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Department of Earth Sciences, FIU, Graduate Seminar Series 
Fall 2008-2009
3:30 -4:30 p.m.,  PC 310

 

Seminar Date

                    Title

Speaker and Affiliation

 

04 September 08 

Investigation of Mantle Dynamics from PGE and Re-Os Isotope Systematics of Mantle Xenoliths from Oahu , Hawaii

Indra Sen, Dept. Earth Sciences, Florida International University

 

11 September  08

Deep submersile diving in the Mariana Trench

Dr. Rosemary Hickey-Vargas, Professor, Dept. Earth Sciences, Florida International University

 

18   September 08

 Geochemistry of Olivine Hosted Melt Inclusions from small eruptive centers of the Central Southern Volcanic Zone, Chile

Susan Wacaster, Dept. Earth Sciences, Florida International University

 

25 September 08

Scales of heterogeneity in the Hawaiian plume

Dr. Michael Bizimis,  Research Assistant Professor

Dept of Geological Sciences

University of South Carolina

 

 

02 October 08

New Applications for Lattice Boltzmann Models

Dr. Michael Sukop, Assistant Professor, Dept. Earth Sciences, Florida International University

 

09 October 08

Metasomatism surrounding the Hawaiian Plume:  Evidence for both silicate and carbonatite  incipient melts.

Dr. Jacqueline Dixon, Professor, RSMAS-MGG, University of Miami   

 

23 October 08

Overview of National Hurricane Center operations

 

 

Dr. William  Read, Director,  Tropical Prediction Center, NHC, NOAA,  Miami, Florida

 

30 October 08            

Environmental Mega-Engineering

Dr. Hugh Woullaghby, Distinguished Research  Professor,  Dept. Earth Sciences, Florida International University

 

06 November 08

 Difficulties with estimating temperatures of primitive magmas using olivine-liquid FeO-MgO equilibria

Dr. Jim Natland,  Professor, RSMAS-MGG, University of Miami               

 

13 November 08

The roles of clay mineral surfaces during organic carbon accumulation in fine-grained facies

Dr. Joniell Borges

Deepwater Stratigraphy Team

Reservoir Characterization Unit

Chevron Energy Technology Company

Houston, TX

 

 

20 November-08  

POSTPONED

till Spring 2009 term

                     

Paleozoic Eustasy

Dr. Bilal U. Haq, Director, Marine Geology and Geophysics,

Division of Ocean Sciences,  

National Science Foundation,

Arlington , VA

 

04 December 08

Investigation of Mantle Dynamics from PGE and Re-Os Isotope Systematics of Mantle Xenoliths from Oahu , Hawaii           

Indra Sekhar Sen – Dept. Earth Sciences, Florida International University

Sping 2009 Seminars 

soon TBA

 

 

 

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