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January 2015
Monday, January 5th, 2015
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
What is driving bacterial manganese oxidation?
Hope A. Johnson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biological Science,
California State University, Fullerton,
Tuesday, January 6th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Historical Heat Responsible for Enceladus's Plume
Jing Luan,
Graduate student,
Department of Physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 7th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Why is the ITCZ in the Northern Hemisphere? And why is there a double ITCZ problem?
Dargan Frierson,
Associate Professor,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Washington,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, January 12th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The spatial-temporal evolution of topography of the central Andean plateau and geodynamic implications for the growth of plateaus
Carmala N. Garzione,
Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Rochester,
Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
4:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Protoplanetary Disks
Eugene Chiang,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Physical mechanisms controlling the self-aggregation of tropical convection in idealized numerical simulations
Allison Wing,
NSF AGS Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Magnetically Controlled Mass Loss from Exoplanets
Fred Adams,
Professor,
University of Michigan,
Wednesday, January 21st, 2015
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Life at pH 12: being educated by cultivated organisms and geochemistry -- being surprised and mystified by metagenomics.
Kenneth H. Nealson,
Wrigley Professor of Environmental Science,
University of Southern California,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, January 26th, 2015
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Triggered seismicity in Oklahoma: Probing fluid flow, fault zone structure, and fault interactions
Kathleen M. Keranen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
4:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Nature of Rocky Exoplanets Via Study of White Dwarfs
Ben Zuckerman,
Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
UCLA,
Wednesday, January 28th, 2015
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Simple predictions of forest structure from resource limitations and fractal geometry
Chris Kempes,
Visiting Scholar in Control and Dynamical Systems,
Department of Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,