Future Challenges for the Earth Sciences (November 6 - 8, 2009) Friday, November 6 REGISTRATION9:00 AM - 1:30 PM | Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 116 320 York Street (between Elm and Grove Streets) | 2:30 - 6:30 PM | Kline Geology Laboratory 210 Whitney Avenue, Ground Floor |
PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS10:00 AM - Noon | Bus Tour of West Campus
A guided tour of the new 136-acre West Campus, straddling the towns of Orange and West Haven, will highlight the array of facilities available for scientific and medical research at Yale.
Depart from and return to the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street. | 1:30 -- 2:30 PM | Bus Tour of the New Haven Campus (highlighting new construction and renovations)
Depart from the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street. End on Science Hill at the Leitner Observatory or Kline Geology Laboratory (your choice). | 2:30 – 3:30 PM
| Tour of the Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium 355 Prospect Street Observatory director Michael Faison will lead our tour of this new teaching facility on Science Hill. | 2:30 - 3:30 PM | Refreshments in Kline Geology Laboratory 210 Whitney Avenue
Relax with fellow alumni and revisit your old haunts in KGL. Coffee, tea and snacks will be served in the atrium. |
CONFERENCE4:00 – 4:30 PM | Welcoming Remarks Kline Geology Laboratory, Auditorium 210 Whitney Avenue | | Jon Butler Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences | | Mary E. Miller '81 PhD (History of Art) Dean, Yale College | | David Bercovici Chair, Department of Geology and Geophysics
| 4:30 – 6:00 PM | Earth's Origin and Interior
| | MODERATOR Karl Turekian Yale University | | | PANELISTS Henry J. B. Dick '76 PhD Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Karen Fischer '83 BS Brown University Lawrence Grossman '72 PhD University of Chicago Garrett M. Leahy '08 PhD ExxonMobil, Houston Peter M. Shearer '78 BA University of California, San Diego
| 6:00 PM | Reception Kline Geology Laboratory, Ground Floor | 7:15 PM | Dinner The Graduate Club 155 Elm Street (between College and Temple Streets) |
Saturday, November 7
9 – 10:15 AM | Resources and Energy Kroon Hall, Auditorium (Third Floor) Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies 195 Prospect Street | | MODERATOR Danny Rye Yale University | | PANELISTS Michael Oristaglio '74 BS, 74 MS Schlumberger Ltd., Cambridge, Massachusetts Robin L. Petrusak '79 BA Advanced Resources International, Arlington, Virginia Donald F. Schutz '56 BS, 64 PhD Geonuclear, Inc., Orangeburg, New York Neil Williams '76 PhD Geoscience Australia | 10:15 - 10:45 AM | Coffee Break | 10:45 – Noon | Geological Evidence for Past Climates | | | MODERATOR Mark Pagani Yale University | | | PANELISTS Timothy D. Herbert '80 BA Brown University Thomas Marchitto '94 BS University of Colorado Stephen C. Porter '55 BS, '62 PhD University of Washington
| Noon – 1:30 PM | Lunch Kroon Hall, Knoblock Environmental Center and Lounge (Third Floor) 195 Prospect Street | 1:30 – 2:45 PM | The Climate System: Recent Studies and Implications for Future Climatic Change Kroon Hall, Auditorium (Third Floor) | | MODERATOR Ronald Smith Yale University | | PANELISTS Dorothy M. Koch '93 PhD Columbia University Michael E. Mann '98 PhD Penn State University Karl E. Taylor '78 PhD Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
| 2:45 -- 3:15 PM | Coffee Break | 3:15 – 4:30 PM | Marine Life, Evolutionary Transitions to Land, and Biogeochemistry of Oceans and Atmosphere | | | MODERATOR David Evans '92 BS Yale University | | | Richard K. Bambach '69 PhD Smithsonian Institution Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Emeritus Dana L. Royer '02 PhD Wesleyan University, Connecticut Steven M. Stanley '68 PhD University of Hawaii at Manoa John M. VandenBrooks '07 PhD Arizona State University
| 7:00 PM | Cocktails and Dinner Union League Café 1032 Chapel Street |
Sunday, November 8 9:00 – 10:30 AM | Poster Session with Current Graduate Students Kline Geology Laboratory, Ground Floor 210 Whitney Avenue | 10:30 - 11:45 AM | Terrestrial Life, Evolution, and Biogeochemistry Kline Geology Laboratory, Auditorium | | MODERATOR Elisabeth Vrba Yale University | | | PANELISTS Julia A. Clarke '02 PhD University of Texas, Austin Kirk R. Johnson '89 PhD Denver Museum of Nature and Science Mark A. Norell '88 PhD (Biology) American Museum of Natural History Krister Smith '06 PhD Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg Frankfurt, Germany | 11:45 AM | Farewell Brunch Kline Geology Laboratory 210 Whitney Avenue |
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