Department of Earth Sciences , Florida International University, Miami, Florida

Seminar Seriess  2008 – 2009

Time : Thursdays 3:30 PM  - Location  Charles Perry Building (PC) Room  425

Fall 2008

September  4  Indra Sen : Investigation of Mantle Dynamics from PGE and Re-Os Isotope Systematics of Mantle Xenoliths from Oahu , Hawaii

Sept. 11  : Rosemary Hickey-Vargas : Deep submersible diving in the Mariana Trench

Sept. 18 : Suzan Wacaster : Geochemistry of Olivine Hosted Melt Inclusions from small eruptive centers of the Central Southern Volcanic Zone, Chile. (FIU)

Sept. 25: Michael Bizimis (University of  South Carolina): Scales of heterogeneity in the Hawaiian plume.

October 2: Mike Sukop :  "New Applications for Lattice Boltzmann Models" (FIU)

Oct. 9  : Jaqueline Dixon ; Metasomatism surrounding the Hawaiian Plume:  Evidence for both silicate and carbonatite  incipient melts

Oct. 23 : Bill Read - Overview of NHC operations

Oct. 30 : TBA

November  6 : Jim Natland : "Difficulties with estimating temperatures of primitive magmas using olivine-liquid FeO-MgO equilibria”. (RSMAS – University of Miami)

Nov. 13 : TBA

Nov. 20  Bilal Haq : ” Paleozoic Eustasy”

December 4 : TBA