Environmental Geology & Geochemistry Seminar (EGGS) Lecture Series

Spring 2008

February 7	Ken Miller, Rutgers University - "100 million years of sea-level change: Should I sell my shore house?"
February 14	Dave Sunderlin, Lafayette College - "Arctic Ecology in the Age of Dinosaurs: Uncovering the Paleoenvironmental History of a Late Cretaceous Alaskan Basin"
February 21	Weifu Guo, Caltech - "Kinetic isotope effects during carbonate clumped isotope fractionation and quantitative speleothem thermometry"
April 3	Matt Kohn, Boise State University - "Fossil tooth chemistry as a paleoclimate proxy: rise of the Cascades and descent into the Oligocene Icehouse"
April 10	Katye Altieri, Rutgers University - TBA
April 17	Ben Horton, U. Penn. - "Holocene sea-level records: driving mechanisms and coastal responses"
April 24	Steve Pekar, Queens College - "Linking pCO2 Estimates to Oceanographic and Antarctic Climate Records for the Early Icehouse World (34-17 Ma) and a New Antarctic Drilling Program (ANDRILL) to recover sedimentary archives from the Greenhouse to Icehouse Worlds"
May 1	Tanja Bosak, MIT - "Conical stromatolites as records of microbial processes"

All seminars are on Thursdays at 12:30-1:30 in Guyot Hall Room 155 unless otherwise noted.