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Whole Earth Seminar Fall 2002
Natural Sciences Annex, Room 101
(unless otherwise noted) Tuesday Afternoon, 4:00 PM

Please join us for tea and snacks in the E&MS Dreiss Lobby at 3:30 PM.

Seminar Coordinator: Gabriel Bowen and Seth Newsome
These seminars may change without advance notice. To confirm and/or to arrange for special accommodations, please call the Earth Sciences Dept. at (831) 459-4089 or email Judy
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September 24, 2002
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

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October 1, 2002
Mechanics and Structure of the Costa Rica Seismogenic Zone
Susan Schwartz ~ Earth Sciences Dept.
UC, Santa Cruz

October 8, 2002
Microbial Activity in Deeply Buried Sediment
Steve D’Hondt ~ Graduate School of Oceanography
University of Rhode Island

Co-Sponsored by CDELSI

October 15, 2002
Cretaceous-early Tertiary hotspot motion: Some answers from the Emperors
John Tarduno ~ Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Rochester

Co-Sponsored by CSIDE

October 22, 2002
How polar glaciers melt
Andrew Fountain~ Department of Geology
Portland State University

October 31, 2002
Drowned reefs in the Huon Gulf, implications for reef development, tectonic subsidence and climate change.
Jody Webster~ Earth Sciences Dept.
UC, Santa Cruz

November 5, 2002
Fe-based photosynthesis and respiration
Diane Newman ~ Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
Caltech

November 12, 2002
The Peridotite-Hosted Lost City Field: A New Class of Submarine Hydrothermal System
Deborah Kelly ~ School of Oceanography
University of Washington

November 19, 2002
Tropical rainforests in the Rocky Mountains 1.4 million years after the K-T Boundary
Kirk Johnson Department of Earth Sciences
Denver Museum of Natural History

Co-Sponsored by CDELSI

November 26, 2002
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK


December 3, 2002
Taking the temperature of early solar-system water: The hydrogen isotope geochemistry of carbonaceous chondrites"
John Eiler~ Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences
Caltech

Co-Sponsored by CODEP

***Note: Different location - Earth & Marine Sciences, Room A340***