This Week’s Events Earth Institute Events - Week of 12/8/08
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Monday, December 8
LDEO Division of Seismology, Geology & Tectonophysics Seminar Series: Long Wavelength Convection and Poiseuille-Couette Flow in the Low-Viscosity Asthenosphere
Speaker: Tobias Hoeink, Department of Earth Science, Rice University
Time: 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Location: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Marine Biology/Seismology Building Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
Contact: Dana J. Miller, djm2165@columbia.edu or call (845) 365-8384
Tuesday, December 9
MA in Climate and Society: What’s the Big Deal about One Degree?
Speakers: Various
Time: 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: White Plains Library, 100 Martine Avenue White Plains, New York
Contact: Arezou Raeisghasem, ar2393@columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/climatesociety/news.html
Wednesday, December 10
DEES Thesis Proposal: Inferences About Melt Transport, Chemical Processes, and the Mantle Source at Mid-Ocean Ridges from Spatial Trends in the Geochemical Variability of MORB Lavas and Mantle Residues
Speaker: Martin Collier, Graduate Student, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES), Columbia University
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Marine Biology/Seismology Building, Seismology Seminar Room, 2nd floor
Contact: Missy Pinckert, missy@ldeo.columbia.edu
Thursday, December 11
IRI Seminar: Evaluation of Air Temperature Retrieval from Remotely Sensed Data
Speaker: Christelle Vancutsem, Visiting Research Scientist, Remote Sensing, International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Monell Building Auditorium
Contact: IRI Seminars, seminar@iri.columbia.edu
Web Site: http://iri.columbia.edu
MA in Climate and Society: Did ‘We’ Do That? Natural and Man-made Causes of Climate Change
Speakers: Various
Time: 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Bloomingdale Public Library, 150 W. 100th Street, New York City
Contact: Arezou Raeisghasem, ar2393@columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/climatesociety/news.html
Friday, December 12
LDEO Earth Science Colloquium: Complex Systems: Finance, Climate, and Faust
Speaker: Berrien Moore III, Professor, Biogeochemical Modeling/Inverse Method, University of New Hampshire
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Monell Building Auditorium,
Contact: Natalie Boelman, nboelman@ldeo.columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/events/colloquium
Saturday, December 13
Earth2Class (E2C) Workshops for Teachers: The GAMBIT Project and Other Lamont Antarctic Investigations
Speakers: Margie Turrin, Education Coordinator, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Michael J. Passow, Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Marine Biology & Seismology Building, Seismology Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
Contact: Michael Passow, michael@earth2class.org
A Preview of Next Week’s Event
Thursday, December 18
IRI Seminar: Climate, Forecast and Impacts Briefing
All events are open to the public unless otherwise noted. For specific details on these events, visit the
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