Geology & Geography

 Lecture Series

 

2007-2008
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Dr. Dorothy Merritts
Department of Earth and Environment
Franklin and Marshall College
"Base Level Matters:  Dams and Dam Removals, and Their Impacts on
Modern Stream Erosion"
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 4:15 p.m., Clark Hall 105
Williams College

“"Finding Faults and the Value of Geomorphic Assessment for Nuclear
Power Plants:  Case Studies from Coastal California and South Korea"
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 7:30 p.m., Clark Hall 105
Williams College

Dr. Anne Sheehan
Department of Geology Sciences & Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
University of Colorado at Boulder
“Seeing Beneath Mt. Everest:  Probing a Breeding Ground of Destructive Earthquakes”
Tuesday, 23 October 2007, 7:30 p.m., The New McConnell Hall Auditorium
Smith College

Dr. Stephen Porder
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Brown University
“Geologic Controls of Nutrient Availability in Terrestrial Ecosystems:
When Plants Eat Rocks”

Thursday, November 8, 2007, 7:30 p.m., Paino Lecture Hall, Room 107
Earth Sciences & Museum of Natural History Building
Amherst College

Dr. Gail Ashley
Department of Geological Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
“The Critical Zone: A Deep Time Perspective”
Friday, 8 February, 2008, 3:30 p.m., 231 Herter Hall
University of Massachusetts

Dr. William Carlson
Department of Geological Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
“Rocks, Fossils, and Meteorites from the inside out: Geological Applications of High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography”
Thursday, 6 March, 2008, 7:30 p.m., Dwight Hall 101
Mt. Holyoke College

Dr. Amy Frappier
Department of Geology & Geophysics
Boston College
“Hurricane Hunting in Caves:  A Paleotempestology Perspective on Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change”
Friday, 4 April 2008, 7:15 p.m., Hampshire College Red Barn
Hampshire College

2006-07 Lecture Series