Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

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  • 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

  • Please join us for the Open House at Pillsbury Hall. Today, Monday, October 10 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Richard Alley, Penn State Univ, Dept of Geosciences; Down to the Sea in Slips: Ice-sheet Collapse and Sea-level Rise in a Warming World; Thurs, Oct 6 at 3:30 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Jessica Till; Experimental Studies on the Development and Evolution of Magnetic Fabrics During Deformation; Monday, Oct 3 at 1:30 p.m. in 209 PillsH

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Peter Kelemen, Columbia Univ, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,Thurs, Sept 29 at 3:30 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall; In-situ Mineral Carbonation (and hydration) in Peridotite for CO2 Capture and Storage (and Geodynamics) ; 

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    Fri, Sept 30 at 10:10 a.m., 105 PillsH, Buoyancy Instabilities in Subduction Zones, the Sediment Component in Arc Magmas, and Implications for Continental Evolution

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Shenghua Mei, Univ Minnesota, Dept Earth Sciences, Thurs, Sept 22 at 3:30 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall; Experimental Constraints on the Rheology of Mantle Rocks

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Mark Clementz, Univ Wyoming, Dept of Geology & Geophysics,Thurs, Sept 15 at 3:30 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall; From River Horses to Sea Cows: Revising the Evolutionary History of Sirenians through Geochemistry

  • Congratulations to Harvey Thorleifson, Director of the MGS, on having been elected a Fellow of GSA in 2011!

  • Congratulations to alumnus, Dr. Paul Kelso (MS 1990, PhD 1993) for receiving theMichigan Distinguished Professor of the Year Award! Read more here.

  • Geoclub activities begin this week: Welcome Cookout at Pillsbury Hall on Tues at 2 pm; Paint the Bridge on Thursday/Friday; and the first Club meeting on Friday at 12:15 in room 105 PillsH. For more information, contact the Geoclub officers at <umngeology AT gmail.com>.

  • SEMINAR: Prof. Peter Hudleston, Interim Dept Chair, UMN Earth Sciences, Thurs, Sept 8 at 3:30 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall; Welcome to the 2011-2012 Academic Year

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Xiuju Liu; Thur, Aug 18 at 2 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall; Late Quaternary Climate History on the Northeast Tibetan Plateau: Multi-proxy Investigation of Lake Qinghai Sediments, China

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