(All
Seminars
are held on Thursdays at 3pm in room 202 Williamson Hall unless noted.)
January 11, 2007
**NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK**
January 18, 2007 – DR.
JAMES C. ZACHOS, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology, Marine Stratigraphy -
University of California Santa Cruz
Title: “Name of
Title: TBA”
January 25, 2007 – DR. KENNETH G. MILLER,
Professor and Chair, Department of Geological Sciences, Wright Labs,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Title: “Phanerozoic
Sea-Level Changes: (I)ODP Constrains the Last 100 m.y.”
Title: “Coastal Hazards”
February 8, 2007 – DR. DAVID A.D. EVANS,
Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale
University
Title: “Paleomagnetism
of Glacial Deposits and Evaporites Through Earth History: Clues Towards
Understanding Ancient Climates and Evolving Geomagnetic Field”
February 15, 2007 – DR. MATHEW J. KOHN,
Associate Professor, and Director of the Geochemistry and Orogenesis
Laboratory (GO-Lab) Department of Geological Sciences at the University
of South Carolina
Title: “Making
the Himalaya: The Deep Crustal Perspective From Central Nepal”
February 22, 2007 – DR. RICHARD G. GORDON,
Professor, W. M. Keck Foundation Professorship in
Geophysics, Department
of Earth Science at Rice University
Title: “New Tests of the Fixed Hotspot
Approximation and Implications for Plate Reconstructions and True Polar
Wander”
March 1, 2007 – DR. J. CURT STAGER, Professor, Division of
Natural
Sciences at Paul Smith's College,
New York
Title: “Effects
of Solar Variability on Lake Victoria, East Africa: The Last 15,000
Years”
March 8, 2007 – DR. PETER A. GILES,
Research Scientist, Natural Resources Canada of the National Geological
Survey of Canada
Title: “Late
Mississippian Magnetic Stratigraphy Reconstructed From Australian and
North American Data”
March 15, 2007 – NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK (SPRING BREAK!!)
Title: “TITLE”
March 22, 2007 – DR. JOHN KRIGBAUM,
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Anthropology, Fossil
Preparation and Bone Chemistry Laboratory, College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences at the UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Title: “Anthropogenic
Changes to Lowland Rainforest Habitats in Tropical Southeast
Asia? Potential Clues Using Stable Isotope Data Derived From
Tooth Enamel From the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Site of Niah Cave
(Sarawak, East Malaysia)”
March 29, 2007 – DR. DAVID H. HODELL,
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences at the UNIVERSITY OF
FLORIDA
Title: “Preliminary Results of the Lake
Peten Itza Scientific Drilling Project”
April 5, 2007 – DR. PATRICIA H. KELLEY, Professor of Geology, Department of Geography
and Geology, University of
North Carolina, Wilmington
Title: “Teaching
Evolution”
April 12, 2007 – DR. JONATHAN WYNN,
Professor, Department of Geology at the University of South
Florida
Title: “Plio-Pleistocene
Tectonic History of the Afar Triple Junction, and Its Effect On
Paleoenvironments of Human Evolution in the Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia”