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 x31808 or Ben Andrews at x31818.
Seminars run from 10:00 until 11:00 unless otherwise noted. Refreshments served at 10 AM.
| Jan 9 | Mantle Temperature, Mantle Composition, Mantle Heterogeneity: The view from local and global syntheses of MORB compositions | Allison Gale Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard University |
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| Jan 22 | 2:30p | The largest explosive eruptions in the Kamchatka volcanic arc (NW Pacific) | Vera Ponomareva Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Kamchatka, Russia |
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| Jan 23 | Making the Planet Mercury: Constraining Mercury's Core Composition and Building Blocks through Laboratory Experiments | Nancy Chabot Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University |
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| Feb 6 | Vertical Tectonics and the Reorganization of the North American Mantle | Ryan Porter Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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| Feb 13 | No seminar | |||
| Feb 20 | Melt extraction at mid-ocean ridges: A play in three acts | Laurent Montesi University of Maryland |
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| Feb 27 | Multiply-saturated rhyolite obsidians: A case for degassing induced crystallization of phenocrysts? | Laura Waters University of Michigan |
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| Mar 6 | No seminar | |||
| Mar 13 | Satellite monitoring of volcanic sulphur dioxide emissions | Brendan McCormick Smithsonian Institution, Department of Mineral Sciences |
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| Mar 20 | Linking first-order volcanological, geophysical, and geochemical observations in understanding global arc magma genesis and evolution | Georg Zellmer Smithsonian Institution, Department of Mineral Sciences |
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| Mar 27 | Trace element patterns of basaltic melts: MORB versus backarc basin magmas | Frances Jenner Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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| Apr 3 | No seminar | |||
| Apr 10 | Magma-tectonic interactions revealed by satellite geodesy and modeling | Christelle Wauthier Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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| Apr 17 | To the Tropopause, and Beyond! Volcanoes and Wildfire as Sources of Stratospheric Pollution | Mike Fromm Naval Research Laboratory |
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| Apr 24 | Laboratory and numerical modeling of subduction-driven mantle flow and plume-slab interaction | Kelsey Druken Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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| May 1 | Pleistocene glaciation: astronomical and volcanogenic forcing | Peter Huybers Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University |
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| May 8 | Large-magnitude extension in the middle to upper crust: an example from the Buckskin-Rawhide metamorphic core complex, west-central Arizona | John Singleton George Mason University |
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| May 14 | No seminar | |||
| May 22 | Natural polycrystalline diamonds: Beautifully ugly, geochemically interesting, yet, surprisingly overlooked | Sami Mikhail Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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| Jun 12 | The Deep Oxygen Cycle | Elizabeth Cottrell Smithsonian Institution, Department of Mineral Sciences |
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