Frontiers in Earth Science
Spring 2008 Seminar Series



Seminars take place in Hutchison 229 unless otherwise noted.
* MONDAY; ¥ TUESDAY; ¤ WEDNESDAY; § THURSDAY; ¬ FRIDAY
Date Speaker Topic
January

18¬ Taylor F. Schildgen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Up go the Andes: Geomorphic evidence of surface uplift from the western margin of the Central Andean Plateau.
3:00pm
25
No Seminar

February
6¤ Lorraine Lisiecki
Boston University
Plio-Pleistocene climate dynamics: Trends and transitions.
4:00pm
7§ Lorraine Lisiecki
Boston University
Ocean circulation responses to ice volume and orbital forcing.
12:00pm
11*
Charlie Koven
University of California at Berkeley
Inferring aerosol composition from remote sensing of aerosol
climatology and optical properties.
3:00
12¥ Charlie Koven
University of California at Berkeley
Dust sources and effects on climate.
12:00
14§ Jung-Eun Lee
University of California at Berkeley
Inferring paleoclimates from water isotopes: A GCM study.
3:00
15¬ Jung-Eun Lee
University of California at Berkeley
Hydraulic redistribution in Amazonian trees and its impact on climate.
12:00
20¤ Nir Krakauer
University of California at Berkeley
Assessing carbon-climate feedback through watershed measurements.
4:00
21§ Nir Krakauer
University of California at Berkeley
Atmospheric carbon-14 as a tracer of the contemporary carbon cycle.
12:00
21§ Joann Stock
California Institute of Technology
Mysteries of Cretaceous Plate Tectonics of the SW Pacific.
3:00 pm
25* Mea Cook
University of California at Santa Cruz
Methane release from Bering Sea sediments during the last glacial period.
3:00
26¥ Mea Cook
University of California at Santa Cruz
Reconstructing the radiocarbon distribution in the glacial and deglacial ocean.
12:00
28§ Shiliang Wu
Harvard University
Effects of global change on atmospheric chemistry and air quality.
3:00
29¬ Shiliang Wu
Harvard University
On the global budgets of tropospheric ozone.
12:00
March 7¬ TBA

19¤ Tony Vodacek
Rochester Institute of Technology
Improving Environmental Forecasts using Remote Sensing Data Assimilation
2:00
27§ Matthew Pritchard
Cornell University
From Ecuador to Patagonia: Andean deformation measured by InSAR, 1992-2000.
2:00 pm
April
4¬ TBA

11¬ TBA
17¤ Robert Blankenship
Washington University in St. Lewis
TBA
(Joint EES & EEB seminar) - 2:00 pm
25¬ TBA



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