2007 Seminar Schedule
February 9, 2007 -Friday
May Nyman, Sandia National Laboratories
"Environmentally-Applied Materials at the Nanoscale"
Place and time: 115 ESS, Noon (Brown Bag Lunch Seminar)
March 23, 2007 -Friday
Richard Reeder, Geosciences Dept.
"Heavy Metal Contaminants in the Environment and How Bioaccessibility Affects Human Health"
Place and time: 001 ESS, 7:30pm (Geology Open Night)
April 12, 2007 -Monday
Matthew Wander, Geosciences Dept., PhD student
"How Permeable Reactive Barriers Reductively Eliminate Pollutants: An Electron's Perspective"
Place and time: 123 ESS, 4:00 (GEO colloquium)
April 23, 2007 -Monday
Rene Schwarzenbach, Inst.f.Biogeochemie , ETH Zürich
Facutly Page-Environmental Chemistry
"Quantification of Sorption Equilibria of Organic Pollutants- Tackling Sorbate and Sorbent Variability by a Unifying Approach"
Place and time: 115 ESS, Noon (Brown Bag Lunch Seminar)
May 31, 2007
Juraj Majzlan, Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry
Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg
Arsenic and antimony: The geochemical cousins that pollute our environment
Place and time: 123 ESS, 4pm (GEO/CEMS Colloquium)
Date Change-announced soon.
Marc Michel, Geosciences Dept, PhD student
"Protein-coated Minerals"
Place and time: 115 ESS, Noon (Brown Bag Lunch Seminar)
2006 Seminar Schedule
January 25, 2006 -Wednesday
F. Marc Michel, Graduate Student, Department of Geosciences, SBU
"PDF Analysis of Iron Sulfides and Oxides"
Place and time: 115 ESS, Noon (Brown Bag Lunch Seminar)
February 9, 2006 -Thursday
Paul Northrup, Brookhaven National Laboratory
"Synchrotron X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in Environmental
Science"
Place and time: 123 ESS, 4pm (GEO/CEMS Colloquium)
February 15, 2006 -Wednesday
Jeffrey Tsang, Post Doc- Univ. of Delaware
"Pseudopolarographic determination of Cd2+ complexation in freshwater"
Place and time: 115 ESS, Noon (Brown Bag Lunch Seminar)
March 16, 2006 -Thursday
James Kirkpatrick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Molecular Modeling and Experimental Studies of Mineral Surfaces and Interlayers"
Place and time: 123 ESS, 4pm (GEO/CEMS Colloquium)
March 23, 2006 -Thursday
Martin Goldhaber, USGS-Denver
"Geologic and Anthropogenic Controls on Soil Geochemistry in northern California"
Place and time: 123 ESS, 4pm (GEO/CEMS Colloquium)
April 19, 2006 -Wednesday
Sytle Antao, PhD, Dept. of Geosciences, Stony Brook University
"Cation Ordering in Some Carbonate-Group Minerals"
Place and time: ESS 115 Noon (GEO/CEMS Colloquium)
April 20, 2006 -Thursday
Clark Johnson, Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Wisconsin
"Tracing modern and ancient biogeochemical metal cycling using iron isotopes"
Place and time: 123 ESS, 4pm (GEO/CEMS Colloquium)
May 3, 2006 -Wednesday
Aaron Celestian, Graduate Student, Dept. of Geosciences, Stony Brook University
"Effects of hydroxyl and water on cesium sequestration in porous silicotitanates"
Place and time: ESS 115 Noon (GEO/CEMS Colloquium)
May 22, 2006 -Monday
Allison Luengren, Graduate Student, Environmental Toxicology Dept., University of California, Santa Cruz
"Exploiting a predictably occurring spring phytoplankton bloom to investigate metal biogeochemistry in South
San Franciso Bay"
Place and time: ESS 123 2:30 (CEMS Seminar)
May 31, 2006 -Wednesday
Alexandra Navrotsky
"New Adventures in Calorimetry of Minerals and Materials"
Place and time: ESS 123 2:00pm (GEO/MPI Colloquium)
June 8, 2006 -Thursday
Liane G. Benning, Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
Currently, Geophysical Lab, Carnegie Institute of Washington
"How Earthlings have fun looking for life in a terrestrial Mars analogue site: an AMASE'ing experience"
Place and time: ESS 123 2:30pm (CEMS seminar)
June 9, 2006 -Friday
Liane G. Benning, Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
Currently, Geophysical Lab, Carnegie Institute of Washington
"How to track the birth of a nanoparticle: the fight between kinetics and thermodynamics"
Place and time: ESS 123 10:00am (CEMS seminar)
June 15, 2006 -Thursday
Youjun Deng, Ph.D. Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Center for Multiphase Environmental Research
Washington State University
"Mineral transformation in sediments after reacting with simulated radioactive wastes"
Place and time: ESS 123 2:30pm (CEMS seminar)
Oct. 5, 2006 -Thursday
Jeff Catalano, Argonne National Lab
"Mineral-Water Interface Processes Affecting Contaminant Fate and Biogeochemical Cycling"
Place and time: ESS 123 4:00pm (GEO/CEMS Colloquium)
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