Public Lecture Event

Reconstructing northeastern Pacific climate variability from the annual growth increments of Pacific geoduck (David Edge PhD Defense)

Abstract: The long-term character and range of northeast Pacific climate variability is largely unknown due to the short period of instrumental record and poor agreement among existing reconstructions. To address this issue, a multi-centennial record of northeast Pacific climate is developed from a new archive, the Pacific geoduck, a long-lived marine bivalve known to form annual growth increments within its shell.

Tree-Ring Day

Join us for a series of public talks by our graduate students!

Schedule:

10:30 — Opening Remarks (David Frank)
10:45 — Live 3-minute Lightning Talks

Uncovering Ancient Egyptian Illumination

Free lecture, open to the public.

Summary: Very little is known about what the ancient Egyptians used for artificial lighting. The logistics of how these light sources were constructed, when they were used, and why they appear in certain ritual performances are even less understood. This presentation (re)examines archaeological, textual and iconographic material in order to provide new insight into these unanswered questions. 

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