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Spring 2012 Weekly Seminar Series

Talks are on Wednesdays, 4:00 to 5:20 pm in 100 Willamette Hall.
Tea and cookies are served in Cascade 200 beginning at 3:30 p.m.


April 3 - (TUESDAY–in 200 Cascade Hall)- Antinio Teixell (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Title: Crust and mantle processes in the development of the Moroccan High Atlas

April 11 - Dorothy Merritts and Bob Walter (Franklin and Marshall College)
Title: Pleistocene to Holocene landscape evolution and the legacy of dams in the eastern US

April 18 - Susan De Bari (Western Washington University)
Title: Processes of magma generation and evolution in the northern Cascade arc (southern Garibaldi belt)

April 25 - Dominique Weis (University of British Columbia)
Title: What do we know about mantle plumes, what can Hawaiian volcanoes tell us about the Earth's mantle and how can we learn more?

May 2 - Charles Marshall (University of California, Berkeley)
Title: The Cambrian explosion and diversity of life

May 9 - Catherine Badgley (University of Michigan)
Title: Diversity dynamics of Neogene mammals in relation to tectonic and climatic history

May 16 - Scott Burns (Portland State University)
Title: Cataclysms on the Columbia

May 18 - NOTE SPECIAL TIME Stephen Barker (Cardiff University)
Title: 800,000 years of climate variability

May 23 - Ikuko Wada (Virginia Tech)
Title: Subduction zone geodynamics

May 30 - Pat Holroyd (UC Berkeley)
Title: How reptiles respond to early Paleogene climate change and evolution of fluvial systems in the Western Interior

June 6 - Colin Stark (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
Title: Catastrophic landslide detection and measurement using long-period seismic waves

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