Florida International University
Earth Sciences Department
Seminar Series 2007-2008

 
 

 

Spring 2008

Seminar Date
(Usually Thursday,
3:30 pm,  PC-432.
Refreshments follow.)

Title Speaker and Affiliation
10-January-08

 

Cyberinfrastructure-enabled international science collaborations: capabilities, examples and opportunties Julio Ibarra, Director of Grants and Acquisitions Unit, University Technology Services Florida International University
17-January-08
 

Effects of the Closure of the Panama Seaway on Benthic Foraminifera ,

Dr. Laurel S. Collins , Associate Professor, Florida International University
24-January-08

 

The Role of Fractures and Macropores in Critical Zone Hydrology Dr. Larry Mckay, Jones Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee (UT)
31-January-08

 

The spatial and temporal scales of change of a barrier-lagoon system, Implications for coastal management Dr. Susana Costas, Postdoc research fellow, IHRC, FIU
07-February-08

 

No seminar
14-February-08

 

MARGINS Distinguished Seminar: Transport and fate of DDT on the Palos Verdes shelf, CA: A source-to-sinkstory Dr. Patricia Wiberg, Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
21-February-08

 

IAMG Distinguished Seminar: History of Geostatistics Dr. Donald Myers, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Hydrology at the University of Arizona.
28-February-08

 

2KR Distinguished Seminar:Imaging mantle flow and melt production beneath backarc spreading centers and island arcs Dr. Douglas Wiens, Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
06-March-08

 

A Sea of Lilliputs" Cenozoic Evolution in the Calcareous Nannoplankton Dr. Marie-Pierre Aubry, Professor of Geology at Rutgers University, New Jersey
13-March-08

 

AWG Distinguished Seminar: Oases in the Navajo desert--spring mounds and related deposits in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Utah Dr. Judith Totman Parrish, Professor, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Idaho
20-March-08

 

Spring break
27-March-08

 

no seminar
03-April-08

 

NAGT Distinguished Seminar: Regional Expressions of Global Warmth: Lessons from the Pliocene Dr. Ana Christina Ravelo, Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, CA
10-April-08

 

Student presentation
17-April-08

 

Student presentation

Previous years: 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006_Fall, 2007_Spring

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