Geology & Geography

 Lecture Series

 

2001-2002
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Dr. Andrew H. Knoll
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
Harvard University
“Early Eukaryotes: Linking Fossils, Phylogeny, and Environmental History”
Wednesday, 3 October 2001, 8 p.m.
Room 105, Clark Hall, Williams College
Dr. Robert M. Hazen
Geophysical Laboratory
George Mason University
“Emergence, Minerals, and the Origin of Life”
Friday, 19 October 2001, 3:30 p.m.
Room 131, Morrill 2, University of Massachusetts
Dr. Scott R. Paterson
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Southern California
“Making a Cordilleran Pluton: The Complex Spatial and Temporal Evolution
of Magma Plumbing Systems”
Wednesday, 14 November 2001, 8 p.m.
Room 5, Pratt Museum, Amherst College
Dr. Claudia Mora
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Tennessee
“Digging up dirt on ancient climates and atmospheres:
Soils, paleosols and the stories they tell”
Tuesday, 12 February 2002, 7:30 p.m.
McConnell Hall Auditorium, Smith College
Dr. Tim Lowenstein
Department of Geological Sciences & Environmental Studies
State University of New York at Binghamton
“Reviving Bacteria from Ancient Fluid Inclusions”
6 March 2002, 7:30 p.m.
West Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College
Dr. Gifford H. Miller
INSTARR & Geological Sciences
University of Colorado
“Megafauna Extinction and Climate Change in Pleistocene Australia:
Assessing the Human Factor”
Thursday, 4 April, 2002, 7:30 p.m.
Dwight Auditorium, 101 Dwight Hall, Mt. Holyoke College
2000-01 Lecture Series