List of Speakers
2011 Geodynamics Seminar Series:
Rivers: The Cascading Limb of the Geologic Cycle
Tuesdays, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Carriage House, Quissett Campus
Speaker Schedule
| Date | Seminar Speaker | Topic/Title |
| February 1 | Ray Schmitt Senior Scientist Physical Oceanography, WHOI |
The role of the oceans in the global water cycle |
| February 8 Clark 507 |
James Syvitski Professor of Geological Sciences; Director and Fellow of INSTAAR Univ. of Colorado-Boulder |
Rivers as land-to-sea transport arteries |
| February 15 | Taylor Perron Dept. Of Earth, Atmosphere & Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Coupling of River Networks and Hill Slopes in Landscape Evolution |
| February 22 | Josh West Department of Earth Sciences University of Southern California |
Floods, Earthquakes, and Rivers: The Effects of Rare Large Events on Weathering, Erosion, and the Transport of Carbon |
| March 1 | Suzanne Prestrud-Anderson Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research Univ. of Colorado |
Glacier- Rivers of ice in surficial Earth systems
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| March 8 | Rudy Slingerland Professor of Geosciences Penn State University |
Landscape Evolution and Sediment Fluxes to the Ocean |
| March 15 | Arjun Heimsath School of Earth and Space Exploration Arizona State University |
Quantifying Hillslope Processes: Holes, Isotopes, and Exploration
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| March 22 | Spring Break |
no presentation |
| March 29 | Heather L. Buss U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Discipline |
Critical Zone Processes and their Influence on Watershed Exports |
| April 5 | Robert Spencer Assistant Scientist Woods Hole Research Center |
Floodplains as biogoechemical reactors |
| April 12 | Peter Raymond Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University |
The role of rivers in the global carbon budget |
| April 19 | John Day Coastal Ecology Institute Louisiana State University |
Ecology, Sediment Transport and Energy Issues |
| April 26 | Rocky Geyer Senior Scientist Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI |
The influence of estuaries on the transport of sediment and solutes from rivers to the ocean |
| May 3 Clark 507 |
Robert Aller School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Stony Brook University |
Deltaic systems as global biogeochemical reactors: C cycling, diagenetic pathways, and reverse weathering |
| May 10 | Derek Vance Dept. of Earth Sciences University of Bristol, UK |
Marine geochemical budgets, chemical weathering and the carbon cycle in the ice-house world of the Quaternary |