ESS Seminars & Lectures - Autumn Quarter 2007



ALL ESS SEMINARS ARE HELD IN JHN 102, 3:30-4:50, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED


Friday, September 28
3:30, JHN 075
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE COLLOQUIA
Gerard Roe, University of Washington, ESS
Title:  "Why is climate sensitivity so unpredictable?"


Thursday, October 4
ESS SEMINAR SERIES
Peter Kelemen, LDEO, Columbia University
Title:  "Feedback Mechanisms in Solid Earth Geodynamics: Field Examples and Simple Models"


Monday, October 8
ESS BROWN BAG
12:30-1:20, JHN 117
Rachel Headley, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Xtratufs and Party Dresses: Science & Leisure in Alaska" 


Monday, October 8
1:00 PM, JHN 117
FINAL EXAM
Steve Vance, Earth and Space Science, Graduate Student
Title:  "Very Deep Ocean Chemistry -- Equations of State for 0-2 molal Magnesium Sulfate to 700 MPa and 
-20 to 100 oC from Sound Velocity Measurements in the Icy Satellite Interior Simulator"


Thursday, October 11
ESS SEMINAR SERIES
Wendy Mao, Stanford University
Title:  "Viewing the core-mantle boundary through a diamond window"


Monday, October 15
ESS BROWN BAG
12:30-1:20, JHN 117
Sanjoy Som, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Doodling in India & Nepal: bumping into ESS grad students, finding lost relatives and having dinner with Astronauts"


Tuesday, October 16
Astrobiology Seminar
2:30 PM, PAA-A118
Sean Raymond, Center for Astrophysics & Space Astronomy, University of Colorado
Title:  "Exotic Earths: hot Jupiters, tidal evolution and ocean planets"


Thursday, October 18
ESS SEMINAR SERIES
Ken Creager, University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Title:  Title:   "Episodic Tremor and Slip"


Friday, October 19
Atmospheric Sciences Colloquium
Final Exam
3:30 PM, JHN 075
Stephen Hudson, Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Student
"Satellite Observations of Clouds and the Earth Radiation Budget over Snow: The Importance 
of Surface Roughness"


Monday, October 22
ESS BROWN BAG
12:30-1:20, JHN 117
Dan Morgan, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Rungi Chungi: How I learned to love Nepalese Moonshine" 


INVERSE PROBLEMS SEMINAR SERIES
3:50 PM, THO 215
Ken Creager, University of Washington, Department of  Earth & Space Sciences
Title: "Seismological Applications of Inverse Theory: 3-D imaging, earthquake rupture history and tremor". 


Tuesday, October 23
Astrobiology Seminar
2:30 PM, PAA-118 UW Physics/Astronomy Auditorium (PAA)
Robert M. Winglee, Professor and Chair, University of Washington, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences and
Darci Snowden, UW ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Plasma/Upper Amtospheric Interactions Within the Saturn/Titan System"


Thursday, October 25
9:30 AM, ATG 154
Master's Defense
Theresa Kayzar, Graduate Student, University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Title:  210Pb)/(226Ra) at Mount Pinatubo Volcano: An Alternative Interpretation for 222Rn Transport in 
Magmatic Systems


ESS SEMINAR SERIES
Edward J. Garnero, Arizona State University
Title:  "Deciphering Earth's Dynamic Interior Using Seismology"


Monday, October 29
ESS BROWN BAG
12:30-1:20, JHN 117
Dyan Padagas, ESS Undergraduate
Title:  "Bueno Times in Las Canarias"


Thursday, November 1
ESS SEMINAR SERIES
Bradley Hacker,  UC Santa Barbara
Title:   "Continental Relamination"


Monday, November 5
ESS BROWN BAG
12:30-1:20, JHN 117
Joe MacGregor and Wet Helen, ESS Graduate Students
Title:  "7 must be lucky, 6 failed exploits in the Cascades"


Thursday, November 8
ESS SEMINAR SERIES
Richard Peltier,  University of Toronto
Title:  "Dynamics of the Ice-Age Earth"


Thursday,  November 15
ESS BROWN BAG
12:30-1:20, JHN 127
Jessica Lundin and Erin Whorton, ESS Graduate Students
Title:  Greenland Crack Addicts: First ascents in East Greenland with homage to Lynn Hill and Paula Abdul"


Thursday, November 15
ESS SEMINAR SERIES
William McDonough, University of Maryland
Title:   "Neutrino Geophysics and the Earth's budget of radioactive elements" 


Monday, November 19
ESS BROWN BAG
Canceled



Monday, November 26
ESS BROWN BAG
12:30-1:20, JHN 117
Tom Carpenter, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "A collection of Thesis Distractions"


Wednesday, November 28
General Exam
4:00 PM, JHN 011
Michael Shimogawa, Physics Graduate Student, Professor Robert Holzworth, Adviser
Title:  "Electric field measurements in PMSE and NLC"


Thursday, November 29
General Exam
10:30 AM, JHN 175
Eliza Nemser, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Damage-Zone Deformation Along Small-Displacement Faults Adjacent to the San Jacinto Fault"


Thursday, November 29
ESS SEMINAR SERIES
Richard Carlson,  Carnegie Institute of Washington DC
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Title:  "Composition of Earth's Interior: The Importance of Early Events"


Monday, December 3
ESS BROWN BAG
12:30-1:20, JHN 117
Peter Neff, ESS Undergraduate
Title:  "NOx-ious Greenland and (Ground) Penetrating Mt. Waddington"


Wednesday, December 5
Master's Exam
3:00 PM, MGH 238
Eric Buer, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Bedrock incision modeling and threshold slope development in a variable tectonic regime Namche 
 Barwa region, SE Tibet"


Thursday, December 6
No seminar this week
ESS Holiday Party


Friday, December 7
Final Exam
11:30 AM, JHN 011
Jane Lock, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Using Low-temperature Thermochronometry in Fold-and-Thrust Belts: An Example from the Western Foothills, Taiwan"






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