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- ESS Alumni Lecture
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Thursday, October 1 at 5:30pm - 2ND Annual L.A. Basin Earth an...
Room 3853 Slichter Hall, University...
Friday, April 24 at 9:30am
Department of Earth and Space Sciences at UCLA ESS will be having a science outreach event this Saturday as part of the Exploring Your Universe event. Displays will be set up in Court of Sciences and on the 3rd floor of Geology Building. See the event website below for more details.
Location:UCLA Kinsey Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA
Time:1:00PM Saturday, November 14th
Department of Earth and Space Sciences at UCLA On Wednesday October 28 the Department of Earth and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics hosted a celebration in honor of Professor Margy Kivelson's retirement.
Department of Earth and Space Sciences at UCLA Congratulations to Matt Wielicki for receiving the 2009 Eugene M. Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award from the Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of America!
Department of Earth and Space Sciences at UCLA
Congratulations to ESS graduate student Britney Schmidt for her work on asteroid Pallas, published today in Science!
Also featured on http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2
Source: cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
Science / AAAS Click for video: The left view is a computer model of Pallas' surface, based on the Hubble imagery at right. The circle indicates a large crater that is likely deeper than shown in the model. Click on the image to watch a
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Hey, we're in Scientific American! The picture is of the JOIDES resolution - the scientific drilling vessel used by the Ocean Drilling Program!
http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl
Source: www.scientificamerican.com
Two new studies look far back in geologic time to determine how sensitive the global climate is to atmospheric CO2 levels
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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/
Source: www.time.com
A new study of the fossilized shells of sea creatures suggests that increases in atmospheric CO2 led to global warming, even 15 million years ago
Department of Earth and Space Sciences at UCLA
ESS faculty Aradhna Tripati in the news:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/las
Last time carbon dioxide levels were this high: 15 million years ago, scientists report / UCLA Newsr
Source: newsroom.ucla.edu
Last time carbon dioxide levels were this high: 15 million years ago, scientists report / UCLA Newsroom
Department of Earth and Space Sciences at UCLA On October 1, 2009, ESS alumni, faculty, students, and staff convened at the Fowler Museum at UCLA for a reception followed by a funny and enlightening talk by Prof. Gary Ernst. If you didn't make it, we missed you!
Matt Affolter I now own a piece of Dollaseite! We need to get a big chunck for the deprtment!
Source: rooney.xanga.com
I am such a nerd.Lately, I've decided to abandon my quest on Yahoo! Answers (for the most part), because democratic learning is hard. Instead, I have converted my online nerdishness to Wikipedia. ...
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Annually the state pays $49,000 per prison inmate and less than $14,000
per UC student. If the state can lock us up, it can invest in our
education for one-third of the cost.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Students and faculty members demonstrate against plans to raise tuition fees and cut workers
Department of Earth and Space Sciences at UCLA
Early observations from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/new
Source: newsroom.ucla.edu
New NASA temperature maps provide 'whole new way of seeing the moon' / UCLA Newsroom
Department of Earth and Space Sciences at UCLA
From new ESS graduate student Rachel Stevenson and her advisor, David Jewitt: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com
In 2007 comet Holmes swelled to become larger than the sun and sent fragments of itself flying, producing the largest known cometary outburst in history, astronomers say.
Department of Earth and Space Sciences at UCLA
Please join the Department of Earth and Space Sciences for the 2009 ESS Alumni Lecture.
Reception with light refreshments: 5:30pm-7:00pm UCLA Art Council Amphitheater*
Lecture: 7:00 pm
“UCLA, subduction, and my happy life as a reformed drifter”
W. Gary Ernst, Ph.D.
Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium*
Please fill out an RSVP ...form at https://giving.ucla.edu/ESSRSVP by September 25, or email Chria Hazlitt at alumni@ess.ucla.edu for more information.
*Both facilities are part of the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
For maps and directions, visit: http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/incEngine/?co
Reception with light refreshments: 5:30pm-7:00pm UCLA Art Council Amphitheater*
Lecture: 7:00 pm
“UCLA, subduction, and my happy life as a reformed drifter”
W. Gary Ernst, Ph.D.
Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium*
Please fill out an RSVP ...form at https://giving.ucla.edu/ESSRSVP by September 25, or email Chria Hazlitt at alumni@ess.ucla.edu for more information.
*Both facilities are part of the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
For maps and directions, visit: http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/incEngine/?co
by W. Gary Ernst, PhD
Time:5:30PM Thursday, October 1st
Location:Fowler Museum at UCLA
Matt Affolter Thought I'd inform you all about the newest page on Wikipedia, Dollaseite, named after our own Dr. Wayne Dollase! I had to make this page in honor of him, one of my favorite profs at UCLA!
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Dollaseite-(Ce) is a sorosilicate end-member epidote mineral, with the formula CaREE+3Mg2AlSi3O11F(OH), where Cerium is the dominant Rare Earth Element. It also includes La, Nd, Pr, Sm, Gd, and since Ce is the dominate REE, it is placed in the name and formula. ...
