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All Seminars are held in (Johnson Hall) JHN 102, 3:30-4:50 (unless otherwise noted)
Monday, March 27
3:30 pm, JHN 011*
Seismology/PNSN Mgr. Candidate General Lecture
Paul Bodin, Assoc. Prof., CERI, U. Memphis
Title: "Characterizing Nonlinear Ground Motions In Situ With a Vibroseis
Truck"
Tuesday, March 28
9:00 am, HCK 132*
Paleobotany Candidate Joint Seminar [Burke Museum - Biology - ESS]
Caroline Stromberg, Postdoctoral Researcher, Swedish Museum of Natural History
Title: "The Evolution of Grasses and Grass-eaters: New Perspectives from the
Fossil Record of Plant Silica"
Tuesday, March 28
3:30 pm, JHN 102* (note room change)
Volcanology/Magmatic Processes Candidate General Lecture
Olivier Bachmann, Assistant Professor, Université de Genève
Title: "What can we learn from large silicic volcanic eruptions?"
Wednesday, March 29
10:30 am, JHN 175* (note room change)
Volcanology/Magmatic Processes Candidate Research Seminar
Olivier Bachmann, Assistant Professor, Université de Genève
Title: "Tales from a rhyolite eruption in a dying subduction zone"
Thursday, March 30
9:00 am, HCK 132*
Paleobotany Candidate Joint Seminar [Burke Museum - Biology - ESS]
Dr. Guy J. Harrington, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Birmingham, UK
Title: "Vegetation responses to sudden global warming in the Palaeogene greenhouse"
Thursday, March 30
3:30 pm, JHN 102*
Geobiology Candidate General Lecture
Tanja Bosak, Harvard
Title: "Laboratory models of Precambrian stromatolites"
Friday, March 31
10:30-11:20, JHN 026* (note room change)
Geobiology Candidate Research Seminar
Tanja Bosak, Harvard
Title: "What do geostable compounds do in modern bacteria?"
Tuesday, April 4
Astrobiology Candidate Seminar
2:30 pm, PAA A-118*
Margaret Turnbull, Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Title: "Detecting Habitable Worlds and Life Beyond the Solar System.
Wednesday, April 5
10:30 am, JHN 117*
Volcanology/Magmatic Processes Candidate Research Seminar
Rebecca Lange, Professor, University of Michigan
Title: "An equation of state for magmatic liquids: progress along an
experimental frontier"
Thursday, April 6
Volcanology/Magmatic Processes Candidate General Lecture
Rebecca Lange, Professor, University of Michigan
Title: "The role of H2O in the creation and stratification of
continental crust"
Tuesday, April 11
2:30 pm, PAA A-118*
Astrobiology Candidate Seminar
Eric Ford, Research Fellow, Dept. of Astronomy, UC-Berkeley
Title: "Observing Physical Properties of Extrasolar Planets."
Wednesday, April 12
10:30 am, JHN 175 (note room change)
Volcanology/Magmatic Processes Candidate Research Seminar
Yang Liu, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Tennessee
Title: "Mixing & differentiation in a Bishop-Tuff-sized magma body
using melt inclusions"
Thursday, April 13
Volcanology/Magmatic Processes Candidate General Lecture
Yang Liu, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Tennessee
Title: "Ascent rate of silicic magmas during explosive volcanic
eruptions"
Thursday, April 13
2:30 pm, PAA A-118*
Astrobiology Candidate Seminar
Eric Gaucher, Research Scientist/President,
Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution
Title: "Reconstructing and Resurrecting Ancient Sequences:
Connecting the biological, chemical and geologic records."
Tuesday, April 18
2:30pm, PAA A-118*
Astrobiology Candidate Seminar
Norbert Schorghofer, Asst. Astronomer/Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii-Manoa
Title: "The Antarctic dry valleys as Mars analog: a process-oriented view."
Wednesday, April 19
11:30am, JHN 022*
Astrobiology Candidate Seminar
Norbert Schorghofer, Asst. Astronomer/Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii-Manoa
Title: "The recent history of ice on Mars."
Wednesday, April 19
3:30-4:30pm, JHN 027*
Dr. Dougal A Jerram, FGS, Total Lecturer in Petroleum
Geosciences
University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences,
Textures talk: How do your textures grow? Methods of quantifying textures in 2D and
3D
Thursday, April 20
Dr. Dougal A Jerram, FGS, Total Lecturer in Petroleum
Geosciences
University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences,
Title: Flood basalts: Understanding the facies architecture of flood basalts and
associated rifted margins.
Wednesday, April 26
2:30pm, JHN 117
General Exam
Michael Kokorowski, UW, ESS Graduate Student
Title: "Solar Energetic Particle Effects on Atmospheric Electrodynamics:
MINIS 2005."
Thursday, April 27
Karl Mueller, University of Colorado
Title: "Tectonics of Mars"
Tuesday, May 2
9:30-10:30 am, JHN 027*
Masters Exam
Michiel Zuidweg, UW Physics Student with Research through the ESS department
with Anastasia Chopelas
Title: "The Effect of Compositional Variation on the Raman Spectrum
Across the Tremolite-Ferroactinolite Join"
Thursday, May 4
10:30 am, QRC 154*
Master's Exam
Gabe Casale, ESS Graduate Student
Title: "Raman Spectroscopy of Carbonaceous Materials as a New
Geothermometer: Application in Northern Apennine Tectonics"
Thursday, May 4
Yehouda Enzel, Hebrew University
Title: "Dead Sea Level and Holocene climate change in the Near East"
Friday May 5
3:30-4:30 pm, Johnson 075*
Atmospheric Sciences Colloquium
David Keith, Professor, University of Calgary
Title: "Top ten things to know about CO2 capture and storage"
Monday, May 8
3:30 pm, JHN 102*
Astrobiology Candidate ESS Seminar
Benjamin Weiss, Assistant Professor, Earth & Planetary Sciences, MIT
Title: "Records of Martian paleotemperatures and paleofields in
meteorites."
Tuesday, May 9
2:30 pm, PAA A-118*
Astrobiology Candidate AB Seminar
Benjamin Weiss, Assistant Professor, Earth & Planetary Sciences, , MIT
Title: "tba"
Thursday, May 11
10:00 am, JHN 027*
General Exam
Hans Schwaiger, ESS Graduate Student
Title: A Numerical Sandbox: A proposed analysis of faulting in
accretionary prisms using a mesh-free numerical model
Thursday, May 11
Beth Pratt-Sitaula, Central Washington University
Title: "Glaciers, Climate, and Topography in the Himalaya"
Thursday, May 18
10:00 am, QRC 154*
Final Exam
Sara Mitchell, ESS Graduate Student
Title: "Late-Cenozoic topographic evolution of the Cascade Range,
Washington State"
Thursday, May 18
Ralph Greve, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
Title: "Simulation of the north and south polar caps of Mars over
climate cycles"
Monday, May 22
2:00 pm, JHN 117*
Final Exam
Carol Paty, ESS Graduate Student
Title: "Ganymede's Magnetosphere:
Unraveling the Ganymede-Jupiter Interaction through Combining Multi-fluid
Simulations and Observations"
Wednesday, May 24
3:00 pm, JHN 117*
Final Exam
Joe Dufek, ESS Graduate Student
Title: "The Ascent and Eruption of Arc Magmas: A Physical Examination of the
Emergent Dynamics in Explosive Volcanic Eruptions"
Thursday, May 25
NO ESS SEMINAR THIS WEEK
ESS Awards Program
Reception following program in the foyer.
Wednesday, May 31
11:30 am, JHN 011*
Al Duba, Earth and Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History
Title: "Plate Tectonics, Poets, and Monsters: A Voyage to the North Pole Aboard a
Russian Nuclear-Powered Icebreaker"
Thursday, June 1
Manfred Strecker, University of Potsdam
Title: "Tectonics and Climate of the Southern Central Andes"
Thursday, June 1
1:30 pm, PAB C-520*
General Exam
James R. Prager, UW Physics Student with Research through the ESS department
with Robert Winglee
Title: "The High Power Helicon Thruster"
Monday, June 5
10:30 am, JHN 127*
General Exam
Erin Lay, UW Physics Student with Research through the ESS department
with Robert Holzworth
Title: "Using the World Wide Lightning Location Network to predict global
ionospheric electron density changes"
Tuesday, June 6
1:30 pm, ATG 154*
Final Exam
Aggeliki Barberopoulou, ESS Graduate Student
Title: "Estimating the damage potential of seismic seiches: a case study of the Puget Lowland"
Tuesday, June 6
4:30 pm, JHN 117*
Master's Exam
Elizabeth Mahrt, ESS Graduate Student
Title: "Rise and Fall in Tanginak Anchorage: a Holocene History"
Thursday, June 8
10:00 am, JHN 111*
Final Exam
Chris Fuller, ESS Graduate Student
Title: "Processes controlling the structural morphology of the Olympic Mountains
segment of Cascadia and implications for subduction-thrust seismicity"
Friday, June 16
9:00 am, JHN 175*
Final Exam
Stephen Price, ESS Graduate Student
Title: "What can ice-flow models tell us about changes in West Antarctica?"
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