Thursday,
Jan. 24

No Seminar

Thursday,
Jan. 31

Dean Rossell, Chief Geologist, Rio Tinto Exploration; "The Discovery of the Eagle Ni-Cu Deposit and the Tamarack Ni-Cu-PGE Prospect: Examples of the Benefits of Public Investment in Geo-science Projects "

Thursday,
Feb. 7

David Stone, Director, North America Exploration, Marathon Oil Company; " Energy Exploration: North America Resource Plays"

Friday, Feb. 15, LSCI 185
3:15 pm

DARWIN DAY LECTURE: Rowan Barrett, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Joint Geology-Biology Seminar,"Experimental Genomics of Adaptation to New Environments "

Thursday,
Feb. 21
Search Candidate

Colin Cooke, Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh, "From the Andes to the Arctic: Placing Recent Mercury Enrichment in a Long-term Context"

Kevin Thaisen, Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth; "The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) Mission: Revelations and Implications"

Thursday,
March 7

Julie Bartley, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Geology, Gustavus Adolphus College; "What Can Modern Microbialites Tell Us About the Precambrian, Oil Exploration, and Mars?"

12:00 Noon
MWAH 191

Thursday,
March14
Search Candidate(s)

3:30 pm

Christian Schardt, Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage; "Bringing Economic Geology to the Small Screen - Computer Models and Ore Deposits"

Byron Steinman, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University; "Ocean-atmosphere Forcing of Drought: New Perspectives from Lake Sediment Oxygen Isotope Records"

Thursday,
March 21

No Seminar - UMD Spring Break

Thursday,
March 28

Paul Fitzgerald, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University; "Thermochronology and the Tectonic Evolution of the Pyrenees"

Thursday,
April 4

CANCELLED --Jennifer Anderson, Associate Professor of Geosciences, Winona State University; "The Sudbury Impact Layer--Three Hours of Chaos, 1.85 Billion Years Ago"

Thursday,
April 11

CANCELLED - Allison Gale, Assistant Professor, Plant and Earth Sciences, University of Wisconsin River Falls; "Perspectives on Ocean Ridge Basalts from the Segment to the Global Scale"

Thursday,
April 18

CANCELLED -Jake Bailey, Asistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; "Exploring the Role of Bacteria in the Formation of Phosphatic Mineral Deposits "

Thursday,
April 25

Nick Deardorff, Assistant Professor, Department of Geolgical Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth; "Eruption Dynamics and Pyroclast Recycling at the Submarine Volcano NW Rota-1, Mariana Arc"

Thursday,
May 2

Chris Paola, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; "Experimental Deltas: Waves, Tides, and Clay"

Thursday,
May 9

No Seminar - last week of classes