SUBDUCTION: FROM TRENCH TO ARC

Thursdays, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m., Carriage House, Quissett Campus, WHOI

Speaker Schedule

Date	Seminar Speaker	Topic/Title
Feb. 7	Alison Shaw Geology & Geophysics Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	"Volatile fluxes through the Central American and IBM subduction systems: comparing different techniques and evaluating mass balance"
Feb. 14	Ikuko Wada School of Earth and Ocean Sciences University of Victoria, British Columbia	“Thermal modeling of the forearc-arc region of subduction zones and implications for subduction zone processes”
Feb. 21	Cesar Ranero Marine Sciences Institute, CSIC Centro Mediterráneo de Investigaciones Marinas y Ambientales	"The Hydrogeological Systems of Incoming Oceanic Plates and OverridingConvergent Margins of Subduction Zones: Insights from Studies of the Middle America Trench"
Feb. 28	David W. Scholl U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park, California	"Basal Subduction Erosion and the Formation of the Aleutian Terrace and Underlying Forearc Basin"
March 6	Andrew Newman School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences The Georgia Institute of Technology	"The Seismogenic Megathrust: inferences from Costa Rica and Nicaragua"
March 13	Jeff Marshall Geological Sciences Department CalPolyPomonaUniversity, Pomona, California	"Segmented Fore Arc Uplift along the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica: Implications for Subduction Erosion, Underplating, & Seismogenesis"
March 20	Tim Grove Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology	"Magma Generation Processes in Subduction Zones"
March 27	Spring Break Week	*No Presentation*
April 3	Mike Carr Department Of Earth & Planetary Sciences RutgersUniversity	"Progress and Problems in the Study of Arc Volcanism in Central America"
April 10	Kathy Cashman Department of Geological Sciences University of Oregon	"A bang or a whimper? Controls on volcanic eruption styles"
April 17	Miriam Kastner Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego	"Geochemical cycling at convergent margins; results from hydrogeochemical observatories at the Costa Rica subduction zone"
April 24	Marc Hirschmann Department of Geology and Geophysics University of Minnesota	"Experimental constraints on volatile-induced melting"
May 1	Doug Wiens Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences WashingtonUniversity	"Seismic structure, mantle flow patterns, and the dynamics of island arc systems"
May 8	Geoff Abers Division of Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics Lamont-DohertyEarth Observatory	"Seismic imaging of subduction zones"
May 15	Magali Billen Department of Geology University of California, Davis	"From Steady-State to Slab Detachment: How does lithosphere strength affect subduction dynamics?"