Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

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  • SEMINAR: Dr. Benjamin Passey, Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept of Earth & Planetary Sciences with present two seminars: Thurs, Feb 2 at 3:35 pm, 110 PillsH: Clumped Isotope Thermometry of Soil Carbonates and Application to the Neogene Monsoon Evolution in Northern China - AND- Fri, Feb 3 at 10:10 a.m., 121 PillsH: Solid-state Reordering of C-O Bonds in Calcite, and Implications for Clumped-Isotope Thermometry of the Shallow Crust and Paleoclimate Archives

  • SEMINAR: Thursday, January 26 at 3:35 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall: Dr. Hersh Gilbert, Purdue Univ, Dept of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Lithospheric Foundering in the Sierra Nevada

  • SEMINAR: Thursday, January 19 at 3:35 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall: Dr. Amy Myrbo, Univ Minnesota, Limnological Research Center, Carbon-Oxygen Isotopic Covariance and Phasing in an Annually-Resolved 20th-Century Urban Lake Record of Anthropogenic Geochemical Perturbations

  • Due to construction in Pillsbury Hall on Thurs and Fri, Jan 12 & 13 - the building will be closed to the public. Power to the building will be intermittent therefore communication with the department will be sporadic.

  • Spring 2012 classes begin on Tuesday, January 17.

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Ioan Lascu, Thur, Dec 15 at 10 a.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall,Quantification of Magnetic Components in Sediments with Applications in Paleoenvironmental Studies

  • MS Thesis Defense of Chiji Ochiagha, Wed, Dec 14 at 2:30 p.m., 121 Pillsbury Hall;Ecological Biogeography of African Mammals in Relations to Climate and Topography

  • Dr. Emi Ito has been working on a collaborative project on the Dead Sea. Read these recent news reports from the BBC, CBS, and National Geographic. Kudos to Emi and her colleagues!

  • Seminar: Dr. John Valley, Univ Wisc-Madison, Dept of Geosciences; Thurs, Dec 1 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH: Zircons from Hell?; and Fri, Dec 2 at 10:10 a.m. in 105 PillsH:Quartz Cements and Basin Evolution: Illinois Basin and Wisconsin Arch

  • Fall seminar series has ended. No departmental seminars scheduled until January 19, 2012.

  • Defense of Sara Morón, Tues, Nov 29, 3:30 p.m., 121 PillsH; Paleosol Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy, Major Oxides, and Rock Magnetic Record of Climate Change across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary in the Bogota Basin, Colombia

  • No seminar Thursday, November 22 due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

  • Seminar: Thurs, Nov 10 at 3:30 p.m., room 110 PillsH; Dr. Harold Tobin, Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Dept of Geosciences; Inside the Megathrust: Active Fault Processes and Properties in the Nankai Trough Subduction Zone

  • Seminar: Thurs, Nov 3 at 3:30 p.m., room 110 PillsH; Dr. Basil Tikoff, Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Dept of Geosciences; Tectonic Evolution of Western Idaho: Insights into the Formation and Reactivation of a Steep Continental Margin

  • Earth Science's professor, Marc Hirschmann, is profiled on the UofMN Research web site: read more here. Good work, Marc!

  • Seminar: Thurs, October 27 at 3:30 p.m., room 110 PillsH; Dr. Dennis Kent ,Rutgers Univ, Dept of Earth & Planetary Sciences; Latitudinal Change of North America in the Mesozoic and Constraints on Cordilleran Tectonics.

  • Seminar: Thurs, October 20 at 3:30 p.m., room 110 PillsH; Dr. Laurence Coogan,Univ of Victoria, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences; Mid-ocean Ridge Hydrothermal Systems and Ocean Chemistry. Dr. Coogan will give a second, more specialized talk on Friday, Oct 21 at 10:10 a.m., room 105 PillsH.

  • Congratulations! to alumni Drs. Haaken Fossen (PhD 1992) and Basil Tikoff (PhD 1994) for recieving the Outstanding Publication Award by the Structural Geology & Tectonics Division of GSA, presented last week at the annual meeting here in Minneapolis! In addition, Dr. Fossen has been selected this year as a Fellow of GSA. Congratulations, gentlemen!

  • Special Seminar: Wednesday, October 12 at 4:00 p.m., Cowles Auditorium, H.H. Humphrey Center (west bank); Prof. Sally G. Kohlstedt; Uncovering the Past, Charting the Future: the Rise of Women in Science. As part of the Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholars Award & Lecture. Congratulations, Sally, on winning this award!

  • Special Seminar: Monday, October 10 at 4:00 p.m., 121 Pillsbury Hall; Department Alumnus, Chuck Mosher, Conoco Phillips; Geology to Seismic: Fine Scale Forward Modeling for Seismic Imaging and Exploration

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