Spring 1996 Seminar Schedule

• Feb. 2, Steve Good (SUNY Cortland)

  "Early Tertiary Lacustrine Systems of the Eastern Great Basin: Molluscan Evidence of Eocene Tensional Tectonics"

• Feb. 16, Jeff Barker (SUNY Binghamton)

  "Numerical Modeling of Earthquake Ground Motion Amplification"

• Feb. 26, Bartle Lecture:John Grotzinger (MIT)

  "Tectonic and climatic controls on the development of foreland basins and orogenic belts, Wopmay and Thelon Orogens, Northwest Canada"

• Feb. 27, Bartle Lecture:John Grotzinger (MIT)

  "The emergence of multicellular animals: calibrating the rates of early animal evolution"

• Feb. 28, Bartle Lecture:John Grotzinger (MIT)

  "Anomalous carbonates: is the Precambrian the key to the Permian"

• Mar. 8, Alan Jones (SUNY Binghamton)

  "SEISMIC/Eruption"

• Mar. 15 Eugenie Scott (National Center for Science Education )

  "The Evolution of Creationism: Antievolution in the 1990s"

• Mar. 15, Art Palmer (SUNY Oneonta)

  "Caves of the Arid Southwest -- Strange Geochemical Environments"

• Apr. 12, Jay Fleisher (SUNY Oneonta)

  "Rapid changes in a dynamic ice contact environment, Bering Glacier, Alaska"

• Apr. 19, Jonathan Lees (Yale University)

  "Tomographic Analysis: Anatomy of the Coso Geothermal Field"

• Apr. 26, Alexandra Moore (Hartwick College)

  "Virtual Field Trips and other Web Applications in Geoscience Education"

• May 10, Kiyotaka Ishida (Kyushu University, Japan)

  "Some Aspects of the Culture and Geology of Japan"

• May 15, Oleg Pinous (U. New Hampshire)

  "Quantified Sea-level History for the Middle Jurassic through Cretaceous based on Russian Platform and Siberian Stratigraphy"

Fall 1996 Seminar Schedule

• Sep. 13, Sean Willett (Penn State)

  "Mountain building and erosion: a critical balance"

• Sep. 20, Tracy Rushmer (U. Vermont)

  "Melt segregation in the lower crust: an experimental investigation"

• Sep. 27, Karen Kohfeld (Lamont)

  "Paleo-oceanography from the perspective of a single cell: Planktonic foraminifera as tracers of polar ocean conditions"

• Oct. 4, Rick Cheel (Brock U.)

  "Hummocky cross-stratification and coarse-grained ripples: what we think we know about ancient storm deposits

• Oct. 11, Ben Levy

  Hydraulic characterization of hazardous waste sites

• Oct. 18, John Pelletier (Cornell U.)

  Stochastic modeling of complex earth systems (including climate modeling)

• Nov. 8, Rudy Slingerland (Penn State)

  Sedimentology/tectonics and climate

• Nov. 15, Dick Naslund (SUNY Binghamton)

  "The origin of magnetite lavas at El Laco, Chile"

• Nov. 22, Jeff Over (SUNY Geneseo)

  "Extinctions and impacts: the record for the Frasnian/Famennian boundary (late Devonian)"

• Dec. 6, Chris McRoberts (SUNY Binghamton)

  
  

• Dec. 13, Lou Derry (Cornell U.)

  Geochemical studies of Himalayan erosion