Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Earth Section Weekly Seminar

Monday Afternoon, Hubbs Hall 4500

Refreshments 3:00, Seminar Begins 3:15

unless otherwise noted

		Spring 2009
Mar 30	John Orcutt, SIO	Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) and/or Extreme Digital
Apr 6	Billy Landyut, SIO	The role of climate in generating plate tectonics on a planet
Apr 13	Michael Becker, Helmoholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ	The electrical conductivity structure between the creeping and locked segments of the San Andreas Fault
Apr 27	Dave Hilton, SIO	He isotopes, faults and the seismogenic zone
		Earth Section Faculty Candidates
May 4	Karen Casciotti WHOI	Using stable isotopes to track nitrogen cycling and loss in oceanic oxygen deficient zones
May 7 Th	Fengzhen Teng U. Arkansas	High-temperature iron isotope fractionation: Constraints on the formation and evolution of the Earth and the Moon
May 14	James Day U. Maryland	Constraining planet formation using the highly siderophile elements
May 18	Sarah Aciego ETH	Novel Tools for Determining Timescales of Cryosphere Dynamics: Stable and radiogenic isotopes as chronometers
May 26 Tu 12:15 Munk 303	Dionysis Foustoukos Carnegie Inst.	Formation of metastable oxidants under chemical disequilibria conditions: Implications for habitability of hydrothermal environments on Earth and Beyond.
May 28 Th 12:30 Munk 303	Robert Kopp, Princeton	A Magnetic Mystery: The Transformation of the Iron Cycle During Severe Global Warming in the Initial Eocene
June 1	Yehuda Bock, SIO	Early Warning Systems for Natural Hazards using Real-time GPS
June 11 Th 12:30 Munk 303	Gilles Peltzer, UCLA	Surface deformation and rifting in eastern Afar from 10 years of InSAR observations

Recent seminars in this series:

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	Basaltic volcanoes above and below sea level: understanding hazards and mitigating risks	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	High amplitude ground motion- not so unusual but not so easily explained	mailto:rmitra@ucsd.edu
Nov 10	John Blum, SIO	TOPIC: Slope stabilty and size of earthquake to trigger large landslide	mailto:pbarry@ucsd.edu
Nov 17	Graham Kent, SIO	The Lake Tahoe basin: A nexus between geologic processes and human hazard —or—Why is there MTBE in my drinking water?	mailto:l8smith@ucsd.edu
Nov 24	Tom Jordan, USC	The isopoycnic hypothesis and its implications for continental evolution	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	The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 -- Trans-Pacific Clues to a North American Giant	mailto:l8smith@ucsd.edu
Jan 12	Jim Moffett, USC	Arabian Sea Biogeochemistry in a Changing Climate	mailto:pbarry@ucsd.edu
Jan 26	Frieder Seible, UCSD	Mitigation of Natural and Man-made Hazards	mailto:bwheeloc@ucsd.edu
Feb2	Kathleen Johnson, UC Irvine	Reconstructing Asian Monsoon History from Chinese Speleothems	mailto:rmbundy@ucsd.edu
Feb9	Ken Rubin, U Hawaii	Deep submarine volcanic eruptions: impacts, heat budgets and chemical consequences for the benthic environment	mailto:pbarry@ucsd.edu
Feb 23	Bob Stern, UT Dallas	Studies of Submarine Volcanoes in the Southern Mariana Arc: Dead and Alive, Then and Now	mailto:rmitra@ucsd.edu
Mar 2	Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, WHOI	Nd/Sr isotopes in seawater	mailto:skirtland@ucsd.edu
Mar 9	Hubert Staudigel, SIO	3.5 Billion years of glass bioalteration: Volcanic rocks as a basis for microbial life?	mailto:dblackman@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 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 ?