The University at Albany and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Spring 2000

Earth Sciences Joint Colloquium Series

Wednesdays [with exceptions noted] -- 4:00pm

Albany: Earth Science Bldg.  Room 232 [map and directions] - Rensselaer: Jonsson-Rowland Science Center SC 3W13 [map and directions]

Next seminar  February MarchApril
 
Date
Location
Speaker
Title
January 19 RPI Dr. Charles Williams
RPI
Observations and Modeling of Current Surface Deformation at Mt. Etna Volcano, Sicily
January 26 Albany Dr. John Delano
University at Albany
How, and When, did the Earth's interior achieve its current oxidation state?:  Implications for the origin of life
February 2 RPI Dr. Alberto Saal 
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Re-Os systematics in Horoman peridotite: evidence for refertilization
February 9 Albany Dr. Greg Lawrence
US Geological Survey
Effects of Acid Rain:  Terrestrial - Aquatic Linkages
February 16 RPI Dr. Steve Shirey
DTM - Carnegie Institution
New perspectives on contintental formation from mantle eclogites and eclogitic sulfide inclusions in diamonds
February 23
Albany
Dr. Alexander Ginzburg
Ford Foundation, Moscow
Global Urbanization and UN Sustainable Cities Program
March 1 RPI Dr. Mary Roden-Tice
SUNY Plattsburg
Differential Unroofing in the Adirondack Mts New York State Determined by Apatite Fission-Track Thermochronology
March 22 Albany Dr. John Tarduno
University of Rochester
Motion of the Hawaiian hotspot during formation of the Emperor 
Seamounts
March  31
Friday
RPI Dr. Ellis L. Yochelson
National Museum of Natural History
An Empire State boy who made it big in Washington: Charles Doolittle Walcott on his 150th birthday
April 5 Albany Dr. Scott Samson
Syracuse University
Evolution and paleogeography of a Neoproterozoic arc-terrane: The Cadomia terrane of northern France and British Channel Islands
April 12 RPI Dr. Al Duba
American Museum of Natural History
Electrical Conductivity of the Crust and Upper Mantle
May 3 Albany Dr. Susan Humphris
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Geological and Geochemical Investigations of the TAG hydrothermal field on the mid-Atlantic Ridge: Constraints on the Dynamics of Oceanic Hydrothermal Systems

Rensselaer:  Jonsson-Rowland Science Center  SC 3W13

Albany: Earth Science Bldg.  Room 232 - Refreshments served immediately following each lecture.

Previous semesters: Fall 1997Spring 1998  Fall 1998  Spring 1999  Fall 1999

Albany Geological Sciences Program