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Department of Earth Sciences, FIU, Graduate Seminar Series 
Spring 2009
3:30 -4:30 p.m.,  PC 432

 

Seminar Date

                    Title

Speaker and Affiliation

7 January 2009 

Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer Series

Deep-Ocean Circulation During Extremely Warm Climates

Dr. Debbie Thomas, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University

 

15 January 2009 

2009 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture, Sponsored by the Hydrogeology Division of the Geological Society of America

Understanding Solute Transport in Extremely Heterogeneous Porous Media: Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Research at the MADE Site

Professor Chunmiao Zheng, Department of Geological Sciences University of Alabama

 

22 January 2009

A Chronology of Paleozoic Sea-Level Changes

Bilal U. Haq, Director, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Division of Ocean Sciences, National Science Foundation

29 January 2009

 

Re-Os Isotope Systematic and PGE Abundances in Garnet Pyroxenite xenoliths from Oahu, Hawaii: Implications on Melt-Peridotite Reaction in the Oceanic mantle

 

 

Indra Sen, Earth and Environment, FIU

5 February 2009

 

Goldilocks and the Three Biogenic Carbonate Minerals: What Determines “Just Right”?

Professor Pamela Hallock-Muller

(Bio Sketch)

University of South Florida

 

12 February 2009

 

Equatorial convergence of India and early Cenozoic climatic trends

Dennis Kent, Distinguished Regent Professor Rutgers University, NJ. Member of the National Academy of Science

19 February 2009

 

The width of the tropics over glacial cycles: lessons on climate dynamics from the Mid-Pleistocene

Pamela MartinDepartment of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago

26 February 2009

Earthquake Geology in the Caribbean

 

Carol PrenticeResearch scientist US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA

5 March 2009

           

Characterization of Mid-Cretaceous Anoxic events

Fabian Duque-Botero, Research scientist, Chevron Oil Company, Houston Texas

12 March 2009

Structural Geology of the Himalaya

Professor Gautam Mitra, University of Rochester, NY

19 March 2009

 

Spring Break: No seminar

 

26 March 2009

  

                     

Use of aircraft data in Tc forecasting

James Franklin, National Hurricane Center, NOAA, Miami

2 April 2009 

 

Anoxic event in Middle Aptian of Madoz , Spain

Tatiana Gaona, Earth and Environment, FIU

9 April 2009

GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS ON TREE ISLANDS IN THE EVERGLADES, SOUTH FL.

 

Pamela Sullivan
Earth and Environment, FIU

16 April 2009

Geochronological and Geochemical Studies of Intrusive Igneous Rocks from the Southern Mariana Trench and Implications for Subduction-related Island Arc Development

Julie Johnson
Earth and Environment, FIU

 

 

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