ESS Seminars & Lectures, Winter Quarter 2007


All ESS Seminars are held in JHN (Johnson Hall) 102, 3:30-4:50 unless otherwise noted. 
Refreshments served in the foyer prior to the seminar.


Thursday, January 11
ESS SEMINAR SERIES - Geobiology Candidate
David Johnston, University of Maryland
Title:  TBA


Thursday, January 18
ESS SEMINAR SERIES - Geobiology Candidate
Adina Paytan, Stanford University
Title: Submarine Groundwater Discharge an Important Source of New Nutrients
to Coral Reef Ecosystems


Friday, January 19
10:30-11:30, ATG 154
ESS RESEARCH SEMINAR - Geobiology Candidate
Adina Paytan, Stanford University
Title: High Productivity in the Open Ocean During Cretaceous Anoxic Events


Thursday, January 25
3:30-4:30, JHN 102
ESS SEMINAR SERIES - Geobiology Faculty Candidate
Silke Severmann, Research Associate, University of California-Riverside
Title:  The iron isotope proxy - biosignature or a tool without a problem?


Friday, January 26
10:30-11:30, JHN 026
ESS RESEARCH SEMINAR - Geobiology Faculty Candidate
Silke Severmann, Research Associate, University of California-Riverside
Title:  Out of Africa and into the Bosporus:  Using modern environments 
to constrain ancient Earth history


Monday, January 29
3:30-4:30, JHN 102
ESS SPECIAL SEMINAR - Tectonics/Erosion Faculty Candidate
Nichole Gasparini, Post-doctoral Researcher, Arizona State University
Title:  Empirical Equations and Process-Based Models for River Incision 
Across a Mountain Range


Tuesday, January 30
10:30-11:30, QRC/ATG 154
ESS RESEARCH SEMINAR - Tectonics/Erosion Faculty Candidate
Nichole Gasparini, Post-doctoral Researcher, Arizona State University
Title:  TBA


Wednesday, January 31
10:30-11:30, JHN 026
ESS RESEARCH SEMINAR - Geobiology Faculty Candidate
Drew Gorman-Lewis, Postdoctoral Appointee, Argonne National Lab
Title:  Probing the Reactivity of the Bacterial Surface with 
Titration Calorimetry and Actinide Adsorption


Thursday, February  1
3:30-4:30, JHN 102
ESS SEMINAR SERIES - Geobiology Faculty Candidate
Drew Gorman-Lewis, Postdoctoral Appointee, Argonne National Lab
Title:  Geobiology and the Mobility of Metals


Tuesday, February 6
3:30-4:30, JHN 075
ESS SPECIAL SEMINAR - Tectonics/Erosion Faculty Candidate
Katherine Huntington, Postdoctoral Scholar, CalTech
Title:  Climate change and Late Pliocene acceleration of erosion 
in the Himalaya 


Wednesday, February 7
1:30-2:30, JHN 175
ESS RESEARCH SEMINAR - Tectonics/Erosion Faculty Candidate
Katherine Huntington, Postdoctoral Scholar, CalTech
Title:  Detrital mineral thermochronology in active fluvial 
systems and the evolution of orogenic landscapes.


Thursday, February 8
3:30-4:30, JHN 102
ESS SEMINAR SERIES - Geobiology Faculty Candidate
Christophe Dupraz, Research Scientist, University of Neuchatel
Title:  Synergy in Biogeosciences:  The microbially-regulated Carbonate Cycle.


Friday, February 9
10:30-11:30, JHN 026
ESS RESEARCH SEMINAR - Geobiology Faculty Candidate
Christophe Dupraz, Research Scientist, University of Neuchatel
Title:  The microbially-induced carbonate biomineralization from 
continental to open-marine environments.


Tuesday, February 13
3:30-4:30, JHN 075
ESS SPECIAL SEMINAR - Tectonics/Erosion Faculty Candidate
Cameron Wobus, CIRES Visiting Fellow, University of Colorado
Title:  Can erosion drive tectonics?  A case study from the 
central Nepalese Himalaya.


Wednesday, February 14
1:30-2:30, JHN 175
ESS RESEARCH SEMINAR - Tectonics/Erosion Faculty Candidate
Cameron Wobus, CIRES Visiting Fellow, University of Colorado
Title:  Toward an improved model of landscape evolution: 
How do changes in bedrock channel width, gradient, and 
sediment flux interact in natural systems?


Tuesday, February 20
2:30-3:30, PAB A110
AB SEMINAR - Astrobiology/ESS Faculty Candidate
Megan Elwood Madden, Postdoctoral Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Title:  Gas hydrates as planetary-scale water and greenhouse gas reservoirs: Implications for Astrobiology 


Tuesday, February 20
4:00 - 5:00, JHN 075
ESS SPECIAL SEMINAR - Tectonics/Erosion Faculty Candidate
Frederic Herman, Postdoctoral Scholar, CalTech
Title:  "Constraining the evolution of the topography in the Southern Alps of New Zealand"


Wednesday, February 21
10:30-11:30, JHN 026
ESS SPECIAL SEMINAR - Astrobiology/ESS Faculty Candidate
Megan Elwood Madden, Postdoctoral Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Title:  Where has all the water gone? Exploring the effects of time, temperature, pressure and 
composition on planetary fluids. 


Wednesday, February 21
1:30-2:30, JHN 175
ESS RESEARCH SEMINAR - Tectonics/Erosion Faculty Candidate
Frederic Herman, Postdoctoral Scholar, CalTech
Title:  TBA

Thursday, February 22
9:00 AM, ATG 154
Master's Exam
Luke Mioduszewski, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  Comparison of volcanic gas sampling methods using a laboratory artificial fumarole 


Thursday, February 22
3:30-4:30, JHN 102
ESS SEMINAR SERIES
Jody Bourgeois, UW ESS Faculty
Title:  "Does Kamchatka belong to North America?" 


Tuesday, February  27
12:30 PM, ATG 154
General Exam
Amanda Henck, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Is the Three Rivers Region in Steady State?". 


Thursday, March 1
3:30-4:30, JHN 102
ESS SEMINAR SERIES
Ana Mari Cauce,  Executive Vice Provost, Office of the Provost
Professor, UW Psychology Department
Title:  "Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Promise of Women in Academic
Science" 


Friday, March 2
9:30 AM, JHN 127
Amit Mushkin - Final Exam
ESS Graduate Student, UW
Title:  "Quaternary Deformation Across the Central Segment of the 
Gobi-Altay Fault System, Southwestern Mongolia"


Tuesday March 6
3:30-4:30, JHN 075
SPECIAL SEMINAR
Robert Bindschadler, Chief Scientist
Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 
Title:  "Antarctica’s Hidden Plumbing"


Thursday, March 8
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK


Friday March 9
12:00-1:00, QRC Library - Johnson 377
Special Seminar
Dr. Francesco Comiti, Dept. Land and Agroforest Environments 
University of Padova, Italy
Title:  "Wood in mountain rivers of the Italian Alps and of the Southern Andes:
too much or too small ?"


Monday, March 12
1:00 PM, JHN 127
Michele Koppes - Final Exam
ESS Graduate Student, UW
Title:  "Glacier erosion and response to climate from Alaska to Patagonia"


Tuesday, March 13
3:00 PM, JHN 117
Annaliese Eipert - Master's Exam
ESS Graduate Student, UW
Title:  "Sand and mud deposited by Hurricane Katrina on Deer Island, Biloxi Bay, Mississippi" 


Tuesday, March 13
3:00 PM, JHN 027
Summer Rupper - Final Exam
ESS Graduate Student, UW
Title:  "Glacier Sensitivity and Regional Climate:  Past and Present."




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