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Monday, November 30

 Fall 2009 EarthTalks Seminar Series
112 Walker Building at 4:00 p.m.
Russell Graham, Director, EMS Museum, Penn State University
"Late Pleistocene Environments of North America: Shifting Resources, Ecological Crisis and Extinction"

Tuesday, December 1

Polymer Physics Seminar - Department of Materials Science and Engineering
301 Steidle Building at 10:00 a.m.
Eric B. Sirota, Corporate Strategic Research ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
"To Be Announced"

Center for Environmental Kinetics Analysis and the Critical Zone Observatory Team, Susquehanna Shale Hills
117 Earth-Engineering Science Building at 12:00 noon
Chris Graham, Penn State University
"To Be Announced"

Geosciences Colloquium/Earth System Science Center
22 Deike Building at 4:00 p.m.
Jeffrey Park, Yale University
"Perche Apennino? Seismic Anisotropy, Subduction, Mantle Flow and Uplift in Central Italy"

Wednesday, December 2

Department of Geography Brown Bag Lunch Talk
112 Walker Building at 4:00 p.m.
Patrick Bottazzi, School of Natural Resources and Enviroment, University of Michigan
"Land Property Rights Regime and Deforestation: Indigenous Tsimane Versus Andean Migrants in the Bolivian Lowlands"

EMS Library Video Series
105 Deike Building at 12:15 p.m.
“Heat: a Global Investigation, Part 1" (60 min.-video)

Meteorology Colloquium
112 Walker Building at 4:00 p.m.
Chris Snyder, National Center for Atmospheric Research
"Short Inertia-Gravity Waves Generated by Large-Scale Balanced Vortices"

Thursday, December 3

Materials Science & Engineering 590 Seminar
26 Hosler Building at 10:10 a.m.
Michael Janik, Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
"First-Principles Design of Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cells"

Astrobiology Seminar
213 Deike Building at 12:15 p.m.
David Fernandez Remolar, Centro de Astrobiologia of Spain
"Microbiology and Geochemistry of the Rio Tinto Sulfuric Acid Waters: a Mars Analogue"

Friday, December 4

Department of Geography Coffee-Hour
112 Walker Building at 4:00 p.m.
Deryck Holdsworth, Department of Geography, Penn State University
“Signature Geographies: Strangers, Guests, Travelers and Tourists”
 

A weekly listing of seminars in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. If you have any seminar or talk which you would like advertised in ‘This Week’, please send the speaker’s name, title of talk, date and time to Debra Lambert at 2217 EES Building, 863-7091, lambert@eesi.psu.edu

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