Center for the Study of Global Change
Karl K. Turekian, Director
Sterling
Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics
GLOBAL
CHANGE SEMINAR
SERIES
The
weekly Topics in Global
Change Seminar Series continues through
the Winter/Spring of 2010
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on
Mondays, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM in Room 102, Kline
Geology Laboratory, 210 Whitney Avenue.
Winter/Spring 2010 Schedule
Deep Time: Environmental Changes of the Geologic Past and the Impact on Ideas about Future Climate Change
January 11, 2010
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Karl K. Turekian, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University
Topic: Multiple factors in the meteorite caused extinctions at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary
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| January 18, 2010 |
No session: Martin Luther King Day
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| January 25, 2010 |
Mark Pagani, Yale University Department of Geology & Geophysics
Topic: Estimates of climate sensitivity from the geologic record
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| February 1, 2010 |
Dennis Kent, Rutgers University Department of Earth & Planetary Science
Topic: Paleogeographic control of sources and sinks of CO2 during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic
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| February 8, 2010 |
Nicholas Longrich, Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale Univeristy
Topic: The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction: Using patterns in the North American vertebrate fossil record to understand extinction processes
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| February 15, 2010 |
Robert DeConto, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Topic: A revised view of the Cenozoic evolution of the cryosphere
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| February 22, 2010 |
Lee Kump, Pennsylvania State University Institutes of Energy and the Environment
Topic: For Peat's sake: Ins and outs of carbon cycling at the PETM |
| March 1, 2010 |
Kate Freeman, Pennsylvania State University Department of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Topic: Plio-Pleistocene lake deposits in Olduvai Gorge: Implications for the hydro-climate of the region
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| March 22, 2010 |
Mark Chandler, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Center for Climate and Systems Research
Topic: Pliocene Climate, IPCC 2007, and COP15: Or, why your progeny won't inherit the condo in Florida
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| March 29, 2010 |
Thomas Algeo, University of Cincinnati Department of Geology
Topic: Advances in the use of trace-metal proxies for paleoceanographic research
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| April 5, 2010 |
Martin Kennedy, University of California, Riverside
Topic: The role of terrestrial climate in clay formation and carbon burial in the Cretaceous of west Africa
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| April 12, 2010 |
Isabel Montanez, University of California, Davis
Topic: Reconstructing ancient CO2-glaciation-climate linkages in deep-time
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| April 19, 2010 |
Christina Ravelo, University of California Santa Cruz Ocean Sciences Department
Topic: Global climate change of the last five million years: A view from the Bering Sea |
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In addition to the the weekly Topics in Global
Change Seminar Series, the Center for the Study
of Global Change has sponsored a number of
forums at Yale. Listed below are the most
recent forums, with links provided for more
information and to view presentations:
Forum on Solar Variability and Climate Change - March 28
and March 29, 2008
For copy of program (word
doc),
To view program, click here
Forum on Ocean & Climate
April 11 and April 12, 2008
To view program, click here
The Forum on Carbon Sequestration: Is It
Feasible?, sponsored by YIBS' Center for the
Study of Global Change, was held on Friday,
April 7 and Saturday, April 8, 2006 at the
Environmental Science Center
To view presentations, click here.
The Forum on Climate and Disease, sponsored by
YIBS' Center for the Study of Global Change and
Center for EcoEpidemiology, was held on Friday,
December 9 and Saturday, December 10, 2005 at
Luce Hall Auditorium.
To view videos of talks, click here.
The Forum on Global Climate Change Components,
sponsored by YIBS' Center for the Study of
Global Change, was held on Friday, October 29
and Saturday, October 30, 2004 at the
Environmental Science Center.
To view presentations, click here.
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