The University at Albany and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Spring 2006

Earth Sciences Joint Colloquium Series

Wednesdays [with exceptions noted] -- 4:00pm at RPI; 4.15pm at SUNYAlbany
Albany: Earth Science Bldg. Room 232 [map and directions]   RPI: Johnsson-Rowland Science Center (third floor) SC 3W13  [map and directions]

Date
Location
Speaker
Title
February 8
Albany Dr. John I. Garver
Union College
Evolution of Kamchatka and the Challenges of Doing Fieldwork in Russia
February 15 RPI Dr. David Saltzberg
SAIC Ocean Sciences Division
Hydroacoustic Observations of Tsunamogenic Earthquakes: Applications to the Indian Ocean
February 22
RPI Dr. Sang-Heon (Dan) Shim
MIT
The Post-Perovskite Phase Transition at the Lowermost Mantle
March 1
RPI NO SEMINAR

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March 8

Albany

Dr. James Webber
Wadsworth Center, NY State Dept. of Health
Tracking Environmental Asbestos Contamination from Mining and Milling Activities
March 29

Albany Dr.  Scott Johnson
University of  Maine, Orono
Using 3D numerical modeling and temporal relationships between deformation and metamorphism to explore pluton growth rates
April 5
RPI Dr.  Robert Burruss
USGS Reston
Carbon, Energy, and Climate: The role of geological sequestration of carbon dioxide
April 12 RPI NO SEMINAR

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April 19

RPI Dr.   Juerg M. Matter
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Geologic Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Reactive Rocks: A Permanent Storage Solution
April 26
Albany Dr. Erich Osterberg
University of  Maine, Orono
An ice core record of Holocene climate change, trans-Pacific dust flux, and anthropogenic pollution in the North Pacific:  Mt. Logan, Yukon, Canada
May 3
Albany Dr. Charles Harvey
MIT
The biogeochemistry and hydrogeology of the arsenic crisis in Bangladesh

Rensselaer:  Johnsson-Rowland Science Center (third floor) SC 3W13

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

RPI page for this colloquium series
Other local area geological seminars:
Union College
New York Center for Studies on the Origins of Life
Hudson-Mohawk Professional Geologists Association

Past series: Spring 1996 Fall  |  Spring 1997 Fall  |  Spring 1998  Fall  |  Spring 1999  Fall  |  Spring 2000  Fall  |  Spring 2001 Fall  Spring 2002  Fall  Spring 2003 Fall  | 
Spring 2004  FallSpring 2005  Fall  |  Spring 2006 

Albany Geological Sciences Program
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences