List of Speakers
Each seminar features an invited speaker followed by a discussion
moderated by a WHOI scientist.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Feb. 5 | Dr. Chris Kincaid, School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island | The Life of Mantle Plumes |
| Feb. 12 | Dr. Henry Dick & Jeff Standish, WHOI | A Plate Driven Pseudo-Hotspot on the SW Indian Ridge |
| Feb. 19 | Dr. Seth Stein, Northwestern University | Where We Stand On Thermal Swells |
| Feb. 26 | Dr. Dean Presnall, University of Texas | Low Temperature Origin of Volcanism at Oceanic Ridges and Associated Hot Spots |
| March 4 | Dr. James Natland, Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences | Fissure Control on pacific Volcanism Since 170 My |
| March 11 | Dr. Shun-Ichiro Karato, Yale University | Mineral physics meets geochemistry: A new mineral physics-based model of material circulation in Earth's mantle |
| March 18 | Dr. Don Anderson, Caltech | The Plate Paradigm; the General Theory of Plate Tectonics |
| March 25 | Spring Break | |
| April 1 | Dr. Richard Allen, University of Wisconsin | The Role of the Iceland Upwelling in North America Mantle Processes |
| April 8 | Dr. Don Forsyth, Brown University | Constraints on the origin of non-hotspot, intraplate volcanic ridges and cross-grain gravity lineations in the Pacific |
| April 15 | Jian Lin, WHOI | Weakness in oceanic lithosphere and hotspot volcanism |
| April 22 | Richard Ernst, |
Large Igneous Provinces through time: implications for the plume vs. plate debate |
| April 29 | Stan Hart, WHOI | Geochemical Insights into the Secret Life of Plumes |
| May 6 | Dr. Gillian Foulger, University Of Durham, UK |
There is no plume under Iceland or anywhere else. |
| May 13 | Dr. Robert Duncan, Oregon State University | Hotspot Motion -- the Hawaiian-Emperor Chain Revisited. |