List of Speakers

2004 Geodynamics Program
Each seminar features an invited speaker followed by a discussion moderated by a WHOI scientist.

Date	Speaker	Topic/Title
Feb. 5	Dr. Chris Kincaid School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island	*The Life of Mantle Plumes*
Feb. 12	Dr. Henry Dick & Jeff Standish WHOI	*A Plate Driven Pseudo-Hotspot on the SW Indian Ridge*
Feb. 19	Dr. Seth Stein Northwestern University	*Where We Stand On Thermal Swells*
Feb. 26	Dr. Dean Presnall University of Texas	*Low Temperature Origin of Volcanism at Oceanic Ridges and Associated Hot Spots*
March 4	Dr. James Natland Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences	*Fissure Control on pacific Volcanism Since 170 M.Y.*
March 11	Dr. Shun-Ichiro Karato Yale University	*Mineral physics meets geochemistry: A new mineral physics-based model of material circulation in Earth's mantle*
March 18	Dr. Don Anderson Celtech	*The Plate Paradigm; the General Theory of Plate Tectonics*
March 25	Spring Break
April 1	Dr. Richard Allen University of Wisconsin	*The Role of the Iceland Upwelling in North America Mantle Processes*
April 8	Dr. Don Forsyth Brown University	**Constraints on the origin of non-hotspot, intraplate volcanic ridges and cross-grain gravity lineations in the Pacific**
April 15	Jian Lin WHOI	Weakness in oceanic lithosphere and hotspot volcanism
April 22	Richard Ernst Geological Survey of Canada	Large Igneous Provinces through time: implications for the plume vs. plate debate
April 29	Stan Hart WHOI	Geochemical Insights into the Secret Life of Plumes
May 6	Dr. Gillian Foulger University Of Durham, UK	There is no plume under Iceland or anywhere else.
May 13	Dr. Robert Duncan Oregon State University	Hotspot Motion -- the Hawaiian-Emperor Chain Revisited.