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

Spring Seminar Series 2005

January 28	Dan Brabander, Wellesley College X-ray analysis of environmental materials: from the field portable to the synchrotron source.
February 11	Kyger C. Lohman, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor - JOI Distinguished Speaker 2004-2005 Unraveling the archive of climate change from the marine record: integration of isotopic and elemental proxies in molluscan carbonates.
February 18	Jim Best, University of Leeds The geomorphology and sedimentology of a big braided river: flow, form and channel management in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh. Special Friday Noon Seminar The fluid dynamics of natural, sediment-laden density currents, Lillooet Lake, British Columbia, Canada: implications for sediment dispersal and delta morphology.
February 25	David Salzberg, SAIC Ocean Sciences Division The Dec. 26 2004 earthquake and tsunami: observations and analysis using hydroacoustic data.
March 4	William Peck, Colgate University Oxygen isotopes of zircon.
March 11	John Field, Field Geology Services, Farmington, ME What is (and what isn't) stream restoration?
April 1	Don Siegel, Syracuse University The origin of the Saratoga Springs: health, history and maybe some horses.
April 8	Robyn Hannigan, Arkansas State University It’s the little things that “organic” matter.
April 15	Sergio Gelcich, University of Toronto Lots of new ages of early Andean rocks; obtaining birth certificates for subduction related magmatism, batholith construction, and Kiruna type/IOCG mineralization in the coastal cordillera of northern Chile.
April 22	Kirsten Menking, Vassar College The last 25,000 years in Estancia Basin, New Mexico: evidence for a cold, wet LGM and for enhanced La Niñas in the middle Holocene.
April 29	Available! Postponed until Fall 2005 - Tom Lorenson, USGS Worldwide gas hydrate accumulations - how much and where.
May 6	Available!

Fall Seminar Series 2005

September 9	Dr. James Ebert, Department of Earth Sciences, SUNY - Oneonta "Parting the Helderberg Sea: the Unintended Destruction of a Cherished Icon."
September 16	Dr. Richelle Allen-King, Department of Geology, University at Buffalo "A Hydrogeochemist's Perspective on Organic Contaminant Transport in Groundwater."
September 30	POSTPONED... Thomas D. Lorenson, USGS - Menlo Park "Worldwide gas hydrate accumulations - how much and where."
October 7	Anurag Sharma, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "Molecules to Microbes: a Window into Processes at Extreme."
October 14	Binghamton University Juan Carlos Corona, Experimental Study of the Reaction: Glaucophane + 2 Quartz = 2 Albite + Talc Bridget McCollam, "Investigation of the stability boundary of Na-clinojimthompsonite, a synthetic triple-chain silicate, to Na-Mg amphibole."
October 28	Ranier Lohmann, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island "Black carbon as a supersorbent? The availability of organic pollutants."
November 4	CANCELLED... Eric Kirby, Department of Geosciences, Penn State University
November 11	Kathy Benison, Central Michigan University "Terrestrial battery acid and cranberry juice lakes: Clues about past environments and life on Mars?"
November 18	Gerta Keller, Princeton University "Impacts and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction."
December 2	Ken Kodama, Lehigh University "Tests to ensure the accuracy of the paleomagnetic inclination of sedimentary rocks."
December 9	*CANCELLED...* Charles A. Ver Straeten, New York State Museum, The State Education Department "Ash Bed Stratinomy: The fate of volcanic ash in depositional environments."