Seminar: Earth and Environmental Science

This week, the Earth and Environmental Sciences Smith Lecture speaker is Harald Behrens, a professor at Institute for Mineralogy, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.  Prof Behrens is an experimental petrologist interested in magmatic and volcanic processes, including elemental partitioning and magma differentiation, viscosity, diffusion and other kinetic processes, and the role of volatiles in silicate melts.

 

The title of his talk is: Volatiles in Magmas - Learning from Laboratory Studies About Volcanic Eruptions. 

Smith Lectures are Friday afternoons from 4:00 to 5:00 pm, in Room 1528 C.C. Little Building.  A reception is held following the lecture in 2540 C.C. Little. The events are free and open to the public.  A full schedule for the term may be found on our website:

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/earth/events/