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Whole Earth Seminar Fall 2003
Natural Sciences Annex, Room 101
Tuesday Afternoon at 4:00pm
(unless otherwise noted)
Please join us for tea and snacks in the E&MS Dreiss Lobby at 3:30 pm.
Seminar Coordinators: Elise Knittle and Eli Silver
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 Jennifer
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September 30, 2003
Cosmic Rays: A Celestial driver of Phanerozoic climate?
Nir Shaviv
Racah Institute of Physics
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Co-sponsored with C.DELSI and CODEP
October 7, 2003
A fluvial reconnaissance through eastern Tibet: Evidence for post-glacial megafloods down the gorge of the Tsangpo River
David Montgomery
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of Washington
October 8, 2003
King of Fish: The Thousand Year Fall of Salmon
David Montgomery
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of Wasington
**SPECIAL TIME & PLACE:
3:00pm in the main conference room
of the NOAA Building at Long Marine Lab**
October 21, 2003
NO SEMINAR
October 28, 2003
Deep lithosphere dynamics and the origin of continental crust
Cin-Ty Lee
Department of Earth Sciences
Rice University
November 10, 2003
The Mars Exploration Rover Mission: To Rove Where No Man Has Gone Before
Wendy Calvin
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Nevada, Reno
**SPECIAL DAY : MONDAY (same time: 4pm)**
**SPECIAL LOCATION: E&MS ROOM A340**
In January of 2004, NASA will place two identical rovers on the surface of Mars on opposite sides of the planet. The rovers carry a suite of instruments to characterize the surface geochemistry, mineralogy and geomorphology over a nominal 90 Mars-day mission. Wendy Calvin, a Research Professor in the Geology Dept. at University of Nevada, Reno, is on the science team that will decide where the rovers drive and what they do during mission operations. She'll provide an overview of current Mars exploration goals, the rover landing sites and science expectations as well as the Mars Exploration Rover Mission as a whole.
November 18, 2003
Transtension on the East Side of the Sierra Nevada
John Dewey
Department of Geology
University of California, Davis
November 25, 2003
New insights into magmatic processes from intra-crystalline isotopic studies
Frank Tepley III
Earth Sciences Department
University of California, Santa Cruz
December 2, 2003
Tectonic Pulses as seen by Paleomagnetism: Examples from Central Asia and the Peruvian Andes
Stuart Gilder
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
University of Paris 6
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