Geosciences @ Princeton

Solid Earth Lunch Seminar
(Fridays, 12:00, room 220 of Guyot Hall)

Spring 2005 - Schedule

February 11
Brian Arbic
Princeton University, GFDL
"Ocean Tides and Heinrich Events"
February 18


February 25
Jeff McGuire
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"Foreshock Sequences and Short-Term Earthquake
Predictability on East Pacific Rise Transform Faults"
March 4
Keith Koper
St. Louis University
"Body Wave Studies of Earth's Core"
March 11
Yingjie Yang
Brown University
"Tomographic inversion of amplitude and phase of Rayleigh waves with 2-D sensitivity kernels applied to southern California"
March 18
Spring recess

No presentation
March 25
Christine Reif
Scripps, UC San Diego
"Behind the Model: A New Method for Obtaining Long-Period S and P Arrival Times and New Insights into Transition Zone and Lower Mantle Structure"
April 1
Jung-Fu Lin
Carnegie Institution of Washington
"Iron as a new window into the Earth's core and lower mantle" (Abstract)
April 8
James Conder
Washington University
"Cause of the Asymmetry of the East Pacific Rise, MELT Area"
April 15
John Suppe
Princeton University
"The Weak Fault Problem"
April 22
Lucy Flesch
Carnegie Institution of Washington
"Constraining the Extent of Crust-Mantle Coupling in Central Asia Using GPS, Geologic, and Shear-Wave Splitting Data."
April 29
Marc Kuchner
Princeton University (Astrophysics)

"Carbon Planets, Water Planets and other Weird Worlds"
May 6
Peter Kelemen
Columbia University
"Recipes for Continental Crust"
May 13
Atsushi Kubo
Princeton University
"Stability, elasticity, and crystal chemistry of Post-perovskite phase"
May 20

Wendy Mao
The University of Chicago


May 27



Questions or comments? Contact Tarje Nissen-Meyer: tarje@<add>, <add>=princeton.edu

Directions to Princeton

Past Brown Bag seminar series:
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Fall 2002
Spring 2002
Fall 2001


Updated 02/21/05