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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 and Spring of 2009.
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 2009
Schedule
With emphasis on the
conditions of the Precambrian oceans and atmosphere
*Note
the extra lectures scheduled for 10:30 AM in 102 KGL
January
12, 2009
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Jun Korenaga,
Yale University: "Mantle composition, plate
tectonics, and the evolution of Earth's oceans" |
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January 19, 2009 |
No session:
Martin Luther King Day |
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January 26, 2009 |
H.D. Holland, University of Pennsylvania:
"Why the atmosphere became oxygenated" |
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February 2, 2009 |
Richard Carlson, Department of
Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of
Washington: "Early Earth differentiation and the
onset of plate tectonics" |
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February 9, 2009 |
Mukul Sharma, Dartmouth College: “Where
on Earth is the enriched Hadean reservoir?” |
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February 16, 2009 |
Paul Knauth, Arizona State University:
"Temperature and salinity history of the Earth's
early ocean" |
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*February 17, 2009
- 10:30 AM in KGL 102 |
Paul Knauth, Arizona State University:
"The Late Precambrian Greening of the
Earth: Implications for the Cambrian Explosion
of Life" |
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February
23, 2009 |
Eric Gaucher, Georgia Tech: “Resurrecting
proteins to understand Precambrian temperature
trends for ancient life” |
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March 2,
2009 |
Marc Chaussidon, Centre de Recherches Petrographiques et
Geochimiques (CNRS) Nancy: "Micrometer-scale O and Si
isotope variations in Precambrian cherts : implications on
the temperature of the Precambrian oceans" |
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March 23,
2009s |
Huiming
Bao, Louisiana State University: "Anomalous
depletion of sulfate oxgen-17 and implications
for the 'snowball Earth' hypothesis" |
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March 30,
2009 |
Mike Hren,
Yale University: "Oxygen and hydrogen isotopes
of the Buck Reef Chert: Evidence for a temperate
ocean 3.42 billion years ago?" |
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April 6, 2009 |
Karlis
Muehlenbachs, University of Alberta: "Oxygen
isotopic composition of the Archean Ocean,
insight from the basalts and cherts of Barberton
Mt. Land, South Africa and Isua Greenland" |
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April 13,
2009 |
Shuhei Ono,
MIT: "Archean sulfur mass-independent
fractionation records for whiff(s) of oxygen
before the great oxidation event" |
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April 20,
2009 |
James
Kasting, Penn State: "Methane, oxygen,
and climate on the Archean Earth" |
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*April 22,
2009 - 10:30 AM in KGL 102 |
Paul Hoffman,
Harvard University "The Pleistocene
glacial controversy and the discovery of
climatic warming and crustal movements" |
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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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