Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Earth Section Weekly Seminar

Monday Afternoon, Hubbs Hall 4500

Refreshments 3:00, Seminar Begins 3:15

FALL 2008		Understanding Earth Processes that can Result in Human Hazard	Contact
Sept 29	Pat Abbot, SDSU	Sturzstroms and Soledad	mailto:jkluesner@ucsd.edu
Oct 6	Dave Clague, MBARI	Are oceanic volcanoes as benign as we like to think?	mailto:skirtland@ucsd.edu
Oct 13	Gidieon Baer, Israel	TOPIC: 2007 Tanzanian earthquake swarms and eruptions	mailto:l8smith@ucsd.edu
Oct 27	Eli Silver, UCSC	TOPIC: Volcano collapse and tsunami off Papua New Guinea	mailto:rmitra@ucsd.edu
Nov 3	Ralph Archuleta, UCSB	TBA	mailto:rmitra@ucsd.edu
Nov 10	John Blum, SIO	TOPIC: Slope stabilty and size of earthquake to trigter large landslide	mailto:pbarry@ucsd.edu
Nov 24	Tom Jordan, USC	Earthquake System Science in Southern California	mailto:pbarry@ucsd.edu
Dec 1	Paul Earle, USGS	The USGS NEIC's Response to the Wenchuan, China Earthquake	mailto:bwheeloc@ucsd.edu
Winter 2009
Jan 5	Brian Atwater, USGS
Jan 26	Frieder Seible, UCSD	Topic: structural engineering against earthquake hazards	mailto:bwheeloc@ucsd.edu
TBA	Gilles Peltzer, UCLA		mailto:jkluesner@ucsd.edu

Please email the student contact to arrange a meeting with the speaker during their visit. To suggest additional speakers get in touch with Donna Blackman (SIO volunteers on topics related to the themes for this year are welcome!).

FALL 2007			Tectonics & Climate
Sept 24
Oct 1	Anne Sheehan University Colorado, Boulder (Green Scholar)		Seeing Beneath Mt. Everest: Probing a Breeding Ground of Destructive Earthquakes
Oct 8	Peter Molnar		Closing of the Indonesian Seaway and the Demise of a Permanent El Niño-like Equatorial Pacific as Preconditions for North American Ice Ages
Oct 15	Craig Jones, University Colorado, Boulder		Processes associated with development of the Sierra Nevada mountains
Oct 22
Oct 29	Dan Schrag, Harvard		Climate change over Earth history
Tus Oct 30	Dan Schrag		Oceanographic Approaches to Carbon Dioxide Storage
Nov 19	Dick Norris SIO		Tectonic-Climate Linkages-- The Cretaceous Thermal Maximum: Ice sheets, Atlantic Evolution and the Heartbeat of the Biosphere
Nov 26
Dec 3	Ken Farley Caltech		Geochemical techniques for constraining uplift and application to the Sierra Nevadas
Dec 17	Kira Lawrence, Lafayette		alkenones & paleotemperature
Winter08			Earth's Water Cycle
Jan 14	Marc Hirschmann University of Minnesota		Deep Earth Volatile Cycles
Jan 25	Bob Smith University of Utah		Shake & Bake: Geodynamics and seismic/geodetic imaging of the Yellowstone hotpsot & mantle plume
Jan 28	Mark Harrison, UCLA		Origin of Oceans & Plate Tectonics
Feb 4
Feb 11	Bernard Minster, SIO		Earth Observations from Space: The first 50 Years of Scientific Achievements
Feb 25	Steve Constable, SIO	SIO	Electrical Conductivity and Water in the Mantle
Mar 3	Paul Asimow, Caltech		Water & melting at oceanic spreading centers
Mar 10	Dan Cayan, SIO		Variations in regional water balance in the Western US
Spring08			Polar Research & Earth's Water Cycle (continued)
Mar 31	Danny Sigman, Princeton		TBA
Apr 7	Jeff Severinghaus, SIO		Polar Records of Local and Global Climate from Air Bubbles in Ice
Apr 14	Wesley LeMasurier, University Colorado		Neogene extension and basin deepening in the West Antarctic rift inferred from comparisons with the East African rift and other analogs
Apr 21	Kathy Barbeau, SIO		Natural Iron Fertilization in the Southern Ocean: Studies of the Southern Drake Passage
Apr 28	Helen Fricker, SIO		Are the ice sheets melting? Antarctica and Greenland's response to climate change
May 5	Carol Kendall, USGS	Menlo Park	Multiple isotope measurements in rivers and the influence of urbanization
May 12 Location change	Doug Wiens, Washington University		Seismic structure, mantle flow patterns, and the dynamics of island arc systems 3:15 Revelle Conference Room
May 13 Note time /location	Wally Broecker	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	Lessons from glacial age closed basin lakes 11:00 Nierenberg Hall 101
May 14 Note time /location	Wally Broecker	LDEO	Broecker's Prognosis Regarding Our Response to Global Warming 11:00 Sumner Hall
May 15 Note time /location	Wally Broecker	LDEO	Implications of the near constancy of the radiocarbon age of Pacific deep water during the last 20 kyrs 10:00 Vaughan 100
May 19	John Grotzinger	Caltech	Water on Mars
Jun 2	Charlotte Beucher	UCSB	TBA~ Delta Si and N constraints on Southern Ocean evolution
Jun 9	Yann Klinger	IPG Paris, Harvard sabbatical this yr	Strike-slip fault segmentation from field observation to seismic source inversion: Can we find some systematics and is it useful ?