Dr. Chan, Professor of Geology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, will be coming to ELSI as part of her lecture tour as the 2014 Geological Society of America Distinguished International Lecturer.

She will give two talks at ELSI, one on using our knowledge of Earth's sedimentary environments to interpret the sedimentary history of Mars, and the other on the eolian (wind-blown) sand dune systems and what their complex geological stories and paleoenvironmental records tell us.

Event date: Friday, May 9, 2014, 15:00~17:00 Place: Earth-Life Science Institute Seminar Room, 4th Floor http://old.elsi.jp/access.html No prior registration, free of charge

Talk titles: 1) Eolian Explorations: Dunes, Deformation, and Diagenesis 2) Mars for Earthlings: Using Earth Analogs to Decode the Sedimentary History of Mars *talks will be in English

Dr. Chan's Japan visit is sponsored by the Sedimentological Society of Japan, the Geological Society of Japan, the Exploration Technology Committee of the Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology, and the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Tech.

If you have any questions, please email: pr@elsi.jp