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November 2012
Thursday, November 1st, 2012
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Geology Club Seminar
Molecular clocks and the Cambrian-Explosion: What have we learned?
Bruce Runnegar,
Professor,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
Monday, November 5th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Planets of 1-4 Earth-Radii: Masses, Radii, and Densities
Geoff Marcy,
Professor of Astronomy,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Spitzer Surveys of Super-Earth Transits and Sub-Saturn to Super-Jupiter Secondary Eclipses (Josh Kammer); Warm Inner Disks in the Infrared: Synthetically Removing Atmospheric Absorption for Greater Sensitivity (Masha Kleshcheva)
Josh Kammer,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science, GPS,
Caltech,
Masha Kleshcheva,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science, GPS,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
4:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Direct Detection of Exoplanets With High-Resolution Near-IR Spectroscopy (Alex Lockwood); Mapping Volatiles in Protoplanetary Disk (Ke Zhang)
Alexandra Lockwood,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Ke Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy Department,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Photochemical signatures in rocks
James Lyons,
Associate Researcher,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
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Friday, November 9th, 2012
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Monday, November 12th, 2012
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Formation and Evolution of Early Planetary Crusts: Magma Ocean Constraints
Carle Pieters,
Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
Brown University,
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
4:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
TBD
Maria Kleshcheva,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Miki Nakajima,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
The Origin of Orbital Obliquity and Near-Resonances in Hot Exoplanetary Systems
Konstantin Batygin,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate battles between hemispheres during and since the ice age: Palaeoclimate insights from the record of Earth's mountain glaciers and drylands
Aaron Putnam,
Postdoctoral Research Scientist,
Department of Geochemistry,
Columbia University,
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
1:15pm
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2:15pm
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Thesis Seminar
Dynamics of Earth's Hadley circulation
Xavier Levine,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Sean Long,
Research Assistant Professor,
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology,
University of Nevada, Reno,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The surprising effects of Ferric iron on MgSiO3 perovskite in earth's lower mantle
Daniel Hummer,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
Friday, November 16th, 2012
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Monday, November 19th, 2012
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Ice cores, trapped atmosphere, and climate change
Jeffrey P. Severinghaus,
Professor of Geosciences,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California, San Diego,
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Characterization of Exoplanet Atmospheres from Their Spectra: Trends in Chemistry (Michael Line); A search for main-belt comets in the Palomar Transient Factory survey (Adam Waszczak)
Michael Line,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Adam Waszczak,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Triggered convection, gravity waves, and the MJO: Towards a 3D Model (Da Yang); Meandering and the landscape record of river vertical incision (Ajay Limaye)
Da Yang,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Ajay Limaye,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Iron driven anaerobic methane oxidation in lake sediments
Orit Sivan,
Visiting Associate in Geobiology,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, November 29th, 2012
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Geology Club Seminar
John Grotzinger,
Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology,
Geological & Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,