Department Seminars

Spring 2012

Date Speaker Topic Host
January 19 Roy Plotnick,
University of Illinois at Chicago		 Ancient Caves of Northern Illinois Roy Plotnick
January 26 Genet Ide Duke,
Northeastern Illinois University		 Continent-Scale Linearity of Kimberlite-Carbonatite Magmatism, North America- Hot Spot or Not? Carol Stein
February 2 Marc W. Caffee,
Purdue University		 Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: Earth Science Applications Neil Sturchio
February 9 Bruce W. Fouke,
University of Illinois at Urbana		 Microbial Life Inhabits 1.8 km-Deep Saline Sandstone Reservoirs in the North American Midcontinent
CANCELLED		 D'Arcy Meyer-Dombard
February 16 Art Bettis,
University of Iowa		 Geological Setting and Paleoenvironments During the Early and Middle Pleistocene Peopling of Java, Indonesia Steve Forman
February 23
 Yun Wang,
Northwestern University		 Beyond Biological Warfare: Roles of Redox-Active "Antibiotics" in Microbial Physiology and Biogeochemistry Kathy Nagy
March 1 Margaret L. Fraiser,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee		 Examining the Complexity of Environmental Change During the Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic Roy Plotnick
March 8 Guoping (Gregg) Zhang,
Louisiana State University		 Nanomechanical Characterization of Low Volume Geomaterials Steve Guggenheim
March 15 Jeff Andrews-Hanna,
Colorado School of Mines		 Valles Marineris: The Making of Mars' Giant Canyon System Andrew Dombard
March 22   Spring Break March 19-23: No Seminar  
March 29 Gerald Matisoff,
Case Western Reserve University		 Use of Fallout Radionuclides in Studies of Particle Erosion, Transport, and Deposition Neil Sturchio
April 5 James Ferris,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute		 Montmorillonite Clay-Catalyzed Formation of RNA Oligomers and Homochirality Steve Guggenheim
April 12 Ray Pierrehumbert,
University of Chicago		 Much ado (too much ado!) about methane and black carbon Neil Sturchio
April 19 Maria Cambaliza,
Purdue University		 Measurement of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Indianapolis Using an Aircraft-based Platform: Magnitude of Fluxes and Assessment of Uncertainties Jean Bogner

TBA = To Be Announced

The seminars are on Thursdays at 3:30 PM in Room 130, Science and Engineering South (SES), 845 W. Taylor Street. The seminars are preceded by refreshments at 3:00 PM in Room 2460, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, east wing of SES. (A parking garage is located on the northeast corner of Taylor and Halsted, 1/2 block northeast of SES.) Please check this web site for any updates to this seminar schedule or call 312-996-3154.