Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that brings in distinguished speakers from other universities and research institutions. In most years the Department also hosts a Vandervoo and a Dorr lecture.
2021-2022
September 24, Silver & Gold: New Insights to Wire Formation, John Rakovan, Miami University
October 8, Probing the Earth’s Deep Oxygen Cycle with Vanadium, Megan Holycross, Cornell University
October 22, Using Iron Isotopes to Understand Planetary Formation and Evolution, Peng Ni, Carnegie Institute for Science
November 5, Geological Applications of Metal and Transition Metal Isotope Analysis, Ryan Mathur, Juniata College
2020-2021
September 8, Imbalance of Carbon Production and Removal Processes in the Offshore California Current Ecosystem, Sara Rivera, UMich
October 16, Impact basins as probes of planetary interiors, Brandon Johnson, Purdue
October 30, Probing Surface-Interior Mass Exchange in the Earth Using Nitrogen, Ananya Mallik, U of Arizona
November 20, Extreme Rain-Snow Elevation Changes during California Storms, and My STEM Journey, Tashiana C Osborne, UCSD
February 12, Molecular Memories of Earth’s Antiquity, Jennifer Glass , Georgia Tech
2019-2020
September 6, “Water” In and On the Surface of Terrestrial Planetary Bodies, by Any Means, Yang Liu, JPL
September 20, Chemistry of Core-mantle Differentiation of Earth's Interior, Andrew Campbell, U Chicago
September 27, The Mechanics of Slow Earthquakes and Lab Earthquake Prediction, Chris Marone, Penn State
October 11, USGS Products to Inform Earthquake Response, Jonathan Godt, USGS
November 1, The Chinese Cave Record: 640, 000 years of Climate History, Larry Edwards, U of Minnesota
December, 6, Origin of the Mesoproterozoic Igneous Rocks in the St. Francois Mountains, Missouri, USA, Warren Day, USGS
January 10, What Can Little Faults Tell Us About Big Earthquakes?, Michele Cooke, UMass Amherst
January 17, Understanding Large-Scale Mantle Convection, Allen McNamara, Michigan State
February 14, Weathering and Soil Development in the Earliest Land Plant Biospheres, Ria L Mitchell, Swansea University
2018-2019
September 7, Exposure to airborne magnetite pollution nanoparticles: a possible environmental risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease., Barbara Maher, Lancaster University
September 14, Ice in Equatorial Pangaea?, Lynn Soreghan, Univ Oklahoma
September 21, The Making of a Continent, Cin-Ty Lee, Rice U
September 28, Under the Feet of Dinosaurs: A New View of Late Cretaceous Landscapes Along the Margin of the Western Interior Seaway, Henry Fricke , Colorado College
October 5, Nitrogen Isotope Signatures of Phytoplankton Biomarkers: Connecting Intracellular Metabolites to Large-Scale Biogeochemical Trends, Jenan J. Kharbush, Harvard
October 19, New Insights into the Mechanics of Glacier Beds from Time-Dependent Surface Velocity Fields, Brent Minchew, MIT
November 2, An Organic Geochemical Perspective on Peatlands and Paleoclimate, Phil Meyers, University of Michigan
November 16, Fish out of water: Did Our Earliest Ancestors Walk Onto Land?, Stephanie Pierce, Harvard
November 30, "Vandervoo Lecture: Paleomagnetic Insights on Long-term Evolution of the Core, Mantle, and Surface Environment", David Evans, Yale
December 7, Testing UV-B Radiation as a Proposed Driver of the End-Permian Biotic Crisis, Cindy Looy, Berkeley
January 11, The Science of Earthquake Forecasts, John Vidale, USC/SCEC
January 18, The Geologic History of Seawater _18O, Itay Halevy, Weizmann Institute of Science
February 1, The Mineral Physics Test Kitchen: Finding the Recipe for Lower Mantle Heterogeneities, Susannah Dorfman, Michigan State
February 8, Using Cr-Redox Systematics in Basaltic Liquids and Olivine to Decode the Oxidation State of Planetary Basaltic Magmas and their Mantle Sources, Aaron Bell, University of Colorado Boulder
February 15, Hydrologic Science and Uncertainty Assessment, Andrew (Drew) Gronewold, University of Michigan
February 22, Metabolites of the Ocean Carbon Cycle, Mary Ann Moran, Univ Georgia
March 1, "Was Ancient Mars Warm and Wet or Cold and Icy? Mineral Signatures of Climate in Rover, Orbiter, and Terrestrial Analog Studies", Briony Horgan, Purdue
March 15, Dorr Lecture: Sharpening our View of Active Faulting Processes with High Resolution Topography, Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State
March 22, Porphyry Copper Deposit Formation in Arcs: What are the Odds?, Jeremy Richards, Laurentian University
March 29, A Growing Threat to Global Water Resources and Food Security, Scott Fendorf, Stanford
April 5, The Stable Isotopic Fingerprint of Landscapes and Life, Andreas Mulch, Institute of Geosciences
April 19, The Rocky Road of Life on Earth: Microbial Mineral Dissolution, Tropical Forest Nutrient Cycles, and the Global Effects of Open Ocean Carbonate Production, Josh West, USC
2017-2018
September 8, Surface Water-Groundwater Exchange and Nitrogen Fate in Tidal Rivers, Audrey Sawyer, OSU
September 15, Quantifying Natural Hazards: From Earthquake Damage to Debris Flows, Victor Tsai, Caltech
September 22, The Colorado River, Climate Change, Drought, and Implications for the Globe, Jonathon Overpeck, UM
September 29, Global Fresh Water Ages, Scott Jasechko, U Calgary
October 3, The CheMin X-ray Diffraction instrument: Design, development and mineralogical results from its 5-year deployment on the Mars Science Laboratory Rover Curiosity, David F. Blake, NASA
October 6, The Atacama Desert: Lessons from a Waterless World, Jay Quade, U Arizona
October 13, Extreme Mechanics on the Surface of Our Planets, Ahmed Ettaf Elbanna, U Illinois
October 27, Distinguished Alumni Lecture: A Wholistic View of Biosphere 1 Through Biosphere 2, Joaquin Ruiz, University of Arizona
November 3, Humans & climate change: Insights from the African paleoclimate record, Jessica Tierney, University of Arizona
November 10, Novel Applications of Short-lived Radionuclides (Po-210/Pb-210 and Be-7) as Tracer and Chronometer in the Study of Ice/Snow Dynamics in the Western Arctic, Mark Baskaran, Wayne State
November 17, Science communication; gnitteg ti thgir, Martin Pepper, University of Arizona
December 1, Caribbean-South American Plate Boundary Zone (Trinidad/Tobago) Active Deformation, Strain Partitioning, Fault Reactivation, Fault Creep and Influence of Petroleum Geology, John Weber, Grand Valley St
December 12, Mineral Exploration and Discovery in Africa, and their Benefits to African Geoscientists - the Ivanhoe Perspective , David Broughton, Senior Advisor, Exploration and Geology, Ivanhoe Mines
December 19, Paleoenvironmental Insights from the Structure and Function of Extinct Plants, Jonathan Wilson, Haverford
December 26, Deep Crustal Structure of the Rocky Mountain Region from Seismic Observations, Xenoliths, and Local Studies of Exhumed Terranes, Kevin Mahan, University of Colorado, Boulder
February 2, Mountain Building, Strike-slip Faulting, and Landscape Evolution in New Zealand's Marlborough Fault System, Alison Duvall, University of Washington
February 9, The Meandering Path from River Dynamics to Valley Form, Ajay Limaye, University of Minnesota
February 16, Liquefaction Hazard in the Built Environment: Numerical and Experimental Investigations into the Effectiveness of Liquefaction Mitigation Techniques, Jenny Ramirez, "University of Colorado, Boulder"
February 23, What Does the Chemistry of Shallow-water Carbonate Sediments Tell Us About the Global Carbon Cycle Over Earth History?, John Higgins , Princeton
March 9, Dorr Lecture: Chemically-stratified Midwestern Lakes are Relevant to Precambrian AND Modern Global Biogeochemistry, Betsy Swanner, Iowa State
March 16, Seismic Investigation of the Magma System Beneath Laguna del Maule, Chile, Cliff Thurber, U. Wisconsin
March, 23, Tidal Tomography: What an often-neglected phenomenon known as Earth tides can tell us about buoyancy an the deepest part of the mantle, Harriet Lau, Harvard
March 30, Surprises in Iron Cycling at the Peru Margin, Phoebe Lam, UC-Santa Cruz, , April 6, Microbiomes and Metabolites in the Environment, Elizabeth Kujawinski, WHOI
2016-2017
September, 9, Anatomy of a Megathrust Plate Boundary Through the Earthquake Cycle, Susan Schwartz, UCSC
September, 16, Multi-scale process interactions in (eco-)hydrology, erosion and sediment transport, and floods, Valeriy Ivanov, U-Mich (Environmental Engineering)
September, 23, Salt Water Disposal (SWD) Wells: Advances in Evaluating their Environmental Impact, Ron Green, SRI
September, 30, Lithospheric Destruction During Continental Rifting: A Geochemical Perspective, Tyrone Rooney, Michigan State
October, 7, Sources and Reactivity of Terrestrial Organic Carbon to the Colville River Delta, Beaufort Sea, Alaska, Katie Schreiner, UMN-Duluth
October, 14, Investigating Landscape Evolution and Geochemical Processes in Antarctica (and beyond) Using Remote Orbital Spectroscopy, Mark Salvatore, UM-Dearborn
October, 21, Distiguished Alumn LectureThreads of Maize and Blue, John Greene
October, 28, The Impact of the Rise of Algae and Land Plants on Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Noah Planavsky, Yale University
October, 31, Photoferrotrophy and the Evolution of Earth Surface Chemistry and Life, Sean Crowe, University of British Columbia
November, 4, Changing World – Changing Exploration, John Thompson, CornellNovember, 11, Microbial controls on biogeochemical carbon cycling in marine sediments, Nagissa Mahmoudi, Harvard University
November, 14, Identifying Controls Over Nitrification in a Dynamic Coastal Ocean, Jason Smith, University of California Santa BarbaraNovember, 18, Manganese: Minerals, Microbes, and the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis, Jena Johnson, University of Colorado, Boulder
January, 6, Sexual Harassment in Academia: A Call to Action, Julie Libarkin , Michigan State University
January, 6, Achieving Equity in Earth Science Through the Sharing of Social Capital, Julie Libarkin , Michigan State University
January, 13, Southern African Climates, Agulhas Warm Water Transports and Retroflection, and Interocean Exchanges: an Overview of IODP Expedition 361, Sidney Hemming, Columbia
January, 20, Multi-scale Structures and Thermal Constraints at Earth's Core-mantle Boundary, Jennifer Jackson (Sturhahn), Caltech
January, 27, Robot-Enabled Research Efforts to Promote Resiliency and Sustainability of Geo-Systems, Dimitrios Zekkos, CEE UMich
February, 3, Recon and Implications of the November 14th Mw 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake (New Zealand), Tim Stahl, EARTH
February, 10, Early Stages of Continental Rifting: Top-down and Bottom-up Perspectives, Sarah Stamps, Virginia Tech
February, 17, Van der Voo Lecture: Magnetostratigraphy of Upper Permian to Lower Triassic (?) Beaufort Group Strata, Karoo Basin, South Africa: Can We "See Through" the Early Jurassic Karoo Large Igneous Province Event? (And Other Musings), John Geissman, UT-Dallas
March, 10, Observing the Generation, Propagation and Dissipation of Internal Waves in the Ocean, Matthew Alford, University of California San Diego
March, 17, Dorr Lecture: Erosion Rates and Climate from the Cosmogenic Nuclide Perspective, Darryl Granger, Purdue
March, 24, Reconstruction of Topography and Lithosphere Dynamics Within the Basin and Range of Western North America Since 36 Ma, Bill Holt, Stony Brook University
March, 31, Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater: The Meaning of the C and O Isotopic Record in Carbonates, Peter Swart, U Miami
April, 14, Exploring Climate Change Projections from the Ground Up: How Plants Shape Weather in a High CO2 World, Chris Skinner, EARTH
2015-2016
September 18, Gravity Never Sleeps: Recent Landslides in Colorado and Washington State, Jonathan Godt USGS
September 25, Imaging Mantle Melting and the Effect of Water beneath Island Arc Systems, Doug Wiens,Washington University at St Louis
October 2, Molecular geochemistry of redox proxies. Molybdenum speciation: The missing piece toward a new model?, Anthony Chappaz, Central Michigan University
October 9, Greenland’s Climate Past and Future: Insights from Paleolimnology, Yarrow Axford, Northwestern University
October, 16, Coseismic landslides associated with the 2015 Gorkha earthquake sequence in Nepal, Marin Clark, University of Michigan
October, 23, The Fossil Record of Plant Physiology & its Impact on the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecology and Environments, Kevin Boyce, Stanford University
October, 30, Tectonics of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Amalgamation of Central Asia and Surroundings, Celal Sengor, Istanbul Technical University
November, 10, Characterizing Earthquakes and Fault Mechanics at Various Scales, Yihe Huang, Stanford University
November, 13, Seismic Evidence for Thermal Anomalies and Water in the Mantle Transition Zone Beneath Antarctica, Erica Emry, Penn State University
November, 17, Title: Interrogating Structure, Dynamics, and Hazard in Subduction Zones, Erin Wirth, University of Washington
November, 20, The Importance of Phyllosilicate Deformation on the Spectrum of Fault Slip Behaviors, Melodie French, University of Maryland
November, 24, Large Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Observations, Models and Warning Systems, Diego Melgar, University of California, Berkeley
December, 4, The Mid-ocean Ridge Basalt Ferric Iron Crisis, Paul Asimow, Caltech
December, 11, Is the Universe a Lonely Place? A Plan to Survey our Stellar Neighborhood for Signs of Life, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, NASA Goddard
January, 8, Why it's better to be blue than green: Investigating the environmental drivers of cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom growth and toxicity in western Lake Erie, Tim Davis, NOAA/GLERL
January, 15, From Equator to Pole in a Cool Greenhouse: Reconstructing Late Cretaceous Climate, Sierra Petersen, UM EARTH
January, 22, Scientific Publishing in 2016: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly—Lessons Learned From 5 Years Watching Retraction, Adam Marcus, Center for Scientific Integrity
January, 29, Role of Serpentinites in Subduction Zones, Keiko Hattori, U. Ottawa
February, 5, Constraints from Fault Roughness on the Scale-Dependent Strength of Rocks, Emily Brodsky -, UCSC
February, 12, Global ocean circulation and the Southern Ocean: from plate tectonics through the ocean and ice to the atmosphere, Lynne Talley, Scripps
February, 19, Origin of Grand Canyon, Brian Wernicke, Cal Tech
March, 11, The Growth of the Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau and the Effect of High Terrain on the Indian Monsoon, Peter Molnar, University of Colorado
April, 1, 140 Million years of Tropical Landscape Evolution, Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian
April, 8, From Earth to Stars: Planetary Interiors and a New Chemistry, Raymond Jeanloz, Berkeley
2014-2015
September, 12, Smart Clays: States, Dates and Rates, Ben van der Pluijm, UM
September, 19, The End-Permian Mass Extinction and its Aftermath: New Insights from Non-Traditional Isotope Systems, Jonathan Payne, Stanford
September, 26, Tracing the Evolution of Oxygen on the Early Earth, Kurt Konhauser, Alberta
October, 3, Lake Malawi: An ancient Lake's Response to 21st Century Environmental Change, Erik Brown, Minnesota-Duluth
October, 10, Distinguished Alumnus Lecture: Geo Generations:A Sixty Year Account, Tom Tinker
October, 17, Geophysical and Geochemical Consequences of the Spin Transitions of Iron in Earth’s Deep Mantle, Jung-Fu Lin, U Texas
October, 24, Unlocking the Geological Archives of Intra-oceanic Subduction Initiation: a New View on Suprasubduction Ophiolites Evolution, Douwe van Hinsbergen, Utrecht
October, 28, Plant Wax Isotopes in Tropical Lake Sediments and What They Tell Us about the Ancient Maya, Peter Douglas
October, 31, Remote Analysis of Catastrophic Landslides Using Seismology, Goran Ekstrom, Lamont Doherty
November, 4, Water and Landscape Evolution: From Orographic Rainfall and Erosion to_Topographic Stress and Groundwater, Seulgi Moon
November, 7, Insights from U/Th on Modern Dust Deposition and Last Interglacial Deep Ocean Circulation, Christopher Hayes
November, 11, Water Cycle Dynamics on Multiple Scales: Perspectives from the Water and Data Scarce Middle East, Adam Milewski
November, 14, New Insights into Paleoclimate from Emerging Proxies, Aradha Tripati
November, 21, The Source and Migration of Natural Gas in Shallow Aquifers: Insights Provided by Noble Gas Geochemistry, Thomas Darrah, Ohio State UniversityDecember, 5, Iceberg Calving Dynamics, Mac Cathles, UM, AOSS
January, 9, An Overview of the USGS Volcano Hazards Program and the Need for a U.S. National Volcano Early Warning System, Charles Mandeville, USGS
January, 12, Geochemical Reaction Intermediates in Metal Redox Cycling, Benjamin Gilbert, Berkeley National Laboratory
January, 16, Serpentinization, Carbon, and Deep Life, Matt Schrenk, Mich State Univ
January, 20, Hydroclimate, Vegetation and Landscape Change in Eastern Africa: Perspectives from the Last Ten Million Years, Naomi Levin, Johns Hopkins Univ
January, 23, Water Cycling Across Aquatic Interfaces and Why They Matter from the Pore Scale to the Continental Scale, Bayani Cardenas, Univ Texas at Austin
January, 30, Clarifying Mammalian Responses to Climate Change: Lessons Learned from Deep-Time Experiments, Larisa Desantis, Vanderbilt University
February, 6, Biting Through Time: Integrative Analyses and Evolutionary Functional Morphology of Carnivoran Feeding Systems, Jack Tseng, American Museum of Natural History
February, 10, Studying Species’ Evolutionary Responses to Climate Change from the Pliocene to the Present-Day Biodiversity Crisis, Erin Saupe, Yale University
February, 13, The Impact of Deep Time Data on Evolutionary Analyses: Insights from the Fossil Record Mammals, John Finarelli, University College Dublin
February, 17, Beyond the ‘Age of Fishes’: a Deep-Time Perspective on the Other Half of Vertebrate Diversity, Matt Friedman, University of Oxford
February, 20, Earth's Unique Continents, Roberta Rudnick, U Maryland
February, 27, Linking Topography, Erosion, and Chemical Weathering in Earth’s Most Tectonically-Active Mountains, Isaac Larson, Caltech
March, 13, Elasticity and Sound Velocity of Iron Alloys: Implications for the Earth’s Core, Jin Liu, UT AustinMarch, 20, Extant Microbial Mats as Windows Into Ancient Ecosystems, Judith Klatt, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
March, 27, Geometric Morphometrics and Diagenetic Deformation of Fossils: A Case Study, Brandon Hedrick, Univ. Pennsylvania
April, 3, Origin and Evolution of the Nashoba Terrane in Eastern Massachusetts, and Connections with the Norumbega Fault Zone in Maine: Potential for a Late Devonian Triple Junction, Yvette Kuiper, Colorado School of Mines
April, 17, Internal Waves, Ocean Mixing, and the Thermohaline Circulation of the Ocean, Rob Pinkel, UC San Diego
2013-2014
September, 13, Volatiles in magmas - learning from laboratory studies about volcanic eruption, Harald Behrens, University of Hannover
September, 20, Are Long-lived Stratovolcanos Low-pass Filters for Magma Transport or is There a Highway from Hell?, Philipp Ruprecht, Lamont-Doherty
September, 27, New insights into trophic ecology of marine animals from compound specific isotope analysis of amino acids, Brian Popp, University of Hawaii
October, 4, Did Earth Lose its Balance Before the First Animals Evolved?, Adam Maloof, Princeton University
October, 11, The Pliocene Bouse Formation and Initiation of the Modern Colorado River, Jon Spencer, Arizona Geologic Survey
October, 18, East Texas Deep Bosser Sandstone, Amoruso Field, John J. Amoruso; Amoruso Petroleum Company, Houston Texas
October, 25, Enigmatic Proterozoic and Early Paleozoic Fossils Illuminated by Modern Algae and Bryophytes and their Microbiomes, Linda Graham, University of Wisconsin
November, 1, Observing the Ocean for Climate Research Using Autonomous Robots, Breck Owens, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
November, 8, Tracing groundwater transformation, immobilization, and transport using Cr, U, and Se isotope ratios, Tom Johnson, Illinois
November, 15, Visualizing the Ocean's Overturning with Surface 14C Measurements, Robbie Toggweiller, NOAA
November, 22, Drilling Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice to Reveal Past and Future Climate Changes, David Harwood, University of Nebraska
December, 6, Sea Spray Aerosol: Impacts of Chemical Composition on Climate-Relevant Properties in Marine Environments, Andrew Ault, University of Michigan School of Public Health
January, 10, Insights into plant evolution and paleoenvironments in past warm worlds, Selena Smith, University of Michigan
January, 17, Invasive Species, Mass Extinction, and Speciation: How Biogeography Impacts the History of Life, Alycia Stigall, Ohio University
January, 24, Earth-Moon Dynamics Recorded in a >3.7 Billion Year Old Tidalite, Isua Supracrustal Belt, Greenland, Linda Hinnov, Johns Hopkins
January, 31, Seawater Chemistry Since the Triassic Recorded in Fossil Corals, and the Magnesium Problem, Michael Bender, Princeton
February, 7, Kinetics of Sulfur Degassing during Decompression of Silicate Melts, Adrian Fiege, University of Michigan EARTH
February, 12, Stable Nickel Isotope Fractionation During Rock Weathering: New Insights into the Biogeochemical Cycle of Nickel, Lev Jacob Spivak-Birndorf
February, 14, The Earth has Music for Those Who Will Listen: Structure of the Deep Mantle from Earth’s Free Oscillations, Paula Koelemeijer
February, 19, Response of Regional Climate to Global Forcing: The Role of Synoptic-scale Weather Systems in Shaping Climate Change Over West Africa, Christopher Skinner
February, 21, Earth's Upper Mantle Hybridization by Chemical Heterogeneity: Implications for Genesis of Ocean Island Basalts and Ultra-potassic Arc Lavas, Ananya Mallik
February, 28, Dorr Lecture: Reconstructing the Wiring Diagram of Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles, Paul Falkowski, Rutgers
March, 14, Nutrient Cycling in Low-oxygen Marine Environments: Engineering Solutions, Invasive Species, Microbes, and Beyond, Daniel Reed, University of Michigan
March, 21, The Sea Level Fingerprints of (Ancient and Modern) Ice Sheet Collapse, Jerry Mitrovica, Harvard University
March, 28, Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing: Michigan as a Case Study, Brian Ellis, University of Michigan College of Civil and Environmental Engineering
April, 4, Cenozoic Extension, Volcanism and Plateau Uplift in Eastern Africa and the African Superplume, Andy Nyblade, Penn State
April, 18, Glacial Climate from Clumped Isotope Thermometry, Aradhna Tripati, UCLA
2012-2013
September, 14, Dynamics of subduction zones and the transport of water to the deep Earth, Peter van Keken, University of Michigan
September, 21, The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Our Northern Future, Larry Smith, UCLA
September, 28, Ecosystem Response to Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Ozone: Synthesis of a Long-Term Field Experiment, Don Zak, University of Michigan
October, 5, Mass-dependent triple oxygen isotope variations in sedimentary rocks., Naomi Levin, Johns Hopkins University
October, 12, The fate of water in tropical clouds and the subtropical humidity balance, David Noone, Colorado/NCAR
October, 19, Death of a Megapredator, Whitey Hagadorn, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
October, 26, Frontiers in Molecular Biogeochemistry: Electron Transfer Dynamics in the Redox Cycling of Iron, Kevin Rosso, Pacific Northwest National Lab
November, 2, Probing Mid-Ocean Ridge Processes Through Deep Crustal Drilling, Doug Wilson, UCSBNovember, 9, Modeling the Effects of Thermodynamic Properties on Slab Evolution, Ikuko Wada, Virginia Tech
November, 16, How Much Water Erupts from Arc Volcanoes?, Terry Plank, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
November, 30, Two Martian Enigmas: Flat Landslides and Waterless Megaripples, Dave Montgomery, University of Washington
March, 1, Early Plateau Growth in Central Tibet and the Subduction History of Greater Indian Lithosphere, Paul Kapp, University of Arizona
March, 15, Mineral-Aqueous Solution Interfacial Reactions and Their Impact on the Environment, Gordon Brown, Stanford
April, 5, Expansion of Oxygen Minimum Zones During Early Pleistocene Cooling, Rebecca Robinson, University of Rhode Island
April, 12, Visualizing the Ocean's Overturning with Surface 14C Measurements, Robbie Toggweiler, GFDL
April, 19, A Tale of Two Oceans: Unsupported 231Pa/230Th in Glacial and Recent Sediments from the Atlantic and Arctic, Jerry McManus, Lamont Doherty
