The University at Albany and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Earth Sciences Joint Colloquium Series - accreted list - 1995-2008

This seminar series was run continuously from 1975 (from Spring 1995-Spring 2008, run jointly with Geological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) for the enrichment of the graduate program in Geological Sciences, and the benefit of professional geoscientists in the New York Capital District. The series was started by Kevin Burke, one of many contributions he made to improve and sustain the Geological Sciences program at Albany while he was  Chairman from 1973-1983.  (list prior to 1995 here). It has been discontinued at Albany because of long-term underfunding of the State University and one of its results; the starvation and closure of the Geology graduate program at Albany.

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
February 20	RPI	Dr. Kathy Benison  Central Michigan University	Going to Western Australia?.....or Mars? Don't Drink the Water! Modern and Ancient Acid Saline Lakes
February 21 THURSDAY 7pm.	NYS Museum - Museum Theater	Dr. Kirk Johnson Denver Museum of Nature and Science AAPG Distinguished Lecturer	Crocodiles in Greenland and Hippos in London: A Fossil-Fueled Tour of Past and Future Climates
February 22 FRIDAY 12pm	RPI	Dr.  Adam Wallace Virginia Polytechnic Institute	New insights into silica biomineralization and demineralization processes from experimental and theoretical model systems
February 27	RPI	Dr.  Jaime Barnes University of New Mexico	Chlorine isotope distribution on Earth
February 28 THURSDAY 12pm	RPI Room SC 1W01	Dr.  Dan Breeker University of New Mexico	Extreme conditions of pedogenic carbonate formation: implications for reconstructing paleoenvironments
March 5	RPI	Dr.  Tracy Quan Rutgers University	Utilizing nitrogen isotopes as a paleoredox proxy
March 19	RPI DCC 324	Dr.  Sean Gulick Univ. of Texas Austin JOI/USSSP Distinguished Lecturer	One Rock to Change the World: The Story of the Chicxulub Impact Crater
March 20 THURSDAY	RPI	Dr.  Christa Plazcek Purdue University	Climate in the dry central Andes over geologic, millennial, and interannual timescales
March 26	RPI	Dr. Patricia Medeiros Oregon State University	Molecular Biomarkers as Tracers of Environmental Processes
April 2	Albany	Dr.  Jon Kim Vermont Geeological Survey	Application of Tectonics to Groundwater Problems in Vermont
April 3 THURSDAY	RPI	Dr.  Kevin Furlong Penn State University	Bringing Plate Tectonics Into the 21st Century: Lessons from New Zealand
April 9	RPI	Dr.  Linda Warren University of Arizona	Deep earthquake mechanics, slab deformation, and subduction forces
April 23	at RPI	Dr.  Nicholas Christie-Blick Columbia University/LDEO	Confronting the low-angle normal fault paradox

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
October 10	Albany	Dr. Jaclyn Cockburn Union College	Climate variability or landscape stability?  Varves and the paleoenvironmental record over the last 5 centuries from two lakes in the Canadian High Arctic
October 17	RPI	Dr. Julia Bryce University of New Hampshire	Tails of two plumes:  plume structures and progress towards coupled geodynamic and geochemical plume models
October 24	Albany	Dr. Brad Linsley University at Albany, SUNY	South Pacific coral records of Pacific-wide interdecadal-decadal climate variability since 1650 A.D.
November 7	RPI	Dr.  Ken Miller Rutgers University	Phanerozoic Sea Level Change
November 14	Albany	Dr.  Bruce Watson Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Growth-rate dependence of crystal/fluid partitioning and its possible bearing on climate proxies
November 28	RPI	Dr.  Vadim Levin Rutgers University	The end of subduction in Northern Apennines

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
January 31	Albany	Dr.  Noah Finnegan Cornell University	Channel morphology and bedrock river incision: Theory, experiments, and application to the eastern Himalaya
February 7	RPI	Dr.  Roger Buck Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory	The role of diking in plate tectonics with an "up close" look at the recent events in Afar
February 28	RPI	Dr. Mark Frank Northern Illinois University	The Internal Characteristics of Ganymede and Callisto as Seen Through Diamond Windows
March 14	Albany	Dr.  Rob McCaffrey Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	The Great Sumatra earthquakes and implications for global subduction zone hazards
March 21	RPI	Dr.  Miriam  Katz Rutgers University	Biogeochemical consequences of phytoplankton evolution
March 28	Albany	Dr.  Jeff  Karson Syracuse University	Seafloor Spreading in Iceland: Implications for Plate Accretion with High Magma Budgets
April 11	Albany	Dr.  Alison Macfarlane George Mason University	Nuclear Waste at Yucca Mountain? Technical Issues in Radioactive Waste Disposal
April 18	Albany	Dr.  Richard J. Reeder SUNY Stony Brook	Processes at the calcite-water interface and their role in trace element uptake
April 25	Albany	Dr.  Paul Fitzgerald Syracuse University	How fast do mountains form? Timing and rates from thermochronology
May 2	RPI	Dr.  Cindy Ebinger University of Rochester	Snap, crackle, pop: earthquakes from a major seafloor spreading event in Afar

September 20	Albany	Dr.  Pat Phillips US Geological Survey, Troy	Personal care products, drugs and other emerging contaminants: current research on removals in wastewater, occurrence in streams and future research
October 4	Albany	Dr. Peter Groffman Institute for Ecosystem Studies (Millbrook, NY)	The bio-geo-socio-chemistry of urban watersheds
October 25	Albany	Dr. Tim Dixon University of Miami AAPG Distinguished Lecturer	Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans: Subsidence measurements from space
October 25	RPI	Dr. Riccardo Sallet Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil	Fluorine and biotite as a probe for paleofluid geochemistry
November 1	Albany	Dr. Kyle Nichols Skidmore College	Rates and dates of geomorphic processes using in situ-produced cosmogenic isotopes
November 7	Albany	Dr.  Jacob Lowenstern USGS Menlo Park AAPG Distinguished Lecturer	Intrusion, deformation and degassing at the Yellowstone Caldera
November 8	RPI	Dr.  Dan Harlov GFZ Potsdam, Germany	Fluid-mineral interaction along grain boundaries: metasomatism and the evolution of mineral and fluid phases as a function of P-T-X
November 15	Albany	Dr. Eric Eslinger College of St. Rose	Flow Unit Delineation and Reservoir Characterization Using a Probabilistic Clustering and Mineralogy-Based Forward Modeling Procedure
November 29	Albany	Dr. Jacqueline Smith College of St. Rose	Glaciers in the Andes: records of multiple ice ages in tropical South America

February 8	Albany	Dr. John I. Garver Union College	Evolution of Kamchatka and the Challenges of Doing Fieldwork in Russia
February 15	RPI	Dr. David Saltzberg SAIC Ocean Sciences Division	Hydroacoustic Observations of Tsunamogenic Earthquakes: Applications to the Indian Ocean
February 22	RPI	Dr. Sang-Heon (Dan) Shim MIT	The Post-Perovskite Phase Transition at the Lowermost Mantle
March 8	Albany	Dr. James Webber Wadsworth Center, NY State Dept. of Health	Tracking Environmental Asbestos Contamination from Mining and Milling Activities
March 29	Albany	Dr.  Scott Johnson University of  Maine, Orono	Using 3D numerical modeling and temporal relationships between deformation and metamorphism to explore pluton growth rates
April 5	RPI	Dr.  Robert Burruss USGS Reston	Carbon, Energy, and Climate: The role of geological sequestration of carbon dioxide
April 19	RPI	Dr.   Juerg M. Matter Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	Geologic Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Reactive Rocks: A Permanent Storage Solution
April 26	Albany	Dr. Erich Osterberg University of  Maine, Orono	An ice core record of Holocene climate change, trans-Pacific dust flux, and anthropogenic pollution in the North Pacific:  Mt. Logan, Yukon, Canada
May 3	Albany	Dr. Charles Harvey MIT	The biogeochemistry and hydrogeology of the arsenic crisis in Bangladesh

September 7	Albany	Dr. Andrea Grottoli Ohio State University	Paleoceanography Using Stable Carbon Isotopes (d13C) in Corals and Sclerosponges
September 14	RPI	Dr.  Chang-Sheng Zha Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source	Integrated experimental techniques for high pressure research at CHESS
September 21	Albany	Dr. Sam Wainright U.S. Coast Guard Academy	Nitrogen Isotopes as Indicators of Trophic Level and Sewage Input in Food Web Studies
September 28	RPI	Dr.   I-Ming Chou U.S. Geological Survey, Reston	Personal glimpses of experimental geochemistry from the past few decades
October 5	RPI	Dr.  Juske Horita Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Detecting Ancient Life: Challenges to the Concept of Isotope Biosignatures
October 26	RPI	Dr.   Noah Snyder Boston College	Reconstructing watershed processes and history from reservoir stratigraphy: a case study from northern California
November 2	Albany	Dr. Tim Herbert Brown University	Peru Margin Oceanography: Does the El Nino Model Apply to Century and Longer Variation?
November 9	RPI	Dr.  James Holden University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Iron respiration and factors controlling metabolism near 100°C
November 16	Albany	Dr. Tim Kusky Saint Louis University	Origin and Emplacement of Archean Ophiolites of the Central Orogenic Belt, North China Craton
November 30	Albany	Dr.  Bob Fleischer Union College	Radon in the Environment--Friend or Foe?

Fall 2004

September 22	RPI	Dr. Ram S. Sharma Indian National Science Academy	A Geological Traverse in the Southern Indian Granulite Terrain
September 29	Albany	Dr. Steve Roecker Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Constraints on the Structure and Evolution of the Tien Shan from the Analysis of Seismograms of the GHENGIS Broadband Network
October 4	RPI CII 3051	Dr. Paul Spudis Johns Hopkins University	The Moon and the New Presidential Space Vision Origins of Life seminar
October 13	Albany	Dr. Emily Walsh Union College	Across the Western Gneiss Region, Norway: a petrologic and geochronologic study to determine the exhumation path of the ultrahigh-pressure rocks
October 20	RPI	Dr. Peter Koons University of Maine at Orono	The role of rocks in cooperation among tectonic and surface processes: Some examples from the Southern Alps of New Zealand and the Himalayan corners
October 27	RPI	Dr.  Przemek Dera Carnegie Institution of Washington	From Heaven to Hades – a mineral physics quest with a chemical bias
October 28	Albany	Dr. Randall Parrish  University of Leicester and NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratories	Depleted Uranium Munitions and environmental dispersion—potential health risks and assessment of human inhalation exposure by high precision uranium isotopic measurement in urine.
November 3	RPI	Dr. Xiahong Feng Dartmouth University	Carbon isotopes in carbon cycles: understanding carbon dynamics in plant soil systems
November 17	Albany	Dr.  David West Middlebury College	Tectonics of the Norumbega Fault System in Maine
December 1	RPI	Dr. Ed Vicenzi Smithsonian Institution	New techniques for imaging and analysis of planetary materials at the microscale: a study of Martian aqueous precipitates
December 9	RPI	Dr.  Bill McDonough University of Maryland	The composition of the Earth's core and core-mantle exchange

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September 8	Albany	Dr.  Chris Wilson Univ. of Melbourne	Tectonic evolution of the Longmen Mountains and western Sichuan Basin, China
September 15	RPI	Dr. Tobias Winther RPI	Partial melting of rocks and some problems dealing with very complex geological systems
September 22	Albany	Dr. Dean Livelybrooks Ecole Polytech., Montreal	Geophysical images of the Iapetus suture zone in Britain and their tectonic implications
September 29	RPI	Dr. Jim Knapp Cornell University	Seismic refection profiling of the Ural orogen
October 6	Albany	Dr. Brad Linsley SUNY Albany	Corals and climatic reconstruction in the eastern Pacific over the last 300 years
October 13	RPI	Dr. Tracy Rushmer Univ. of Vermont	Melt segregation in the lower crust: An experimental approach
October 27	RPI	Dr. J. Matthew Davis Univ. of New Hampshire	An outcrop study of geologic heterogeneity: Implications for flow and transport modeling
November 3	Albany	Dr.  Sue Treagus Univ. of Manchester	Shapes of geological objects as deformation and competence indicators: barrels, lemons, flags, ribbons, and fish
November 10	RPI	Dr.  Peter Molnar MIT	Aspects of interchange between tectonics and climate change
December 1	RPI	Dr.  Christopher Fedo Univ. of Western Ontario	Evolution of the -3.0 Ga Buhwa Greenstone Belt, Zimbabwe: Implications for Archean paleoweathering conditions, provenance, and tectonics in the Limpopo Belt

February 10	Albany	Dr.  Steven Phipps Univ. of Pennsylvania	Subduction zones unclothed: ophiolites, olistostromes, and melanges in California
February 17	RPI	Dr.  Jim. Willemin St. Lawrence Univ.	Geomorphology and geodynamics of eastern Taiwan (a tale of a broken bulldozer)
February 24	Albany	Dr.  Richard Law Virginia Polytechnic	From microscope to tectonics: examples from the Brooks ,Range, Alaska to the Papoose Flat pluton, California
March 3	RPI	Dr. Richard Reeder SUNY Stony Brook	The influence of mineral surface structure on trace element incorporation
March 10	Albany	Dr.  Rob Pockalny Univ. of Rhode Island	The origin of transverse ridges near the Kane Fracture ,Zone, Atlantic Ocean
March 24	Albany	Dr. Jeffrey Karson Duke University	Tertiary faulting and magmatic construction of the east Greenland rifted margin --transition from continental to oceanic crust
March 31	RPI	Dr. Lewis E. Gilbert Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory	The geometry of loading along plate boundaries: inferences from geodetic observations
April 7	Albany	Dr. Brian Tucholke Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute	Structures of segments in slow spreading ocean crust, Mid-Atlantic Ridge
April 14	RPI	Dr. Bobb Carson Lehigh University	Fluid expulsion from the Cascadia accretionary prism: Results from ocean drilling and submersible-based experiments
April 21	Albany	Dr.  Jean Crespi Univ. of Connecticut	Deformation partitioning in the active Taiwan arc-continent collision
April 28	RPI	Dr. Leslie Sonder Dartmouth Univ.	Doing the twist: Paleomagnetic constraints on kinematics and dynamics of vertical-axis rotations in zones of strike-slip deformation
May 4	Albany	Dr. David Harwood University of Nebraska	Cenozoic History of the. Antarctic Ice Sheet