The weekly departmental colloquium series meets from 4:00 – 5:00pm on Thursdays in room B36 of 675 Commonwealth Avenue (directly across from the “BU East” stop on the Green Line [B-line]). If you are interested in receiving notification about future colloquia via email please contact us.
A list of previous Colloquium speakers and titles can be found here.
Feb 9
Sea level change during ice age warm periods
Jerry Mitrovica
Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard University
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: CAS B36
Feb 16
On the initiation and duration of Neoproterozoic glaciation
Francis Macdonald
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: CAS B36
Mar 1
The calm and the storm: Mechanisms of metal release from coastal sediments
Linda Kalnejais
Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: CAS B36
Mar 8
Why did the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic cloud last so long?
Mark Jellinek
Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: CAS B36
Mar 22
Biological and geochemical controls on dissolved inorganic carbon cycling in a low-order stream: Implications for reach scales…….and beyond?
Craig Tobias
Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: CAS B36
Mar 29
Deep time: What isotope geochemistry has taught us about Earth’s evolution
Janne Blichert-Toft
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: CAS B36
Apr 5
Depths, temperatures and durations: Petrologic methods for constraining rates of orogenic processes
Mark Caddick
Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: CAS B36
Apr 12
Plumes and zoos in Earth’s mantle
Stan Hart
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: CAS B12
Apr 19
Wavelet transformations: A powerful unifying approach for characterization and modeling of porous media
Mohammed Sahimi
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: CAS B36
Apr 26
Alkaline Earth Stable Isotopes Rock
Tom Bullen
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: CAS B36