Fall 2006 Colloquia Schedule

9/14/06 Dr. Patricia Kelly, University of North Carolina Wilmington

The Arms Race from a Snail's Perspective: Evolution of the Naticid Gastropod Predator-Prey System

9/21/06 Dr. Steve Jaume, University of Charleston

Chasing an Old Shaker: Urban Seismology and the 1886 Charleston, South Carolina Earthquake

9/28/06 Dr. Kacey Lohmann, University of Michigan

Application of Elemental and Isotopic Proxies in Molluscan Carbonate for Paleoclimate Reconstruction

10/05/06 Dr. Elana Leithold, NC State

Organic Carbon as a Tool for Tracing the History of Sedimentary Particles from Source to Sink

10/17/06 Special Paleoclimate Lecture Series

Dr. Wallace Broecker, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Technical Lecture at 2 pm, Tate Turner Kuralt Auditorium
Secrets of the Mystery Interval (17.5 to 14.5 kyrs)

Public Lecture at 7 pm, Carroll Hall Auditorium
Global Warming: What Should We Do About Fossil Fuel CO₂?
(Reception to follow public lecture)

10/26/06 Dr. Lesley Perg, University of Minnesota

Cosmogenic nuclides as sediment tracers: Tracking anthropegenic modification of landscapes

11/01/06 and 11/02/06 Dr. Phillip Ihinger, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Wednesday Nov. 1: Special Lecture at 8:30 am, Mitchell Hall Room 108
The structure and evolution of Earth's mantle: Reconciling geochemical and geophysical perspectives

Thursday Nov. 2: Colloquium at 4 pm, Mitchell Hall Room 005
The Yellowstone Plumehead, the Farallon Slab, and the tectonic evolution of the North American Cordillera

11/09/06 Dr. Steve Kuehl, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Tracking Sediments From Source To Sink, the MARGINS New Zealand Focus Area

11/16/06 Dr. Lauck W. Ward, Virginia Museum of Natural History

Tertiary stratigraphy of the Central Atlantic Coastal Plain with special reference to Ecphora

11/30/06 Kurt L. Frankel, University of Southern California

Fault Slip Rates, Constancy of Seismic Strain Release, and Landscape Evolution in the Eastern California Shear Zone

Unless otherwise indicated, all events commence at 4 pm in Mitchell Hall Room 5.
The Geological Sciences Colloquium Series is organized by Dr. Stephen Meyers.