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November 2011
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
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Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar
Intermittent upwelling of hot lower mantle beneath Yellowstone
Branson Schmandt,
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Molecular Tools for Monitoring Biodegradation of Emerging Water Contaminants
Shaily Mahendra,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Mantle melting: Don't forget the pyroxenites
Sarah Lambart,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Geology,
Caltech,
Monday, November 7th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
New Approaches to Reconstructing Holocene sea levels
Alexander Simms,
Assistant Professor ,
Department of Earth Sciences,
UC Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Remote sensing of African smallholder farmers and their environment: Impacts of agricultural subsidies and climate adaptation
Gillian Galford,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Woods Hole Research Center,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Tracking faults with low-temperature thermochronology: examples from Southern California
Ann Blythe,
Professor,
Department of Geology ,
Occidental College,
Friday, November 11th, 2011
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture
Photons to Bits and Beyond: The Science and Technology of Digital Image Sensors
Eric Fossum,
Professor,
Engineering,
Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering,
Monday, November 14th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Exploring the Early Bombardment of the Moon and Terrestrial Planets
Bill Bottke,
senior research scientist,
Southwest Research Institute,
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Microbial Geomorphology
Heather Viles,
Professor,
University of Oxford,
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
CalTech vs GaTech: Secondary organic aerosol and soluble brown carbon
Rodney Weber,
Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry,
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Georgia Institute of Technology ,
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Beds, Bed Thickness, and Bed Thickness Distributions on Mars:An Orbital Perspective and Modeling molar volumes of mantle minerals
Katie Stack,
Emily Hamecher,
Monday, November 21st, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Hydrologic Gradients, Climatic Extremes, and Surface Erosion in the Himalaya
Bodo Bookhagen,
Assistant Professor ,
Department of Geography,
UC Santa Barbara,
Monday, November 28th, 2011
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
The role of pesticide-induced aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibition in the pathogenesis of Parkinsons disease
Arthur G. Fitzmaurice,
Graduate student,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
UCLA (Detached Duty Caltech),
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar
Subduction initiation in the Neotethys, Iran
Jamshid Hassanzadeh,
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Let it rain: A convergence of carbon and biodiversity hotspots in the wettest of tropical forests
Alan Townsend,
Professor,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of Colorado Boulder,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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