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All Seminars are held in (Johnson Hall) JHN 102, 3:30-4:50 (unless otherwise noted) Thursday, March 29 3:30 pm, JHN 102 ESS Seminar Series Christian Schoof Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia Title: "Marine Ice Sheet Dynamics" Monday, April 2 11:00 am, ATG 154 General Exam Julia Jarvis, ESS Graduate Student, UW Title: "Isotopic studies of ice core nitrate and atmospheric nitrogen oxides" Wednesday, April 4 10:00 am, ATG 154 Final Exam Hans Schwaiger, ESS Graduate Student, UW Title: "An Implementation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics For Large Deformation, History Dependent Geomaterials With Applications to Tectonic Deformation" Thursday, April 5 3:30 pm, JHN 102 ESS Seminar Series Andy Bunn, Western Washington University Title: "Is the boreal forest greening or browning? Northern high latitude ecosystems respond to climate variability" Tuesday, April 10 2:30 pm, PAA 118 Astrobiology Seminar Stephen G. Warren, Professor, UW Dept of Atmospheric Sciences/Astrobiology Adjunct Professor, UW Quaternary Research Center Title: "Ocean surfaces on Snowball Earth: Implications for survival of surface life" Thursday, April 12 3:30 pm, JHN 102 ESS Seminar Series Gordon Hamilton, Greenland glaciology Title: "Rapidly changing East Greenland outlet glaciers observed from ground and space" Thursday, April 19 3:30 pm, JHN 102 ESS Seminar Series Corinne Bassin, UW Applied Physics Lab Title: "On issues of oceanography and oxygen in Puget Sound and Hood Canal" Thursday, April 26 3:30 pm, JHN 102 ESS Seminar Series David Shuster, Berkeley Geochronology Center Title: "The erosion history of an alpine valley revealed by apatite He-4/He-3 thermochronometry" Thursday, May 3 3:30 pm, JHN 102 ESS Seminar Series Mark Hirschmann, University of Minnesota Title: "Deep Earth volatile cycles: storage, melting, and influence on oceanic magmatism" Monday, May 7 10:00 am, JHN 117 General Exam Andy Ganse, ESS Graduate Student, UW Title: "Uncertainty and resolution in nonlinear ocean geoacoustic inverse problems" Monday, May 7 1:30 pm, QRC,JHN 377 Candidate for Research Faculty in Planetary Remote Sensing Amy Knudson, Washington University, St. Louis, Earth and Planetary Sciences Title: "Mineral indicators of water on Mars: Remotely sensed windows into geologic history" Thursday, May 10 12:30pm, 154 QRC/ATG Candidate for Research Faculty Position in Space Physics Dr. Erika Harnett, ESS, UW Title: "Auroral processes at Mars" Thursday, May 10 3:30 pm, JHN 102 ESS Seminar Series Dan Moore, University of British Columbia, glacier and stream flow changes in the Pacific Northwest Title: "Hydrologic consequences of glacier retreat in British Columbia, Canada" Friday, May 11 2:30pm, JHN 022 Candidate for Research Faculty Position in Space Physics Dr. Erika Harnett, ESS, UW Tentative title: Modulation of ion loss from Mars by the magnetic anomalies and solar storms Thursday, May 17 No Seminar Today ESS Awards Program 3:30 pm, JHN 102 Monday, May 21 10:30 am, JHN 117 Master's Exam Breanyn MacInnes, ESS Graduate Student, UW Title: "Effect of slip distribution on local tsunami amplitude; 1952 Kamchatka earthquake " Thursday, May 24 3:30 pm, JHN 102 ESS Seminar Series Juliet Crider, Department of Geology, Western Washington University Title: "The news from Mt. Baker: deformation and degassing at a seismically quiescent volcano" Friday, May 25 2:00 pm, JHN 117 Master's Exam Heather Kokorowski, ESS Graduate Student, UW Title: "Oxygen isotopes recorded in lacustrine diatoms from southwestern Greenland: First results based on a laser fluorination method." Wednesday, May 30 2:30 pm, JHN 117 Master's Exam Tami Ben-Zvi, ESS Graduate Student, UW Title: "The P-wave velocity structure of Deception Island, Antarctica, from two-dimensional seismic tomography" Thursday, May 31 3:30 pm, JHN 102 ESS Seminar Series Dale Winebrenner, UW, APL Title: TBA Friday, June 1 12:30 pm, JHN 027 Master's Exam Matthew von der Ahe, ESS Graduate Student, UW Title: "Isotopic stratigraphy of Eocene-Oligocene marine rocks of the Olympic Peninsula" Monday, June 4 10:00 am, JHN 117 General Exam Michelle Koutnik, ESS Graduate Student, UW Title: "Inferring Histories of Mass Balance and Ice Dynamics from Internal Layers in Terrestrial and Martian Ice" Friday, June 8 11:00 am, JHN 022 Master's Exam Kathleen (Kat) Huybers, ESS Graduate Student, UW Title: "Glacier Response to Patterns of Climate Variability" Tuesday June 12 10:30, ATG 310c Professor Doug Davis, Georgia Tech Title: "The Antarctic Plateau: An Overview of the Emerging New Atmospheric Chemistry" The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodations, contact the Office of the ADA Coordinator, at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450 (voice); 543-6452 (TDD); 685-3885 (FAX); access@u.washington.edu (E-mail)


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