Guest Speaker Schedule
2017 Geodynamics Program: Ocean Ridges & Mantle Dynamics
Tuesdays, 1:30 - 2:30 PM
The Carriage House*, Quissett Campus, WHOI
*Unless otherwise noted on speaker schedule below
Geodynamics Seminar Series (pdf format)
| Date | Guest Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Feb. 7 | Charles Langmuir Professor of Geochemistry Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard University |
Low degree Melts and Their Significance for MORB, FOZO and OIB |
| Feb. 14 | Mathilde Cannat Equipe de Géosciences Marines Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris |
Generation of the Oceanic Lithosphere at a Melt-Starved and Ultraslow Mid-Ocean Ridge |
| Feb. 21 | No Class | Presidents Day |
| Feb. 28 | Vera Schlindwein Senior Scientist, Section Geophysics Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany |
Deformation Modes of Magmatic and Amagmatic Lithosphere at Ultraslow Spreading Ridges |
| March 7 | Suzanne Carbotte Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University |
Seismic Imaging of the Erupting East Pacific Rise at 9°50’N: insights into the architecture of mid-ocean ridge magmatic systems and eruption dynamics |
| March 14 Clark 507 |
Taras Gerya Institute of Geophysics Department of Earth Sciences ETH-Zurich |
Origin and evolution of oceanic ridge-transform patterns and triple junctions: a numerical modeling prospective |
| March 21 | Roger Buck Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University |
Links Between Magma Supply Axial Relief and Faulting at Mid-Ocean Ridges |
| April 4 | Henry Dick Senior Scientist Geology & Geophysics, WHOI |
The Southwest Indian Ridge, Remelting the Gondwanan Mantle |
| April 11 | David Sandwell Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics, Scripps, UC San Diego |
Origin of Transform Faults and Gravity Rolls? |
| April 18 | No Class | Patriots Day |
| April 25 | Al Hofmann Emeritus Director of the Geochemistry Division, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany |
Where Did All the Subducted Sediments Go? |
| May 2 | Enrico Bonatti Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University |
Transition From a Continental to an Oceanic Rift in the Northern Red Sea |
| May 9 | Mike Cheadle Department of Geology & Geophysics University of Wyoming |
Pito Deep - Revisiting Pacific Lower Crust, the 3rd Dimension of Magnetic Stripes & Long, Lost Hydrothermal vents. |