Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and The University at Albany

Fall 1997

Earth Sciences Joint Colloquium Series

RPI - Thursdays [NOTE CHANGE] 4:00 to 5:00pm; SUNYA - Fridays -- 4:00 to 5:00pm

Rensselaer: West Hall Room 115 - Albany: Earth Science Bldg. Room 232


Date
Location
Speaker
Title
September 12 Albany Dr. Bruce Watson Chemical transport in deep-seated rocks: the role of fluids
RPI
September 18 Rensselaer Dr. Karl Karlstrom 1.8 billion years of lithospheric evolution: the record from the Grand Canyon
Univ of New Mexico
September 26 Albany Dr. Declan DePaor Geosciences and the microcomputer revolution
Harvard University
October 9
Rensselaer
Dr. Michael Gaffey

RPI

Recent geological studies of asteroids: Hubble, NEAR, Galileo, and Hawaii
October 17 Albany Dr. Andre Lapenis Environmental Changes: East European Plain during the last hundred years (study of historic Russian soil collection)
SUNY Albany
October 23 Rensselaer Dr. Ian Baker Dislocations in Ice
Dartmouth
October 31 Albany Dr. Gerard Bond Evidence of a pervasive, millenial time-scale instability in the Earth's climate: the record from 900 years A.D. to 130,000 years B.P.
LDEO, Columbia University
November 6 Rensselaer Dr. John Mustard

Brown University

Mafic mineralogy of the Martian crust from remote sensing: implications for the mantle
November 14 Albany Dr. Michael Williams

University of Massachusetts

The evolution of the deep crust: interaction of mantle, magma, metamorphism and deformation in the East Athabasca Mylonite Triangle, Saskatchewan
November 20 Rensselaer Dr. George Flynn Clues to the Sources of Interplanetary Dust Particles and Implications for the Properties of Asteroids and Comets
SUNY Plattsburgh
December 5 Albany Dr. Paul Hess Thermal and petrological evolution of the Moon
Brown University

Rensselaer: West Hall Room 115 - Tea and cookies at 3:30pm before the lecture

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

Spring 1997 schedule

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