2011 Geodynamics Seminar Series

RIVERS: The Cascading Limb of the Geologic Cycle

Tuesdays, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Carriage House, Quissett Campus

Speaker Schedule

*Date*	*Seminar Speaker*	*Topic/Title*
February 1	Ray Schmitt Senior Scientist Physical Oceanography, WHOI	*"The role of the oceans in the global water cycle"*
February 8 •Clark 507	James Syvitski Professor of Geological Sciences; Director and Fellow of INSTAAR Univ. of Colorado-Boulder	"Rivers as land-to-sea transport arteries"
February 15	Taylor Perron Dept. Of Earth, Atmosphere & Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology	"Coupling of River Networks and Hill Slopes in Landscape Evolution"
February 22	Josh West Department of Earth Sciences University of Southern California	*"Floods, Earthquakes, and Rivers: The Effects of Rare Large Events on Weathering, Erosion, and the Transport of Carbon"*
March 1	Suzanne Prestrud-Anderson Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research Univ. of Colorado	"Glacier- Rivers of ice in surficial Earth systems"
March 8	Rudy Slingerland Professor of Geosciences Penn State University	*"Landscape Evolution and Sediment Fluxes to the Ocean"*
March 15	Arjun Heimsath School of Earth and Space Exploration Arizona State University	*"Quantifying Hillslope Processes: Holes, Isotopes, and Exploration"*
March 22	Spring Break	no presentation
March 29	Heather L. Buss U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Discipline	"Critical Zone Processes and their Influence on Watershed Exports"
April 5	Robert Spencer Assistant Scientist Woods Hole Research Center	"Floodplains as biogoechemical reactors"
April 12	Peter Raymond Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University	"The role of rivers in the global carbon budget"
April 19	John Day Coastal Ecology Institute Louisiana State University	“Ecology, Sediment Transport and Energy Issues”
April 26	Rocky Geyer Senior Scientist Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI	"The influence of estuaries on the transport of sediment and solutes from rivers to the ocean"
May 3 •Clark 507	Robert Aller School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Stony Brook University	*"Deltaic systems as global biogeochemical reactors: C cycling, diagenetic pathways, and reverse weathering"*
May 10	Derek Vance Dept. of Earth Sciences University of Bristol, UK	"Marine geochemical budgets, chemical weathering and the carbon cycle in the ice-house world of the Quaternary"