Events for Winter 2012-2013

A geobiological perspective on commensal and parasitic anaerobic eukaryotes

Understanding the Formation and Composition of Planetary Atmospheric Hazes

The surprising effects of Ferric iron on MgSiO3 perovskite in earth's lower mantle

TBA

New views of the deep sea: surprises from genomes and insights for geochemistry

Three 2012 Transits of Venus: From Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn (Jay Pasachoff); Atmospheric Characterization of Extrasolar Planets in the Era of Kepler (Jean-Michel Désert)

Contrasting Biophysical Responses to Central and Eastern Pacific El Niño

Geology Club Seminar

Wavespeed and Attenuation Structure of the European Upper Mantle Based on Adjoint Tomography

A Theory of the Meridional Overturning Circulation and Associated Stratification of the Ocean

Geology Club Seminar

TBA

Extraordinarily ancient landscapes in the Brazilian jungle: evidence from new techniques in geochronology and surface exposure dating

The Enceladus Plume as Seen by the Cassini Magnetometer and MHD Modeling

Deglacial CO2 release from the North Pacific constrained by boron isotopes, radiocarbon and earth system modeling

Geology Club Seminar

Ground Motion Prediction using the Ambient Seismic Field

Studies of extinct Pu-244, I-129 and Cl-36 based on the analysis of xenon and argon isotopes

Consequences of Electron Precipitation at Mercury: Exosphere Formation and X-ray Aurorae

CO2 Emissions in the Los Angeles Megacity as Observed in Pasadena

The influence of large-magnitude earthquakes and fault zone damage on the spatial distribution of slow-moving landslides (Joel)

TBA

First direct measurements of heat and carbon transport across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Impact Induced Decompression Melting of the Martian Mantle: The Formation of Widespread Infilled Craters and Inter-Crate Plains; Dark Spots on the Seasonal CO2 Ice Polar Caps on Mars, Clues to Better Understand the Seasonal Processes

The sensitivity of global tropical cyclone frequency to climate changes

Geology Club Seminar

TBA

TBD

Regulation of the ocean's deep overturning circulation by Antarctic easterly winds

Geology Club Seminar

Temperatures and Aerosol Opacities of the Mars Atmosphere at Aphelion: Validation and Inter-comparison of Limb-Sounding Data from MRO-MCS and MGS-TES

Biologically Induced Snowball Initiation, and Snowball Ocean Dynamics

Geology Club Seminar

TBA

Characterizing the Atmospheres of Low-Mass Low-Density Exoplanets

Extreme Comets in Unusual Places

Tropical compensation of hemispheric albedo asymmetries

Geology Club Seminar

30th Informal Symposium on Kinetics and Photochemical Processes in the Atmosphere

Tropical Convection, Waves, and Climate

Evolution of Protoplanet Vesta: What have we learned from Dawn?

TBA

A stochastic parcel representation of cumulus convection

The World According to GARP; Geophysics, Anisotropy and Realistic Physics

Beno Gutenberg's Low Velocity Zone Revisited; the roles of anisotropy, adiabaticity, anelasticity, anharmonicity, artefacts, advection, absolute wavespeeds, asthenosphere and ambient mantle

Prototype Earthquake, Atmospheric and Structural Early Warning System Using Seismogeodesy

Solar System Science with NEOWISE

Using GPS and Seismogeodetic Data for Earthquake Early Warning