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Donald J. DePaolo, leader

UC Berkeley • Class of 1951 Professor of Geochemistry, Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

475 McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-4767

T • (01) 510/643-5064
F • (01) 510/642-9520

 

Justin I. Simon, co-leader

483 McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-4767

T • (01) 510/642-9524

Earth & Planetary Science 290
Isotope Geochemistry Seminar series

This seminar series is offered spring semesters only. To subscribe to the email announcement list, send your request to .

Isotope Geochemistry Seminar • Spring 2009

Wednesday at 4 pm in 401 McCone

Isotope seminar program...

February 4

Jenny Druhan, University of California, Berkeley

Isotopes in the woods: Moisture sources supplying a forest ecosystem in the Northern California Coast Range

Brook Peterson, University of California, Berkeley

Fun with helium isotopes in HSDP-2 olivines

February 11

Susan Zimmerman, LLNL

Evidence for lake-level response to millennial and Milankovitch forcing: The past 70 ka at Mono Lake

February 18

Jim Watkins, University of California, Berkeley

The structure and dynamics of silicate melts from diffusion experiments

February 25

Vicky Lee, University of California, Berkeley

Direct dating of detrital Quaternary sediment: progress update on the uranium-series comminution age method

Bill Cassata, University of California, Berkeley

Argon diffusion in plagioclase: Implications for thermochronometry on the Moon and in large igneous provinces

March 4

Darren Tollstrop, University of California, Santa Cruz

Hotter than you'd think: what backarc basalts tell us about the fate of subducting slabs

March 11

Steve Denyszyn, Berkeley Geochronology Center

U-Pb baddeleyite geochronology of Proterozoic mafic rocks, and applications to tectonics, thermal histories, and plate reconstructions.

March 18

Jay Black, University of California, Los Angeles

Redox Driven Transition Metal Stable Isotope Fractionation

March 25

Spring Break, no seminar

**Tuesday, March 31**

special noon seminar in McCone 365

Denton Ebel, the American Natural History Muesum

Meteorite & Comet Constraints on Models of Protoplanetary Disks

April 1

Alex Gagnon, Caltech

Multiple Proxy Constraints on Biomineralization Mechanism in Deep-Sea Coral: Metal/Calcium and Stable Isotope Ratios

April 8

John Higgins, Harvard University

The global magnesium cycle: Insights from magnesium isotopes

April 15

Jeremy Hourigan, University of California, Santa Cruz

Detrital zircon (U-Th)/He Thermochronology: Motivations and Methods

April 22

Dianne Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles

Chronology of large-scale silicate differentiation on the Moon: The Lu-Hf perspective.

April 29

Amy Hofmann, Caltech

Sub-micron scale trace element distributions in natural and synthetic zircons

May 6

Ben Jacobsen, University of California, Davis

Initial Solar Inventory of 26Al and 36Cl and the Formation Timescale of the Earliest Solar System Solids

May 13

Abby Kavner, University of California, Los Angeles

Tunable isotope separation at an electrode


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