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Hubble's Famous M31 VAR! plate
On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...
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Round Table Seminar: On Sun Lau, Bergmann Lab - Stanford University, Direct roles of SPEECHLESS in the specification of stomatal self-renewing cells.
Lineage-specific stem cells are critical for the production and maintenance of specific cell types and tissues in multicellular organisms. In Arabidopsis, the initiation and proliferation of stomatal ...
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Round Table Seminar - Ethan Perlstein, Perlstein Lab. Rise of the Indie Scientist
Over the course of the last decade as a graduate student and postdoc, I developed an approach to studying drugs called evolutionary pharmacology. Last year I left academia in the face of postdocalypse ...
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"Mineral-scale constraints on the geodynamics of continental extension"
Andrew Smye, assistant professor of geosciences at Penn State, will give a talk titled "Mineral-scale constraints on the geodynamics of continental extension" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, June 8, 2017, in ...
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Growth of Continental Crust on the Early Earth
Jesse Reimink 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 the lecture, at 10:30 a.m.
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Charlie Anderson, Penn State University, Building an Elastic Cage: Functions of Cell Walls in Stomatal Development and Dynamics
Stomatal guard cells develop in the epidermis of plants and surround stomatal pores that can reversibly open and close to regulate both carbon dioxide uptake for photosynthesis and water loss to drive ...
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"Stellar Astrophysics: 100 Years after Russell"
Jason Kalirai, an associate astronomer at Space Telescope Science Institute, will give a talk titled "Stellar Astrophysics: 100 Years after Russell" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, January 19, 2017, in the ...
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Using Jack Hills Zircons to Decode the Secular Evolution of the Early Earth
Michael Ackerson, a former Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow, is a Research Scientist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. He received his B.S. in Geological Sciences from Michigan ...
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What has NASA's New Horizons mission taught us about the formation of dwarf planets in the Kuiper belt?
Bill McKinnon (Washington University) will present, "What has NASA's New Horizons mission taught us about the formation of dwarf planets in the Kuiper belt?" EPL hosts weekly scientific seminars most ...
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Contributions of Seismic Imaging to Understanding of the South America Subduction Zone - New Results and Ongoing questions
University of Arizona's Susan Beck will present her lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on October 18, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the lecture, at ...
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Rifting in a Magma-Poor System: Constraints on the evolution of the Malawi Rift from Active- and Passive-Source Seismic Imaging
Natalie Accardo, postdoc at PennState University, will present her lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on November 1, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, tea, and a ...
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VESIcal: An open-source thermodynamic model engine for mixed volatile (H2O-CO2) solubility in silicate melts
Thermodynamic modeling has been the backbone of interpreting geologic data and modelling geologic systems for decades. However, more recent advancements in computational capabilities and a marked ...