Past Speakers |
2011-2012 Schedule:
Fall term
September 22: Eileen Evans and Eloise Marais - Floods, Faults, and Fire: The 2011 Geoclub trip to the Pacific Northwest
September 29: Asif Qureshi - A DIY guide to saving the world from mercury
October 6: Mike Long - Ocean wind-waves & atmosphere boundary layer Interactions
October 13: Rick Kraus - Shock vaporization of silica and giant impact events
October 20: Xu Yue - Simulation of dust aerosol radiative feedback at present day and the last glacial maximum
October 27: Will Steinhardt & Mike Eddy - Strange rocks in a strange land: The hunt for the first natural quasicrystal
November 3: Joe Fitzgerald - Mean flows arising from convection
November 10: Rick Wehr - CO2 isotopic flux measurements
November 17: Tom Laakso
December 1: Practice AGU talks
2010-2011 Schedule:
Fall term
September 16: Bess Sturges Corbitt and Lee Murray - Fire & Ice: EPS escapades in Death Valley and the Eastern Sierra
September 23: Rita Parai - What can volatiles tell us about plate tectonics? (Insights from Heavy Noble Gases, and Maybe Water.)
September 30: Steven Jarret - Geologic Overview of the Recently Discovered Woodbury Impact Structure, Georgia, USA
October 7: Jenny Fisher - Clearing the haze: Constraining the sources and impacts of Arctic air pollution
October 14: Rich Wildman - Chemical reactions and transport through reservoirs
October 21: Eileen Evans - Revisiting the 'tectonic time bomb': Fault creep and tectonics in the east San Francisco Bay Area
October 28: Erik Chan - Stability of Earth's Rotation
November 4: Eloise Marais - Using satellites to understand isoprene emissions produced by vegetation in Africa
November 11: Veterans Day
November 18: No Seminar
November 25: Thanksgiving
December 2: Lee Murray - The role of lightning on the variability of tropospheric composition
December 9: Practice AGU talks
Spring term
February 17: Zan Stine - Changes in the Annual Cycle of Earth's Surface Temperature.
February 24: Abby Swan - Ecoclimate Teleconnections: remote effects of the interactions between ecosystems and climate
March 3: Eric Kiser - Rupture Segmentation During Large Earthquakes
March 10: Thomas Laepple - Links between the annual cycle and the climate response to orbital forcing
March 17: Spring Break
March 24: Eric Leibensperger - Recent and Projected Climate Consequences of Improving US Air Quality
March 31: Christian Proistosescu - Exploring the continuum of temperature variability
April 7: Roisin Commane - Carbonyl sulfide: A proxy for CO2 uptake in plants?
April 14: Lindsay Hays - Biomarkers or: What your cholesterol can say about you millions of years from now
April 21: Scot Wankel - From the Light into the Dark: New insights on biogeochemical cycles operating in both the surface ocean and deep-sea hydrothermal vents
2009-2010 Schedule:
Fall term
September 17: David Romps - Entrainment in Atmospheric Convection: Results from Large-Eddy Simulations
September 24: Matt Alvarado - Playing with Fire: NOy Transformation and O3 Formation in Boreal Smoke Plumes
October 1: John Crowley / Glenn Sterenborg / Eric Kiser - Ancient EPS Sagas from Iceland: Upon the Bastion of Basalt, Yet Another Ferocious Foss, Tongues of the Jokull, The Mighty Hammer of Rita and many more
October 8: Eric Kiser - Intermediate-Depth Earthquakes: Dynamic Triggering, Sub-Horizontal Rupture Planes, and the Role of Water and Pre-Existing Faults
October 15: Giampiero Iaffaldano - Monsoon speeds up Indian plate motion
October 22: Mauricio Santillana - A Dynamic Chemical Reduction Algorithm for Global Atmospheric Chemical Transport Models
October 29: Bess Sturges - Mercury in the environment: global modeling of the present day and projected changes in the next fifty years
November 5: Ethan Butler - Food Crops Response to Climate Change: Modeling Spatial Adaptation
November 12: Carl Tape - Seismic imaging and tomography of the southern California crust
November 19: Greg Santoni - Development of a Methane Isotope Absorption Spectrometer: Measurements of wetland emissions and aircraft exhaust
November 26: Thanksgiving
December 3: Robert Viesca - Looking to high sediment pore water pressure for landslide initiation
December 10: AGU practice talks: Judith Hubbard, Ben Lee and Gang Yu
Spring term
February 25: Ben Gill - Reconstructing the ancient sulfur cycle: Deciphering sulfur isotope records from the Cambrian and Jurassic.
March 4: Yundan Pi - Combining squalene-hopene cyclase genes (sqhC) with hopanoid lipid distributions to better reveal the secret of paleo-environments
March 11: Maryann Sargent - Examining Transport pathways in the Tropical Tropopause Layer using in situ measurements of O2, CO, CO2, H2O, and HDO.
March 18: Spring Break
March 25: Lee Murray - Radically different: How the oxidative capacity of the troposphere has changed since the Last Glacial Maximum.
April 1: Amos Tai - Effects of Climate Change on Particulate Matter Air Quality: Observed and Modeled Correlations with Meteorology.
April 8: Nathan Arnold - Pliocene warm anomalies and the possibility of atmospheric superrotation.
April 29: Will Leavitt - From catalysis to dissimilation: the microbial co-mediation of the Fe-S-C cycles and the evolution of the Archean biosphere.
May 6: Hilary Close - Geochemical musings of a tiny plankton: will anyone remember me when I'm gone?
2008-2009 Schedule:
Fall term
Oct 2: Victor Tsai - Changes at the Poles: The Dynamics of Glaciers
Oct 9: Ray Pierrehumbert - Special Seminar - Cloud Thermostats - The delusion that will not die
Oct 16: Amanda Hughes & Hilary Close - Montana - Wyoming Graduate Field Trip
Oct 23: Eric Kiser - Exploring the Limitations of Back-Projection
Oct 30: Judith Hubbard - Growth of the Tibetan Plateau and the M7.9 Wenchuan earthquake
Nov 6: Jack Loveless - Observing the subduction zone earthquake cycle
Nov 13: Maria Val Martin - Vertical Transport of Fire Smoke Emissions over North America
Nov 20: Nathan Benesh - Investigating the Mechanics of Fault-Bend Folding with the Discrete Element Method
Nov 27: Thanksgiving
Dec 4: Justin Parella - Bromine Chemistry in the Global Troposphere: Learning from and Improving Satellite Information
Dec 11: AGU practice talks: Nora DeDontney and Judith Hubbard
Spring term
Jan 29: Matija Cuk - The Lunar Cataclysm: Evidence and Prospects
Feb 5: Dara Olmsted (Harvard Office for Sustainability) Sustainability and Renewable Energy at Harvard
Feb 12: Nora DeDontney - Subduction Zone Earthquakes and Tsunamis: A Splay by Splay Analysis
Feb 19: Wade Henning - Tidal Susceptibility of Terrestrial Exoplanets
Feb 26: Giampiero Iaffaldano - Brittle versus Ductile Plate Tectonics
Mar 5: Bill Boos - The onset of monsoons on seasonal to geological time scales
Mar 12: Kate Dennis - Clumps and carbonatites: the promise and challenges of a new paleothermometry technique
Mar 19: Jessica Creveling (G1 Talk) - Sedimentary Phosphogenesis at the Ediacaran - Cambrian Boundary
Laurel Senft (LPSC) - The Role of Phase Changes During Impact Cratering on Icy Satellites
Rick Kraus (LPSC) - Thermodynamics of Impacts onto Icy Mixtures: Peak and Post-shock Temperature Measurements in an Ice-Sand Mixture
Tom Benson (GSA) - Using GIS to evaluate feasibility of geothermal energy use in New Hampshire
Mar 26: Sping recess
Apr 2: Marcos Longo - Predicting changes in convection and precipitation patters due to deforestation in the Amazon
Apr 9: Jeff Standish - Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean: Mantle Melting at the Top of the World
Apr 16: Lin Zhang - Intercontinental transport of tropospheric ozone pollution: integrating aircraft and satellite observations with model
Apr 23: Matt Nicholson et al - Research Computing in EPS
Apr 30: Rama Chakrabarti
May 7: Nick Tosca
2007-2008 Schedule:
Fall term
Oct 11: Arizona Field Trip (Ben Kotrc - G2, et al.)
Oct 18: Victor Tsai - The Usefulness of Seismic Noise
Oct 25: *Special Green Seminar* - Jason Luke - Green Cleaning
Nov 1: Chris Holmes - The fate of atmospheric mercury
Nov 8: Rama Chakrabarti - postdoc - Geochemical Study of Volcanics
Nov 15: Eric Leibensperger - Effect of Cyclones on Air Quality
Nov 22: NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving
Nov 29: Phoebe Cohen and Francis Macdonald - Stratigraphy & Paleontology
Dec 6: AGU Practice Talks - I. Halevy, J. Standish, F. Macdonald
Spring term
Feb 14: Zhongxing Chen - postdoc - Laser ablation mass spectroscopy
Feb 21: CANCELLED - Wade Henning
Feb 28: Felisa Wolfe-Simon - Geobiochemical evolution...
Mar 6: Eric Kort - Atmospheric constraints on emissions
Mar 13: Monika Kopacz - Estimation of CO pollution from space
Mar 20: Atreyee Bhattacharya - Dust generation from the Sahara-Sahel
Mar 27: SPRING BREAK - NO SEMINAR
Apr 3: Taylor Perron - Unraveling the structure of river networks
Apr 10: David Abt - Shear-wave splitting tomography and mantle flow
Apr 17: Mark Witinski - Infrared spectroscopy for atmospheric tracers
Apr 24: Jon Wilson - Geobiology of the Duck Creek Dolomite
May 1: Laure Zanna - Predictability of sea surface temperature
May 8: Dave Thompson - Destruction by hurricanes
2006-2007 Schedule:
Fall term
Oct 20: Victor Tsai - Ice and its many facets
Oct 27: Newfoundland Field Trip (Jon Wilson & Karin Louzada)
Nov 3: Mike Ranen - How lumpy was the early Solar System?
Nov 10: NO SEMINAR - Veteran's Day Holiday
Nov 17: Dave Jones & Francis Macdonald - Stratigraphy of Mongolia
Nov 24: NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving Weekend
Dec 1: Ian Eisenman - A 'tipping point' for Arctic sea ice?
Dec 8: AGU Practice Talks - Standish, Crowley, Templeton, Dalton
Spring term
Feb 6: Phoebe Cohen - Neoproterozoic Microfossils
Feb 13: Laurel Senft - Impact Craters
Feb 20: Diana Valencia - Super-Earths
Feb 27: Leith Sharp* - HGCI Director - Changing Our Institutions
Mar 6: Jake Gebbie - Postdoc - Predicting El Nino
Mar 13: Kurt House - CO2 Capture and Storage
Mar 20: Harsha Bhat - Dynamic Ruptures of Earthquakes
Mar 27: SPRING BREAK
Apr 3: Suni Shah - Sedimentary Archaeal Lipids
Apr 10: Sara Pruss - Postdoc - Paleozoic Skeletal Carbonates
Apr 17: John Higgins - The Global CaCO3 Cycle
Apr 24: Rob Gogan* - Supervisor of Recycling - Recycling at Harvard
May 1: Francis Macdonald - Basin Dynamics of Arctic Alaska