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

February 8	James M. Hamlett, Agricultural Engineering, Pennsylvania State University Stormwater Management and Enhanced Infiltration in a Small Urban Watershed
February 15	Clint Conrad, Johns Hopkins University Deep earth controls on long-term sea level change.
February 22	Langhorne "Taury" Smith, New York State Museum, Albany, NY 12 Noon Hydrothermal alteration of carbonate reservoirs. 3:30-4:30 pm Hydrothermal Alteration of Carbonate Reservoirs.
February 29	Noah Finnegan, Cornell University Coupling of rock uplift and river incision in the Namche Barwa-Gyala Peri massif, Tibet.
March 7	Nicholas Harris, Colorado School of Mines Soils, slopes and source rocks: How tectonics, geomorphology and climate interact to form lacustrine source rocks in West Africa.
March 14	Linda Ivany, Syracuse University The Beginning of the Icehouse World in Antarctica: Eocene Climate Change and Evolution of the Shallow Marine Biota.
April 4	Sid Halsor, Wilkes University GPS Monitoring of Volcanic Unrest at Yellowstone Caldera, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
April 11	POSTPONED... Paul Fitzgerald, Syracuse University How did the Transantarctic Mountains form?
April 25	Jeff Walker, Vassar College The Long Road: John Burroughs and Charles Darwin, 1862-1922.
May 2	Tara Curtin, Hobart and William Smith Title, TBA
May 9	Les Hasbargen, SUNY Oneonta Erosion in steady state drainage basins — an experimental approach.

September 26	Dorothy Peteet, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Timing and Environment of the Southeastern Laurentide Ice Sheet - New Data from Macrofossils in Clays
October 3 Please Note: Special Time and Place 12 Noon in SL 212	"Taury" Langhorn Smith, New York State Geological Survey Peak Oil
October 3	"Taury" Langhorn Smith, New York State Geological Survey Marcellus Shale
October 10	GSA Meeting, Houston, Texas No seminar
October 17	Alumni Council Weekend Michael A. Penzo, EBI Consulting How does a Binghamton graduate in Geology, become a Massachusetts Licensed Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professional and perform his duties without running afoul of the Law?
October 24	Bruce Simonson, Oberlin College BIFs and Beyond: Iron Formations as Sediments
October 31	Dori Farthing, SUNY Geneseo Mineralogical and Geochemical Investigations of Metallurgical Slag.
November 7	Jack Horner, (Postponed until February) Montana State University, Bozeman Dinosaurs
November 14	OPEN!
November 21	Paul Fitzgerald, Syracuse University Thermochronology, mountain uplift and the enigma of the Transantarctic Mountains
December 5	George Zandt, University of Arizona EarthScope.
December 12	Frank Corsetti, University of Southern California Looks Can Be Deceiving: Morphology, Evolution and the Fossil Record.