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

January 09 2012 04:00 PM

Donald Canfield, Professor of Ecology, Professor of Ecology, Institute of Biology

The many flavors of oxygen-minimum zones present and past

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

January 10 2012 12:00 PM

Laurie Kovalenko

Outreach

Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar Series

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

January 10 2012 04:00 PM

Heather Knutson, Assistant Professor, Caltech

Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences

Planetary Science Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

January 11 2012 04:00 PM

Roger Bales, Professor, University of California, Merced

Snowpack, climate change and water balance in a Sierra Nevada forest

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

January 12 2012 04:00 PM

Pete Sadler, UC Riverside

Scaling laws for aggradation and progradation of the sedimentary stratigraphic record

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

January 13 2012 04:00 PM

Risheng Chu

Upper mantle P-velocity structure beneath the Midwestern United States: surprises and mysteries

Dix Seismo Lab Seminar

256 S. Mudd, Benioff Room

January 16 2012 04:00 PM

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar - NO SEMINAR - MLK DAY

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

January 18 2012 04:00 PM

David Romps, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkley

Transilience of Mass and Momentum by Convective Clouds

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

January 19 2012 12:00 PM

Hiroo Kanamori, John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics, California Institute of Technology

Seismic Hazards in Japan: Role of Seismology in a Modern Living Environment

ESE & Society Discussion Group

162 Mudd Laboratory, South

January 19 2012 04:00 PM

Katrina Edwards, USC

Topic to be Announced

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

January 20 2012 04:00 PM

Peter Gerstoft, US San Diego

Topic to be Announced

Dix Seismo Lab Seminar

256 S. Mudd, Benioff Room

January 23 2012 04:00 PM

To be Determined

Thomas S. Duffy, Professor of Geosciences. Associate Chair, Department of Geosciences., Princeton University

Chemical Heterogeneity in the Earth's Deep Mantle

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

January 24 2012 12:00 PM

An Yin

Topic to be Announced

Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar Series

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

January 24 2012 02:00 PM

Symposium Celebrating the Dedication of the Linde + Robinson Laboratory

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

January 24 2012 04:00 PM

Greg Laughlin, Professor, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences

Planetary Science Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

January 24 2012 04:00 PM

Linde + Robinson Laboratory Dedication

Linde + Robinson Laboratory

January 25 2012 04:00 PM

Michael Bender, Professor of Geosciences, Princeton University

Biological productivity in the Southern Ocean, and variability in the atmospheric CO2 concentration over long timescales

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

January 26 2012 12:00 PM

Riley Duren, Chief Systems Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Topic to be Announced

ESE & Society Discussion Group

162 Mudd Laboratory, South

January 26 2012 04:00 PM

Christian Braudrick, UC Berkeley

Why do gravel bed rivers meander? Insights from flume experiments

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

January 27 2012 04:00 PM

John Crowley

Topic to be Announced

Dix Seismo Lab Seminar

256 S. Mudd, Benioff Room

January 30 2012 04:00 PM

Gary Parker, W. H. Johnson Professor of Geology, University of Illinois

Sedimentation in lakes versus the ocean: is salinity a necessary condition for the subaqueous formation of continental shelves?

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

January 31 2012 12:00 PM

Jamshid Hassanzadeh

Subduction initiation in the Neotethys, Iran

Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar Series

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

January 31 2012 04:00 PM

Ruth Murray-Clay, Astrophysicist and Lecturer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Dynamics of the Outer Solar System

Planetary Science Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

February 01 2012 04:00 PM

Tiffany Shaw, Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Tropical and subtropical latent heat transports and their role in the general circulation of the atmosphere

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

February 02 2012 12:00 PM

Robert Lempert, Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Informing Climate and Other Contentious Decisions Under Conditions of Deep Uncertainty

ESE & Society Discussion Group

162 Mudd Laboratory, South

February 02 2012 04:00 PM

Jessica Warren, Stanford

Topic to be Announced

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

February 06 2012 04:00 PM

Norman Pace, Distinguished Professor of MCD Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder

Molecular Phylogenetic Perspective on Deep Evolution

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

February 07 2012 12:00 PM

Cathy Busby, UC Santa Barbara

Topic to be Announced

Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar Series

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

February 07 2012 04:00 PM

Jack Holt, Research Scientist, Univ. of Texas-Austin

Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences

Planetary Science Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

February 08 2012 04:00 PM

Eric Alm, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

What 2000 genomes tell us about the ancient world, the modern world, and the human body

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

February 09 2012 12:00 PM

Eric Kort, Postdoctoral Fellow, JPL/Caltech

Tracking anthropogenic emissions in megacities: ground-based network design and space-based observations

ESE & Society Discussion Group

162 Mudd Laboratory, South

February 09 2012 04:00 PM

Seth Finnegan

A new look at the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction: stable isotopes, sea level, and selectivity patterns.

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

February 13 2012 04:00 PM

Thure E. Cerling, Distinguished Professor, University of Utah

Environments of Human Evolution: The Isotope Evidence

James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

February 14 2012 04:00 PM

Edwin Kite, Postdoctoral Fellow

Two new approaches to the Early Mars climate problem

Planetary Science Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

February 15 2012 04:00 PM

Jake Gebbie, Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

The salinity, temperature, and δ18O of the Glacial Deep Ocean: 10 years after the Science paper

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

February 16 2012 04:00 PM

Ajay Limaye

Lauren Edgar

Bedform reconstruction using Terrestrial Laser Scanning at Hunt's Hole, New Mexico/Wandering aimlessly? River migration and the terrace record

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

February 20 2012 04:00 PM

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar - NO SEMINAR - President's Day

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

February 21 2012 04:00 PM

Mark Swain, Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences

Planetary Science Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

February 22 2012 04:00 PM

Kathleen Johnson, Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine

The Weather Underground: New speleothem records of Late Holocene climate

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

February 23 2012 12:00 PM

John Hall, Professor of Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Reliability of the Water Supply in Southern California

ESE & Society Discussion Group

162 Mudd Laboratory, South

February 23 2012 04:00 PM

Charlie Kerans, UT Austin

To Be Announced

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

February 27 2012 04:00 PM

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar - NO SEMINAR TODAY

Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

February 28 2012 04:00 PM

Hilke Schliting, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA

Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences

Planetary Science Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

February 29 2012 04:00 PM

Thure Cerling, Distinguished Professor, University of Utah

HAIR: History of Animals using Isotope Records

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

March 01 2012 12:00 PM

Kai Lee, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Linking Knowledge with Action: an approach to science grantmaking

ESE & Society Discussion Group

162 Mudd Laboratory, South

March 01 2012 04:00 PM

Tom Dunne, UC Santa Barbara

The Evolution of Flood Plain Complexity

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

March 02 2012 04:00 PM

Xyoli Perez-Campos

A seismic tour through Mexico's interior

Dix Seismo Lab Seminar

256 S. Mudd, Benioff Room

March 05 2012 04:00 PM

Jon Blundy, Professor of Petrology, University of Bristol

The origin of compositional modality in volcanic terranes

James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences

155 Arms, Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall

March 06 2012 12:00 PM

Barry Parsons

To Be Announced

Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar Series

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

March 07 2012 12:00 PM

Sara Dougherty

Seismic structure in central Mexico: Implications for fragmentation of the subducted Cocos plate

Geophysics Brown Bag Seminar

256 S. Mudd, Benioff Room

March 07 2012 04:00 PM

Zhaohua Wu, Assistant Professor, Florida State University

On the Time-Varying Trend in Global-Mean Surface Temperature

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

March 08 2012 04:00 PM

Axel Schmitt, UCLA

Caribbean and Andean arc batholith formation probed in the act

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

March 09 2012 04:00 PM

Romain Jolivet, Caltech

An inSAR study of inter-seismic deformation along the Haiyuan fault, Gansu, China

Dix Seismo Lab Seminar

256 S. Mudd, Benioff Room

March 13 2012 12:00 PM

An Yin

Late Cenozoic Evolution of the Himalayan Drainage System

Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar Series

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

March 14 2012 04:00 PM

Steve Wofsy, Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor, Harvard University

Distributions, sources and sinks of greenhouse gases assessed using global and regional aircraft measurements

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room

March 15 2012 04:00 PM

Andrew Thompson

The Weddell Sea: Linking the Antartic margins and the Southern Ocean

Geology Club Seminar

151 Arms, Buwalda Room

March 19 2012 09:00 AM

Zachary J. Lebo, Graduate student , Caltech

Computational Modeling Studies of Fundamental Aerosol-Cloud Interactions

Thesis Seminar

365 S. Mudd, Salvatori Room