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California Institute of Technology

Events for Winter 2007-2008

January 07 2008 04:00 PM
Brian P. Wernicke, Chandler Family Professor of Geology, Caltech
Active Megadetachment Beneath the Western United States
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
January 08 2008 03:45 PM
Michael Hecht, project manager and co-investigator, JPL
A Billion Butterflies and Weather on Mars: How Local Texture Can Determine Climate in a Radiative Environment
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
January 09 2008 03:40 PM
Andreas Kappler, assitant professor of geomicrobiology, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen
Biogeochemical Cycling of Iron Minerals and Humic Substances-Consequences for Pollutant Transformation and Degradation
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
January 10 2008 04:00 PM
Melany Hunt, vice provost, and professor and executive officer in mechanical engineering, Caltech
Booming Sand Dunes: Field and Laboratory Experiments
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
January 14 2008 04:00 PM
John Moreau, National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate, US Geological Survey
New Insights from Molecular and In Situ Studies of the Role of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Environmental Metal Transformations
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
January 15 2008 03:45 PM
Wes Fraser, graduate student in physics, University of Victoria
The Kuiper Belt Size Distribution: Constraints on Accretion
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
January 16 2008 03:40 PM
Paul J. Ziemann, professor of atmospheric chemistry, UC Riverside
Elucidating Chemical Mechanisms of Aerosol Formation through Studies of the Oxidation of Simple Hydrocarbons
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
January 17 2008 09:00 AM
Swaminathan Krishnan, assistant professor of civil engineering, Caltech
Will the "Big One" Collapse Our Big Buildings?
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
January 17 2008 04:00 PM
Jan Veizer, professor of geology, University of Ottawa
Climate, Water Cycle, and CO2: A Geological Perspective
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
January 22 2008 03:45 PM
Kevin Baines, principal scientist, JPL
Recent Results in Gas Giant Meteorology from Cassini and New Horizons
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
January 23 2008 03:40 PM
Frank N. Keutsch, assistant professor of chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Gyoxal as a New Tracer of Photochemical Oxidation of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
January 24 2008 09:00 AM
David Pettit, senior attorney and director, Natural Resources Defense Council
Goods Movement and Air Pollution: How Many People Died for your Nikes?
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
January 24 2008 04:00 PM
Marty Grove, ion microprobe facility manager, UCLA
Evolution of the Colorado River: Culmination of a Major Cenozoic Transformation of Southwest North American Drainage Patterns
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
January 28 2008 04:00 PM
Burkhard Militzer, assistant professor in earth and planetary science, UC Berkeley
Planetary Science with a Handful of Atoms
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
January 29 2008 03:45 PM
Josh Winn, assistant professor of physics, MIT
The Transits of Exoplanets
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
January 30 2008 03:40 PM
Benjamin Van Mooy, assistant scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—CANCELLED
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
January 31 2008 09:00 AM
John Ledyard, Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor, Caltech
Markets and Environmental Regulation
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
January 31 2008 04:00 PM
Pierre-Henri Blard, postdoctoral scholar in geology, Caltech
Central Altiplano Paleoclimate during the Last Deglaciation Constrained by Cosmogenic 3He Dating, Numerical Modeling and 'Clumped-Isotope' Paleothermometry
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
February 04 2008 04:00 PM
Robert Aller, professor, Stony Brook University
Biogeochemical Heterogeneity and Dynamics of the Seafloor as Revealed by 2-D Optical Sensors
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
February 05 2008 03:45 PM
Alessandro Morbidelli, Observatory of Nice, France
Crucial Dynamical Phases in Solar System Formation
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
February 06 2008 03:40 PM
Theodore Shepherd, professor of physics, University of Toronto
Stratospheric Dynamics, Ozone, and Climate Change
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
February 07 2008 09:00 AM
Asa Hopkins, graduate student in physics, Caltech
Sustainability Metrics for Caltech
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
February 11 2008 04:00 PM
Oded Aharonson, assistant professor of planetary science, Caltech
The Surface of Mars
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
February 12 2008 03:45 PM
Jim Bell, associate professor of astronomy, Cornell University
Topic to be announced.
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
February 14 2008 09:00 AM
Michael Shermer, science writer and publisher, Skeptic magazine, and executive director, Skeptics Society
The Mind of the Market
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
February 14 2008 04:00 PM
Abigail Allwood, JPL
Early Archaean Stromatolites of the Pilbara
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
February 19 2008 03:45 PM
Klaus Pontoppidan, postdoctoral scholar in planetary science, Caltech
Topic to be announced.
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
February 20 2008 03:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—CANCELLED
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
February 21 2008 04:00 PM
Susannah Porter, assistant professor of Precambrian and Cambrian paleontology, UC Santa Barbara
Early Carbonate Biomineralization and Seawater Chemistry
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
February 26 2008 03:45 PM
Sarah Milkovich, JPL
Topic to be announced.
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
February 27 2008 03:40 PM
Brian Soden, associate professor, The University of Miami
Global Warming and the Weakening of the Tropical Circulation
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
February 28 2008 09:00 AM
Mauricio Mejia, sustainable programs manager, City of Pasadena
Pasadena: Striving to Become a Sustainable Community
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
February 28 2008 04:00 PM
Kristin Buck, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Controls on Dissolved Iron Concentrations in the World Ocean: Recent Studies of Iron Speciation in Natural and Model Systems
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
March 03 2008 04:00 PM
Simon P. Kelley, professor of earth sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Flood Basalts, Meteorite Impacts, and Sudden Environmental Change: What Can Isotope Geochronology Tell Us?
James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
March 04 2008 03:45 PM
James R. Lyons, assistant research geochemist, UCLA
Topic to be announced.
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
March 05 2008 03:40 PM
Owen Duckworth, assistant professor of soil biogeochemistry, North Carolina State University
Siderophore-Mediated Biogeochemical Cycling of Transition Metals
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
March 06 2008 09:00 AM
Greg Critser, journalist and author
Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
March 06 2008 04:00 PM
Daniel Vielzeuf, CNRS—University of Paris
Diffusion in Geological Materials: Determination of Interdiffusion Coefficients in Multicomponent Systems from Experimental Diffusion Profiles
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
March 10 2008 04:00 PM
Woodward Fischer, Agouran Postdoctoral Scholoar in Geobiology, Caltech
Life Before the Rise of Oxygen: Insights from a Late Archean Carbonate Platform in South Africa
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall
March 12 2008 03:40 PM
Ka-Kit Tung, professor of applied mathematics and adjunct professor in atmospheric science, University of Washington
Solar Variability and Climate Change
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck
March 13 2008 09:00 AM
NO SEMINAR
ESE & Society Discussion Group
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
March 13 2008 04:00 PM
Paul Myrow, professor of geology, Colorado College
Early Paleozoic Orogenic and Sedimentary History of the Himalayas
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
March 18 2008 03:45 PM
Bruce Runnegar, professor of paleontology, UCLA
Topic to be announced.
Planetary Science Seminar
365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room
March 20 2008 04:00 PM
Spring Break, No Geoclub
Geology Club Seminar
151 Arms, Buwalda Room
March 26 2008 03:40 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar—CANCELLED
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
142 Keck

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