Carnegie Institution for Science7d
Carnegie Science celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of the universe
For humans, the most important star in the universe is the Sun. The second most important star is nestled inside in the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it. The flickering star is 2.2 million ...
Carnegie Institution for Science3d
"Magma pathways and earthquake triggering: Insights from satellite radar observations"
Christelle Wauthier, an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, will give a talk titled "Magma pathways and earthquake triggering: Insights from satellite radar observations" at 2 p.m.
Carnegie Institution for Science5d
"It’s a Trap! Origin, emplacement and impact of the Deccan large igneous province"
Loÿc VanderKluysen, an assistant professor in the Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science at Drexel University, will give a talk titled "It’s a Trap! Origin, emplacement and impact ...
Carnegie Institution for Science3d
Stellar UV Light and the Origins of Life's Building Blocks
Dimitar D. Sasselov, from Harvard University, will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before ...
Carnegie Institution for Science6d
From the dust particles to tectonic plates: New views from high-resolution paleomagnetism
Magnetic fields are thought to govern the lifetime of protoplanetary disks by mediating the inward accretion of gas. At finer scales, magnetic instabilities may have led to turbulent eddies where the ...
Carnegie Institution for Science6d
Dr. Salvatore Calabrese - Dynamic multiscale soil modeling for climate-smart management of soil and water resources
Salvatore Calabrese is an assistant professor of Biological & Agricultural Engineering of Plant Sciences at Texas A&M University. The Rosa Lab hosts his seminar As global warming and shifting rainfall ...
Carnegie Institution for Science10d
Robert Farese, UCSF, The Roots of Obesity: Mechanisms of Fat Synthesis and Storage
Lipids play a crucial and tightly regulated cellular role as the major component of membranes. They are also critical for both cellular and physiological energy homeostasis. Pools of both membrane ...
Carnegie Institution for Science8d
Lionel X. Dupuy, The James Hutton Institute, Understanding root systems: new approaches to characterize and model their development
In this talk, I will present new approaches developed in my lab to observe, image, characterize and model the growth of root systems. We have developed a new type of substrate, named “transparent soil ...
Carnegie Institution for Science5d
Dynamics Behind Continental Tectonics, from Ancient Cratons to Recent Intraplate Volcanism
Lijun Liu, of the University of Illinois, will present his lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on May 10, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, tea, and a light ...
Carnegie Institution for Science4d
Complex Multi-Stage Magmatic System Revealed Under Geothermal Prospect in the Main Ethiopian Rift
Friedemann Samrock, of ETH Zürich, will present his lecture at 2 p.m. EDT on Dec. 7, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series.
Carnegie Institution for Science7d
Radio Observations of Magnetic Storms on Flare Stars
Jackie Villadsen, a Jansky Fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, will present a lecture at 11 a.m. on Thursday, September 14, 2017, in the Greenewalt Auditorium as part of DTM's Weekly ...
Carnegie Institution for Science6d
Dan Cosgrove, Penn State, Rethinking the architecture of growing cell walls and the mechanisms of cell wall loosening
Abstract: For two decades the major model of primary cell walls hypothesizes that xyloglucan binds to cellulose microfibril surfaces, coating them and tethering adjacent microfibrils into a strong yet ...