List of Speakers
2006 Geodynamics Program
Thursdays 2:00 - 3:30 Carriage House
Each seminar features an invited speaker followed by a discussion moderated by a WHOI scientist.
Date | Seminar Speaker | Topic/Title |
Feb. 9
|
Richard Alley
Department of Geosciences Penn State University |
Ice rules: Ice cores and ice ages |
Feb. 16
|
Sridhar Anandakrishnan
Department of Geosciences Penn State University |
There Is a Tide in the Affairs of Men... and Glaciers |
Feb. 23
|
John Wettlaufer
Department of Physics Yale University |
The Many Faces of the Surface of Ice |
March 2
|
Ian Joughin
Polar Science Center University of Washington |
polar remote sensing |
March 9
|
Christina Hulbe
Department of Geology Portland State University |
ice sheet modeling |
March 16
|
Meredith Nettles
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
|
glacial earthquakes |
March 23
|
Lonnie Thompson
Byrd Polar Research Center Ohio State University |
tropical glaciers |
March 30
|
Spring Break - no seminar
|
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April 6
|
John Priscu
Dept. of Land Resources & Environmental Sciences Montana State University |
extremophiles, subglacial life |
April 13
|
Bruce Jakosky
Center for Astrobiology University of Colorado at Boulder |
planetary ice |
April 20
|
Erland Schulson
Ice Research Laboratory Dartmouth College |
On the Mechanical Behavior of Ice with Emphasis on Brittle Failure |
April 27
|
Paul Hoffman
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Harvard University |
Snowball Earth |
May 4
|
Richard Williams
U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole |
global ice |
May 11
|
Helgi Björnsson
Raunvísindastofnin Háskólans Science Institute University of Iceland |
subglacial volcanism |
May 18
|
Sidney Hemming
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University |
ice bergs, ice shelves, Heinrich events |
May 25
|
Kelly MacGregor
Department of Geology Macalester College |
ice erosion and tectonics |