The University at Albany and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Fall 1998

Earth Sciences Joint Colloquium Series

Fridays -- 4:00 to 5:00pm

Albany: Earth Science Bldg. Room 232 [map and directions] - Rensselaer: new location CII 3051[map and directions]


September October November/December

Date
Location
Speaker
Title
September 11 Albany Dr Glenn Gaetani
RPI
Experimental constraints on subduction zone melt generation
September 18 ----- No Seminar
September 25 Albany Dr. John Garver
Union College
Collision of the Olutorsky Arc, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East; Implications for the development of the NW Pacfic
October 2
Rensselaer
Dr. Charles Rubin
Central Washington University
Evidence for Large Earthquakes in Metropolitan Los Angeles, California
October 9 Albany Dr. Amy Clement
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Orbital controls and millenial timescale variability in the tropical climate
October 16 Rensselaer Dr. Jim McLelland
Colgate University

High precision zircon ages and the Grenville orogenic cycle (ca. 1350-1000 Ma) in the Adirondack Mts. and adjacent Canada
October 23 Albany Dr. Peter deMenocal
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Holocene Variations in Subtropical Atlantic climate: Links to the North Atlantic
October 30 Rensselaer Dr. Dan Davis
SUNY Stony Brook
Modeling oblique convergence
November 6 Albany Dr. Doug Burbank
Pennsylvania State University
Nascent ranges during intraplate deformation: sequential structural and geomorphic evolution of the western Tien Shan
November 13 Rensselaer Dr. Jim Webster
American Museum of Natural History
Relationships involving magmatic volatiles and eruptive behavior of Mt. Vesuvius during interplinian volcanic activity: 472 to 1139 A.D. and 1631 to 1944 A.D.
November 20 Albany Dr. Tracy Rushmer
University of Vermont
Mineral reactions and melt segregation: What's the connection?
December 4 Albany Dr. Geoffrey Seltzer
Syracuse University
Late-Quaternary Paleoclimates of the Tropical Andes

Rensselaer: new location CII 3051

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


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