Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009
7:00 p.m., in the Cooper Room, National Museum of Natural History
10th St. & Constitution Ave.
Non-Smithsonian visitors will be escorted
to the Cooper Room at 6:30 and 6:55 p.m.
Meet in the Constitution Avenue lobby at 5:00 p.m. to join us for dinner at 'Elephant and Castle.' Latecomers can meet directly at the restaurant at the NW corner of 12th & Penn. Ave., NW

About the speaker and the talk: Brian Huber has been on several ODP cruises, has served as a member of several international groups involved with foraminifera and with Cretaceous stratigraphy, and has served a term as President of the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research. Huber's work is a mix of micropaleontology and geochemistry. The Aptian/Albian boundary is a stage boundary about 112 million years ago in the later part of the Early Cretaceous. Several unusual geochemical changes occurred at this boundary and oceanographic and climate conditions were very different than in the modern world, making understanding events at this time one of the great puzzles of paleontology. Huber's work includes data from Ocean Drilling Program cores that provide exceptionally detailed data.

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