CLIMATE CHANGE: FORCING, RESPONSES and GEO-ENGINEERING

Thursdays, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Clark Lab 507

Speaker Schedule

*Date*	*Seminar Speaker*	*Topic/Title*
Feb. 5	Bill Thompson Geology & Geophysics Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	*“Coral Record of Sea Level Change: Pleistocene Glacial Cycles*”
Feb. 12	Bill Curry Geology & Geophysics Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	*"The Geologic Record of Climate Change"*
Feb. 19	Kenneth Miller Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Rutgers University	*“100 Million Years of Sea Level Change: Should I Sell My Shore House?”*
Feb. 26	Maureen Raymo Department of Earth Sciences Boston University Venue: Carriage House	*"Milankovitch and Carbon Dioxide: Making Sense of the Ice Ages"*
March 5	Warren Prell Professor, Geological Sciences Brown University, RI	*"Mountains, monsoons, and climate: an interactive system"*
March 12	W. R. Peltier Department of Physics University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario	*"Global Glacial Isostasy and Earth Rotation: The influence of polar wander on postglacial sea level history"*
March 19	Jonathan Bamber School of Geographical Sciences University of Bristol, UK	*"Rapid response of modern day ice sheets, sea level rise & future trends"*
March 26	Spring Break Week	*No Presentation*
April 2	Peter Huybers Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Harvard University	*"Feedback Between Deglaciation and Volcanic emissions of CO_2"*
April 9	Peter Keleman The Earth Institute at Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	"Enhanced carbonation of peridotite for CO2 capture and storage"
April 16	Jerry X. Mitrovica Department of Physics, University of Toronto Director, Earth Systems Evolution Program Canadian Institute for Advanced Resarch	*"Resolving the Enigma of Global Sea Level Rise"*
April 23	Thure Cerling Professor of Biology, and of Geology and Geophysics University of Utah	*"Topography, isotopes, and climate change in Africa"*
April 30	Jim Zachos Earth & Planetary Sciences UC Santa Cruz	*"Ocean Acidification during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: An Analog for the Future?"*
May 7	Stephen Blake Earth and Environmental Sciences The Open University, UK	"Climate Impacts of Flood Basalts, Super-eruptions and Historic Volcanism"
May 14	Student Presentations	*TBA*