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October 2011
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Emergent Dynamics in Multiphase Geophysical Flows: From Magma Chambers to Atmospheric Dynamics
Josef Dufek,
assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences ,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Space-based Measurements of NO2: Urban Trends, Rural Farms and Thoughts on OH
Ron Cohen,
Professor of Chemistry and of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
University of California, Berkley,
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
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Friday, October 7th, 2011
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Sources and Cycling of Organic Matter in a Changing Arctic Ocean: Patterns, Proxies and Processes
H. Rodger Harvey,
professor and chair,
Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Old Dominion University,
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
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Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar
Landscape Evolution and Lateral Growth of the Southwest Tian Shan, Uzbekistan
Luca Malatesta,
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate Change and the End of Exponential Growth
Pieter Tans,
Senior Research Scientist,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
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Earnest C. Watson Lecture
Neuroeconomics: How Does Your Brain Make Decisions?
Antonio Rangel,
Professor of Economics and Neuroscience,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
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Geology Club Seminar
Making Use of Ambient Seismic Noise
Victor Tsai,
Assistant Professor of Geophysics,
Caltech,
Friday, October 14th, 2011
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
S-33 insights into Archean and Proterozoic Oxygenations
Shuhei Ono,
assistant professor of geochemistry,
MIT,
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
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Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar
Process zones of distributed deformation in continents:a new strain heating mechanism for the origin of a continental magmatism
Maud Deves,
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the Organisation of Diverse Phytoplankton Communities in the Ocean
Mick Follows,
Senior Research Scientist,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
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Geology Club Seminar
Metals, microbes, and mass balance: Evolving views of the early ocean
Tim Lyons,
Professor of Biogeochemistry,
University of California, Riverside,
Friday, October 21st, 2011
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Reconstructing the body temperatures of dinosaurs
John M. Eiler,
Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and Professor of Geochemistry,
GPS,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
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Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar
Monitoring Mars dunes and sand ripples migration from HiRISE image time-series
Francois Ayoub,
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
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Geology Club Seminar
Paleoclimate and paleoelevation in the western US Cordillera, 80 Ma to Present
Katie Snell,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Geology,
Monday, October 31st, 2011
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Internal versus external controls on fast glacier flow
Gwenn Flowers,
associate professor of Earth sciences and Canada Research Chair in Glaciology,
Simon Fraser University,