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2020-2021 World Large River & Delta Systems Source-to-Sink Virtual Talk Series

Speaker –  Edward Tipper,  Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Profile Seminar Title – A reduced silicate weathering feedback determined from the world's largest rivers Times – 9:00 am local time, Wednesday, September 30.  US Eastern 9:00 am, London 2:00 pm, Paris 3:00 pm,  Beijing 9:00 pm, Sydney 11:00 pm These will be weekly virtual presentations.  Most are on…

Source to Sink Virtual Talk

Speaker: Edward Anthony, CEREGE, France Bio ​Seminar Title: River deltas and alongshore sediment fluxes: the examples of the Amazon, Mekong, Irrawaddy and Niger deltas Join us on YouTube​.​​  

Source to Sink Virtual Seminar

Speaker -  Albert J. Kettner, INSTAAR, CSDMS, University of Colorado, Bio Seminar Title - Changes in Fluvial Sediment Supply a Global Perspective Please join us on YouTube.

Source to Sink Virtual seminar

Speaker -  Anne Bernhardt,  Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Geological Sciences Sedimentology & Tectonics, Bio (hosted by Dr. Paul Liu, MEAS Seminar Title - Land-to-ocean sediment routing along the Chile margin - Testing the effects of climatic and geomorphic boundary conditions Please join us on YouTube.

Source to Sink Seminar Series

Speaker – Steve A. Kuehl, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William and Mary, Profile, (hosted by Paul Liu, MEAS) Seminar Title – At the Mouths of Giants: A Synthesis of Processes Affecting Sediment and Carbon Delivery and Preservation off the Amazon, Ganges-Brahmaputra and Ayeyarwady-Thanlwin Rivers Times – 9:00 am local time, Wednesday,  October 14.  US Eastern 9:00 am,…

Source to Sink Seminar Series

Speaker – Rebecca Caldwell, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Profile, (hosted by Paul Liu, MEAS) Seminar Title – A global delta dataset and the environmental variables that predict delta formation on marine coastlines Times – 9:00 am local time, Friday, October 16.  US Eastern 9:00 am, London 2:00 pm, Paris 3:00 pm,  Beijing: 9:00 pm, Sydney 11:00 pm These will be weekly virtual…

Source to Sink Virtual Seminar

Speaker - Zhisheng An, Yu Liu, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bio (hosted by Paul Liu) Seminar Title -  Recent anthropogenic curtailing of Yellow River runoff and sediment load is unprecedented over the past 500 years Join us on YouTube.

Source to Sink Seminar

Speaker:  Luca Colombera, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK,  Bio  (hosted by Paul Liu) Seminar Title: Geological significance and source-to-sink controls on deltaic parasequences You are encouraged to watch and participate in the live talks via YouTube.  Please see previous and upcoming presentations on Source2sink.

Source to Sink Seminar Series

Speaker - Robert Aller,  School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Bio (hosted by Paul Liu) Seminar Title - Tropical deltas as diagenetic systems: C processing, suboxic remineralization, and reverse weathering processes You are encouraged to watch and participate in the live talks via YouTube.  Please see previous and upcoming presentations on Source2sink.

MEAS Department Seminar

Speaker - Stephanie Henderson (University of Wisconsin - Madison) will visit and present the MEAS seminar.  Please see her interesting paper about the influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) on blocking. Seminar Title - Growing a Pacific-North American pattern: the role of the tropics and teleconnection pattern interference (host is W. Robinson) Dr. Henderson's seminar will be…