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Previous Seminar Schedules

SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Fall 2007


Date/Time Speaker, Affiliation Host Title of Talk
07 Sept.
10:30AM
NO TALK    
14 Sept.
10:30 AM
NO TALK    
21 Sept.
10:30 AM
Sabine Wulf, UTIG Paul Mann "Extracting paleoenvironmental changes and natural disaster history from lake sediments"
28 Sept.
10:30 AM
Christina Holland, UTIG Rob Scott "Global Warming in a Coral Context"
 
01 Oct.
02:00 PM
Jürgen Oberst, Technical Univ. and German Aerospace Center (Germany) Yosio Nakamura "Results from the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on Mars Express through the Nominal Mission"
05 Oct.
11:00 AM
Joe Ebeniro, University of Harcourt (Nigeria) Patty Ganey-Curry Geophysical Research at the University of Port Harcourt (Nigeria); Where we are and Where we are Going"
19 Oct.
10:30 AM
Enrique Vivoni, Assistant Professor of Hydrology, Research Hydrologist
Dept of Earth & Environmental Science, New Mexico Tech University
  John Goff   "Ecohydrology of Seasonally-Green Desert Landscapes"
23 Oct.
3:00 PM
Kerry Cook, Professor, Cornell University (BEG Main Seminar Rm) Charles Jackson "Atmospheric Jets and Precipitation Variations: Great Plains Hydrology and the West African Monsoon Jump"
26 Oct.
10:30 AM
Jung-Fu Lin, Livermore Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory John Lassiter "Mineral Physics of Iron and Light Elements in Earth's Core"
02 Nov.
10:30 AM
Nir Krakauer, Univ. of California at Berkeley Charles Jackson  "Carbon-14 as a Tracer of Contemporary Carbon Flows"
 
02 Nov.
2:30 PM
Kurt Stuwe, University of Graz (Austria)
 
Brian Horton  "Mechanical and Landscape evolution Models for the European Alps"
 

05Nov.

1:30PM

Ayon Sen, Westwood High School

Brian Arbic

"Dissipation of Geostrophic Oceanic Flows by Quadratic Bottom Boundary Layer Drag"

07 Nov.
12:00 PM
Rosemarie Came, Postdoctoral Scholar in Geochemistry, California Institute of Technology Brian Arbic  "The Link Between Abrupt Climate Change and Intermediate Depth Ocean Circulation"
 
09 Nov.
10:30 AM
Timothy Shanahan, Postdoctural Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Terry Quinn "Asynchronous Paleoenvironmental Changes in the Tropics -A Biomarker Perspective"
16 Nov.
1:00 PM
Fenglin Niu, Asst Professor, Rice University Steve Grand "Depth of Cratonic Lithosphere and Seismic Monitoring of Stress/Strain Transients"

19Nov

10:30AM

Yang "Eric" Hong, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center David Mohrig "Global Precipitation Measurements and its Applications to Hydrologic Disaster Study"
23 Nov.
10:30 AM
Thanksgiving No seminar  
30 Nov.
10:30 AM
  Farzam Javadpour, Alberta Research Council Ian Duncan "Unconventional Studies of Shale Gas Sediments"
05 Dec.
10:30 AM
  Jon Pelletier, University of Arizona David Mohrig TBA
14 Dec.
10:30 AM
AGU No Seminar  

 

 

 

 

 

Seminars are usually held on Fridays at 11:00 a.m. but check the day of the week on your calendar to be certain. There are exceptions. The Institute's seminars are held at:
    Institute for Geophysics (directions)
    J.J. Pickle Research Campus, Bldg. 196, Rm 1.603
    10100 Burnet Road (R2200)
    Austin TX 78758-4445
    Phone: (512) 471-6156

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