[Crib-list] TODAY: SPEAKER: C. Brenhin Keller (Princeton) - "Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar" -- TIME: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM -- Building 32, Room 124 (Stata) -- Friday, March 4, 2016

[Shirley Entzminger]

 	T O D A Y...


 		     COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND SEMINAR


DATE:  		Friday, March 4, 2016
TIME:		12:00 PM  1:00 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 124  (STATA)
 			     [32 Vassar Street, Cambridge]

           Pizza will be provided at 11:45 AM outside Room 32-124


TITLE:		Geochemistry in the Era of Open Data:
 		New insights into the formation and evolution of Earth's
 		continental crust


SPEAKER:	C. BRENHIN KELLER  (Princeton University)


ABSTRACT:

Earth's unique continental crust is crucial to life on our planet as we know 
it, in turn as a source for raw materials, a substrate for growth, and as a 
component in the silicate weathering feedback that stabilizes Earth's equable 
climate on billion-year timescales. However, much is not yet known about the 
processes by which the continental crust forms and evolves over time, in part 
due to the fact that compositional heterogeneity at any one point in geologic 
time typically dwarfs any systematic temporal trends. New computational 
approaches made possible by the emergence of large, freely - accessible 
geochemical datasets - provide a way to see through this heterogeneity and 
extract quantitative information about underlying processes and variables that 
drive the evolution of Earth's crust over geologic time.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA


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