Colloquia
All colloquia are held on Thursdays except when noted. Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m.; talks will begin at 4:00 p.m. and are held in room B31C, 675 Commonwealth Avenue (directly across from the "BU East" stop on the Green Line [B-line]).
Fall 2006 Colloquia
- September 14: Dr. Mark Pagani. Yale University
- The Paleocene-Ecocene Thermal Maximum: A Biomarker Perspective from the Arctic
- September 21: Dr. Rhasid Khan. Saudi Aramco, Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Lecturer
- Quest for Clean Energy: Opporunity for Innovation
- September 28: Dr. Lorraine Lisiecki. Boston University
- Trends and Transitions in Plio-Pleistocene Climate Dynamics
- October 5: Dr, Dan Rothman. MIT
- Earth's Carbon Cycle as a Problem of Reactive Diffusion
- October 12: Dr. Steve Holbrook, University of Wyoming
- Seismic Oceanography: A New View of the Oceans
- October 19: Dr. Steve Mojzsis, University of Colorado
- Precocious Early Earth: Growing Pains and a Battered Youth
- October 26: Dr. James Brenan, University of Toronto
- Experiments and Observations Bearing on the Behaviour of Highly Siderophile Elements in Magmatic Systems
- November 2: Dr. Dan Harlov, GFZ, Potsdam
- Fluid-Mineral Interaction Along Grain Boundaries: Metasomatism and the Evolution of Mineral and Fluid Phses as a Function of P-T-X
- November 9: Dr. Ron Amundson, UC Berkeley
- Multimillion-Year Effects of Hyperaridity on Landscape Evolution and Soil Biogeochemistry in the Atacama Desert of Chile
- November 16: Dr. Ken Sims, WHOI
- Sniffing for Clues to the Dinosaurs Demise: Measurement of Osmium Isotope Compositions and Platinum Group Element Abundances in Volcanic Emissions
- November 30: Dr. Todd Walter, Cornell University
- Hydrologic Flowpath Puzzles: Models, Observations, and New Approaches
- December 2: Dr. Bror Jonsson, Boston University
- TBA