List of Speakers
Each seminar features an invited speaker followed by a discussion
moderated by a WHOI scientist. Moderators are encouraged to present
synoptic material of their own relevant research.
| Date | Speaker(s) | Topic/Title |
| February 8 | Neil Ribe / Peter Kelemen | Scenes in the life of a mantle plume |
| February 15 | Bill White / Mark Kurz | Origin and Evolution of the Galapagos Plateau |
| February 22 | Guust Nolet / Aibing Li | Seismic Tomography of the Iceland Plume |
| March 1 | Jean Guy Schilling / Stan Hart | Basic Geochemical Aspects of Plume - Ridge Interactions |
| March 8 | Doug Wilson / Pablo Canales | Plate motions and spreading ridge evolution near the Galapagos hotspot |
| March 15 | David Bercovici / Greg Hirth | Dynamics of Plumes and Hotspots |
| March 22 | Garrett Ito / Jian Lin | Evolution and Dynamics of the Iceland Hotspot in the North Atlantic |
| March 29 | Spring Break/No class | |
| April 5 | Peter Kelemen / Ken Sims | Mantle Heterogeneity in the North Atlantic |
| April 12 | Bill Menke / Rob Sohn | Magmatic Structure of Axial Volcano, Juan de Fuca Ridge |
| April 19 | Yang Shen / Bob Detrick | Iceland Plume: Blowing in the Wind? |
| April 26 | Mike Perfit / Ken Sims | Insights into Ridge-Hotspot Interaction on the Juan de Fuca Ridge: Geochemical Investigations of Axial Seamount and Adjacent Rift Zones |
| May 3 | Dennis Geist / Henry Dick | Plumes at Plate Boundaries (When Bad Things Happen to Good Plumes) |
| May 10 | Katrina Edwards / Susan Humphris | Chemolithoautotrophic extremophiles and Biogeography of Vent Biota |
| May 17 | Jason Phipps-Morgan / Jack Whitehead | Origination Depth of Mantle Plumes |
| 2nd half June | Field trip to Yellowstone. |