G&EC Winter 2008 Seminar Schedule



Seminars held at NOON in Orton Hall Room 110

Date Speaker Seminar Title
18 Jan 2008 Dr. Jason Box, Assistant Professor in Geography, The Ohio State University Time-lapse camera investigation of Greenland glacier behavior and climate sensitivity
25 Jan 2008 Dr. Virginie Bouchard Research Group (Kathleen Hossler and Rachel Schultz), Associate Professor in the School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State University Shoots, roots and microbes in wetlands: how they interact and why we care?
1 Feb 2008 Dr. Susan Fisher, Evans, Mechwart, Hambleton, & Tilton, Inc. The GREEN behind Green Infrastructure
8 Feb 2008 Dr. Heather Allen Research Group, Associate Professor in Chemistry, The Ohio State University Area of Research: Atmospheric Organic Chemistry
15 Feb 2008 Mary Scott Orton Hall Geology LIbrarian The geology library, resources for students, staff, and faculty
22 Feb 2008 Dr. Yo Chin Research Group, Professor in the School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University Transformation of organic and inorganic contaminants in aquatic environments
29 Feb 2008 Dr. Harunur Rashid, Postdoctoral Fellow at Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University Millennial-scale ocean ventilation and sea-surface variability in four glacial cycles: a new assessment for the Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet growth
7 Mar 2008 Marc Mills, US Environmental Protection Agency Theme: Strategies for the remediation of emerging contaminants in sedimentary environments



G&EC Autumn 2007 Seminar Schedule



Seminars held at 11am in Orton Hall Room 110

Date Speaker Seminar Title
28 Sept 2007 Ziqi He, PhD student in Dr. Linda Weaver's lab, CEEGS, OSU Can shrimp be our new "janitors of the planet?" Using cavitation to clean environmental systems.
5 Oct 2007 Dr. Ken Lepper, Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University Lake Agassiz: Trigger man for the Younger Dryas or an innocent bystander?
12 Oct 2007 Dr. Hal Walker's group, Associate Professor, CEEGS, OSU Harmful Algal Blooms andn Drinking Water
19 Oct 2007 Dr. Leonid Polyak, Research Scientist, Byrd Polar Research Center, OSU Looking for past proxies of the future Arctic Ocean
26 Oct 2007 Dr. Alfredo Mendoza,Universidad Nactional Autonoma de Nicaragua (UNAN-Managua), Hosted by Anne Carey and Berry Lyons Groundwater studies: Why are they especially important in a developing country?
2 Nov 2007 Dr. Tom Lippman's group, Senior Research Scientist, Byrd Polar Research Center, OSU Impacts of Climate Change on Coastal Processes: Who Cares?
9 Nov 2007 Dr. Gary McKenzie, Associate Professor, SES, OSU and graduate student Micheal Murphy GM - Human Population: The Missing Factor in a Total Earth Systems Science Approach to Sustainability?

MM - Energy: The Factor that Fuels and Limits Growth

16 Nov 2007 Dr. Steven Lower's group, Assistant Professor, SES, SENR, OSU Dr. Steven Lower: Introduction

Graduate Studenet Eric Taylor "Nanominerals and human health".

Graduate Student Zach Oestreicher "Biomineralization in magnetotactic bacteria".

30 Nov 2007 Dr. Motomu Ibaraki's group, Associate Professor, SES, OSU Dr. Motomu Ibaraki: Introduction

Graduate Student Jun Mizuno "Potential losses of freshwater resources in coastal aquifers caused by climate change"

Visiting Scholar Takayuki Hoshino "On the estimation of grid-block values of effective porosity in heterogeneous media"

Graduate Student Melanie McCandless "Hydrological impact on parasitic disease transmission: schistosomiasis in the Poyang lake region, China"