Guest Speaker Schedule
2014 Geodynamics Program: Anthropocene: From Land to the Ocean
Tuesdays and Thursdays as indicated: 1:30 - 2:30 PM
The Carriage House, Quissett Campus (unless otherwise noted on the speaker schedule below)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Guest Speaker Schedule
| Date | Seminar Speaker | Title / Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday February 4 |
Dorian Fuller University College London Institute of Archaeology |
Archaeological approaches to the "Used Planet": from early methanogenic agriculture to the wood supply of Bronze Age cities |
Thursday February 13 |
Jeff Donnelly Associate Scientist Geology & Geophysics WHOI |
A Perfect Storm: The Collision of Tropical Cyclones, Climate Change and Coastal Population Growth |
| Thursday February 20 |
Thomas Graedel School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University |
Assessing the Criticality of Metals |
| Tuesday February 25 |
Erle Ellis Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems University of Maryland |
Emergence of the Anthropocene Biosphere |
| Tuesday March 4 |
Andrew Ashton Associate Scientist Geology & Geophysics WHOI |
Dynamics of the Developed Coast |
| Tuesday March 11 |
Christopher Small Lamont Research Professor Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University/Earth Institute |
Night on Earth; Spatiotemporal Observations of Anthropogenic Processes from Night Light |
| Thursday March 20 |
Michael Barton Professor of Anthropology School of Human Evolution & Social Change Arizona State University |
Earth Systems as Human Systems: Modeling Interactions Between People and the Environment in the Anthropocene |
| Tuesday April 1 CLARK 507 |
Oliver Chadwick Department of Geography, and the Environmental Studies Program University of California at Santa Barbara |
Farming the Rock: Biogeochemical Controls on Intensive Agriculture in Polynesia |
| Thursday April 3 Carriage House @ 4PM |
Liviu Giosan Associate Scientist Geology & Geophysics WHOI |
Nature or Nurture: Anthropogenic controls on aquatic sedimentary landscapes |
| Thursday, April 10 |
Peter Haff Professor of Geology and Civil Engineering Nicholas School of the Environment Duke University |
Humans and Technology in the Anthropocene |
| Tuesday April 22 |
Larry Hinzman Director of the International Arctic Research Center University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
Understanding the Arctic as a System |
| Tuesday April 29 |
Anne Cohen Associate Scientist Geology & Geophysics WHOI |
Too Much of A Good Thing: Fossil Fuels and the Fate of Coral Reefs
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| Tuesday May 6 CLARK 507 |
Peter Kelemen Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor LDEO Columbia University |
Carbonation of mantle peridotite: Natural systems, carbon cycle, engineered capture and storage |
| Tuesday May 13 Redfield Auditorium |
Bill Ruddiman Professor Emeritus Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia |
The Anthropogenic Greenhouse Era Began Thousands of Years Ago |