Planetary Science
Mar 2, 2020
11:00 AM

Dr. Craig Bina of Northwestern University delivered a seminar on "Some Thermo-Petrological Effects on Subduction Dynamics."

Event Host: Mike Walter
High Pressure
Feb 18, 2020
11:00 AM

Dr. Guoyin Shen of APS will deliver a seminar on "Structures of amorphous materials under high pressure."

Event Host: Mike Walter
Astrobiology
Feb 10, 2020
11:00 AM

Dr. Catharine "Cassie" Conley, Visiting Investigator working with Dr. Andrew Steele, presented a seminar on "Assessing Confidence in Detections of Extraterrestrial Life."

Event Host: Geophysical Laboratory
Geochemistry
Feb 3, 2020
11:00 AM

Jordan Wostbrock of the University of New Mexico will deliver a seminar on "Seeing through carbonate diagenesis using the triple oxygen isotope system."

Event Host: Mike Walter
Geochemistry
Jan 27, 2020
11:00 AM
Event Host: Geophysical Laboratory
Planetary Science
Jan 21, 2020
11:00 AM

Dr. Seth Jacobson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Michigan State University.

Event Host: Anat Shahar
Geochemistry
Dec 16, 2019
11:00 AM
Event Host: Doug Rumble
High Pressure
Dec 2, 2019
11:00 AM
Event Host: Irina Chuvashova
High Pressure
Nov 25, 2019
11:00 AM

Dr. Timothy Strobel of Carnegie Science Geophysical Laboratory presented on "Superdiamonds with tunable properties: a new class of sp3-bonded carbon-based frameworks."

Event Host: Geophysical Laboratory
Geochemistry
Nov 18, 2019
11:00 AM

Dr. Jill Mikucki of the University of Tennessee Knoxville delivered a seminar entitled "On the exploration of Antarctic subglacial microbial ecosystems."

Event Host: Joy Buongiorno
Geochemistry
Nov 12, 2019
11:00 AM

Dr. Mojhgan A. Haghnegahdar of Department of Geology at the University of Maryland presented a seminar titled, "Can Measurements of 13CH3D & 12CH2D2 Help Us Understand the Atmospheric Methane Budget?"

Event Host: Doug Rumble
Nov 7, 2019
6:30 PM

Symbiosis refers to mutually beneficial interactions between different organisms. Endosymbiosis is a type of symbiosis in which one organism lives inside another organism.

Event Host: Department of Embryology
Geochemistry
Nov 4, 2019
11:00 AM
Event Host: Shaunna Morrison
Planetary Science
Oct 28, 2019
11:00 AM

Dr. Esteban Gazel of Cornell University delivered a seminar on "Sampling the transition zone below Bermuda." His seminar included unpublished results, so his talk was not recorded.

Event Host: Mike Walter
Geochemistry
Oct 23, 2019
11:00 AM

Dr. Matthieu Galvez of ETH in Zurich delivered a special Wednesday seminar entitled, "How Mountains React and Breathe."

Event Host: Doug Rumble
Planetary Science
Oct 15, 2019
11:00 AM

Dr. Michael P. Ryan of The Magma Physics Project delivered a seminar on The 2018 Eruptions of Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i.

Event Host: Doug Rumble and Bjorn Mysen
Geochemistry
Oct 3, 2019
6:30 PM

The phenomenon of magnetic resonance was first revealed in the classic Stern-Gerlach experiment in 1922. Over the nearly 100 years and 10 Nobel Prizes that followed, magnetic resonance has developed into one of the most powerful a

Event Host: Geophysical Laboratory
Planetary Science
Sep 27, 2019
11:00 AM
Event Host: Anat Shahar
Geochemistry
Sep 16, 2019
11:00 AM

Dr. Irena Mamajanov of ELSI researches geochemistry and the origins of life. She delivered a seminar on "From Messy Chemistry to the Origins of Life."

Event Host: George Cody
Planetary Science
Sep 12, 2019
6:30 PM

We stand at an epochal moment in human history – we are about to learn if we are alone in the universe. The Kepler Space Telescope has shown that Earth-like worlds are commonplace.

Event Host: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Planetary Science
Jun 17, 2019
11:00 AM

Dr. Oded Navon of The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem presented on "Diamond forming fluids: Diamond formation and other mantle processes."

Event Host: Anat Shahar
Astrobiology
Jun 10, 2019
11:00 AM

Dr. Sara Walker of ASU is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist interested in the origin of life and how to find life on other worlds. She presented on "Planetary systems biochemistry - inferring the laws of life at a global scale."

Event Host: Shaunna Morrison
Astrobiology
Jun 3, 2019
11:00 AM
Event Host: Bob Hazen
Materials
May 28, 2019
11:00 AM

Dr. Rama K. Vasudevan of Oak Ridge National Laboratory presented on "Machine and Deep Learning for Materials Science: Current State and Future Prospects." 

Event Host: Dhiren Pradhan
Planetary Science
May 23, 2019
6:30 PM

In shock-wave experiments, high-powered lasers or guns are used to send a supersonic pressure wave through a sample. This type of dynamic compression can generate immense pressure and allows for the study of impact phenomena in real time.

Event Host: Geophysical Laboratory
Geochemistry
May 20, 2019
11:00 AM

Dr. Longjian Xie of Bayerisches Geoinstitut presented on "Viscosity of magma ocean and the primordial structure of Earth's silicate mantle."

Event Host: Yingwei Fei
Geochemistry
May 13, 2019
11:00 AM

Dr. Shanan E. Peters presented on "Unsteady growth of the continental sedimentary reservoir: implications for the Earth-life system."

Event Host: Bob Hazen and Shaunna Morrison
Mineralogy
Apr 29, 2019
11:00 AM

Dr. Joshua Coyan of the U.S. Geological Society presented on "Mineral Resource Assessments - An Overview from Qualitative to Quantitative, Including Mineral Potential Modeling, the Three-Part Method, and Probabilistic Estimates."

Event Host: Bob Hazen and Shaunna Morrison
Planetary Science
Apr 25, 2019
6:30 PM

Gravity, the fundamental force that shaped our planet, varies across the Earth’s surface, both from place to place and over time. For more than three centuries, scientists have made gravity measurements to define the shape of the Earth.

Event Host: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Geochemistry
Apr 22, 2019
11:00 AM

Ming Tang from Rice University presented on "The missing iron in the continental crust."

Event Host: Anat Shahar and Peng Ni
Planetary Science
Apr 15, 2019
11:00 AM

Celia Dalou of Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG) presented on "Redox effects on N speciation, elementary and isotopic fractionation during planetary core forma

Event Host: George Cody
High Pressure
Apr 8, 2019
11:00 AM

Reynold E. Silber of Yale University presented on "Mystery of transport properties of liquid transition metals and alloys along the melting boundaries - Implications for terrestrial cores.”

Event Host: Yingwei Fei
Materials
Apr 1, 2019
11:00 AM
Event Host: Suzy Vitale
Planetary Science
Mar 28, 2019
6:30 PM

As extreme weather, rising seas, and severe droughts bring home the reality of global climate change, we are increasingly aware of the world’s pressing need for carbon-free energy sources and reliable, affordable energy storage systems. 

Event Host: Geophysical Laboratory and Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Planetary Science
Mar 4, 2019
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continued with Heather Watson of Union College, Department of Physics and Astronomy. She presented on "Diffusion of key isotopes in iron meteorites: Constraints on closure temperatures."

Event Host: Anat Shahar
Materials
Feb 25, 2019
11:00 AM

Anton Oliynyk presented on "Accelerating the Discovery of Solid State Materials: From Traditional to Machine-Learning Approaches." Intermetallic compounds are bestowed by diverse compositions, complex structures, and useful properties for many materials

Event Host: Timothy Strobel
Department
Feb 19, 2019
11:00 AM

Safety at the Geophysical Laboratory is a top priority. We are committed to a safe working environment in the laboratory and everywhere on campus. To ensure the safety of our Carnegie family, the Safety Committee will review policies and procedures.

Event Host: Timothy Strobel
Planetary Science
Feb 11, 2019
11:00 AM

Simon Lock of the California Institute of Technology is interested in the formation, structure, and evolution of planets, both in our solar system and in extrasolar systems.

Event Host: Anat Shahar
Planetary Science
Jan 22, 2019
11:00 AM

The research of Associate Professor at Brown University Stephen Parman focuses on the chemical evolution of the Earth, moons, and planets. He delivered a seminar titled "Tracing volatile recycling in the mantle with noble gases."

Event Host: Mike Walter
Geochemistry
Dec 17, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Denis Andrault of Université Blaise Pascal. He will present: "On thermal state of the deep Earth during its history."

Event Host: Bjorn Mysen
Astrobiology
Dec 7, 2018
4:45 PM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Inge Loes ten Kate of the Utrecht University, in the Netherlands. She will present: "On the role of extraterrestrial organics in the origin of life.

Event Host: Teresa Fornaro
Planetary Science
Dec 5, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Paolo Sossi of the Institute of Physics of the Globe of Paris. He will present: "Evaporation of moderately volatile elements from silicate melts: experiments and theory".

 

Event Host: Anat Shahar
Mineralogy
Nov 26, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Peter C Burns of  University of Notre Dame. 

Event Host: Shaunna Morrison
Planetary Science
Nov 19, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Caroline Dorn of the University of Zurich. She will present, "Interior characterization in multiplanetary systems: TRAPPIST-1."

Event Host: Anat Shahar
Materials
Nov 5, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Joe Michael of Sandia National Laboratory. He will present, "Electron backscatter diffraction in materials and planetary sciences: From welds to iron meteorites."

Event Host: Suzy Vitale
Geochemistry
Oct 22, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Geoff Gilleaudeau of ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration. He will present, "Probing the Proterozoic and Paleozoic record of Earth surface oxygenation: lessons from metal isotope geochemistry."

Event Host: Shaunna Morrison
Geochemistry
Oct 18, 2018
6:30 PM

Join the Geophysical Laboratory as we kick-off our 2018-19 Neighborhood Lecture Series with GL Director, Mike Walter.  He will present, "Deep Blue Planet."  Doors open at 6pm, lecture at 6:30pm.

Event Host: Geophysical Laboratory
Planetary Science
Oct 15, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Takuo Okuchi of Okayama University. He will present, "Quantitative analysis of hydrogen in deep-earth minerals by TOF Laue single crystal neutron diffraction."

Event Host: George Cody
Geochemistry
Sep 24, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with GL's own Doug Rumble. He will present, "Microbes, Mud Volcanoes, and Methane."

Event Host: Mike Walter
High Pressure
Sep 17, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Allen McNamara of Michigan State University. He will present, "Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces in the Lower Mantle."

Event Host: Yingwei Fei
Mineralogy
Aug 6, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Joshua F. Einsle.  He will present, "Unmixing deep time: Multiscale microscopy, microanalytics and machine learning."

Event Host: Asmaa Boujibar
Matter at Extreme States
Jul 13, 2018
2:00 PM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Maosheng Miao of California State University, Northridge.  He will present, "Chemical trends of elements under pressure and their effects to the form and properties of materials."

Event Host: Tim Strobel
Matter at Extreme States
Jun 25, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Leonid Dubrovinsky of the University of Bayreuth. He will present, "High-Pressure High-Temperature Single Crystal Structural Studies at Multimegabar Pressures."

Event Host: Viktor Struzhkin
Planetary Science
Jun 19, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with John Brucato of INAF Astrophysical Observatory of Arcetri. He will present, "Heterogeneous catalysis in harsh environments: detect organic compounds in space."

Event Host: Teresa Fornaro
Geochemistry
Jun 4, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Joachim Reitner of Georg-August-University of Goettingen. He will present, “Early Archean Carbon Archives.”

Event Host: Andrew Steele
Materials
May 24, 2018
6:30 PM

Our Broad Branch Road Spring Neighborhood Lecture Series continues with GL's own Tim Strobel.  Strobel will present, "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: How High Pressure and Supercomputers Will Shape Materials of the Future."

Event Host: Geophysical Laboratory
Astrobiology
May 14, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Ram Krishnamurthy of Scripps. He will present, "Reconciling Prebiotic Chemistry with Biological Chemistry - Destiny versus Destination in Origins of Life Research."

Event Host: George Cody
High Pressure
May 7, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Owen Weller of the University of Cambridge. He will present, "Secular change in oceanic slab density and its effect on subduction forces."

Event Host: Yingwei Fei
High Pressure
Apr 23, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Jiachao Liu of the University of Texas at Austin. He will present, "How does oxidized mantle behave differently from normal mantle in geophysical and geochemical perspectives?"

Event Host: Jing Yang
Planetary Science
Apr 19, 2018
6:30 PM

Our Broad Branch Road Spring Neighborhood Lecture Series continues with Carnegie's Observatories Director John Mulchaey.  Mulchaey will present, "Eyes on the Universe: Carnegie’s Leadership in Astronomy Today."

Event Host: Geophysical Laboratory/DTM
Geochemistry
Apr 16, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Carrick Eggleston of the University of Wyoming. He will present, "Origin of Mars Perchlorate: Mineral Photoelectrochemistry and Terrestrial Implications."

Event Host: Simone Runyon
Materials
Apr 11, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Kristin Persson of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She will present, "The Materials Project for Accelerated Materials Design."

Event Host: Tim Strobel
Matter at Extreme States
Apr 9, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Stewart McWilliams of the University of Edinburgh. He will present, "Dynamic probes of structure and transport at extreme conditions."

Event Host: Alex Goncharov
Mineralogy
Apr 2, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Kerstin Lehnert of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. She will present, "Unleash the Power of Data to Drive Discovery in the Earth Sciences."

Event Host: Robert Hazen
Geochemistry
Mar 26, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Yana Bromberg of Rutgers. She will present, "Timing evolution of biological redox via structural similarity network analysis."

Event Host: Robert Hazen
Geochemistry
Mar 22, 2018
6:30 PM

Our Broad Branch Road Spring Neighborhood Lecture Series kicks-off with DTM's Peter van Keken.  Van Keken will present, "When Earth Attacks: Causes and Consequences of a Tectonic Planet."

Event Host: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Matter at Extreme States
Mar 19, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with GL's own Tim Strobel. He will present, "Braking Rotors at the Nanoscale: How Diatomic Molecules Spin within Quantum Cages."

Event Host: George Cody
Matter at Extreme States
Mar 12, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Daniele Antonangeli of IMPMC. He will present, "Silicon abundance in the Earth's core constrained by a multi-technique approach."

Event Host: Alex Goncharov
Geochemistry
Feb 26, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with GL's own Suzy Vitale. She will present, "The Dual Beam FIB/SEM: An Overview of CIW's Newest Cutting-Edge Capability."

Event Host: Emma Bullock
Matter at Extreme States
Feb 20, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Marius Millot of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He will present, "Experimental Discovery of Superionic Water with dynamic compression."

Event Host: Alex Goncharov
High Pressure
Feb 12, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Heidi Höfer of the Goethe University Frankfurt. She will present, "The oxidation state of iron determined by electron microprobe: the flank method and its application to high-pressure experiments and mantle samples."

Event Host: Yingwei Fei
Geochemistry
Jan 29, 2018
2:45 PM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Stefano Poli of the University of Milan. He will present, "Carbonatites at subduction zones: experimental modelling and a case history from the Northern Andes."

Event Host: Bjorn Mysen
High Pressure
Jan 16, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Ross Hrubiak, who comes from our HPCAT location. He will present, "Experimental evidence of a body centered cubic iron at the Earth’s core condition."

Event Host: Tim Strobel
Geochemistry
Jan 8, 2018
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with GL's own Peng Ni. He will present, "Volatile abundances in the lunar mantle: a melt inclusion perspective."

Event Host: Anat Shahar
Geochemistry
Dec 18, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with GL's own Amanda Lindoo. She will present, "Permeability development in ascending magmas: implications for explosive versus effusive eruption styles."

Event Host: Yingwei Fei
Geochemistry
Dec 4, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Katherine Bermingham of the University of Maryland. She will present, "Isotope Genetics of the Solar System and Late-Stage Planetary Building Blocks ."

Event Host: Anat Shahar
Geochemistry
Nov 27, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Catherine McCammon of University Bayreuth. She will present, "Seeking carbon in the deep Earth."

Event Host: Bjorn Mysen
Materials
Nov 20, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Luke Shulenburger of Sandia National Laboratory. He will present, “Pushing the boundaries of computational electronic structure by studying matter under extreme conditions?"

Event Host: Ronald Cohen
Planetary Science
Nov 16, 2017
6:30 PM

Our Broad Branch Road Spring Neighborhood Lecture Series continues with GL's own Stephen Elardo.  Elardo will present, "The Roadside Geology of Earth’s Moon.

Event Host: Geophysical Laboratory
Geochemistry
Nov 6, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Emily Pringle of UCSD. She will present, "Rubidium isotope insight towards understanding planetary accretion in the inner Solar System." 

Geochemistry
Oct 30, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Hikaru Iwamori of JAMSTEC. He will present, "Geochemical heterogeneity of the Earth's mantle and its implications for the dynamics."

Event Host: Bjorn Mysen
Planetary Science
Oct 26, 2017
6:30 PM

Our Broad Branch Road Fall Neighborhood Lecture Series kicks-off with DTM's John Chambers.  Chambers will present, "The Mystery of Planet Formation." 

Event Host: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Geochemistry
Oct 23, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Razvan Caracas of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Lyon. He will present, "Supercritical silicate melts in the protolunar disk."

Event Host: George Cody
Materials
Oct 16, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Russell Maier of NIST. He will present, "Point Defect Chemistry of Oxide Perovskites: The Dominant Impacts of Dilute Dopants."

Event Host: Ronald Cohen
Geochemistry
Oct 10, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with GL's own Mike Ackerson. He will present, "Partially molten granites at 500°C? Reimagining crustal magmatism."

Event Host: Bjorn Mysen
High Pressure
Oct 2, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with GL's own Jing Yang.  She will present, "Elasticity of Lower Mantle Minerals: Implications to Understand Seismic Observations of the Deep Earth."

Event Host: Yingwei Fei
Planetary Science
Sep 25, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with GL's own Zhixue Du.  He will present, "Origin of Earth’s ancient magnetic field: driven by MgO exsolution?"

Event Host: Yingwei Fei
High Pressure
Sep 11, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Guoyin Shen of GL's High Pressure Collaborative Access Team (HPCAT). Watch his seminar here.

Event Host: Yingwei Fei
Materials
Jul 24, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Yifei Mo of the Department of Material Sciences and Engineering at the University of Maryland. He will present, "Computation Accelerated Design of Materials and Interfaces for Solid-State Batteries."

Event Host: Shi Liu
Geochemistry
Jul 17, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Craig Lundstrom of the University of Illinois. He will present, "How do silicic igneous rocks form?"

Event Host: Mike Ackerson
Matter at Extreme States
Jul 10, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Sébastian Merkel of Université Lille 1.  He will present, "The fate of post-perovskite in the Earth's D'' layer: Insights from grain tracking experiments."

Event Host: Viktor Struzhkin
Planetary Science
Jun 19, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with our own Andrew Steele.  Steele will present, "Mars, an analogue for early Earth?

Event Host: George Cody
Materials
Jun 5, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Alexey Kolmogorov of Binghamton University.  He will present, "New materials made under pressure: from prediction to discovery."

Event Host: Tim Strobel
Planetary Science
May 25, 2017
6:30 PM

Our Broad Branch Road Spring Neighborhood Lecture Series continues with GL's own Dr. Andrew Steele.  Steele will present, "Mars, Moons, Missions & Microbes: Life as We Don't Know It - How Do We Find It?." 

Event Host: Geophysical Laboratory
Geochemistry
May 22, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with our own George Cody.  He will present, "Water in Silicate Melts (glasses): A complex story."

Matter at Extreme States
May 15, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Eran Greenberg of the University of Chicago.  He will present, "Pressure Induced Electronic/Magnetic Transitions in Iron Oxides – Beyond the Classic Mott and Spin Transitions. "

Event Host: Alexander Goncharov
Geochemistry
May 8, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Joshua Sugar of Sandia National Lab.  He will present, "More Than Just a Picture: Answering Scientific Questions with Advanced Electron Microscopy."

Event Host: Suzy Vitale
Geochemistry
May 1, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with GL's Keck Deep-Time Data Science Team.  They will present, "Deep-time, data-driven discovery and the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere.

Event Host: Robert Hazen
Planetary Science
Apr 27, 2017
6:30 PM

Our Broad Branch Road Spring Neighborhood Lecture Series continues with DTM's Dr. Conel M. O'D. Alexander.  Alexander will present, "Rocks from Space: Be Grateful and a Little Afraid." 

Event Host: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Matter at Extreme States
Apr 24, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Ranga Dias of Harvard University.  He will present, "Pressing the simplest element to exotic quantum states."

Event Host: Viktor Struzhkin
Geochemistry
Apr 17, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Jessica Warren of the University of Delaware.  She will present, "Oceanic upper mantle composition and the evidence for an ultrarefractory reservoir."

Event Host: Anat Shahar
High Pressure
Apr 10, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Johnny Zhang of Scripps.  He will present, "Experiments on Fe-Ni-S Liquid with Silicate Solids under Mantle Conditions: Implications for Deep Carbon, Primordial Components and LLSVPs

Event Host: Megan Duncan
High Pressure
Apr 3, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with our own Sergey Lobanov.  He will present, "Peeking into the color of the lower mantle: Optical studies of minerals at high P/T.”

Event Host: Alexander Goncharov
High Pressure
Mar 20, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Ercan Alp of Argonne National Laboratory.  He will present, "Recent Advances in Nuclear Resonant Scattering Under High Pressure.”

Event Host: Viktor Struzhkin
Department
Mar 16, 2017
6:30 PM

Our Broad Branch Road Spring Neighborhood Lecture Series kicks off with Carnegie Science President, Dr. Matthew P. Scott.  Scott will present, "Jumping Genes: What They Mean for Evolution and Medicine." 

Event Host: Geophysical Laboratory
Geochemistry
Mar 13, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Sarah Johnson of Georgetown University.  She will present, "The Search for Life on Mars and Ocean Worlds: Insights from Molecular Biology.”

Event Host: Andrew Steele
High Pressure
Mar 6, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Burkhard Militzer of UC Berkeley. He will present, "Ab initio simulations of liquids and solids at high pressure."

Event Host: Ronald Cohen
Geochemistry
Feb 27, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Emily Chin from Scripps. She will present, "From arcs to continents: a deep lithosphere perspective."

Event Host: Anat Shahar
Mineralogy
Feb 13, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Donald Dingwell from Ludwig Maximilian University. He will present, "Experimental Volcanology: accessing the inaccessible."

Event Host: Bjorn Mysen
Materials
Feb 6, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Arianna Gleason from Stanford University.  She will present, "Ultrafast X-ray Studies on the Dynamics of Transitions in Planetary Materials."

Event Host: Ronald Cohen
Geochemistry
Jan 30, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with our own Dionysis Foustoukos. He will present, "Oceanic Subsurface Biosphere: Experimental Studies."

High Pressure
Jan 23, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with June Wicks from Princeton University.  She will present, "From Super-earth interiors to our own earth’s surface: using dynamic compression to study our universe."

Event Host: Ronald Cohen
High Pressure
Jan 17, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Kate Kiseeva from the University of Oxford.  She will present, "Diamond inclusions from the Earth’s transition zone."

Event Host: Yingwei Fei
Materials
Jan 9, 2017
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Susannah Dorfman of Michigan State University.  She will present, "Deep Earth Redox: Iron and Carbon in the Lower Mantle.”

Event Host: Alexander Goncharov
Planetary Science
Dec 19, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with our own Asmaa Boujibar.  She will present, "Reducing conditions in the inner Solar System, as witnessed by Mercury and Earth."

Event Host: Yingwei Fei
High Pressure
Dec 5, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with our own Yingwei Fei.  He will present, "Recovery of an oxidized majorite inclusion from Earth's deep asthenosphere: A unique window into the redox state and convection of the mantle."

Event Host: George Cody
Geochemistry
Nov 28, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Eiji Ohtani from Tohoku University.  He will present, "Volatile circulation in the mantle and the light elements in the core."

Event Host: Bjorn Mysen
Geochemistry
Nov 21, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Rebecca Lange from the University of Michigan.  She will present, "Timescales and mechanisms for voluminous high-silica rhyolite melt generation - insights into supervolcano eruptions and differentiation within granitoid batholiths."

Event Host: Bjorn Mysen
Mineralogy
Nov 15, 2016
6:30 PM

Bob Hazen, staff scientsist at the Geophysical Laboratory, continues our Neighborhood Lecture Series with the second of four lectures. The distribution of minerals on Earth, Mars, and other worlds mimics social networks, as commonly applied to such varied topics as Facebook interactions, the spread of disease, and terrorism networks.

Event Host: Geophysical Laboratory
High Pressure
Nov 14, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Amy Jenei from LLNL.  She will present, "Using laser compression to probe solid and plassma equation of state to unprecedented pressure regimes at the National Ignition Facility."

Event Host: Ronald Cohen
High Pressure
Nov 7, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Michael Walter from the University of Bristol.  He will present, "The Fate of Deeply Subducted Carbon."

Event Host: Yingwei Fei
Astrobiology
Oct 31, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Carl Agee from the University of New Mexico.  He will present, "NWA 7034 aka Black Beauty: Unique Water-rich Meteorite from Ancient Mars."

Event Host: Yingwei Fei
Geochemistry
Oct 20, 2016
6:30 PM

Lara Wagner, staff scientist at DTM, presents the first of four lectures in our annual Neighborhood Lecture Series.  The key to life’s evolution on Earth is the development and persistence of plate tectonics, a planetary process that affects everything from the mineral composition of the continents to the existence of liquid water on Earth’s surface. 

Event Host: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Geochemistry
Oct 17, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with our own Corliss Kin I Sio.

Event Host: Anat Shahar
Geochemistry
Oct 3, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Shogo Tachibana from Hokkaido University, Japan.  He will present, "Early evolution of the Solar System: Laboratory experiments and sample return missions."

Event Host: Conel Alexander
High Pressure
Sep 26, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Colin Jackson from the Geophysical Laboratory.  He will present, "Discrete stages of core formation survive the moon forming impact."

Event Host: Yingwei Fei
Mineralogy
Sep 19, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Eli Moore from the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers.  He will present, "Global Redox Influence on Metal Availability, the Evolution of Archean Metabolisms, and the Search for Ancient Proteins."

Event Host: Bob Hazen
Geochemistry
Sep 12, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with our own Douglas Rumble.  He will present, "New Discoveries in multiple doubly-substituted O2 and CH4: equilibrium geothermometry vs. fingerprints of kinetic isotope effects.”

Event Host: George Cody
High Pressure
Aug 1, 2016
6:15 PM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with our own Zachary Geballe.  He will present, "High-pressure calorimetry: a new experimental tool and its application to H2O."

Event Host: Viktor Struzhkin
Geochemistry
Jul 25, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with our own Bjorn Mysen.  He will present, "Mantle melting and volatiles: Redox-controlled solubility behavior in silicate-COH magmatic systems."

Event Host: George Cody
High Pressure
Jul 18, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with our own Shi Liu.  He will present, "Making sense of ferroelectric switching."

Event Host: Ronald Cohen
High Pressure
Jul 13, 2016
11:00 AM

The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Matteo Calandra, CNRS Research Director, Paris.  He will present, "Hydrogen bond symmetrization by proton quantum motion and high Tc superconductivity in Sulfur hydrides at high pressure."

Event Host: Viktor Struzhkin
Geochemistry
Jun 27, 2016
11:00 AM
Event Host: Geophysical Laboratory
Planetary Science
May 19, 2016
6:30 PM

The Kuiper Belt, which has Pluto as the largest member, is a region of comet-like objects just beyond Neptune. This belt of objects has an outer edge, which we are only now able to explore in detail.

Event Host: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Materials
May 18, 2016
2:00 PM

The Geophysical Laboratory's Zack Gaballe and Rajasekarakumar Vadapoo and DTM's Miki Nakajima, Erika Nesvold, and Johanna Teske will host "The Second Annual GL/DTM Poster Session"* on Wednesday, 18 May 2016, in the Tuve Dining Hall.

Event Host: Broad Branch Road Campus