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Whole Earth Seminar Winter 2006
Natural Sciences Annex, Room 101
Tuesday afternoon at 4:00 PM
(Unless otherwise noted)

Please join us for refreshments at 3:30 PM in the Dreiss Lobby, located in the E&MS Building, 1st Floor, A-wing.

Seminar Coordinator: Jim Zachos
These seminars may change without advance notice; please bookmark this page for updates and announcements, as speakers are continually added to the list.

To confirm and/or to arrange for special accommodations, please contact Mary Nosse in the Earth Sciences Department Front Office at: (831) 459-4089 or email her at mnosse@es.ucsc.edu.

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January 10, 2006
Volcanoes and Magma Degassing
Michael Manga
UC Berkeley

January 17, 2006
Generation and Propagation of Tsunamis
From Unusual Sources: Volcano Collapses, Landslides and Asteroid Impacts
Simon Day
UC Santa Cruz

January 24, 2006
Oxygen Isotope Contraints on the Sulfur Cycle over the Cenozoic
Sasha Turchyn
UC Berkeley

January 31, 2006
The Climatic Impacts of the PETM on the Arctic
Mark Pagani
Yale University

February 7, 2006
Mercury Isotopes in Geology and Biogeochemistry
Joel Blum
University of Michigan

February 14, 2006
Can We Still Avoid Major Climate Change Caused By Humans?
Pieter Tans
NOAA/CSTAR

Co-Sponsored by CDELSI/OCEAN SCIENCES
February 21, 2006
Clumped-isotope Thermometry: Directly Measuring Earth's Surface Temperature In The Deep Geological Past
John Eiler
CAL TECH

February 28, 2006
From Microscopic to Macroscopic: How What We See in the Microscope Can Be Used To Explain the Formation of the Himalaya
Patrick O'Brien
MSA Distinguished Lecturer
Universitaet Potsdam

March 7, 2006
Subduction Dynamics
Magali Billen
UC Davis