SEMINAR SERIES SPRING 2007

(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.


February 1, 2007
–  DR. PETER SHENG, Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering, College of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

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