List of Speakers
Each seminar features an invited speaker followed by a discussion
moderated by a WHOI scientist.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| February 6 | Greg Hirth and Jeff McGuire | Course organization |
| February 13 | Peter Schultz, Brown University | The Effect of Impact Angle on Regional and Global Ecologic Collapse |
| February 20 | Andrew Solow, WHOI | Mass Extinctions and the Fossil Record |
| February 27 | George Zaslavsky, NYU | Instabilities and Chaos |
| March 6 | Ross Stein, USGS website >> | Genesis of Seismicity |
| March 13 | Tom Heaton, Caltech | Why are earthquakes so gentle? |
| March 20 | Einat Aharonov, Weizmann Institute, Israel website >> | Landslides and Granular Flow |
| March 27 | NO CLASS | SPRING BREAK |
| April 3 | Costas Synolakis, USC | Landslide versus Tectonic tsunamis |
| April 10 | Jim Rice, Harvard website >> | Earthquake rupturing through geometrically complex fault systems |
| April 17 | Jonathan Lees, UNC website >> | Seismicity and Magmatic Plumbing of Stromboli |
| April 24 | Julia Morgan, Rice University website >> | Volcanotectonic History of Kilauea |
| May 1 | Kerry Emanuel, MIT | Physics of Hurricanes |
| May 8 | Chris Landsea, AOML Hurricane Research Division, NOAA | How Much ?Skill? was there in Forecasting the 1998-2001 La Nina Event and the 2002 El Nino Onset? |
| May 15 | Barry Voight, Penn State | Volcanic Hazards |
| May 22 | Michael Manga, Berkeley website >> | Physics of Magma Flow and Eruptions |
| TBA | FIELD TRIP | Cascades of Oregon & Washington |