Haller Hall, Geological Museum Room 102, 24 Oxford St.
Dr. Anna M. Michalak is a faculty member in the Department of Global Ecology of the Carnegie Institution for Science and a professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University. She studies the cycling and emissions of greenhouse gases at urban to global scales – scales directly relevant to informing climate and policy – primarily through the use of atmospheric observations. She also explores climate change impacts on freshwater and coastal water quality via influences on nutrient delivery to, and on conditions within, water bodies. Her approach is focused on the...
Speaker: Prof. Sean Willett, Department of Earth Science's Institute of Geology at ETH Zurich
Forearc basins develop on nearly every active margin and are linked to the tectonic deformation of the margin, but otherwise have no general genetic mechanism. Numerical and analytical models of accretionary wedge deformation can be used to demonstrate how deformation is affected by sedimentation and how feedback between gravitational stresses and deformation can help explain the diversity of forearc basin styles, sizes, and stratigraphic architectures. I summarize past and recent work with...
Workshop led by: Prof. Sean Willett, Department of Earth Science's Institute of Geology at ETH Zurich
Presentation of methodology for calculating and interpreting the chi structure (Willett et al., Science, 2014) of river networks in order to interpret patterns and dynamics of reorganization in response to tectonic forcing. Examples will be shown, but suggestions will be taken from the participants as to other regions of interest. Sean can take suggestions by email and produce maps prior to the workshop, or give instruction to participants as to how to do this. We can then make an...
Speaker: Prof. Sean Willett, Department of Earth Science's Institute of Geology at ETH Zurich
A summary of historic and recent work on the tectonics, erosion, and landscape evolution of this classic arc-continent collision will be presented. Extensive thermochronometry studies give a detailed picture of the collision-related exhumation rates and patterns and to this we can now add cosmogenic isotope studies of the Holocene erosion rates in order to test models of steady or transient exhumation.
Come celebrate the end of the semester! This year we will be celebrating EPS Day and the end of term on Cinco de Mayo. We will begin with grad student entertainment at 3pm. Food, drinks and liquid nitrogen ice cream will be served at 4pm, followed by more fun and frivolity. All EPS affiliates are welcome.
Please join us for a workshop that Prof. John Shaw will be leading to discuss how you may address "tricky situations" that you may encounter while teaching or serving as an educator at Harvard.... Read more about "Tricky situations" in teaching
All spring term TFs and TAs in EPS or EPS-taught courses are welcome to attend this lunch with the EPS Preceptors, Esther James and Annika Quick. Come learn about Preceptor support, department and university resources, and requirements/recommendations for you in your role as TF or TA.
Joint EPS-FAS Green Program Sustainability Lunch. Open to all members of the EPS community. This lunch will feature viewing and discussion of several environmentally-themed TED talks. Pizza and drinks will be provided.
