASA Desert RATS: Preparing for Our Return to The Moon
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
April 15 2009 04:00 PM
Sergey Nizkorodov, professor of chemistry, UC Irvine
Composition and Chemical Aging in Atmospheric Secondary Organic Aerosols
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
April 16 2009 09:00 AM
Paul Bellan, professor of applied physics, Caltech
Potential of Fission and Fusion for Meeting Energy Demands
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
April 16 2009 04:00 PM
Stacia Gordon, postdoctoral scholar in Earth sciences, UC Santa Barbara
Partial Melting, Metamorphism, and Deformation in a Collapsed Orogenic Plateau
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
April 20 2009 04:00 PM
Ian Howat, assistant professor of Earth sciences, Ohio State University
Mechanisms and Timescales of Rapid Ice Sheet Collapse
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
April 21 2009 03:45 PM
Steve Ruff, faculty research associate, Arizona State University
Exploring Mars in the Thermal Infrared
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
April 22 2009 04:00 PM
Jennifer MacKinnon, assistant research faculty, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Patchy Mixing Matters
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
April 23 2009 09:00 AM
Rody Stephenson
The Potential Role of Hydrogen Vehicles in our Energy and Climate future
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
April 23 2009 04:00 PM
Chris Dupont, J. Craig Venter Institute
Influences of Geochemistry on Biological Metal Utilization: Perspectives from Protein and Proteome Evolution
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
April 27 2009 04:00 PM
Nadine McQuarrie, assistant professor of geosciences, Princeton University
Himalayan Mass Balance: A Bhutan Perspective
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
April 28 2009 03:45 PM
Eugene Chiang, associate professor of astronomy and Earth and planetary science, UC Berkeley
Planet Formation in Transitional and Debris Disks
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
April 29 2009 04:00 PM
Ginny Catania, research associate professor in geophysics, the University of Texas at Austin
Understanding Ice Sheet Change: Towards Improved Prediction
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
April 30 2009 09:00 AM
Jess Adkins, associate professor of geochemistry and global environmental science, Caltech
Exploring the Deep-Sea for Corals and Clues to Our Climatic Past
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
April 30 2009 04:00 PM
Ben Passey, Dreyfus Postdoctoral Scholar in Environmental Geochemistry, Caltech
Barefoot on Hot Ground: Environments of Human Evolution in East Africa Based on the Clumped Isotope in Carbonate (D47) Thermometer
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
May 04 2009 04:00 PM
Francis A. Macdonald, Harvard University
Calibrating the Cryongenian in the Yukon
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
May 05 2009 03:45 PM
Jai Radebaugh, Brigham Young University
Titan's Mobile Surface: Eolian Activity, Erosion, and Tectonism on Titan from Cassini Radar
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
May 06 2009 04:00 PM
Daniel Jacob, professor of atmospheric chemistry and environmental engineering, Harvard University
Aerosols in the United States: Observation from Space and Pollution-Climate Interactions
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
May 07 2009 09:00 AM
Alice Sterling, Green City Coordinator, City of Pasadena
Greening Pasadena: The City's Plans for a Sustainable Future
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
May 07 2009 04:00 PM
Andrew Kylander-Clark, development engineer, UC Santa Barbara
UHP Terranes: Race Car or School Bus?
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
May 11 2009 04:00 PM
Victoria Orphan, assistant professor of geobiology, Caltech
Synergistic Microbial Interactions at the Microscale: Links between C, N and S Cycles in Marine Sedimentary Environments
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
May 12 2009 03:45 PM
Ravit Helled, UCLA
Core Formation and Heavy Element Enrichment in Giant Gaseous Protoplanets
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
May 13 2009 04:00 PM
Mark Benjamin, professor of civil and environmental engineering, University of Washington
Micro-Granular Adsorptive Membrane Filtration: A New Hybrid Membrane/Adsorbent Process for Water Treatment
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
May 13 2009 05:15 PM
Michael Balter, science journalist
How We Became Human
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
May 14 2009 09:00 AM
Stefanos Polyzoides, Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists
New Directions in Urban Planning
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
May 14 2009 04:00 PM
Jason Saleeby, professor of geology, Caltech
The Origin and Evolution of the White Wolf Fault and the Maricopa Basin
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
May 18 2009 04:00 PM
Ann Pearson, professor of earth and planetary sciences, Harvard University
Adventures in Lipidomics for Biogeochemistry
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
May 19 2009 03:45 PM
Alex Hall, associate professor, UCLA
Constraining Climate Changes with Observations
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
May 20 2009 04:00 PM
Kristen Corbosiero, assistant professor of oceanic sciences, UCLA
The Contribution of Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones to the Rainfall Climatology of the Southwest United States
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
May 21 2009 09:00 AM
Eric Morris, researcher at UCLA's Institute of transportation studies, UCLA
From Horse Power to Horsepower: Transportation Externalities in the 19th Century City
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
May 21 2009 04:00 PM
Beth Orcutt, postdoctoral scholar, USC
Life in the Ocean Crust: Exploring Microbial Diversity and Activity in Basalts
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
May 26 2009 03:45 PM
Ian Gared-Bethel, Brown University
Early Lunar Magnetism
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
May 27 2009 04:00 PM
Jonathan Williams, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Otto Hahn Institute
Measuring VOCs at 150 ms-1 over the Tropical Rainforest
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
May 28 2009 04:00 PM
Donald Burnett, professor of nuclear geochemistry, Caltech
Meteoritic Ca-Al-rich Inclusions: The Spinel Perspective
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
June 01 2009 04:00 PM
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, associate professor of geosciences, Penn State University
Slip Slidin' Away: Flow and Slip of Antarctic Glaciers
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
June 02 2009 03:45 PM
Jason Barnes, University of Idaho
Composition and Geomorphology of Titan's Surface from Cassini VIMS
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
June 09 2009 03:45 PM
Alice LeGall, JPL
Cassini SAR and Radiometric Observations of Titan's Surface
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

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