Mineral Sciences - Seminar Series
Mineral Sciences seminars are held on the 4th floor, East Wing, of NMNH. Individuals who are not members of the department need to buzz in at the entrance to the department (located just by the 4th floor East wing elevators) prior to 10am. Below the phone, just push the big red door access button and you’ll be buzzed through. Those without SI badges should call the department from the visitor services office, located at the 10th and Constitution Ave entrance to the museum, by dialing Phyllis McKenzie at 3-1808 or Liz Cottrell at 3-1859.
Refreshments served at 10 AM. Seminars run from 10:00 until 11:00 unless otherwise noted.
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January 23 |
Mike Walter - University of Bristol |
"Diamonds and their inclusions from Juina, Brazil: The scent of subduction" |
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February 11 |
"A visit to the National Gallery of Art's exhibit: Pompeii and the Roman Villa" |
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Departing DMS at 10:00 AM. Departing the front (Mall side) steps of the museum at 10:10 AM. This informal tour will be coordinated by Mariek Schmidt (SchmidtM@si.edu) and Rick Wunderman (wunderma@si.edu) |
February 18 |
Mariek Schmidt - Smithsonian Institution |
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"Recent Discoveries by the Spirit Mars Rover: Evidence for a Fossil Hydrothermal System" |
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March 4 |
Derek Richardson - University of Maryland |
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"Rotational breakup as the origin of small binary asteroids" |
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March 11 |
Karen Stockstill-Cahill - University of Hawaii at Manoa |
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"Low-albedo intracrater deposits within Amazonis Planitia, Mars: Possible new lithologies" |
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March 18 |
David Szymanski - Michigan State University |
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"Beyond Soil: Geology, Forensic Chemistry, and Glass" |
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March 25 |
Gari Mayberry - USGS and USAID & Tom Casadevall - USGS |
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"The U.S. Volcano Disaster Assistance Program Response to the World's Most Unique Volcano--Ol Doinyo Lengai,Tanzania" |
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April 8 |
Ben Bussey - Applied Physics Lab |
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"Exploring the Lunar Poles" |
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April 15 |
Liz Cottrell - Smithsonian Institution |
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"The oxidation state of volcanic glasses: How life is rusting our planet" |
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April 22 |
Alexandra Navrotsky - University of California at Davis |
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"Energetics of Oxide Nanomaterials" |
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April 29 |
Doug Rumble - Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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"How the Asteroid 2008 TC3 became the meteorite Almahata Sita" |
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May 13 |
Smithsonian Institution Mineralogy Group |
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"Recent Acquisitions" |
May 27 |
Ed Venzke - Smithsonian Institution |
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"Recent Volcanic Activity in Tonga and the Red Sea" |
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June 3 |
Rebecca Lange - University of Michigan |
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"Andesites and dacites from small-volume, short-lived, peripheral vents: Some surprising insights from the textures and compositions of their sparse phenocrysts " |
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June 17 |
Steven Stanley - University of Hawaii |
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"Biomineralization and Seawater Chemistry: Paleontological and Experimental Evidence" |
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