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Friday Seminar Speakers for
Fall
200
8
    • Refreshments in Room 135 at 3:30 P.M. for Friday seminars
    • All dates marked with * are departmental brown-bag talks which are at noon in room 135TH

Date

Time and Room

Name of Speaker,
Affiliation

Title of Presentation

September 5
4 PM
125 TH
Dean Adams
Iowa State University
The Evolution of Phenotypic Diversity in Plethodon Salamanders
September 12
4 PM
125 TH
Catherine Yansa
Michigan State University 
Late Pleistocene Environmental Changes in the Upper Midwest, USA and Canada

September 19

4 PM
125 TH
Bruce Fouke
University of Illinois 
CaCO3 Biomineralization:
Biotic Response to Environmental Change

September 26  GAAB

4 PM
125 TH

Bonnie Milne
Department Alumna 
 

Petroleum Exploration...It's Not Just About The Rocks!!

October  3

4 PM
125 TH

Brian Witzke
Iowa Geological Survey

The Devonian Succession in Eastern Iowa:  Development of a Global Reference Section
October 10    4 PM 125 TH 

Gerald Dickens
Rice University
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
Early Cenozoic Climate and Carbon Cycling: The Sedimentary Record of Global Warming and Massive Carbon Input
October 17
4 PM 125 TH 

Anita Grunder
Oregon State Univ.

Bimodal Volcanism in the High Lava Plains, Oregon, USA: An Example Intracontinental Growth of Basaltic Crust 
October 24
4 PM 125 TH 

Mariek Schmidt
Smithsonian

Recent Discoveries by the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover and Evidence for a Fossil Hydrothermal System
October 31
4 PM
125 TH

Peg Yacobucci
Bowling Green
State University

Applications of Geographic Information Science for Paleontological Problems
November 7
4 PM
125 TH

Ken Sims
Woods Hole

Sniffing for Clues to the Dinosaurs' Demise:  Importance of Rhenium and Noble Metal Volcanic Fluxes in the Global Geochemical Cycles.
November 14
4 PM
125 TH
 Jason Anderson
 Calgary University
Amphibian Origins and Phylogeny
November 21
4 PM
125 TH
 
 
November 28
Thanksgiving Break  
No Lecture
December 5
4 PM
125 TH
Daniel Stockli
 University of Kansas
Low-Temperature Thermochronology
December 12
4 PM
125 TH
Neil Shubin
University of Chicago  [Joint with Biology]