List of Speakers
Thursdays 2:00 - 3:30 Carriage House
Each seminar features an invited speaker followed by a discussion
moderated by a WHOI scientist.
| Date | Seminar Speaker | Topic/Title |
Feb. 9 |
Richard Alley Department of Geosciences Penn State University |
"Ice rules: Ice cores and ice ages" |
Feb. 16 |
Sridhar Anandakrishnan Department of Geosciences Penn State University |
"There Is a Tide in the Affairs of Men... and Glaciers " |
Feb. 23 |
John Wettlaufer Department of Physics Yale University |
"The Many Faces of the Surface of Ice" |
March 2 |
Ian Joughin Polar Science Center University of Washington |
polar remote sensing |
March 9 |
Christina Hulbe
Department of Geology Portland State University |
ice sheet modeling |
March 16 |
Meredith Nettles Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
glacial earthquakes |
March 23 |
Lonnie Thompson Byrd Polar Research Center Ohio State University |
tropical glaciers |
March 30 |
Spring Break - no seminar |
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April 6 |
John Priscu Dept. of Land Resources & Environmental Sciences Montana State University |
extremophiles, subglacial life |
April 13 |
Bruce Jakosky
Center for Astrobiology University of Colorado at Boulder |
planetary ice |
April 20 |
Erland Schulson Ice Research Laboratory Dartmouth College |
"On the Mechanical Behavior of Ice with Emphasis on Brittle Failure" |
April 27 |
Paul Hoffman Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Harvard University |
Snowball Earth |
May 4 |
Richard Williams U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole |
global ice |
May 11 |
Helgi Björnsson Raunvísindastofnin Háskólans Science Institute University of Iceland |
subglacial volcanism |
May 18 |
Sidney Hemming Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University |
ice bergs, ice shelves, Heinrich events |
May 25 |
Kelly MacGregor Department of Geology Macalester College |
ice erosion and tectonics |