
Coffee Time at 3:30 pm. All seminars are at 4:00pm in Mendenhall Laboratory Room 100 unless otherwise noted.
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
| 2009-04-16 | Dr. Derek E. Briggs Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University Hosted by Dr. William I. Ausich |
Bownocker Lectures: Burgess Shale-Type Fossils after the Cambrian - 4:00 P.M. Extraordinary Fossils: Windows on the Evolution of Marine Life" - 8:00 P.M. |
| 2009-04-23 | Dr. Ralph R.B. von Frese The Ohio State University Hosted by Dr. Michael Barton |
Killer Crater in Wilkes Land, Antarctica |
| 2009-04-30 | Dr. Ian M. Howat The Ohio State University Hosted by Dr. Michael Barton |
Timescales and Mechanisms of Ice Sheet Collapse |
| 2009-05-14 | Dr. Wendy R. Panero The Ohio State University Hosted by Dr. Michael Barton |
Volatile Content of the Deep Earth |
| 2009-05-21 | Dr. Matthew R. Saltzman The Ohio State University Hosted by Dr. Michael Barton |
The Late Ordovician glaciation in a greenhouse world. |
| 2009-05-28 | Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson The Ohio State University Hosted by Dr. Michael Barton |
"Global Climate Change: A Paleoclimate Perspective from the World's Highest Mountains" Climate change/recent research (Himalayas, Kilimanjaro & Andes)& upcoming research (Cordillera Blanca, Peru, Antarctic Peninsula & Puncak Jaya in Irian Jaya, Indonesia) |