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The Weekly News

November 7, 2011

UPCOMING MEETING Friday, November 11 • Atmospheric Science Tea, CIVL 2201 (9:30 a.m.)

EAS SEMINAR Thursday, November 10, at 3:30 p.m. in CIVL 1252: (Title TBA) Stanley Ambrose, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Refreshments at 3 p.m. in CIVL 2201 For more information, see the EAS online calendar.

PHD DEFENSES Friday, November 11, at 3 p.m. in CIVL 4251: "Student Learning and Understanding of Sequence Stratigraphic Principles." PhD defense by Juan Herrera; co-advisors: James Ogg and Eric Riggs.

Monday, November 14, at 8 a.m. in CIVL 2201: "Spectroscopy, Mineralogy, and Morphology of a Jarosite-Bearing Landmark Butte within the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone." PhD defense by Julianne Bell; advisors: Brenda Bowen.

OUR RECENT PUBLICATIONS Sijp, W. P., M. H. England, and M. Huber, 2011: Effect of the deepening of the Tasman Gateway on the global ocean, Paleoceanography, 26, PA4207, doi:10.1029/2011PA002143.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS Last week Hersh Gilbert visited the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He gave an invited colloquium talk titled, "Lithospheric Foundering within the Sierra Nevada" on October 27.

INVITED SERVICE On October 27-28 Gabe Bowen served as an invited expert at the consultancy meeting for the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Coordinated Research Program on the “Use of stable isotopes and DNA barcoding in tracing migratory pathways of wild birds, potential carriers of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus.”

LARGE ASTEROID TO PASS BY EARTH NOVEMBER 8, BUT WHAT IF IT DIDN’T?

An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will fly near Earth on November 8. While there is no danger of it hitting the planet, Jay Melosh, asteroid impact expert says a similar-sized object hitting Earth would result in a 4,000-megaton blast, magnitude 7.0 earthquake and, should it strike in the deep ocean, 70-foot-high tsunami waves 60 miles from the splashdown site. Read more…

OUTREACH UPDATES We are putting together sets of photos for teachers to use in their instruction. Please help out by sending Steve photos you took while researching (or playing) that could help visualize a concept related to EAS.

Photo on left: Fall Creek Gorge (The Potholes)

Did you know Outreach has an equipment loan program for educators? You can take advantage of this program also. Need to use 20 digital cameras for a field trip, a set of Kestrel weather meters for a lesson, a handful of GPS units, or even a couple class sets of stopwatches? Check out the outreach page to see if they are available!

Have a really neat link or article? Share it with others! Post it to the EAS Outreach Facebook page or send it to Steve to send out on the teacher listserve.

FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is seeking to fund environmental research and development proposals. Read more…

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John Cushman – January 19

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The Smithsonian Institution encourages access to its collections, staff specialties, and reference resources by visiting scholars, scientists, and students. The Institution offers in-residence appointments for research and study using its facilities, and the advice and guidance of its staff members in fields that are actively pursued by the museums and research organizations of the Institution. Read more…

PURDUE – OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES

PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION The Office of the Vice President for Research hopes that you will be able to attend a presentation by Dr. Arlene Garrison, Vice President for University Partnerships, Oak Ridge Associated Universities on Wednesday, November 16th, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, 121.

To ensure maximum participation, we are placing this presentation over lunch and encourage you to

bring your lunch or buy lunch in the Venture Café. Dr. Garrison is interested in discussing the possibility for Purdue to be a University Partner with ORAU. We would like to know if you will be able to attend, and would appreciate it if you could take a moment and R.S.V.P. to Cindy Ream at cream@purdue.edu.

FACULTY POSITIONS IN LAND AND FRESH WATER PROCESSES AT

GEORGIA TECH The School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) at Georgia Tech invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions in the areas of land and fresh water processes. Read more…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Tim Filley – November 10

Jerry Krockover – November 12 Ken Ridgway – November 12

IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER This newsletter will now be used as the primary information source for current and upcoming events, announcements, awards, grant opportunities, and other happenings in our department and around campus. Active links to additional information will be provided as needed. Individual email announcements will no longer be sent unless the content is time-sensitive. We will continue to include our publications, presentations and other recent news items as well. Those using paper copies of the newsletter should go to our newsletter archive on the EAS website at www.purdue.edu/eas/ and Click on News to access active links as needed. Material for inclusion in the newsletter should be submitted to Gina Richey (grichey@purdue.edu) by Friday noon of each week for inclusion in the Monday issue. If it is in the newsletter, we assume you know about it and no other reminders are needed.

For answers to common technology questions and the latest updates from the EAS Technology Support staff, please visit http://www.purdue.edu/eas/info_tech/index.php.

Also, as an additional resource for information about departmental events, seminars, deadlines, etc., see our departmental calendar at http://calendar.science.purdue.edu/eas/seminars.

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Purdue University congratulates the

2011 SCIENCE JOURNALISM LAUREATES FIRST-TIME HONOREES Sandra Aamodt, Science book author

Hepeng Jia, Founder of Science News

Bi-Weekly

Andrea Kissack, Senior editor of “QUEST”

on KQED Public Radio

Steven Rosenbaum, Entrepreneur, author,

founder of Magnify.net

RETURNING LAUREATES Moira Gunn Nuala Moran

K. John Morrow Keith Devlin

David Ewing Duncan Joan Leach

Clive Cookson Peter Winter

For more information on the laureates, go to www.pur ue.e u/sjl/

TOWN HALL FORUM Raising the Bar in Science Journalism

HOSTS: Moira Gunn, host of “Tech Nation” and “BioTech Nation,” heard on public radio stations

David Ewing Duncan, journalist, author and director of the Center for Life Science Policy at University of California, Berkeley

WHEN: 10:30-Noon on November 10

WHERE: The Commons, Lawson Computer Science Building

Free and open to the public. Book signing to follow

— GABRIELA WEAVER

The art of explaining our work to the public is a critical step in research. The Science Journalism Laureates in the 2011 class are key to that communication.

Co-organizer, Science Journalism Laureates Program

Director, Discovery Learning Research Center in Purdue’s Discovery Park

Produced by Purdue Marketing and Media MM.11.1900 EA/EOU

www.purdue.edu/sjlhttp:Magnify.net

UNIVERSCTY

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE SEMINAR November 10, 2011 4:30 P.M. ROOM ME 1061

Suresh V. Ga1i mella Jefferson Science Fellow, U.S. Department of State

Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Vice President, Purdue University

Competing P olicy Choices at the Intersedion of :Ene1·gy and Climate Change - An :Engineer 's Role

Ab$trad : A widely circulated story last year in the New Yori: Times \ African buts f.ar from the grid glow wrth renewable power," Dec 24, 2010) spotlighted tbe ueed to imp=,. access to electricity and the opportunities pro\i.ded by new technologies. But what does access to energy really mean? It is a complex issue that extends over different scales ranging from basic, off-grid subsistence levels to bulk power for cities, factories and transportatioo networks. Prov-id.mg electricity to the 15 billion people around the wodd cunently without access is a daunting development challenge. It also poses mg_ent questioo.s regarding unprecedented increases in greenhouse gas emissioo.s. I will explore the tension bem'eell the seemingly contradictory but equally critical needs of energy seourity and climate dw,p mitigaticm, aud dis

PURDUE u•IVS&ll1"f

Please join us for the 4th annual Purdue Reception at the Thirsty Bear Restaurant. Come renew old acquaintances, make some new ones, and let’s toast Paul Shepson, Purdue’s newly elected AGU Fellow.

Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Time: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Place: Thirsty Bear Restaurant

661 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and the Purdue Climate Change Research Center. For more information, contact Rose Filley (rfilley@purdue.edu; 765-479-7540).

PURDUE RECEPTION at the AGU Fall Meeting

Boiler UP

EAS 59000 (CRN# 60311)

Field Geology of North America

Big Bend National Park

March 10-17, 2012

Instructor: Ken Ridgway

The spring break field course this year will focus on the tectonics of Big Bend National Park, TX. We

will map structures and strata associated with Sevier shortening, Laramide deformation and igneous

intrusions, and Basin and Range extension. The false color satellite image above is of the northern part of

Big Bend National Park and shows the broad range of geological structures that characterize this area.

The image is from Southwest Satellite Imaging.

We will be camping during most of the trip. Graduate students and upper-level undergraduates

are welcome to participate. Undergraduate students will need to get permission of the instructor. There

is a $200 fee required for this course. This fee is needed to partially cover the expenses of the department

for airfare, rental vehicles, etc. If you are interested in participating and/or have questions about the

course, contact Ken Ridgway (Room 3277B; e-mail: ridge@purdue.edu). There are limited spaces.

mailto:ridge@purdue.edu

/The Weekly NewsNovember 7, 2011LARGE ASTEROID TO PASS BY EARTH NOVEMBER 8, BUT WHAT IF IT DIDN’T?IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER

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