Spring 2008 SPEAKER SERIES
Friday afternoons at 4:00pm, room 201 Old
Chemistry Bldg.
(unless otherwise noted)
January 11 - Stephanie Pfirman
Barnard college
Arctic Sea Ice: Changes in the Cryosphere
January 25 - Elizabeth Arkush
University of Virginia
Climate Change and Violence? Cautionary Tales from the Pre-Columbian Andes
February 1 - Mark Cane
Lamont Doherty, Columbia University
Drought in North America, 800 AD to the Present
February 8 -
Richard Williams
Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Liverpool
How
is Carbon Partitioned Between the Atmosphere and the Ocean on Millennial Time Scales?
February 11 - Mike Peacock
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
Ahtabasca Oil Sands: Understainding the Oil Sands from the Regional Scale to the Project Scale
February 15 - TBA
February 22 - Rob Jacobs, Classic Hydrocarbons, Inc.,
Tom Medary, Manti Resources (PERKINS LECTURE, 3 p.m.)
Petroleum Geology Insights from Duke Grads
February 29 - Erle Ellis
University of Maryland Biological Laboratory
Anthropogenic Biomes: A Framework for Earth Science and Ecology in the 21st Century
March 21 - Dan Hanes
U.S. Geological Survey
Rapid evolution of coastal morphology in the San Francisco Bight
March 28 - Christine Stauber
University of North Carolina
The Quest for Safe Drinking Water by Biosand Filtration: New Evidence from the Field and the Lab
April 4 - Carl Wunsch
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The ocean general circulation and its variability, 1992-2006
April 11 - TBA
April 18 - TBA
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