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KU Department of Geology Colloquium Schedule

2007 - 2008

DateSpeakerTopicHost
1/17/2008
4:00
Lindley 103
George Tsoflias
University of Kansas
High-resolution GPR and seismic imaging of the subsurface: From fractures and bacteria to ice sheetsSteeples
1/24/2008
4:00
Lindley 103
Nathan Niemi
University of Michigan
Insights into continental deformation from a decade of continuous GPS observations in the Basin and RangeTaylor
1/31/2008
4:00
Lindley 103
Hersh J. Gilbert
Purdue University
Lithospheric Foundering in Continental DeformationStockli
2/7/2008
4:00
Lindley 103
Mark Harrison
UCLA
Probing the Dark Age: Crust-Water Interactions on Hadean EarthStockli
2/21/2008
4:00pm
103 Lindley Hall
John Holbrook
Univ. of Texas - Arlington
Base-Level Buffers and Buttresses: A Model for Upstream vs. Downstream control on Preservation of Fluvial Geometry and Architecture within SequencesHasiotis
2/28/2008
4:00
Lindley 103
Karen Fischer
Margins Distinguished Lecturer, Brown University
Mantle structure, dynamics and melting in the Central American subduction zoneWalker
3/3/2008
4:00
Lindley 103
Mike Blum
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
Subsidence and Sea-Level Change along the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Response of the Mississippi River to the Last Glacial Cycle, and the Flexural Ups and Downs of Mississippi DeltaWalton
3/5/2008
4:00
Lindley 412
Daniele Cherniak
Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Diffusion in minerals - from dinosaur teeth to the early Solar SystemMoeller
3/11/2008
4:00
Lindley 103
Bill Shear
Hampden-Sydney College
Life Comes Ashore: Early Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Fossil RecordSeldon
3/13/2008
4:00p.m
Lindley Hall 103
Lora Koenig
University of Washington
"Monitoring snow and firn using microwave remote sensing"Walker
3/26/2008
11:30 am
103
Leigh Stearns
University of Maine
The hype about the Greenland ice sheet: is it warranted?"Taylor
3/26/2008
4:00pm
103 Lindley Hall
Peter Skelton
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
The Episodic Gistory of Cretaceous Carbonate Platforms: An Aptian Case StudyEnos
3/31/2008
4:00p.m
Lindley Hall 412
Greg Balco
Berkeley Geochronology Center
"At last, absolute radiometric ages for the entire Pleistocene glacial section in central North America"Walker
4/3/2008
4:00
Lindley 103
Tim Wawrzyniec
Geologist Paleomagnetism Laboratory
Chronotopographic Analysis: A METHOD FOR DETECTING SMALL, SEASONAL HILLSLOPE CHANGE USING TLS LiDAR DATA, BLACK MESA ESCARPMENT, NE ARIZONAWalker
4/4/2008
11:30a.m.
Lindley Hall 412
Paul Hearty
University of Wollongong
Carbonate platform development and island building as modulated by sea-level changes during the QuaternaryGonzalez
4/15/2008
2:30pm
412 Lindley
Larry McKay
Univ. of Tennessee
Cracks in the Clay: The Role of Fractures and Macropores in Critical Zone HydrologyDevlin