Geology & Geography

 Lecture Series

 

2000-2001
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Dr. William B.F. Ryan
Senior Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
"The Catastrophic Flooding of the Black Sea: Any Resonance to the Story of Noah?"
Thursday, 21 September 2000, 7:30 p.m.
Room 105, Clark Hall, Williams College
Dr. William W. Hay
Director of Paleoceanology
German Research Center for Marine Geosciences (GEOMAR)
"The History of Ocean Salinity and Its Implications for the Evolution of Life"
Friday, 13 October 2000, 3:30 p.m.
Room 131, Morrill 2, University of Massachusetts
Dr. An Yin
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California at Los Angeles
"Evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen: Perspectives from the High Ground"
Wednesday, 8 November 2000, 8:00 p.m.
Room 5, Pratt Museum, Amherst College
Dr. John R. Holloway
Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer
Department of Geosciences, Arizona State University
"Mid-Ocean Ridge Black Smokers: Biogeochemical Cauldrons on the Seafloor"
Monday, 19 February 2001, 7:30 p.m.
McConnell Hall Auditorium, Smith College
Dr. Maureen E. Raymo
Department of Earth Sciences
Boston University
"Global Climate Change: Mountains to Ice Ages"
Wednesday, 7 March 2001, 7:30 p.m.
West Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College
Dr. Dorothy Peteet
NASA/GISS & Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
"Late-Holocene Environmental History of the Hudson River Marshes"
Thursday, 5 April 2001, 7:30 p.m.
Room 101, Dwight Hall, Mt. Holyoke College
1999-00 Lecture Series