<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div><b>The CEES Seminar Series presents</b></div><div><b>Dr. Pete Ryan - </b>Professor of Geology, Middlebury College</div><div><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(31,78,121)"><font size="4">Soils in tropical volcanic arc </font></span><span style="font-size:large;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(31,78,121)">environments: </span><span style="font-size:large;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Tectonics, chemical weathering, soil quality and carbon sequestration potential</span></b></div><div><b>Tuesday March 8th, </b><b>3:30pm. </b></div><div><b>Yokum 208</b></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;word-break:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">High temperatures and rainfall in the tropics cause these environments to experience the greatest rates of chemical weathering globally.  Over time, these factors combine to produce infertile lateritic soils like those of the Amazon basin, but in tectonically active tropical areas, new </span><span style="font-family:Arial">unweathered</span><span style="font-family:Arial"> soil parent materials are continually regenerated by factors like volcanism, uplift and erosion. This talk explores the complex mosaic of soils in tectonically-active tropical environments, with implications ranging from quantifying uplift rates to soil fertility and sequestration of carbon dioxide.</span></p></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">If you have any questions regarding the seminar please contact Dr. Mark Lesser (</span><a href="mailto:mless004@plattsburgh.edu" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">mless004@plattsburgh.edu</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">)</span><br></div></div>