LUNCH BUNCH SERIES
ESH (Mondays at 12 pm in MacMillan 101)
February 4: Becca Ryals, "Carbon, nitrogen and agricultural wastes"
February 11: Ryan Carney, EEB: "Archaeopteryx feather color and mummified dinosaur skin"
March 18: Suzanne Pilaar Birch, Joukowsky Institute: "Stable isotope analysis of animal teeth as an archaeologically-linked terrestrial climate proxy"
April 1: Will Longo, Brown: "Novel tri-unsaturated alkenones in Arctic lakes: Implications for temperature reconstruction"
April 8: Will Daniels, Brown: "The role of benthic microalgae in Arctic lakes: Results from whole-lake manipulations"
April 22: Rebecca Fahringer, Brown: "Nitrogen isotopes as tracers of NOx sources?"
April 28: Mengdi Cui, Brown: "Greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes from and agriculture system in Massachusetts"
May 6: Stephanie Spera, Brown: "Quantifying agricultural intensification in a global breadbasket"
Solid Earth Dynamics (Tuesdays at 12 pm in GC 039)
January 30:** Special Wednesday Lunch Bunch**Leif Karlstrom, Stanford University "Supraglacial stream morphodynamics"
February 5: Sara Szwaja, URI: "Modeling the evolution of mantle heterogeneity in subduction zones".
March 19: Emily Hopper, Brown: "How has magmatism in the northwest USA affected the lithosphere? Insights from Sp receiver functions"
April 9: Margarete Jadamec, Brown: "Subduction geodynamics: A global sampling"
April 16: Amanda Getsinger: TBD
April 23: Tess Caswell, Brown: "Attenuationin ice: A proposal to investigate the role of subgrain boundaries"
April 30: Taka Kanaya, Brown: "Effects of pore pressures on the strength of seismogenic faults: Constraints from laboratory experiments"
May 14: Katie Booth: TBD
May 21: Youyi Ruan: TBD
Planetary Geosciences (Thursdays at 12pm in Lincoln Field 209)
February 7: Terik Daly, Brown:"Electrospray charging cosmic dust analogs"
February 21: Kerri D. Hanna, Brown: "Formation and evolution of the Moon's primary crust: Integrating remote sensing analyses with laboratory studies"
April 4: Ken Ramsley, Brown: " Mars impact ejecta on the Moon"
April 11: Megan Syal, Brown: "Cometary coma collisions on the Moon"
April 25: Stephanie Quintana, Brown: " Methods to determine impact melting and vaporization using the shock physics analysis package, CTH"
April 26: Special Friday Lunch Bunch: Clive Neal, University of Notre Dame: "Bulk composition of the moon: Cyrstallization of the lunar magma ocean and melt rock petrogenesis (or following the AI203)"
May 2: Leah Cheek, Brown: "Spectroscopy of plagioclase-dominated mineral mixtures: Applications to remote sensing of lunar anorthosites"
May 9: Edgard Rivera-Valentin, Brown: "Heat and mass transfer processes in the solar system"
Geochemistry/Mineralogy/Petrology (Fridays at 12pm in GC 039)
February 1: Yan Liang, Brown University: "Time scales of re-equilibration in a bi-mineralic system with or without a fluid phase"
February 8: Colin Jackson, Brown: "Chemical consequences of perovskite fractionation from an ultramafic liquid"
February 22: Chenguang Sun, Brown: "The importance of crystal chemistry on REE partitioning between mantle minerals and basaltic melt"
April 5: Diane Wetzel, Brown: "FTIR and raman spectroscopy of the lunar picritic glasses"
April 12: Chenguang Sun, Brown: "Thermobarometers based on REE partitioning between mantle minerals"
May 3: Hillary O'Brien, Brown: TBD
May 8: Special Wednesday Lunch Bunch: Frank Richter, University of Chicago: "An intellectual travelogue of explorations of chemical and isotopic diffusion"