Department of Geological Sciences
104 South Road, Mitchell Hall
Campus Box #3315
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315 Telephone: (919) 966-4516 Fax: (919) 966-4519
Department Seminars
Geological Sciences Colloquiums for 2009:
9/10/09
Dr. Justin B. Ries
THURSDAY UNC-CH Department of Marine Sciences
Marine calcification under high-CO2 atmospheres: variable responses and the reasons why
9/17/09
Dr. Jesse E. McNinch
THURSDAY Director, Field Research Facility, USACE
Professor, School of Marine Science, VIMS
College of William and Mary
Challenges in predicting shoreline change under varying storm and sea level rise scenarios: North Carolina cuspate foreland beaches
9/24/09
Dr. Jeffrey Warren
THURSDAY Coastal Hazards Specialist
NC Division of Coastal Management
The Science Behind North Carolina Coastal Policy
10/7/09
WEDNESDAY,3:30 pm
UNC-CH Marine Sciences, 328 Phillips Hall
Dr. Tamlin Pavelsky UNC-CH Geological Sciences
Remote Sensing of Hydrologic Recharge in a Large Northern Delta
10/15/09
Dr. Martin Tingley
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard University and SAMSI
A Bayesian approach to reconstructing climate fields from proxy time
series, applied to 600 years of high northern latitude surface
temperature
4th Annual
CAROLINA CLIMATE CHANGE SEMINAR
Thursday
OCTOBER 29, 2009, 7:30 P.M.
CARROLL HALL AUDITORIUM
PUBLIC SEMINAR : Greenhouse Gases & Climate Change
RECEPTION FOLLOWING SEMINAR
Friday
OCTOBER 30, 2009, 11:00 A.M.
TATE-TURNER-KURALT AUDITORIUM
TECHNICAL TALK: The CFC-Ozone Story
Dr. F. Sherwood Rowland University Of California Irvine Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995
The discovery
that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other man-made
gases contribute to the destruction of the stratospheric
ozone layer that protects living organisms from damaging
UV solar radiation.
11/4/09
WEDNESDAY,3:30 pm
UNC-CH Marine Sciences, 328 Phillips Hall
Dr. Sarah Carmichael
Department of Geology, Appalachian State University
Formation of Replacement Dolomites by Infiltration of Diffuse Effluent: Latemar Carbonate Buildup, Dolomites, Northern Italy
11/12/09
Dr. Peter K. Haff
THURSDAY Professor of Geology and Civil Engineering
Earth and Ocean Sciences Division, Nicholas School of the Environment
Duke University
Mass Transport in the Anthropocene
11/19/2009
Dr John J. Lyons
THURSDAY Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Michigan Technological University TBA
12/3/09
Dr. Karl W. Wegmann
THURSDAY Department of Marine, Earth, & Atmospheric Sciences
NC State University
From Earthquake Hazards to Homo erectus: Integrated tectonic
geomorphology above the Hellenic Subduction Zone, Crete, Greec
