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October 2015
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
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Geology Club Seminar
Learnings from the Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake, implications for megathrust earthquakes and seismic hazard
Jean-Philippe Avouac,
Friday, October 2nd, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Physical constraints on earthquake magnitudes
Nicholas van der Elst,
USGS PASADENA,
Monday, October 5th, 2015
9:30am
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3:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course
Observing Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle from Space
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Using modern Fe-oxidizing microbes to unravel the evolutionary and geologic history of Fe oxidation
Clara Chan,
Associate Professor,
Geological Sciences,
University of Delaware,
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Water, Satellites and Sustainability: The California Drought, The Global Groundwater Crisis and 21st Century Realities
Jay Famiglietti,
Senior Water Cycle Scientist and JPL Water Initiative Leader,
Department of Earth Science,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Thursday, October 8th, 2015
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Using luminescence signals from bedrock feldspars for low temperature thermochronology
Nathan Brown,
UCLA,
Friday, October 9th, 2015
4:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
P-Wave Attenuation with Implications for Earthquake Early Warning and Beyond
Alon Ziv,
Tel Aviv University,
Monday, October 12th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
What does ‘high precision' mean anymore? Probing and pushing the limits of geochronology
Noah M. McLean,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geology,
The University of Kansas,
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Next Generation of Polymeric Membranes and Media for Sustainable Water Purification and Resource Recovery
Mamadou S. Diallo,
Associate Professor & Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Systems for Water Sustainability,
Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water and Sustainability,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 15th, 2015
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Geology Club Seminar
High temperature aqueous alteration and diagenesis: New insights with imaging spectroscopy from microns to meters and future directions
Rebecca Greenberger,
JPL,
Friday, October 16th, 2015
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Monday, October 19th, 2015
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Climate History of Mars: Was the Early Mars Climate "Warm and Wet" or "Cold and Icy"?
James W. Head, III,
Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
Brown University,
Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
4:00pm
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4:30pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Probing the Stratigraphy of the Northern Plains of Mars with Impact Craters
Lulu Pan,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Evidence for the Directly-Detected Thermal Emission Spectrum of HD88133b
Danielle Piskorz,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Submesoscale turbulence in the upper ocean
Jörn Callies,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
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Geology Club Seminar
Mechanisms of the calcification response to ocean change
Christina Ann Frieder,
USC,
Friday, October 23rd, 2015
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Monday, October 26th, 2015
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The impact of Glaciation on the Earth's surface
Frédéric Herman,
Associate Professor,
Faculty of Geosciences and Environment; Institute of dynamics of the Earth's surface,
University of Lausanne, Switzerland,
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Dynamics of Ice Stream Variability in Past and Present Climates
Alex Robel,
NOAA CGC & Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar,
Geological & Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 29th, 2015
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
"Unconventional Paleoseismology Using Cosmogenic He-3 in the Hat Creek Graben, Northeastern California"
Dylan Rood,
Imperial College London,
Friday, October 30th, 2015
4:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
A Discussion of Exact Surface-Wave Green's Functions and Some Applications
Victor Tsai,