Carnegie Institution for Science5d
The Fourth National Climate Assessment: Highlighting Impacts, Risks, and Responses Across the United States
Fred Lipschultz will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the lecture, at 10:30 a.m.
Carnegie Institution for Science6d
Modeling Fluid Pathways in Subduction Zones: A Geodynamic Playground
Cian Wilson is a Computational Scientist at DTM. He received his Ph.D. in computational physics from the Department of Earth Science & Engineering at the Imperial College in London. Prior to joining ...
Carnegie Institution for Science9d
The Case of the Disappearing Dynamo: Constraining the decline of the Moon’s magnetic field through experimental analyses of Apollo samples
Recent paleomagnetic studies of lunar rocks have suggested that the Moon’s magnetic field reached peak intensities on the order of ≈77 µT between 3.85 and 3.56 Ga and subsequently declined to surface ...
Carnegie Institution for Science9d
"First and Second Generation High Contrast Imaging Experiments for Comparative Planetary Science"
Rebecca Oppenheimer, curator at the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Astrophysics, will give a talk titled "First and Second Generation High Contrast Imaging Experiments for ...
Carnegie Institution for Science12d
Kishore Patra (UC Berkeley)
Spectropolarimetry (specpol) is a powerful, albeit underutilized, tool that offers insights into the geometry and shape of unresolved astrophysical sources. This technique holds particular ...
Carnegie Institution for Science14d
Biosphere Sciences & Engineering
Carnegie's newest scientific division, Biosphere Sciences & Engineering, is devoted to disrupting the traditional, siloed perspective on research in the life sciences and pursuing an integrated ...
Carnegie Institution for Science19d
Stellar UV Light and the Origins of Life's Building Blocks
Dimitar D. Sasselov, from Harvard University, will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before ...
Carnegie Institution for Science19d
Complex Multi-Stage Magmatic System Revealed Under Geothermal Prospect in the Main Ethiopian Rift
Friedemann Samrock, of ETH Zürich, will present his lecture at 2 p.m. EDT on Dec. 7, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series.
Carnegie Institution for Science20d
Steven McKnight, UT Southwestern, A solid state conceptualization of information transfer from gene to message to protein
A new-found interest in the field of protein science has focused on the capacity of certain proteins to polymerize into labile, cross- fibrils. Formation of labile polymers has been observed for ...
Carnegie Institution for Science20d
Establishing a New SIMS Paradigm with NAUTILUS: Application to the Oklo Natural Reactor
Evan Groopman, from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, will present his lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on September 13, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, ...
Carnegie Institution for Science21d
"It’s a Trap! Origin, emplacement and impact of the Deccan large igneous province"
Loÿc VanderKluysen, an assistant professor in the Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science at Drexel University, will give a talk titled "It’s a Trap! Origin, emplacement and impact ...
Carnegie Institution for Science21d
Dan Cosgrove, Penn State, Rethinking the architecture of growing cell walls and the mechanisms of cell wall loosening
Abstract: For two decades the major model of primary cell walls hypothesizes that xyloglucan binds to cellulose microfibril surfaces, coating them and tethering adjacent microfibrils into a strong yet ...