‘This Week’
November 6, to November 13, 2009
Friday, November 6
Department of Geography Coffee-Hour
112 Walker Building at 4:00 p.m.
Matt Thomas, Dept of Entomology, Penn State University
"Evaluating the influence of temperature variation on transmission of vector-borne diseases"Monday, November 9
Huck Institute Ecology Seminar Series
118 ASI Building at 1:00 p.m.
Jennifer Dean, Penn State University - “Soil Factors Influence Sugar Maple Herbivory and Defense Signaling”
Fall 2009 EarthTalks Seminar Series
112 Walker Building at 4:00 p.m.
Sandi Olsen, Curator of Anthropology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
“Human Subsistence Adaptation to the Eurasian Steppe and the Inception of Horse Domestication”
NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Movie Night//Talk
117 HUB Auditorium at 6:00 p.m. (pizza at 5:30 p.m.)
Keegan McCoy, Penn State Astronomy Club President
“From the Earth to the Moon: Part 5 Spider” movie at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 10
Polymer Physics Seminar – Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
301 Steidle Building at 10:00 a.m.
Benjamin Chu, Stony Brook University
“Instrumentation Development of Multi-Scaled Scattering & Application to Bio-Macromolecular Systems”
Meteorology Colloquium
112 Walker Building at 4:00 p.m.
Louis J. Wicker, National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK
"Single-Doppler EnKF Retrieval of the 29 May 2004 OKC Supercell: Comparisons with Dual-Doppler Analyses"
Geosciences Colloquium
22 Deike Building at 4:00 p.m.
Udo Fehn, University of Rochester
"Of Volcanoes and Gas Hydrates: I-129 Results from Active Margins"
Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Distinguished Lecture
100 Life Sciences Building at 4:00 p.m.
David Quammen, Award-winning Science, Nature and Travel Writer and Author of “The Reluctant Mr. Darwin”
“On and On… the Origin of Species: 150 Years Old and Still Dangerous, Still Great”Wednesday, November 11
Earth System Science Center Brown Bag Seminar
529 Walker Building at 11:15 a.m.
Ray Najjar, Meteorology Department, Penn State University
How Well do Global Models Simulate Regional Climate? Case Study for the Mid-Atlantic Region”
EMS Library Video Series
105 Deike Building at 12:15 p.m.
“Meltdown: a Global Warming Journey” (video-60 min.)Thursday, November 12
Materials Science & Engineering 590 Seminar
26 Hosler Building at 10:10 a.m.
Zakya Kafafi, National Science Foundation
“Materials Research and Education: Today and Tomorrow”
Geodynamics Colloquium
22 Deike Building at 4:00 p.m. (reception @ 3:30 p.m. in EMS Museum)
Arjun Heimsath, Arizona State University
"Quantifying Soil Production and Transport Across Diverse Landscapes"
Friday, November 13
Department of Geography Coffee-Hour
112 Walker Building at 4:00 p.m.
Duarte Morrais, Dept of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, Penn State University
“Subjective Well-Being and Self-Determination Among Indigenous People Involved in Community-Based Wildlife Tourism in Namibia’s Kunene Region”
A weekly listing of seminars in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. If you have any seminar or talk which you would like advertised in ‘This Week’, please send the speaker’s name, title of talk, date and time to Debra Lambert at 2217 EES Building, 863-7091, lambert@eesi.psu.edu
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