KU Department of Geology Colloquium Schedule
2011–2012
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/25/2011 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Andrew Madden University of Oklahoma | "A 'little' bit of geochemistry: nanoparticles on Earth and Mars" | Jen Roberts |
| 9/1/2011 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Alan Koenig USGS | "Laser Ablation ICP-MS: Trace element analyses for geological, environmental, biological, and materials science challenges" | Andreas Moller |
| 9/8/2011 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Xiaoming Wang Natural History Museum of Los Angeles | "Cold comfort: is Tibet a cradle of Ice Age megafauna?" | Junsheng Nie |
| 9/15/2011 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Alan Fryar University of Kentucky | "From bourbon to bacteria: some uses and abuses of Kentucky karst springs" | Randy Stotler |
| 9/29/2011 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Anne Taunton KU Geology | "Studying the human body using medically integrated geochemistry" | Dave Fowle |
| 10/6/2011 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Francisco Gomez University of Missouri | "InSAR imaging of crustal deformation resulting from dike intrusion in northwestern Saudi Arabia: Insight into rifting processes in the northern Red Sea region" | Walker/Stearns |
| 10/20/2011 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Rich Viso Coastal Carolina University | "Applied Coastal and Marine Geophysics: Tools of the trade and examples of their use" | Diane Kamola |
| 10/27/2011 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Harley Benz U.S.G.S. | "From Rupture to Rivets: An NEIC Perspective on Comprehensive Seismic Monitoring for Emergency Response to Earthquake Hazards Assessment" | Steeples/Walton |
| 10/31/2011 4:00pm Kansas Room, KS Union | G.D. Klein Lecture in Clastic Sedimentology: Dr. Mike Blum ExxonMobil | "Incised Valleys and Source-to-Sink Sediment Routing: Insights from Quaternary Systems" | Gene Rankey |
| 11/3/2011 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Micah Jessup University of Tennessee | "Strain partitioning, partial melting and mid-crustal flow in the Himalaya" | Mike Taylor |
| 11/10/2011 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Peter Van Roy Yale University | "The Fezouata Biota: an Ordovician Burgess Shale" | Paul Selden |
| 11/17/2011 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Craig Jones University of Colorado, Boulder | "Exploring an alternative explanation for the Laramide Orogeny" | Mike Taylor |
| 12/1/2011 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Alan Wanamaker Iowa State University | "An oceanic perspective of North Atlantic climate during the last millennium" | Roberts/Stearns |
| 1/19/2012 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Lance Cole & Dr. Dwight Rychel Petroleum Technology Transfer Council, Permian Basin CCUS Center | "Carbon Capture & C02 EOR Storage - Learning Through the Permian CCUS Center" | Tony Walton |
| 1/26/2012 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Nora Noffke Old Dominion University | "Turbulent lifestyle: Cyanobacteria on Earth's sandy beaches - today and 3 billion years ago" | Steve Hasiotis |
| 2/2/2012 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Charles Kerans University of Texas at Austin | "Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbon Reservoir Charaterization - Successes and Shortcomings" | Tony Walton |
| 2/9/2012 4:00 pm 130 Lindley Hall | Dr. Frank Schwartz Ohio State University | "The Response of Prairie Lakes to Extreme Variabilty in Climate: Integrated Observational and Model Based Analyses" | Randy Stotler |
| 2/16/2012 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Kyle Spikes University of Texas at Austin | "Useful rock-physics models for characterizing unconventional reservoirs" | George Tsoflias |
| 2/23/2012 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Chris Omelon University of Texas at Austin | "Hydrology, geology, and life associated with perennial spring discharge in the Canadian high Arctic" | Jen Roberts |
| 3/1/2012 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Harry Dowsett USGS | "PRISM: Reconstructing and assessing confidence to warm Pliocene sea surface temperature estimates" | Bruce Lieberman |
| 3/8/2012 4:00 pm 103 Linldey Hall | Dr. Tim Lawton New Mexico State University | "Rise and Demise of the Southern Laramide Orogenic Plateau: A View From Southwest New Mexico" | Tony Walton |
| 3/15/2012 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Yildirim Dilek Miami University | "Cenozoic Tectonics and Chemical Geodynamics of a Continental Collision Zone: Anatolia - Tibet Connection" | Taylor/Fowle |
| 3/29/2012 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Thorsten Becker University of Southern California | "The role of mantle flow in the Alpine-Himalayan collision" | Mike Taylor |
| 4/5/2012 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Martine Savard Geological Survey of Canada | "Isotope Geochemistry combined with tree-ring chronology to infer past changes in Air Quality" | AWG Chapter |
| 4/12/2012 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Lev Tarasov Memorial University of Newfoundland | "Grappling with uncertainty: probing our glacial past and warm musings on science in society" | Stotler/Stearns |
| 4/19/2012 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Edie Allison AAPG Visiting Geoscientist | "United States Energy, Past, Present and Future: how technology, economics and politics will continue to shape our energy use" | AAPG Student Chapter |
| 4/26/2012 4:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Peter McMahon USGS | "Energy Development and the Geochemistry of Groundwater in the Piceance Basin, Northwest Colorado" | Randy Stotler |
| 4/27/2012 2:00 pm 103 Lindley Hall | Dr. Andres Mora Ecopetrol | "The societal impacts of geosciences during peak oil times: An example from the Northern Andes" | Mike Taylor |


