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Friday Seminar Speakers for Spring 2008
    • 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

February 1
4 PM
125 TH
Chad Heinzel
Univ. Northern Iowa
Geoarchaelogy of the Chuddia River valley, western Sicily: Evidence from alluvial systems
February 8
4 PM
125 TH
Philip Heckel
Iowa-Geoscience 
Subdivisions of the Carboniferous System and the Search for Stage Boundaries in China

February 15

4 PM
125 TH
Massimo Pigliucci, Stony Brook -Darwin Day speaker at 101 Biology Bldg. E 
Making Sense of Evolution:  The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology 

February 22

4 PM
125 TH

Lara Heister
University of Arkansas-Little Rock
 
 

Is a mantle plume required to explain the petrogenesis of the central east Greenland flood basalt province? 

February 29

4 PM
125 TH

Ray Anderson
Iowa Geological Survey & Dept. Adjunct

New developments in understanding the Pre-Cambrian geologic history of Iowa.
March 7     4 PM
   125 TH

Lou Densmore
Texas Tech
At least three species of crocodiles are currently hybridizing in the New World: Why is this 'promiscuity' going on and what are its implications.
March 14
 

Friday before Spring Break

 
March 21
 

Spring Break

 
March 28
4 PM
125 TH

Steve Self
Nuclear Regulatory Comm.

The environmental effects of super-eruptions.
April 4
4 PM
125 TH

Harvey Thorleifson
Minnesota Survey

The search for North American diamonds, and application of these methods to soil geochemical sampling in Minnesota
April 11
4 PM
125 TH
Jim Klaus
University of Miami
Coral reef health and stability: from microbes to the Miocene.
April 18
4 PM
125 TH
 
Bruce Marsh
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Volcanism in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica: A Magmatic Plumbing System.
April 25 NCGSA Evansville IN
4 PM
Kollros Auditorium 101 Biology Bldg E.
Kevin Padian,
U. California-Berkeley
How did dinosaurs grow, and how do we know?
May 2
4 PM
125 TH
Lindy Elkins-Tanton,
 MIT
Continental Lithospheric Dynamics: Drips, Basins, and Upside-Down Melting
May 9
4 PM
W 151 Pappajohn Business Building
Nathalie Cabrol
SETI Institute