Binghamton University - Academics: Harpur College of Arts and Sciences: Department Programs: Geological Sciences: Seminars

February 20	Chris Marone, Pennsylvania State University. The Strength of Granular Fault Zones: Effect of Particle Characteristics and Comparison of Laboratory and Numerical Approaches to Understanding Fault Friction.
February 27	Dave Rodland, Southern Connecticut State University. Colonization of a Lost World - encrustation of brachiopods on a modern subtropical shelf
March 5	Claudia Carabajal, NVI, Inc. at NASA/GSFC. The Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) Mission: Laser Altimetry Observations from Space, Calibration and Validation Techniques
March 19	Lew Burkley, Office of Inspector General, NSF Ethical Dilemmas and Research Misconduct.
March 26	C A N C E L L E D Merritt R. Turetsky, USGS Menlo Park. Carbon sink/source relationships in a changing boreal forest.
April 2	Marian Lupulescu, New York State Museum. Iron Deposits of the Grenville province of New York: hydrothermal or magmatic origin?
April 16	Jon Kolak, USGS Reston. Fingerprinting Natural Hydrocarbon Inputs to the Northern Gulf of Alaska? Advancing Geochemistry or Beating a Dead Horse?
April 23	Matt Makowski, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Holocene Climate Variability on the Peru Margin: Exploiting Developments in Mass Spectrometry to Generate a High-Resolution Organic Biomarker Record.
April 30	Meg Stewart, Vassar College. Compiling an Environmental Database for the Mid-Hudson Valley, New York Using GIS

September 10	John Bratton, USGS -- Woods Hole, MA Phantom of the Estuary: Unmasking Submarine Ground-water Discharge.
October 1	Lou Derry, Cornell University Tracking the Biogeochemical Cycle of Silica with Ge/Si Ratios.
October 8	Available!
October 15	Barbara Bekins, USGS -- Menlo Park, CA Hydrogeology and the Weak Nature of Plate Boundary Faults.
October 22	Bob Aller, SUNY Stony Brook Coupling Between Sedimentary Dynamics and Biogeochemical Cycling in Tropical Deltaic Systems.
October 27 (Wednesday)	Lee Kump, Penn State University Why did the Rise of Oxygen 2.3 Billion Years Ago Precede Its Cause?
October 29	Chris Gobler, Southampton College Effects of Anthropogenically-Influenced Groundwater Discharge on Coastal Marine Ecosystems.
November 5	Zicheng Yu, Lehigh University Deglacial Climate Oscillations and Vegetation Responses in North America.
November 12	Available!
November 19	Diana Aga, University at Buffalo Environmental Impacts of the Use of Antibiotics in Animal Production.
December 3	Todd Miller, USGS -- Ithaca, NY To Be Announced.
December 10	David Veblen, Johns Hopkins University Sub-Nanometer Environmental Mineralogy.