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W. Jason Morgan Memorial Symposium

W. Jason Morgan 1935-2023 Princeton Ph.D. 1964 Knox Professor of Geophysics 1967-2004 Program Guide to Speakers:00:00:00 Geosciences Chair Thomas Duffy, introductory remarks00:01:10…

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Exploring the Decline of Ice Skating on Lake Carnegie through Digital Newspaper Archives, Grace Liu, UG '23 (2267261)

As the global climate warms, lakes are expected and have been observed to experience changes in seasonal ice cover. Previous research has observed decreasing freeze durations, but relatively few…

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Environmental Geology & Geochemistry Seminar: The Nature of Post Docs - The Mental Health Struggles of Scientists

The Nature of Post Docs - The Mental Health Struggles of Scientists Chris Woolston Writer, Editor, Speaker in Science, Health and Travel The Environmental Geology & Geochemistry Seminar The…

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Final Public Oral Examination: Recording Earthquakes in the Oceans for Global Seismic Tomography by Freely-Drifting Robots

Final Public Oral Examination Joel SimonRecording Earthquakes in the Oceans for Global Seismic Tomography by Freely-Drifting Robots The Department of Geosciences Monday, May 11, 2020…

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Final Public Oral Examination: Salting the Earth: Biogeochemical Cycling of Chlorinated and Brominated Natural Organic Compounds in Coastal Ecosystems

Final Public Oral Examination Danielle Schlesinger Salting the Earth: Biogeochemical Cycling of Chlorinated and Brominated Natural Organic Compounds in Coastal Ecosystems The Department of…

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Final Public Oral Examination: Life on the Fringe: Surveying the Ecophysiological Tenacity of Methanogens and Anaerobic Methanotrophs in the Oligotrophic Deep Subsurface Biosphere

Final Public Oral Examination Rachel L. Harris Life on the Fringe: Surveying the Ecophysiological Tenacity of Methanogens and Anaerobic Methanotrophs in the Oligotrophic Deep Subsurface…

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Geosciences Lecture Series: Experimental Constraints on the Composition and Temperature of Earth's Lower Mantle

Suyu Fu University of Texas, Austin Tuesday, March 31, 2020 Sponsor: Geosciences Lecture Series, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University Presiding: Thomas S. Duffy

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Geosciences Lecture Series: When the Apollo 11 Moon Rocks Came to Princeton

Over 4,450 people viewed the display of Princeton's moon rocks in Guyot Hall the weekend following their arrival. At times the lines reached from Guyot past the entrance to McCosh Infirmary.…

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Geosciences Lecture Series: Fifty Years of Plate Tectonics

W. Jason Morgan talks about his personal recollection of some of the ideas and people at Princeton that led to the discovery of plate tectonics in 1967.

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Field Work in India’s Deccan Traps

In December 2013 a research team from the Department of Geosciences traveled to central India in order to address one of the most captivating questions in Earth history: what was the cause of the…

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Lincoln Hollister Retirement Panel: Discussion 2, Moonrocks

In honor of Professor of Geosciences Lincoln Hollister retirement, the Department hosted a celebration on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at Guyot Hall and Prospect House. In attendance were family,…

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Science Beyond Guyot: 25 Years of Hess Fellows

Invited speakers, former Hess Postdoctoral Fellows (HPF):Abby Kavner, Professor, UCLA (HPF 1997-1999)Mak Saito, Senior Scientist, WHOI (HPF 2001-2003)Masha Prokopenko, Professor, Pomona College (HPF…

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The Princeton University Geosciences Society (PUGS) Field Trips

The Princeton University Geosciences Society (PUGS) is a student organization founded in 2011 dedicated to promoting excitement about and awareness of Geology and Earth Sciences at Princeton…

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Wavefront distortion and healing in an underground ore mine

This video authored by Geosciences Associate Research Scholar, Hom Nath Gharti, was awarded 2nd prize in the PICSciE PIXI17 Scientific Visualization Challenge on Tuesday, November 7, 2017. The…

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Princeton's Lost Museum: Arnold Guyot's E. M. Museum and the history of American natural science

In the late 19th century, Nassau Hall housed a natural science museum unlike any other. The E. M. Museum featured the second mounted dinosaur skeleton in the world and collections rivaling that of…

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1926 Geological Expedition at the Grand Canyon in Colorado

This 1926 footage is from a reel-to-reel that was found in the late Professor William Bonini's files. Its content corresponds to a journal titled: "1926 Geology trip from Princeton to the…

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