Geology News

Maria Prokopenko, Pomona College and USC, discusses using oxygen triple isotopes and O2/Ar ratios to determine factors controlling carbon export production in spring blooms on the Bering Sea shelf.

Anita Grunder, Oregon State University, will discuss the High Lava Plains of Oregon.

Peter Douglas (’05), California Institute of Technology, will be presenting new data on interactions between the Maya and their environment gathered from the isotopic composition of plant wax biomarkers preserved in lake sediments.

Speaker: Christopher Kim, Chapman University Title: “Arsenic Transport, Speciation, and Bioaccessibility in Gold Mining Environments” Please join us: Tuesday, October 15th @ 11AM

Heather Wright, Cascade Volcano Observatory, will be speaking about the five holocene rhyolite domes that lie along the southern margin of the Salton Sea, California.

Colin Robins, Keck Science Department (CMC/PIT/SCR) will give a talk titled "Mineralogical and Soil-Geomorphic Insights from a ~4-5 million-year-old Mojave Desert Soil."

Anne Sheehan, University of Colorado, Boulder, will present recent results from a major passive and active source EarthScope Flexible Array seismological experiment in the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming.

John Grotzinger, California Institute of Technology and JPL, will be discussing exciting new data from the Curiosity rover on Mars.