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

January 27	Chuck VerStraeten, New York State Museum - The Education Department Ash Bed Stratinomy: The fate of volcanic ash in depositional environments.
February 17	Mike McCormick, Hamilton College Biogenesis and environmental reactivity of nano-scale magnetite by the dissimilative iron-respiring bacteria Geobacter metallireducens.
February 24	Bob Darling, SUNY Cortland A Geochemical Conundrum: Superheated Ice in Pure Water Fluid Inclusions.
March 3	John Rayburn, USGS Mendenhall Fellow, Reston, VA New Discoveries From Early Champlain Sea Sediments.
March 31	Jason Briner, University of Buffalo Fjords and Ice Sheets.
April 7	James D. Brownridge, Binghamton University •Pyroelectric Crystal Accelerators and Table-top Fusion. •Electrical activity in freezing salt water and how confined water cools.
April 21	Andrea Ferro, Clarkson University Investigating children's exposures to particulate matter near major diesel emissions sources.
April 28	Whitney Autin, SUNY Brockport Environmental significance of the top of the Kreftenheye Formation in the lower Rhine Valley, Netherlands.
May 5	Eric Hetland, Cal. Tech. Observations and Models of Interseismic Deformation
May 12	Scott McLennan, SUNY Stony Brook

September 8	Dr. Mark Altabet, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth "High latitude climate forcing of low latitude marine nitrogen biogeochemistry across the last glacial cycle"
September 15	Dr. Jennifer Biddle, Pennsylvania State University "Uncultivated Archaea of the marine subsurface"
September 29	Tim Lowenstein, Binghamton University "Elevated Eocene Atmospheric CO₂ and its Subsequent Decline"
October 6	David Katz, Binghamton University "Microclimate Change: Reforestation in Costa Rica"
October 13	Roger Summons , Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Molecular evidence for radical changes in ocean chemistry, globally, across the Permian Triassic boundary"
October 20	CANCELLED Liviu Giosan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution "Flooding of Indus delta during an early Holocene cold climate interval"
October 27	Steven Petsch, University of Massachusetts at Amherst "A geomicrobiological view of global-scale carbon cycling"
November 3	Russ Vreeland, West Chester University "Ancient microbes and what they tell us about evolution and the past"
November 10	Eugene Domack, Hamilton College "Climate induced disintegration of the Larsen Ice Shelf: How one thing leads to another"
November 17	Yongsong Huang, Brown University To be announced
December 1	Hope Jahren, Johns Hopkins University "Geobiology of the Arctic Eocene (~45 Ma)"