September 30 - October 1, 2010
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Thursday, September 30, 2010
8:15 a.m. - Light Breakfast, 102 KGL
8:55 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction
David Bercovici, Chair, Geology and Geophysics, 123 KGL
9:00 a.m. - “Seismic anisotrophy of the lower crust” - Brad Hacker, UC Santa Barbara, 123 KGL
9:45 a.m. - “Does the crust matter? A new view of post-collisional convergence rates from the India-Eurasia collisionA” - Marin Clark, University of Michigan, 123 KGL
10:30 a.m. - Coffee/Tea Break, 102 KGL
11:00 a.m. - “Zircons, geodynamics and continental growth” - Tony Kemp, James Cook University, 123 KGL
11:45 a.m. - “New developments in high-precision U-Pb geochronology and their application to deep time stratigraphy, astrochronology and paleoclimatology” - Mark Schmitz, Boise State University, 123 KGL
12:30 p.m. - Luncheon, 102 KGL
1:30p.m. - “Rates of tectonic and metamorphic processes as constrained by Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd geochronology of garnet bearing rocks” - Tom Lapen, University of Houston, 123 KGL
2:15 - “Rhenium and osmium in organic-rich mudrocks: from telling time to tracing Earth surface processes” - Brian Kendall, Arizona State University, 123 KGL
3:00 p.m. - Short break with coffee and tea
3:15 p.m. - “A ternary approach to decipher ancient Earth history” - Adam Maloof, Princeton University, 123 KGL
4:00 - G&G Department laboratory Open House
5:00 - Poster Reception
7:00 p.m. - Reception and Dinner, Skappos, 59 Crown Street
Friday, October 1, 2010
8:30 a.m. - Light Breakfast, 102 KGL
9:00 a.m. - “Building the Devil’s Staircase: The pathological nature of sediment deposition” - Doug Jerolmack, U. Penn, 123 KGL
9:45 a.m. - “Untangling river networks” - J. Taylor Perron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 123 KGL
10:30 a.m. - Coffee/Tea Break, 102 KGL
11:00 a.m. - “Episodic bedrock terrace formation triggered by river meandering” - Noah Finnegan, University of California, Santa Cruz, 123 KGL
11:45 a.m. - “Cosmogenic-nuclide burial dating” - Greg Balco, Berkeley Geochronology Center, 123 KGL
12:30 p.m. - Luncheon, 102 KGL
1:30 - “Quantifying the impact of tectonics and climate on erosion rates and topography from local to orogen scale” - Frederic Herman, ETH Zurich, 123 KGL
2:15 - “Geodynamic principles, not first principles, are the principal route to progress in understanding coupled systems” - Gerard Roe, University of Washington, 123 KGL
3:00 - Concluding Remarks; - Dave Evans, Yale University, 123 KGL
3:05 - Field trip (until ca. 6:30)
Casual Dinner (optional), Naples, 82-90 Wall Street