“Earthquakes and Other Hazards” with Arthur Lerner Lam (Nov 2000)
Guest Scientist: Dr. Arthur Lerner Lam | Nov 2000 November 11, 2000 Welcome/Introduction to “Natural Disasters” PowerPoint Presentation and HTML version This presentation introduces today’s topic and gives examples of what can be done in the classroom....
Earthquakes and Mid-Ocean Ridge Spreading with Maya Tolstoy (Mar 2005)
SPECIAL NOTE: MAYA IS ONE OF THE FEATURED SCIENTISTS IN THE NEW 3-D IMAX FILM “ALIENS OF THE DEEP.” FOR MORE INFORMATION:http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/aliensofthedeep/ We were also joined by Dr. Jon Rice, who spent much of the summer of 2004 as...
“What Can Dead Plants Tell Us about Earthquakes?” with Heather Savage (Oct 2012)
Originally presented 27 Oct 2012) Dr. Heather Savage studies earthquake and fault mechanisms with special interest in earthquake triggering and fault damage zones. Understanding the stress on faults during slips is essential to developing a full mechanical model...
“Peering beneath an Erupting Volcano on the Bottom of the Ocean” with Suzanne M. Carbotte (Mar 2012)
Originally presented 10 Mar 2012 Most of the volcanic eruptions that occur on earth are located far from view, on the bottom of the ocean, where seafloor spreading occurs, along a vast mountain chain known as the Mid-Ocean Ridge. Due to the extreme difficulty of...
BIG BOOMS! VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES with Arthur Lerner-Lam and Steven Goldstein (Nov 2004)
Originally presented 20 Nov 2004 Guest Scientists: Art Lerner-Lam and Steve Goldstein 2004 has been an exciting year for seismologists, volcanologists, geophysicists, and Earth Science teachers and students! The same week at the end of September and beginning of...
“Why are Arc Magmas so Rich in Silica?”
with Suzanne Straub Oct 24, 2020Supported by NSF EAR 19-21624 Susanne’s slide showIntroductory slide show Magmas that are rich in silica- and volatiles (H2O, CO2, S) produce the most explosive eruptions on Earth. Most of these magmas erupt in volcanic arcs, which are...
Core/Mantle Studies with Michael J. Passow (Dec 2000)
Core/ Mantle StudiesPresented by Michael J Passowbased on research of Paul Richards Originally presented 16 Dec 2000 Dr. Paul Richards (http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/user/richards) is one of the leading researchers into what is going on in Earth’s Core and Mantle....
Is the Earth’s Core Leaking? Guest Scientist: Dave Walker (Feb 2005)
12 February 2005 Introduction to this Workshop Here is the introductory slideshow presented by Dr. Passow. Cutting-Edge Research Is the Earth’s Core Leaking? One would have thought that the core would be a perfect waste repository. The gravitational and...
“Melt Migration from the Mantle Source to Erupting Volcanoes” with Peter Kelemen (Mar 2007)
with Peter Kelemen Originally presented 10 Mar 2007 Feedback in Geological Processes: What Instability Can Do for You! Peter Kelemen writes: I will cover the rudiments of some feedback processes in geology, focusing mainly on things that I have studied in...
“Subduction and the Long-Term Fate of Water on Earth” with Geoffrey Abers (Jan 2010)
with Dr. Geoffrey Abers Originally presented 17 Jan 2010 We welcome Dr. Geoff Abers for his first E2C workshop. Dr. Abers arrived at LDEO in 2008 as a Doherty Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor, continuing a distinguished career in which he has...