Earth Sciences Joint Colloquium Series

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
January 30 FRIDAY 8.45-4.45	RPI see website for location	Vadim Levin  (Rutgers) Gary Pavlis (Indiana) Steve Park (UC Riverside) John Hole (Virginia Tech) Biondo Biondi (Stanford)	Geophysics Imaging Workshop
February 4	Albany	Dr.  T. A. Abrajano Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) sources and deposition chronology in the New York/New Jersey Harbor Complex
February 11	RPI	Dr. Maureen Long Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Upper mantle anisotropy beneath Japan from shear wave splitting
February 18	Albany	Dr. Mark Brandriss Smith College	Textural coarsening caused by trapped liquids in layered gabbroic cumulates
February 25	RPI	Dr. Richard Riman Rutgers University	Hydrothermal Crystallization of Ceramics
March 3	Albany	Dr. Douglas Burns USGS, Watershed Research Section	Are surface waters in the Catskills and Adirondacks recovering as the acidity of precipitation has decreased over the past two decades?
March 10	---	NO SEMINAR -	---
March 17	Albany	Dr.  Michael McHale USGS, Watershed Research Section	Mercury (Hg) cycling in the Catskills
March 24	RPI	Dr. Ethan Baxter  Boston University	Noble gas transport and partitioning in the crust: implications for geochronology
March 31	Albany Cancelled	Dr. Charles Ver Straeten NYS Museum	Volcanic ash bed preservation in marine systems, and implications for Devonian volcanism
April 7	RPI	Dr. James Webber  Wadsworth/SUNY Albany School of Public Health	A century of airborne concentrations: Tales from the muck
April 14	Albany	Dr. Nick Hayman Duke University	A record of shallow crustal faulting preserved within rocks from the Death Valley low-angle normal (detachment) faults
April 21	RPI	Dr. J. Brian Evans  Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The Spherical Chickens of Geology: Constitutive Laws for Rocks with Evolving Structures
April 28	Albany	Dr. David Rowley University of Chicago	Paleoaltimetry and paleohypsometry of Tibet

Past series: Fall 1997 | Spring 1998 | Fall 1998 | Spring 1999 | Fall 1999 | Spring 2000 | Fall 2000 | Spring 2001 | Fall 2001 | Spring 2002 | Fall 2002 | Spring 2003 | Fall 2003

Albany Geological Sciences Program
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences