A one-day symposium in honor of Francis A. (Tony) Dahlen was held on Saturday, September 8 at Princeton University. More information can be found here.

Recent News:

• Bianca Jane Silver will give her final Final Public Oral Examination on Friday, April 25, 2008, at 3:00 pm in Guyot 155. The title is "The Nutritional and Energetic Constraints on Life in the Deep Biosphere of South Africa."
• Bianca Jane Silver's Ph.D. dissertation is in Guyot 110 for inspection. The title is "The Nutritional and Energetic Constraints on Life in the Deep Biosphere of the South African Gold Mines"
• Congratulations to Dr. Karin Sigloch on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis!
• First Graduate Student Oral Presentations will be held Friday, April 4, 2008, starting at 1:30 pm in Guyot 155. more info
• Mark Davidson will give his Final Public Oral Examination on Friday, April 4, 2008, at 10:00 am in Guyot 110. The title is "Sulfate Reduction in the Deep Terrestrial Subsurface: A Study of Microbial Ecology, Metabolic Rates and Sulfur Isotope Fractionation." more info
• Come to the Geosciences Soph/Frosh Open House, Wednesday, April 2nd, at 7:00 PM in the Guyot Hall Great Hall. More info
• Save the date! Oral reports for first year grads will be the afternoon of Friday, April 4.
• Mark M. Davidson's Ph.D. dissertation is in Guyot 110 for inspection. The title is "Sulfate Reduction in the Deep Terrestrial Subsurface: A Study of Microbial Ecology, Metabolic Rates and Sulfur Isotope Fractionation"
• Congratulations to AOS faculty member Isaac Held on receiving the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal from the American Meteorological Society. More info. Isaac was also part of the IPCC team that was mentioned in the Nobel Peace prize for climate this year.
• Frederik Simons and his research were recently featured on the front page of Princeton's website. The full article is here.
• Karin Sigloch will give her Final Public Oral Examination on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 9:00 am in Guyot 220. The title is "Multiple-Frequency Body-Wave Tomography" more details
• Karin Sigloch's Ph.D. dissertation is in Guyot 110 for inspection. The title is "Multiple-Frequency Body-Wave Tomograpy"
• Frederik Simons will give a special session on "New Frontiers in Earth System Science" for prospective Geosciences majors on Wednesday, 2/27/08, at 7:00 PM in Guyot Hall. Pizza will be served! more info
• Isaac Held (AOS) will be giving a lecture entitled "The Scientific Basis of Climate Change (In a Nutshell): History, Status, Unresolved Problems," on 2/26/08 from 12:30-2:00 pm in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. more info
• Congratulations to Dr. Haewon Park on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis!
• Steven Andrews '05 is in the news in a New York Times article on Beijing's air quality.
• Lincoln Hollister is in the news in an article in the January 2nd edition of Nature. The article is related to a poster that he gave at the 2007 fall AGU meeting in San Francisco.
• Gregory van der Vink will be teaching two classes this spring: GEO/ENV 399: Environmental Decision-Making; and GEO/ENV 499: Investigating Natural Disasters

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