Visiting Speakers, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

when	who	what and where	title of talk
2-Sep	none
9-Sep	William H. Smith	Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University	An optimist's view of the next fifty years on Planet Earth
16-Sep	none
23-Sep 3 p.m., Wilson 112	Peter G. Brewer	Senior Scientist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA	Novel Experiments in Deep Ocean Chemistry Global Change and the Hydrates of CO₂ and CH₄
30-Sep	Robert F. Dymek	Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University	Building a mystery: The discovery and exploration of the Mattawa anorthosite, Quebec
7-Oct	none
14-Oct	David Lawrence	Lunar Prospector Spectrometer Team, Los Alamos National Laboratory	Using orbital neutron and gamma-ray spectroscopy to measure the composition of the lunar surface
21-Oct	Barbara Bekins	Research Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA	Physical and chemical controls on microbial populations in an anaerobic crude-oil plume
28-Oct	Igor Khodakovsky	Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russia	Radiation safety of the biosphere: Lessons learned since Chernobyl
4-Nov	none
11-Nov	Andrew A. Nyblade	Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University	Seismic evidence for a mantle plume beneath the East African Rift System
18-Nov	David L. Kirschner	Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, St. Louis University	Structures and geochemistry of seismogenic faults at 2 to 5 km depth
25-Nov	none	Thanksgiving
2-Dec	cancelled