Earth and Planetary Sciences Spring 2012 Seminars
Thursdays at 12 Noon, EPS Conference Room

Thursday, January 26:
JAMES GARDNER - University of Texas at Austin
"Spherulites as Proxy Thermometers in Lavas: Constraints on Obsidian Lavas Erupted in Yellowstone National Park"

Thursday, February 2:
MORDECAI MAC LOW - AMNH
"Puzzles of Planet Formation"

Thursday, February 16:
OPEN -

Tuesday, February 21:
MARK HARRISON - Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA
"TBD"

Thursday, February 23:
ELIZABETH FERRISS - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Modeling the Effect of Pressure on the Ti-in-Zircon Geothermometer"

Thursday, March 8:
EINAT LEV - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University
"Investigating Lava Rheology Using Man-Made Flows, Video Analysis and Numerical Models"

Thursday, March 15:
OPEN -

Thursday, March 22:
No Seminar - Lunar & Planetary Sciences Conference

Thursday, March 29:
JUSTIN FILIBERTO - Southern Illinois University
"Comparing the Effects of Volatile Species (H2O, F and Cl) on Near-Liquidus Phase Equilibria of a Basalt"

Thursday, April 12:
TIM LOWENSTEIN - Binghamton University
"Microbial Communities in Fluid and Long-Term Survival in Halite"

Thursday, April 19:
SUZANNE BALDWIN - Syracuse University
"TBD"

Thursday, April 26:
ANGELA DOHERTY - AMNH/Virginia Tech
"TBD"

Thursday, May 3:
ADAM SIMON - University of Nevada, Last Vegas
"TBD"