CRUST: Planetary, Continental and Oceanic
2010 Geodynamics Seminar Series
Tuesdays, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Carriage House, Quissett Campus
Speaker Schedule
Each seminar features an invited speaker followed by a discussion moderated by a WHOI scientist.
| Date | Seminar Speaker | Title |
| February 2 | Sean Solomon Department of Terrestrial Magnetism Carnegie Institution of Washington |
“Crustal formation and the evolution of Mercury: New insights from the MESSENGER flybys of the innermost planet” |
| February 9 | Maria Zuber Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sci. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Geophysical Constraints on Terrestrial Planet Crusts" |
| February 16 | Michael Wyatt Department of Geological Sciences Brown University |
"Martian Crust" |
| February 23 | Wolfgang Bach Department of Geosciences University of Bremen |
"Theoretical considerations on water-rock interactions in the ocean crust: from phase relations to microbiology" |
| March 2 | Sam Bowring Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sci. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"The geological record of Earth's early evolution" |
| March 9 | Harry Y. McSween Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sci. University of Tennessee |
"Crustal Composition of Protoplanets, Especially Astroid Vesta" |
| March 16 | Oliver Jagoutz Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sci. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"The role of different liquid lines of descent for Continental Crust formations: Insights from the Kohistan Arc" |
| March 23 | Cin Ty Lee Department of Earth Science Rice University |
"Silicate differentiation of the Earth" |
| March 30 | Richard Katz Department of Earth Sciences Oxford University |
"Magma dynamics and active convection at mid-ocean ridges" |
| April 6 | Mathilde Cannat Département Géosciences Marines Institut Physique du Globe de Paris |
"Serpentinization in the oceanic crust" |
| April 13 | George Bergantz Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences University of Washington |
"Tempo And Styles Of Arc Construction As Constrained By An Intact Arc Cross Section, The Famatinian Arc, Sierras Valle Fertil, Argentina" |
| April 20 | Mike Cheadle Dept. of Geology and Geophysics University of Wyoming |
"Neptune, Neptune, Quite Contrary - How Does Your Ocean Crust Grow? Some insights from zirconology"
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| April 27 | Natsue Abe IFREE, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology |
"Multidisciplinary Research on Young Petit-Spot Volcanism on Old Oceanic Lithosphere" |
| May 4 | Othmar Müntener Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
"Crust-forming processes at rifted margins: The interface between continents and the ocean" |
| May 11 | Kevin Burke Department of Geosciences University of Houston |
"Plate Tectonics, The Wilson Cycle And Mantle Plumes: Geodynamics From The Top"
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