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October 2012
Monday, October 1st, 2012
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Mantle seismic structure beneath EarthScope's USArray, new insights into multi-scale convection and the origin of the Yellowstone hotspot
Brandon Schmandt,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar
Geology of the Earthquake Source: Insights from exhumed heterogeneous fault zones on the spectrum of active fault slip styles
Ake Fagereng,
University of Cape Town, South Africa,
Thursday, October 4th, 2012
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Friday, October 5th, 2012
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Heterogeneities in geology, fluid pressure, and fault slip style along subduction thrust interfaces
Ake Fagereng,
University of Cape Town, South Africa,
Monday, October 8th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Can we see earthquakes before they happen?
Brendan Meade,
Associate Professor ,
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences ,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Orbiting Cool M Dwarfs
John Johnson,
Astronomy Department,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar
The Neogene Zagros Foreland Basin
Mortaza Pirouz,
University of Geneve, Switzerland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Microscale X-ray Imaging Applications of Synchrotron Radiation: Peering into the Earth with X-ray Vision
Samuel Webb,
Scientist,
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource,
Stanford University,
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Birds of Another Color: Using Accelerators to Look at Fossil Pigmentation
Samuel Webb,
Stanford Synchotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL),
Friday, October 12th, 2012
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
The Clark County Parcel Map and Effects on Earthquake Ground Motions in Las Vegas Valley
John Louie,
University of Nevada, Reno,
Monday, October 15th, 2012
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Magmatic volatile reservoirs on the Moon as inferred from apatite
Francis McCubbin,
Senior Research Scientist 3,
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences ,
University of New Mexico,
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tectonics Observatory Brown Bag Seminar
Neogene Mountain Building in the European Alps
Christoph von Hagkn,
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The plumbing of ice sheets
Ian Hewitt,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute of Applied Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
A comparison of benthic and pelagic ecology during the Early Triassic recover from the end-Permian mass extinction
Carlie Pietsch,
USC,
Friday, October 19th, 2012
4:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Draining the Oceans: New Marine Gravity and Bathymetry from Cryosat, Envisat, and Jason-1 Altimetry
David Sandwell,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
Monday, October 22nd, 2012
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Methodology for reconstructing wind direction, wind speed and duration of wind events from aeolian dune deposits
Gary Kocurek,
Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences,
University of Texas at Austin,
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Exploring Interstellar Chemical Inventories Using cm-Wave Observations at the Green Bank Telescope (Brett McGuire), The Available Potential Energy of World Ocean (Zhan su)
Brett McGuire,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Zhan Su,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
North African dust emissions over the last 20,000 years: Estimating the abruptness, magnitude and climate impacts of past changes
David McGee,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
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Geology Club Seminar
Megafloods in the English Channel: the birth of island Britain
Sanjeev Gupta,
Professor,
Department of Earth Science & Engineering,
Imperial College London,
Monday, October 29th, 2012
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Radon and the tracing of geological fluids
Frederic Perrier,
Professor,
University of Paris Diderot,
IPGP,
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
4:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Titan's Upper Atmosphere: Observations by Cassini UVIS (Joshua Kammer); Aerosols in the Atmosphere of Venus (Peter Gao)
Joshua Kammer,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Peter Gao,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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7:00pm
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CubeSat: An Unlikely Success Story
Jordi Puig-Suari,
Professor ,
Professor of PolySat & CubeSat Programs,
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo,
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Terrestrial Ecosystem Science at JPL: Global Carbon, Water, and Nutrients Cycling Impacts To and From Climate
Joshua Fisher,
Scientist,
Water & Carbon Cycles Group,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),