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UTIG Seminars

Current Seminar Schedule

SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Fall 2005

Date/Time

Speaker, Affiliation

Host

Title of Talk

26Aug

4PM

David Lea, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Charles Jackson

"A Tropical Greenhouse Forcing Hypothesis for Ice Age Climate Change"

22Aug

11AM

Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Res. Asst., Seismotectonics Lab, Univ of South Carolina

Mrinal Sen

"Seismogenesis of Intraplate Earthquakes – Insights from Numerical Modeling"

02 Sept
4PM

Brandon Dugan, Asst. Prof., Rice University

Nathan Bangs

"Hydrogeology of the Ursa Region, Northern Gulf of Mexico, IODP Expedition 308 Sites U1322 and U1324"

09 Sept
4PM

No seminar

 

 

16 Sept
4PM

Robert Dull, Asst Prof, Dept of Geography, UT

Rob Scott

"Terrestrial Records of Holocene Climate Variability from Central
American Lake Sediments
"

23 Sept
4PM

Christina Holland, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ph.D., UTIG

Rob Scott & Charles Jackson

"Propagating Decadal Sea Surface Temperature Signal Identified in
Modern Proxy Records of the Tropical Pacific"

30 Sept
4PM

Terri Quinn, JSG Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Professor,  College of Marine Science University of South Florida

Fred Taylor

"A Coral-based Perspective on Post-glacial Climate Variability in the Western Pacific Warm Pool"

07 Oct
4PM

Ron Steel, Morgan J. Davis Centennial Chair in Petroleum Geology and Fred M. Bullard Fellow in Geological Sciences, PHD, UT-DOGS

Harm van Avendonk

"Deltas and Sea-Level Change"

14 Oct
4PM

Roger Buck, Doherty Sr. Research Scientist, LDEO

Luc Lavier

"The Role of Dike Intrusions at Rifts and Ridges"

21 Oct
4PM

Matt Hornbach, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIG

Harm van Avendonk

"3D Evidence for Episodic Flux and Divergent Flow Beneath A Seep"

25 Oct
4PM

Olivier Marchal, Asst. Scientist, Geology and Geophysics, WHOI

Charles Jackson

"What Can Thorium-230 Tell Us About the Abyssal Ocean Circulation"

27 Oct
4PM

NO SEMINAR SCHEDULED

 

 

04 Nov
11AM

Miguel Bosch, Assoc. Prof., Universidad Central de Venezuela

Paul Stoffa

"Geostatistical Inversion as a Tool to Integrate Geoscientific Information"

04 Nov
4PM

Tony Fiorillo, Prof. of Geological Sciences,
Curator of Paleontology, Dallas Museum of Natural History, SMU

Larry Lawver

"Cretaceous Dinosaurs of Alaska:  Impact on the Origin of Beringia"

11 Nov
1:30PM

Emil Blias, Research Scientist, Revolution Geosciences, Inc.

Mrinal Sen

"Traveltime Inversion Problems in Layered Medium with Lateral Velocity Changes"

11 Nov
4PM

Bill Merryfield, Research Scientist, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis

Rob Scott

"Variability of Upper Pacific Ocean Overturning and Heat Transport
in a Coupled Climate Model"

18 Nov
4PM

(Fiorillo: moved to 4nov)

 

 

25 Nov
4PM

Thanksgiving break

 

No seminar

02 Dec
4PM

Fellowship Talks

Jamie Austin

Titles

09 Dec
4PM

TBA

 

TBA

16 Dec
4PM

Donna J. Shillington, School of Earth and Ocean Science National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton

Harm van Avendonk

Integrated Seismic and Subsidence Analysis of Extension in the Eastern Black Sea

Seminars are usually held on Fridays at 4:00 p.m. but check the day of the week on your calendar to be certain. There are exceptions. The Institute's seminars are held at:
     4412 Spicewood Springs Rd.
     Building 800, Mid Level (above parking garage)
     Austin, Texas 78759
     (512) 471-6156
(Office complex behind Walgreen's at the corner of Spicewood Springs Rd. and Mesa Dr. in northwest Austin.)

Spring 2006

Previous Seminar Schedules
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Fall 2002
Spring 2002
Fall 2001
Spring 2001
Fall 2000

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