Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences

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  • The Fall 2010 Newsletter is in the mail! Thanks, Kathy!! If you can't wait for it to arrive in your mailbox, click the link below to view it in pdf format.

  • Weekly Seminar: Dr. Alison Olcott Marshall, Univ of Kansas; Thurs, Dec 9 at 3:30 p.m., 110 PillsH; The Oldest Life on Earth or Chemical Artifacts? A Reassessment of the Microfossils of the Apex Chert

  • Special Seminar: Dr. Tetsuya Komabayashi, Tokyo Inst. of Technolgy; Thurs, Dec 9at 10:10 a.m. in 121 Pillsbury Hall; Resistive-heated diamond anvil cell experiments: a probe of Earth's interior

  • Masters Thesis Defense of Marylee Murphy ; Wed, Dec 8 at 3:00 p.m., 209 Pillsbury Hall; Application of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to the Willow River Watershed, St. Croix County, Wisconsin

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Yongli Gao, East Tennesee State University, Dept of Geosciences; Thurs, Dec 2 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 Pillsbury Hall; Environmental Reconstruction of a Unique Tertiary Lacustrine System: Gray Fossil Site, northeastern Tennessee

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Elisa Fitz-Diaz; Tues, Nov 30 at 3:30 p.m., 110 Pillsbury Hall;Progressive Deformation, Fluid Flow and Water-rock Interaction in the Mexican Fold-Thrust Belt, Central Mexico

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Susan Kidwell, The University of Chicago, Department of Geophysics Sciences, Thur, Nov 18 at 3:30 pm in 110 PillsH: Quantifying the Quality of Ordinary Fossil Records

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Jessica Warren, Stanford University, will present two seminars: Thur,Nov 11 at 3:30 pm in 110 PillsH: Microstructural Controls on Plate Tectonics: Observations of Deformed Peridotites; and Fri, Nov 12 at 10:10 am in 121 PillsH:Measurement of Water in Peridotite Nominally Anhydrous Minerals

  • Ad hoc seminar: geology Ph.D. candidate, Greg Brick, will give a presentation on his book, Subterranean Twin Cities, on Thur, Nov 4 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH.

  • Geology and geophysics doctoral programs ranked highly in NRC assessment. Read more.

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Paul Wallace, Univ of Oregon will present two seminars: Thurs, Oct 28 at 3:30 p.m. in 110 PillsH: Volatile Recycling and Magma Generation in Young-slab Subduction Zones: Examples from central Mexico and the Oregon Cascades; and Fri,Oct 29 at 10:10 a.m. in 121 PillsH: High-Mg Andesites and the Role of Mantle Harzburgite in Arc Magmatism

  • Geophysics prof, Dr. Justin Revenaugh, is speaking at the Inst for Advanced Study, on Wed, Oct 27 at 4 p.m. in 125 Nolte: Exploration and Production of Oil in Deep Water

  • SEMINAR: Dr. Donna Blackman, Scripps Inst of Oceanography will present two seminars: Thursday, Oct 21 at 3:30 p.m., room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Oceanic Core Complex Structure & Evolution- insights from deep-sea drilling, geophysical surveys, and seafloor mapping at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 30°N; and Friday, October 22, 10:10 a.m. in 121 PillsH: Linked Models of Micro-structural Deformation of Peridotite and Flow of Upper Mantle in the Vicinity of Plate Boundaries

  • CONGRATULATIONS to our outstanding undergraduates for their dual success at the Student Organization Fair, as part of CSE's 75th Anniv celebration on Tues, Oct 19. They took 1st place for Outstanding Student Organization and 2nd place in the egg-drop contest. I understand that their egg landed without breaking but another egg, one decorated with glitter, won 1st place.

  • SEMINAR: Thursday, Oct 14 at 3:30 p.m., room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Dr. Benjamin Weiss , MIT, Dept of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, Evidence for an Ancient Lunar Dynamo

  • PhD Thesis Defense of Ellery Frahm, Dept of Anthropology (and our very own microprobe lab manager); Tues, Oct 12 at 1:00 p.m. in Hanson Hall, Room 1-111; The Bronze-Age Obsidian Industry at Tell Mozan (Ancient Urkesh), Syria: Redeveloping Electron Microprobe Analysis for 21st-Century Sourcing Research and the Implications for Obsidian Use and Exchange in the Northern Mesopotamia after the Neolithic

  • SEMINAR: Thursday, Oct 7 at 3:30 p.m., room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Dr. Martin Saar , UMN Dept of Geo/Geophys, The Fluid- and Thermodynamics of Combining CO2 Sequestration with Geothermal Energy Capture

  • SEMINAR: Thursday, Sept 21 at 3:30 p.m., room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Dr. Emi Ito, UMN Dept of Geo/Geophys, How Lakes See Climate

  • SEMINAR: Friday, Sept 17 at 1:30 p.m., room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Prof. Wally Broecker, Lamont-Doherty, How has the ocean's Mg/Ca evolved over the past 180 million years?

  • SEMINAR: Thursday, Sept 16 at 3:30 p.m., room 110 Pillsbury Hall: Dr. Sergei Katsev, LLO, The Wandering Redox Boundary in Lake Superior Sediments: does it reflect a recent productivity change?

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