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If you are coming to the Museum on Sunday, May 26, please use one of the following entrances: 79th Street and Central Park West, subway entrance, or Weston Pavilion (Columbus Avenue entrance). The 81st Street entrance will be closed, but the Hayden Planetarium Space Show will be shown on a normal schedule.

Spring Seminars 2007

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Lloyd Kaufman - New York University The Moon Illusion

Tuesday, January 23, 2007 Dan Britt - University of Central Florida Meteorite Density and Porosity: Implications for the Structure of Small Bodies

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Mark Brandon - Yale University Active Subduction, Extension and Mantle Flow beneath Northern Italy

Thursday, February 1, 2007 Cyrena Goodrich - Kingsborough College - CUNY New Investigations of "Knorringite-Uvarovite Garnet" and "Cr-Eskola Pyroxene" in Ureilites LEW 88774 and NWA 766

Tuesday, February 6, 2007 S.A.(Tony) Morse - University of Massachusetts Multiphase Rayleigh Fractionation and the Infinite Magma Reservoir

Friday, February 9, 2007, 2:30PM John Hanchar - Memorial University of Newfoundland Trace Elements in Accessory Minerals: A Window into Crustal Processes

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 OPEN

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Gisela Winckler - Lamont Dougherty Earth Observatory Cosmic Dust in Polar Ice and Marine Sediments: What it can tell us about Climate

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Hubert King - ExxonMobile Multi-Lengthscale Study of Growth Features on Quartz Surfaces

Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Bernard Evans - Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington Dacite, Fire, and Brimstone: A Path to Peraluminous Rhyolite

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - Lunar and Planetary Science Conference week

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 OPEN

Tuesday, March 27, 2007 Frank Hawthorne - University of Manitoba The Key Role of Weakly Bonded Constituents in Oxysalt Minerals: A Deductive Approach

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 John Power - Alaska Volcano Observatory Geophysical Observations of the 2006 Eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Adam Kent - Oregon State University Insights into the Formation and Evolution of Continental Flood Basalts from Silicate Melt Inclusions

Thursday, April 12, 2007, 2:30PM in the Astro Conference Room Carey Lisse - Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory TBA

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 OPEN

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 Glenn Gaetani - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute From Crystals to Climate: Using Precipitation Experiments to Decipher the Temperature Signal in Coral Skeleton

Tuesday, May 1, 2007 Jill Van Tongeren - Lamont Dougherty Earth Observatory Micromill Use #682: Seasonal Temperature Estimates from Cretaceous Marine Bivalves

Tuesday, May 8, 2007 Conel Alexander - Department of Terrestrial Magnetism Meteorites: Recorders of the Prehistory and Early History of the Solar System

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Lucy McFadden - University of Maryland Deep Impact: New Views of Comets

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 Jessica Larsen - University of Alaska Petrology and Geochemistry of the 2006 Eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Jon Friedrich - Fordham University Techniques for the Quantitative 3D Petrographic Analysis of Chondrites

Thursday, May 31, 2007 Eric Ferre - Southern Illinois University The Bushveld Igneous Complex: A View from the Top