Research

2013 Geodynamics Program
EXPERIMENTS: Simulating The Earth In The Lab

Speaker Schedule

Date	Seminar Speaker	“Title” or Topic
February 7	John Whitehead Scientist Emeritus Department of Physical Oceanography Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	“Laboratory Perspectives On Geological Fluid Mechanics”
February 14	Ares Rosakis Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology	“Identifying the unique Ground motion signatures of super-shear earthquakes: The one-two punch effect on high-rise buildings”
February 21	Daniel Lathrop Professor & Associate Dean for Research University of Maryland	“Laboratory Models of the Earth's Core”
February 28	Ginny Catania Research Associate Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences University of Texas at Austin	"Understanding Ice Sheet Variability"
March 7	Michael Lewan Research Geochemist USGS, Denver, CO	“Analogues Between Water In Granite Melts and Petroleum Formation”
March 14	Tom McCollom Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics University of Colorado, Denver	"Laboratory Simulation of Hydrogen Generation During Serpentinization of Ultramafic Rocks"
March 21	Max Schmidt Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH)	"Deep Recycling of Carbon During Subduction"
April 4	Peter Brewer Senior Scientist Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBAR), CA	"Advances in Executing Complex Geochemical Experiments on the Sea Floor:CH₄ → CO₂ Hydrate Conversion as a Greenhouse Gas Strategy?"
April 11	David Kohlstedt Professor, Department of Earth Sciences University of Minnesota University of Minnesota	“Stress-driven Melt Migration in Partially Molten Rocks: The Connection between Field Observations, Laboratory Experiments, Theoretical Analyses, and Numerical Models”
April 18 Carriage House	Beth Orcutt Senior Research Scientist Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences East Boothbay, Maine	"Microbial life in the Marine Subsurface: Tools and Approaches for Detecting Deep, Dark Life"
April 25 Carriage House	Denis Andrault Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans University Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand, France	“Melting properties of the deep Earth's mantle”
CANCELLED May 2	Giacomo Corti Researcher at the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (IGG), National Research Council (CNR) Florence, Italy	“Evolution and characteristics of continental rifts: insights from analog modeling”
May 9 Carriage House	Frank Richter Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences University of Chicago	“Isotope Fractionation by Mass Transport in Silicate Melts and Minerals”
May 16	Andrew Putnis Institut für Mineralogie University of Münster, Germany	“Reactions at Mineral-Fluid Interfaces: from experiment to nature – from the nanoscale to the macroscale”