Colloquium - Spring 2012
Welcome, and thank you for your interest in the SESE Colloquium Series.
During Spring 2012, SESE Colloquia will take place at 4:10 p.m.
in the Physical Sciences H-wing, Room 153.
Colloquia are preceeded by a light reception in the Dietz Museum on the first floor of PSF at 3:30 p.m.
SESE students interested in having lunch with the speaker may sign up with our Google Docs lunch sign-up sheet.
Lunches are 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in PSF 566.
For more information contact Curtis Williams, colloquium committee chair,
Professor Peter Buseck, colloquium advisor.
Links to supplementary materials (talk pdfs and answers to questions) are available here.
Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Orbiting Cool M Dwarfs
| DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | TITLE (click link for abstract) |
| 01-04* | Bill Bottke |
SWRI |
Exploring the Early Bombardment of the Inner Solar |
| 01-11 | Steve Semken |
ASU |
Place is Where We Learn from Earth and Sky |
| 01-18 | Britney Schmidt |
Texas-Austin | Europa's Great Lakes |
| 01-25 | Kaatje Kraft |
ASU | The Geoscience Affective Research NETwork (GARNET) Project: What do we know about making learning more effective for introductory geoscience students? |
| 02-01 | Erik Asphaug |
UCSC | Giant Impacts, Hit-and-Runs, and Splats |
| 02-08 | Wallace Broecker |
Columbia University |
Changes in the Mg to Ca ratio in sea water over the last 100 million years |
| 02-15 | Miaki Ishii |
Harvard | Dissecting Giant Earthquakes: Things We Didn't Know |
| 02-22 | John Johnson |
Caltech | Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Orbiting Cool M Dwarfs |
| 02-29 | Chris McKay |
NASA Ames |
New results on the physics and biology of perennial ice-covered Antarctic lake |
| 03-07 | Rachel Bean |
Cornell | |
| 03-14 | Mihály Pósfai |
University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary | Magnetic nanocrystals in organisms: biominerals for navigation |
| 03-21 | SPRING BREAK |
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| 03-28 | Ronald Amundson |
Berkeley | Geological evidence for a late Pliocene aridification of the Atacama Desert, Chile |
| 04-04 | Jim Bell |
ASU |
Red Rover(s), Red Rover(s): Update on Mars Science and Mission Planning |
| 04-11 | Chris German |
WHOI |
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| 04-18 | Michael Gurnis | Caltech | Long-term sea level change on a dynamic Earth |
| 04-25* | Malcolm Walter | UNSW | Pushing the limits: Paleobiological evidence for cyanobacteria and oxygenic photosynthesis during Archean times |
*These colloquia are either before or after the Spring Semester and therefore are not part of the GLG 400/GLG 500 SESE Colloquium class.
| TALK PDFs | All the questions you wanted answered about the colloquium |
| Semken |
Asphaug |
| Kraft |
Semken |
| Amundson |
Ishii
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| McKay |
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| Amundson |
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| Bell (link to audio) | Bell questions | |