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Current Seminar Schedule

SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Spring 2005

Date/Time

Speaker, Affiliation

Title of Talk

21 Jan
4PM

Mladen Nedimovic, LDEO

Structure, Evolution and Seismicity of the Oceanic Juan de Fuca Plate from Accretion to Subduction

28 Jan
4PM

Martin Jackson, UT-BEG

An Allochthonous Salt Canopy on Axel Heiberg Island,Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada

04 Feb
4PM

Paul Sava, UT-BEG

Riemannian Wavefield Extrapolation

11 Feb
4PM

Bob Hardage, UT-BEG

Multicomponent Seismic Assessment of Fluid-Gas Expulsion Geology and Gas-Hydrate Systems: Gulf of Mexico

18 Feb
4PM

Dennis Nielson, DOSECC

Recent Advances in Scientific Drilling

25 Feb
4PM

Gordon Wells, UT-CSR

Real-Time Satellite Remote Sensing with the MAGIC Direct Broadcast Receiving Station at the University of Texas at Austin

02 Mar
4PM

Gene Humphreys, University of Oregon

North America Dynamics and the Tectonics of the Western United States

03 Mar
11:00AM

Ralph Phillip Bording, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research and the Offshore Newfoundland Hydrocarbons

03 Mar
1:30PM

Chao-Shing Lee, National Taiwan Ocean University

Tsunamis-How Can People Living in the Ring of Fire Deal with Them?

04 Mar
4PM

Dave Sparks, TAMU

Deep-mantle Melting and the Origin of Komatiites

08 Mar
12PM

Sharon Mosher, DGS

The Debut of GeoScienceWorld - Geoscience Information at Your Fingertips

10 Mar
11AM

Graham Kent, Scripps

California in 10 Million Years: Shoreline Property in the High Sierra

11 Mar
4PM

Graham Kent, Scripps

Magmatic Systems in 3-D
 

18 Mar
4PM

Spring Break

 

25 Mar
4PM

Scott King, Purdue

Mobile Plates and Mantle Convection: Theory, Models, and Outright Speculation

01 Apr
4PM

Jeroen Ritsema, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris/USGS

Global Seismology and Thermo-Chemical Structure of the Deep Mantle

08 Apr
2PM

Lisa McNeill, Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK

The 2004 Mw9.3 East Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami: Initial Results from the First Multibeam Survey over the Southern Rupture Zone

08 Apr
4PM

John Hopper, TAMU

Seismic Reflection and Refraction Data from Flemish Cap, Newfoundland:
Implications for Mantle Processes During non-volcanic Margin Formation

15 Apr
4PM

Jerry Dickens, Rice

Current Challenges in Understanding Marine Gas Hydrate Systems

22 Apr
4PM

Brian Arbic, Princeton

Ocean Tides and Heinrich Events

29 Apr
4PM

Art Grantz, USGS

TBA

06 May
3:30 PM

Fellowship Talks

Speakers

27 May
4PM

Laura Wallace, GNS New Zealand

Subduction Zone Coupling and Tectonic Block Rotation at Some Western Pacific Convergent Margins using GPS

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.)

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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