EAS Weekly Seminar

SEEES Speaker Series in NOVEMBER (See link on left bar for more information):
11/2 - Water
11/16 - Local Successes
11/30 - Reclaiming the Commons

Additional Seminar in October sponsored by EAS:
Gaylon S. Campbell, Sr. Scientist at Decagon Devices, Inc. (formerly a Professor of Soil Science at Washington State University) will give a seminar
Measurement of Thermal and Electrical Properties on Mars
Thursday, October 29th
3:30 p.m. in 1102 Bradfield Hall

Unless otherwise noted, EAS weekly seminars are held at 3:30 PM on Wednesdays in 2146 Snee Hall.
Refreshments will be served at 3:00 in Snee Hall's First Floor Reading Room.

Date		Speaker	Title
September
	2nd	John Tombari Schlumberger	CO2 Capture and Storage at Schlumberger
	11th Friday	Tim Beach Georgetown University	Ancient Maya Wetlands: Natural and Anthropogenic Formation
	16th	Sridhar Anandakrishnan Penn State University	Slip Slidin' Away: Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Water
	23rd	David Jackson U.C.L.A.	Earthquake Prediction and Prevention
	30th	Mike MacCracken Climate Institute	Geoengineering: Is Counter-balancing Climate Change a Realistic Option?
October
	7th	Maya Tolstoy Lamont-Doherty	Seafloor Plumbing at the East Pacific Rise Inferred from Microearthquakes
	21st	Rachel Abercrombie Boston University	Earthquakes, Fluids and Strain Rate - Comparing Earthquakes from Diverse Tectonic Settings
	23rd Friday 1:15 p.m.	Magali Billen U.C. Davis	Interpreting Seismic Anisotropy Direction Using High Resolution 3D Numerical Models of Subduction Zones
	28th	Frederik Simons Princeton University	Harnessing the Power of the Oceans in Improving Seismic Coverage for Global Tomography
1102 Bradfield Hall 2 - 3 PM	30th Friday	Qiang Fu University of Washington	Evidence of Brewer-Dobson Circulation Changes in Last Three Decades: Challenges to Modeling, Observations, and Our Understanding
November
	4th	Walt Dudley U. Hawaii, Hilo	The Tsunami Resilient Village: Lessons from Southern Asia, the Pacific Rim, and Hawaii
	11th	Felix Waldhauser Lamont-Doherty	Deciphering the Structure of Seismicity: Implications for Plate Tectonic Processes
	18th	Jason Box Byrd Polar Research Center The Ohio State University	Greenland's Changing Climate and Ice
December
December	2nd	Lisa Greer* Washington & Lee University *SGO Invited Speaker	Environmental Tolerance of an Endangered Acropora Coral Species, Lessons From the Mid Holocene Climatic Optimum

All talk titles are tentative. Please refer all questions to Bill Barnhart (wdb47@cornell.edu)

EAS Seminars, Archival

Winter/Spring 2009 Seminar Series: Origins and Transitions

Phoebe Cohen, Harvard: Beyond the Ediacarans: new views of life in the Neoproterozoic

Daniel Leathers, U of Delaware: The Hydroclimatic Effects of Historical Logging in a Moist Continental Climate Regime: Mesoscale Simulations and Observations

Tullis Onstott, Princeton: The Search for Dark Life in our Solar System

Micah Jessup, U of Tennessee at Knoxville: Tectonic Evolution of the Mount Everest and Ama Drime Massifs, Tibet-Nepal

Mimi Katz, RPI: From Phytoplankton to Mammals: Evolutionary Trajectories Linked via the Carbon Cycle

Jerome Lave, Centre de Recherches Petrographiques et Geochimiques: Tectonic and Erosion of the Mountain Ranges: a River Incision Perspective

Witold Krajewski, U of Iowa: Accuracy of Remote Sensing of Rainfall and Flood Prediction

John Delaney, U of Washington: Next Generation Earth and Ocean Sciences in the Global Ocean Basins: the Leading Edge of an Environmental Renaissance.

Adam Maloof, Princeton: Testing the True Polar Wander Hypothesis for Coincident Paleomagnetic, Isotopic and Sea Level Change in the Middle Neoproterozoic of Australia

Aaron Velasco, UTEP: Can a large earthquake in another country cause one in your own backyard?

Robert Hazen, Carnegie Institution for Science: Mineralogical Co-Evolution of the Geo- and Biosphere

EAS Fall 2008 Seminar Series: Fire and Ice

Scott Samson, Syracuse U: Do sediments lie or are they just coy? The Magmatic, Tectonic and Paleogeographic Importance of Detrital Mineral Ages and Chemical Composition

Mike Brudzinski, Miami U, Ohio: Dancing with the Plates: Do Faults Shimmy Before They Shake?

Sheila Seaman, U of Mass., Ameherst: Water i Feldspar and in Volcanic Glass: Implications for Magmatic Processes

Jennifer Kay, Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research: Mechanisms for Recent Arctic Sea Ice Loss

Paddy O'Brien, U of Potsdam, Germany: Deeper, Hotter, Faster Lithosphere Dynamics in the Era of Ultra High-Pressure Metamorphism

Charlotte Pearson, Cornell: Tree Rings and Volcanic Eruptions: Potential of the Dendrochronological Archive for Absolute Dates for Past Volcanic Eruptions