Geological Sciences - Departmental Seminars - Spring 2001

	Geological Sciences Seminars
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
SPRING 2001 LECTURE SERIES
"Funded from SDSU Students Instructionally-Related Activities (IRA) fees"

February 12 2:00pm PSFA-310	"Inside the Precambrian-Cambrian Transition"	Dr. James Whitey Hagadorn Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences Caltech
February 21 1:00pm PSFA-310	"The 'Living Manganese Deposit' on the slopes of Mt. Akan Volcano, Hokkaido, Japan: From Bioremediation to Ore Deposit Model"	Eleanora I. Robbins USGS
February 22 1:30pm LS-101	"Beating a Dead Hadrosaur? A Press/Pulse Mechanism for Cretaceous/Tertiary Terrestrial Extinctions"	Nan Arens Department of Integrative Biology UC Museum of Paleontology UC Berkeley
February 28 1:00pm PSFA-310	"Opportunities in Geoscience Education Research"	Eric Riggs Dept. of Geological Sciences SDSU
March 1 3:30pm CG-201	"The Dynamics of Magma Chambers"	Wendy Bohrson Dept. of Geological Sciences Central Washington Univ.
March 5 3:30pm CG-201	"The use of isotope geochemistry to address geologic and petrologic problems: Future directions with multicollector ICP mass spectrometry"	Jeff Vervoort Dept. of Geosciences Univ. of Arizona
March 7 3:00pm CG-201	"Paleobiogeography of Fossil Decapod Crustaceans of the North Pacific Ocean"	Carrie Schweitzer Dept. of Geology Kent State Univ.
March 22 3:30pm CG-201	"Tectonic and thermochronological evolution of the Kaapvaal Craton, southern Africa: a lower crustal perspective"	Mark Schmitz Dept. of EAPS MIT
April 4 1:00pm PSFA-310	"Is the noticeable increase in surfers off Scripps Beach a possible indication of global warming?"	Charles "Chick" Keller IGPP SIO - UCSD
April 5 3:00pm CG-201	"Petrologic Studies of Continental Magmatism"	Todd Feeley Dept. of Earth Sciences Montana State University
April 11 3:30pm CG-201	"Proterozoic Supercontinent Cycles - The Madagascar Connection"	Michael Handke Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences Washington University - St. Louis
April 16 3:30pm CG-201	"From Mantle to Atmosphere: Magma Degassing and Explosive Volcanic Eruptions"	Paul Wallace Ocean Drilling Program(ODP) Dept. of Geology and Geophysics Texas A&M University
April 18 1:00pm CG-201	"Discharge Across the Amazon Floodplain -- Measured from Spaceborne Interferometric Radar"	Doug Alsdorf Dept. of Geography UCLA
April 26 3:00pm CG-201	"Triassic bivalves and the beginning of a revolution: A role for predators?"	Chris McRoberts Dept. of Geology SUNY Cortland
May 9 1:00pm CG-201	"Isotopic studies on basement rocks from the Maya terrane in southeastern Mexico: A key position for Precambrian-Paleozoic interactions between Laurentia and Gondwana?"	Bodo Weber Dept. of Geology CICESE
May 14 11:00am CG-201	"The Neoproterozoic History of Animals."	Allen G. Collins UC Museum of Paleontology UC Berkeley
May 17 3:00pm CG-201	"Paleogene Climate Events: A View from the Ostracoda."	Stephen Schellenberg Earth Sciences Department UC Santa Cruz and USC Earth Sciences
May 22 3:00pm CG-201	"The Carboniferous latitudinal diversity gradient: Examining "the age of the tropics" hypothesis."	Lindsey Leighton Department of Geology UC Davis and University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology

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