Seminars 2010 - 2011
All seminars are at 12:00 PM (Noon) on Fridays in Room 104 Lindy Claiborne Boggs building unless otherwise noted.
Spring 2011
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February 4
The Relative Importance of Fluxes and Processing to Nitrogen and Carbon Export from Temperate Watersheds
Dr. Rebecca BarnesRice University
February 11
Biogeophysics: Looking for Geophysical Signs of Life
Dr. Estella AtekwanaOklahoma State University
Website: Estella Atekwana's Website
February 18
From 'Seeing' to 'Extracting': Geomorphologically Relevant Image Processing Applied to High Resolution Topography
Dr. Paola PassalacquaUniversity of Texas
February 25
Using Trashed Fossils to Determine the Age of Asteroid Impact at the Weaubleau Structure, Western Central Missouri
Dr. Jim MillerMissouri State University
Fossil Collecting
March 4
Sensitivity of the Greenland Ice Sheet to Past Climate Warming
Dr. Anders CarlsonUniversity of Wisconsin
Canceled Seminar
March 11
Mardi Gras Break
March 18
The Topographic and Sedimentary Record of Incising Meandering River Channels
Dr. Noah FinneganUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Website: Noah Finnegan's Website
March 25
Holocene Hydrological Variability in Florida and the Link to Large-scale Climate Systems: A Palynological-palaeobotanical, Biogeochemical and Modeling Approach
Dr. Emmy LammertsmaUtrecht University
April 1
Does Climate Matter: Quaternary Landscape Change in the Rocky Mountains
Dr. Catherine RiihimakiDrew Universty
April 8
Cosmogenic-nuclide Burial Dating and Plio-Pleistocene Events in the Upper Mississippi Basin
Dr. Greg BalcoBerkeley Geochonology Center
Website: Greg Balco's Website
April 15
The Stratigraphic Record of Submarine Slope Channels: Insights from Seismic Data
Dr. Zoltan SylvesterShell Research
Website: Zoltan Sylvester's Website
April 29
Flooding, Flow Path Selection and Shoreline Evolution of Alluvial Fans and Deltas
Dr. Doug JerolmackUniversity of Pennsylvania
Fall 2010
September 10
Atmospheric Mercury (Hg) in the Northeastern U.S.
Dr. Jeffrey M. SiglerTulane University
September 17
Initial Study for the Evidence of a Subsurface Plume following the DWH Disaster
Dr. Christopher ReddyWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Website: Christopher M. Reedy's Website
October 1
The Himalaya, New Discoveries Require New Tectonic Models
Dr. Alex WebbLouisiana State University
October 8
Cariaco Basin Ocean Time Series: Modern Processes and the Climate Record
Dr. Robert C. ThunellUniversity of South Carolina
Website: Robert C. Thunell's Website
October 22
Impact of Unsteady Sediment Transport on Evolution of Earth Surface Topography and Interpretation of the Stratigraphic Record
Dr. Kyle StraubTulane University
October 29
Thermodynamics and Importance of Metal and Radionuclide Adsorption onto Bacteria
Jeremy B. FeinNotre Dame University
Website: Jeremy B. Fein's Website
November 5
From the Rhine to the Mississippi: Holocene Delta and Sea-level Development
Dr. Marc HijmaTulane University
November 19
Ice and Fire: Responses of Arctic Ecosystems to Late-Quaternary Climatic Change
Dr. Feng-Sheng HuUniversity of Illinois
Website: Feng-Sheng Hu's Website
November 26
Thanksgiving Break
December 3
Graduate Students Presentation for AGU