Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Earth Section Weekly Seminar

Monday Afternoon, Hubbs Hall 4500

Refreshments 3:00, Seminar Begins 3:15

FALL 2007			Tectonics & Climate	Contact
Sept 24
Oct 1	Anne Sheehan	University of Colorado, Boulder (IGPP Green Scholar this Fall)	Seeing Beneath Mt. Everest: Probing a Breeding Ground of Destructive Earthquakes	CTackeuchi
Oct 8	Peter Molnar	University of Colorado, Boulder	Closing of the Indonesian Seaway and the Demise of a Permanent El Niño-like Equatorial Pacific as Preconditions for North American Ice Ages	CTackeuchi
Oct 15	Craig Jones	University of Colorado, Boulder (on sabbatical in LJ this Fall)	Processes associated with development of the Sierra Nevada mountains	DKane
Oct 22
Oct 29	Dan Schrag	Harvard	Climate change over Earth history	CGasCton
Tus Oct 30	Dan Schrag	Special seminar, Munk Conf. Rm 11:00	Oceanographic Approaches to Carbon Dioxide Storage	CGaston
Nov 5	Barbel Honisch	LDEO	CANCELED- at speaker's request
Nov 19	Dick Norris	SIO	Tectonic-Climate Linkages-- The Cretaceous Thermal Maximum: Ice sheets, Atlantic Evolution and the Heartbeat of the Biosphere
Nov 26
Dec 3	Ken Farley	Caltech	Geochemical techniques for constraining uplift and application to the Sierra Nevadas	AHangsterfer
Dec 17	Kira Lawrence	Lafayette	alkenones & paleotemperature	DRichter
Winter08			Earth's Water Cycle
postponed	Carol Kendall	USGS, Menlo Park	Multiple isotope measurements in rivers and the influence of urbanization
Jan 14	Marc Hirschmann	University of Minnesota	Deep Earth Volatile Cycles	DMyer
Jan 25 Friday	Bob Smith 3:00 Revelle	University of Utah	Shake & Bake: Geodynamics and seismic/geodetic imaging of the Yellowstone hotpsot & mantle plume	SBarbot
Jan 28	Mark Harrison	UCLA	Origin of Oceans & Plate Tectonics	LOschmann
Feb 4
Feb 11	Bernard Minster	SIO	Earth Observations from Space: The first 50 Years of Scientific Achievements	JRibaudo
Feb 25	Steve Constable	SIO	Electrical Conductivity and Water in the Mantle	DMyer
Mar 3	Paul Asimow	Caltech	Water & melting at oceanic spreading centers	SBarbot
Mar 10	Dan Cayan	SIO	Variations in regional water balance in the Western US	JBent
Spring08			Polar Research & Earth's Water Cycle (continued)
Mar 31	Danny Sigman	Princeton	TBA	JBent
Apr 7	Jeff Severinghaus	SIO	Polar Records of Local and Global Climate from Air Bubbles in Ice	LOschmann
Apr 14	Wesley LeMasurier	University of Colorado	Neogene extension and basin deepening in the West Antarctic rift inferred from comparisons with the East African rift and other analogs	CTackeuchi
Apr 21	Kathy Barbeau	SIO	Natural Iron Fertilization in the Southern Ocean: Studies of the Southern Drake Passage	CGaston
Apr 28	Helen Fricker	SIO	Are the ice sheets melting? Antarctica and Greenland's response to climate change	DMyer
May 5	Carol Kendall	USGS Menlo Park	Multiple isotope measurements in rivers and the influence of urbanization	CGaston
May 12 Location change	Doug Wiens	Washington University St Louis	Seismic structure, mantle flow patterns, and the dynamics of island arc systems 3:15 Revelle Conference Room	LOschmann
May 13 Note time /location	Wally Broecker	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	Lessons from glacial age closed basin lakes 11:00 Nierenberg Hall 101	JSeveringhaus
May 14 Note time /location	Wally Broecker	LDEO	Broecker's Prognosis Regarding Our Response to Global Warming 11:00 Sumner Hall
May 15 Note time /location	Wally Broecker	LDEO	Implications of the near constancy of the radiocarbon age of Pacific deep water during the last 20 kyrs 10:00 Vaughan 100
May 19	John Grotzinger	Caltech	Water on Mars	JRibaudo
Jun 2	Charlotte Beucher	UCSB	TBA~ Delta Si and N constraints on Southern Ocean evolution	DRichter
Jun 9	Yann Klinger	IPG Paris, Harvard sabbatical this yr	TBA- combining field geology, seismology & remote sensing	DKane

Please email the student contact to arrange a meeting with the speaker during their visit. To suggest additional speakers get in touch with Donna Blackman or Lihini Aluwihare (SIO volunteers on topics related to any of the themes for this year are welcome!).