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UTIG Brown Bag Seminars - Archive
These informal talks are intended as updates on recent research/activities of UTIG scientists and students. Talks are held in the UTIG seminar room (see bottom of page for address). The talks should last approximately 45 minutes with an additional 15 minutes for discussion.
Don't forget to bring a lunch!
Date |
Speaker |
Topic/Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 7 | Adam Papendieck, Writer-In-Residence, Jackson School of Geosciences | Science and Social Scholarship: Why scientists use social media and how to do it well |
| Sept. 14 | Jud Partin, UTIG research associate | My Tales from Remote Islands in the South Pacific |
| Sept. 21 | Feras Habbal, UTIG Postdoctoral Fellow | Dynamic changes underway in East Antarctica: recent observations and paths toward fully coupled ice-ocean modeling |
| Sept. 28 | Chenglin Gong, JSG Postdoctoral Fellow | Asymmetrical, m-scale upstream-migrating cyclic step bedforms in marine settings (Fish CreekVallecito Basin, early Pliocene, Southern California) |
| Oct. 12 | Lukas Fuchs, UTIG Postdoctoral Fellow | Deformation modelling in different tectonic scales: From salt basins to plate tectonics |
| Oct. 19 | Chastity Aiken, UTIG Postdoctoral Fellow | Testing for "predictability" of dynamically triggered earthquakes in Geysers Geothermal Field |
| Oct. 26 | John Snedden, UTIG Senior Research Scientist | Source to Sink Analysis for Prediction of Deep-water Submarine Fan Location: Practical Application to the Paleogene of USA and Mexico |
| Nov. 2 | Enrica Quartini, UTIG Graduate Research Assistant | West Antarctica: Hot or Cold? |
| Nov. 9 | Maike Sonnewald, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT | Linear Predictability: A sea level case study |
Date |
Speaker |
Topic/Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Jan | Dr. David K Arctur, UT Research Scientist and Fellow | Science Helping the Data to Help the Science |
| 27 Jan | Adam Papendieck, Jackson School of Geosciences Technical Communications Specialist | Navigating Landscapes of Scientific Practice: The Importance of Effective Communicators in the Geosciences Live Link |
| 03 Feb | Kaustubh Thirumalai, UTIG graduate research assistan | Sojourn to South India Tales of Cockroaches and Stalagmites |
| 17 Feb | Steve Philips, UTIG postdoctoral fellow | Unraveling Depositional and Diagenetic Signals in Magnetic Susceptibility in Ocean Drilling Records |
| 24 Feb | Bud Davis, UTIG graduate research assistant | Flavors of Rifting: Insights from the Margins of East Gondwana |
| 02 Mar | John Swartz, UTIG graduate research assistant | Adventuring in the Gulf of Mexico: A New Look at the Rio Grande Fan |
| 09 Mar | Jamie Austin, John Goff, Steffen Saustrup, and Marcy Davis | Israel, 2015: Continuing the UTIG-University of Haifa Study of the Margin Offshore the Roman City of Caesarea - and a Look Around a Fascinating Countryside |
| 23 Mar | Gail Christeson and Stacey Worman | CREST: Crustal Reflectivity Experiment Southern Transect |
| 30 Mar | Wei Gong, UTIG graduate research assistant | Surrogate-based Multi-Objective Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification Methods for Large, Complex Geophysical Models |
| 13 April | Nicholas W. Hayman, UTIG Research Scientist | Some Thoughts and Observations About Mudrocks |
| 27 April | Natasha Sekhon, UTIG graduate research assistant | Multidecadal Rainfall Variability in the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) Using the Geochemistry of Stalagmites From the Solomon Islands |
| 4 May | Mason Fried, UTIG graduate research assistant | TBD |
| 11 May | Marie Cavitte, UTIG graduate research assistant | TBD |
| 18 May | Pedro DiNexio, UTIG Research Scientist | TBD |
Date |
Speaker |
Topic/Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 09 Sep | Kathy Ellins, UTIG | "Making Case for Geoscience Education Research: Value and Opportunities" Link |
| 16 Sep | Lucas Beem, UTIG | "Subglacial Lake Drainage and Modification to Whillans Ice Stream Stick-slip Cycle" Link |
| 23 Sep | Mark Collins, UTIG | "Science and Journalism: Connecting with the Layperson" Link |
| 30 Sep | Laura Lindzey, UTIG | "Robots for Science" Link |
| 07 Oct | Michael Erb, UTIG | "Impacts of orbital, greenhouse gas, and ice sheet variations on Quaternary climate" Link |
| 15 Oct -- Thursday | Sarah Zedler, UTIG | "Observational Tests of an Ocean Turbulence Model" |
| 21 Oct | Susan Ellis, GNS Science New Zealand | "Long-term evolution and megathrust mechanics of the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand" |
| 28 Oct | no brownbag | |
| 04 Nov | Jake Walter, UTIG | "Interplate coupling at the shallowest subduction interface: What we know and what we want to know from the Western Solomons Islands" |
| 11 Nov | No brownbag | Wilderness First Aid/CPR training |
| 18 Nov | Stacey Worman, UTIG | Global Rates of Free Hydrogen (H2) Production by Serpentinization and other Abiogenic Processes within Young Ocean Crust |
| 25 Nov | No brownbag | |
| 02 Dec | Chris Lowery, UTIG | |
| 09 Dec | Marc Andre Gutscher, IFREMER, France |
Date |
Speaker |
Topic/Title of Talk |
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| 28 Jan | Ian Dalziel, Larry Lawver and the Shipboard Party of RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer Cruise 1408 | The South Georgia Microcontinent: Mountains, Critturs and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current |
| 4 Feb | Tieyuan Zhu, JSG | Real-time seismic monitoring of CO2 sequestration in Frio site, Texas |
| 11 Feb | Dan Stanzione, Executive Director of TACC |
Research Computing Ecosystem at Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) |
| 18 Feb | Enrica Quartini, UTIG | Science Olympiads: Did you know...? Link |
| 25 Feb | Denis Felikson UTIG & Aerospace Engineering |
Variability in Greenland tidewater glacier thinning (or thickening!) over the past 30 years |
| 4 Mar | Stefano Nerozzi, UTIG | The polar caps of Mars: A history of observations and discoveries |
| 11 Mar | Kehua You, UTIG | Hydrate formation in Gas-rich Environments |
| 18 Mar | Professor John F. Dewey, The Natural History Museum, London U.K. and University College, Oxford University | The Secular Tectonic History of the Earth Link |
| 25 Mar | Kaustubh Thirumalai, UTIG | IODP Exp. 353 Monsoon: Sunsets & Sediments |
| 1 Apr | Cyril Grima, UTIG | How to carefully operate a radar in the space environment of Europa? |
| 8 Apr | Prof. Anna Wåhlin, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden | Turbulence and mixing in buoyancy-driven plumes in polar oceans Link |
| 15 Apr | Annie Hanna, UTIG | Reconstructing Late Holocene Arctic climate change using high resolution sediment records from Simpson Lagoon, AK and the Colville River alluvial valley |
| 22 Apr | Nick Dygert, JSG | Experimental constraints on the dynamic evolution of the lunar mantle |
| 29 Apr | Liz Logan, UTIG | Dynamics of Ice Failure |
| 6 May | Jonathan Major, BEG | The Previously Unknown Seismic History of Eastern Indonesia: What 400 Years of Dutch Colonial Records Reveal |
Date |
Speaker |
Topic/Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Aug | Xavier Janson, Charles Kerans, and Chris Zahm - UTIG, BEG | Tectono-stratigraphy of the SW Bahamas Bank and Santaren Channel area using the first ever 3D seismic in the Bahamas |
| 03 Sep | Fausto Ferraccioli - British Antarctic Survey | Ghost mountains in East Antarctica- an open or a shut case? |
| 10 Sep | Chad Greene - UTIG | Antarctic Mapping Tools for Matlab |
| 17 Sep | Stefano Nerozzi - UTIG | Is there any ice under that nice glacier-like rock pile? |
| 24 Sep | -- No talk -- | -- No talk -- |
| 01 Oct | Sebastian Ramirez | Trying to understand how a forearc basin forms: an example from SW Japan |
| 08 Oct | Gail Christeson - UTIG | IODP Expedition 352 - Izu-Bonin-Mariana Forearc Drilling |
| 15 Oct | Jacqueline Reber - UTIG | |
| 22 Oct | Joe MacGregor - UTIG | The Greenland Ice Sheet in Three Dimensions |
| 29 Oct | ||
| 05 Nov | Eric Petersen - UTIG | Debris-Covered Glaciers on Mars: What's the Story There? |
| 12 Nov | Mário Araújo - Petrobras S.A. | What we see and what the models say about extensional style, crustal thinning and hyper-extension in the Conjugated Margins of South Atlantic |
| 19 Nov | Ian Dalziel and Jamie Austin - UTIG | Australia: Alien Geoscientists Traverse a Very Ancient World |
| 03 Dec | Katherine Ellins - UTIG | The Link Between Geoscience and Art |
Date |
Speaker |
Topic/Title of Talk |
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| 05 Feb | Shannon Loomis, DGS | High-elevation amplification of warming since the Last Glacial Maximum in East Africa: New perspectives from biomarker paleotemperature reconstructions |
| 12 Feb | Ian Dalziel, UTIG | Searching for the Andes |
| 19 Feb | Jake Walter, UTIG | Slow slip and megathrust earthquakes: diverse fault slip behaviors observed at the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica |
| 26 Feb | Shuping Chen, DGS | Tectonic evolution and extensional folding in Dongpu sag, Bohai bay basin, China |
| 12 Mar | Zhigang Peng, Georgia Tech (Spring Break) |
Earthquake interaction from near field to long-range distance |
| 19 Mar | Bud Davis, UTIG | Mesozoic Indian Ocean Plate Models and Insight into the Breakup of India and Antarctica |
| 26 Mar | Kimberly Gilbert, DGS | Brine Geochemistry and its Impacts on CO2 Solubility and Dissolution Kinetics: a Laboratory Investigation Simulating Geological Carbon Sequestration Reservoir Conditions |
| 02 Apr | Michael Toomey, DGS | From Hotspot to Atoll: Evolution of Coral Reef Form |
| 09 Apr | Becky Bell, Imperial College | Next-generation seismic experiments: wide-angle, multi-azimuth, three-dimensional, full-waveform inversion |
| 16 Apr | Joe Levy, UTIG | How much ice is there on Mars, really? |
| 23 Apr | Sean Gulick, Steffen Saustrup, Rodrigo Fernandez-Vasquez, Bruce Frede rick, David Gwyther - UTIG | The Not Totten Expedition in East Antarctica: Exploration, Icebergs, and Penguins |
| 30 Apr | Stuart Henrys, GNS Science (New Zealand) |
Date |
Speaker |
Topic/Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Sep | Logan West | Polar Longhorns: Recap & Highlights From the Inaugural SvalexUS Arctic Expedition |
| 25 Sep | Sean Gulick | Younger and faster: Studying tectonic-glacial climate interactions with a drill bit |
| 16 Oct | John Goff | Yucking it up in the Yucatan: Site survey for the Chicxulub impact crater drilling |
| 30 Oct | Yosio Nakamura | What happened to the Apollo data? — the lesson we are learning |
| 13 Nov | John Sneddon | The Gulf of Mexico Basin: New Science and Emerging/Re-emerging Deepwater Plays |
| 27 Nov | Lauren Andrews | Fieldwork in Greenland |
Date |
Speaker |
Topic/Title of Talk |
Academia Bizarro Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Jan | Kaustubh Thirumalai (UTIG) | Introducing: Academia Bizarro | Episode 1 |
| 06 Feb | Noel Bartlow (Stanford) | Investigations of slow slip and tremor in Cascadia, Hikurangi, and the laboratory | Episode 2 |
| 13 Feb | Sarah Zedler (UTIG) | Deconstructing Forward Problems: Inverse Solutions | Episode 3 |
| 13 Mar | Spring Break | ||
| 20 Mar | Chad Greene | Bubbles and acoustics: An introduction to physical concepts in underwater sound | Wildflower Wander! |
| 27 Mar | Randall Marrett (DGS) | Radial Decay of Coseismic Displacement Amplitudes from Thrust Earthquakes | Episode 4 |
| 10 Apr | C Browne, JA Austin, S Saustrup, JA Goff (UTIG) | Superstorm Sandy and its sedimentary impact | ---- |
| 17 Apr | Marcia McNutt (Former Director, USGS & Editor-in-Chief, Science) | How Washington Works: A Former Insider's Guide to Navigating our Nation's Capital | Episode 5 |
| 01 May | Kevin Befus (DGS) | Groundwater-surface water interactions revealed by geoelectrical surveys | ---- |
| 08 May | Kathy Ellins (UTIG) | EarthLabs and DIG Texas | Academia Bizarro Recap |
| 15 May | Lada Dimitrova (UTIG) | Revealing hidden deformation sources in New Zealand: A novel inversion of GPS data for non-prescriptive physics-based surface forces and high precision strain rates |
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 05 Sep | Lorena Moscardelli | Terrestrial deep-water erosional remnants and polygonal fault systems as potential analogs for Martian teardrop-shaped islands and large-scale polygonal terrains on the Northern Plains |
| 12 Sep | Bridget Scanlon | Buffering capacity of groundwater for droughts: examples from US High Plains and Central Valley |
| 19 Sep | Patrick Fulton | The Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST): Investigating the source of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and tsunami |
| 26 Sep | Moshen Ahmadian | Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC) |
| 03 Oct | Gail Christeson | Yakutat Terrane Accretion, Southern Alaska |
| 10 Oct | Sean Gulick, Maurine LeVoir, Steffen Saustrup | 1899 Earthquake Faults in Yakutat Bay, Alaska |
| 17 Oct | Lada Dimitrova | 4 billion years of tectonic history on Mars |
| 24 Oct | No Brown Bag | No Brown Bag |
| 31 Oct | Ian Norton & Larry Lawver | The Panamint Allochthon, Death Valley: a detached point of view |
| 07 Nov | Kaustubh Thirumalai & Fred Taylor | Vonunu!: Earthquakes in the Western Solomon Islands |
| 14 Nov | Deborah Khider | Hydrographic variability in the Indonesian Seas during the Common Era |
| 21 Nov | No Brown Bag | Thanksgiving Break |
| 28 Nov | Sean Gulick, Rodrigo Fernandez-Vasquez, Brian Horton, Steffen Saustrup | Exploring research opportunities in the Patagonian Andes from land to sea: faulting, uplift, glaciers and other adventures |
| 05 Dec | No Brown Bag | AGU |
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 08 Feb | Nick Hayman | Nankai margin from grain to plate scale |
| 15 Feb | Krista Soderlund | Investigating planetary interiors through convection and dynamo modeling |
| 22 Feb | Joe MacGregor | The role of acids in electrical conduction through ice |
| 29 Feb | Jamie Austin and Steffen Saustrup | How we spent part of our summer vacation: chirp profiling off an Israeli beach and a Roman city |
| 07 Mar | Bobby Reece and Maureen LeVoir | Summer in Alaska: expanding the US marine frontier |
| 14 Mar | No Brownbag | Spring Break |
| 21 Mar | Liz Logan | Observations and modeling grounding line fractures in Siple Coast, Antarctica |
| 28 Mar | Rui Zhang | Time lapse seismic inversion for CO2 sequestration at Cranfield, Mississippi |
| 04 Apr | Isaac Smith | The north polar troughs of Mars as aeolian cyclic steps |
| 11 Apr | Kenni Denisen Petersen | Numerical modelling of continental rifting and small-scale convection |
| 18 Apr | Drew Eddy | Shear-wave velocity structure of the Newfoundland margin transition zone: Implications for magma-poor rifting |
| 25 Apr | Eunseo Choi | Constraining normal fault strength from the presence and geometry of rider blocks |
| 02 May | John Snedden | The Gulf of Mexico Basin: A natural laboratory of sedimentary processes |
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 07 Sep | Rocio Bernal Olaya | Evolution of a forearc basin in a flat-slab subduction setting, Lower Magdalena basin, Colombia |
| 14 Sep | Sasha Carter | Antarctica's evolving subglacial water systems |
| 21 Sep | John Shaw | Wax Lake Delta Update |
| 28 Sep | Isaac Smith | Recent Visit to Alaska: Denali, Permafrost Tunnel, Picking Wild Blueberries on Bear Mountain |
| 05 Oct | Joe McGregor | Four decades of progressive ice-shelf disintegration in the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica |
| 12 Oct | Patrick Fulton | Insights
into tsunamigenic earthquakes from frictional heat signatures: results from
Nankai and rapid response plans following the Mw 9.0 Tohoku
Earthquake |
| 19 Oct | No Brownbag | Brownbag holiday |
| 26 Oct | Danny Stockli | Recent Advances in Detrital Zircon Dating |
| 02 Nov | Shannon Cavanaugh and Steven Graf | Preliminary AVO and BSR studies from 3D seismic survey of the Costa Rican subduction zone |
| 09 Nov | Jud Partin and Fred Taylor | Speleothem Dating |
| 16 Nov | No Brownbag | Postponed until Next Semester |
| 23 Nov | No Brownbag | Thanksgiving Break |
| 30 Nov | No Brownbag | Postponed until Next Semester |
| 07 Dec | No Brownbag | Fall AGU |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
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| Feb. 02 | Eh Tan | Dynamical models of thermo-chemical piles at the lower most mantle |
| Feb. 09 | John Hooker | Geologic Fracture Scaling |
| Feb. 16 | Gail Christeson, Harm, Steffen, and Drew | GUMBO Cruise |
| Feb. 23 | Guest Speaker - David Sutherland | What controls ocean heat transport in the Sermilik-Helheim fjord-glacier system in southeastern Greenland? |
| Mar. 02 | Mike Ramirez | Site Assessment for the Viability of Large Freshwater and Sediment Diversion Projects in the Lower Mississippi River |
| Mar. 09 | Rocio Bernal Olaya, Henry Campos, and Tricia Alvarez | Neotectonics of Arc-Continent Collision. Report on a GSA Penrose Meeting, January 2011. Manizales, Colombia.
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| Mar. 16 | (Spring Break) | |
| Mar. 23 | Guest Speaker - Aron Meltzner | Megathrust and Sea-Level History of the Sumatra Region from Coral Microatolls |
| Mar. 30 | Guest Speaker - Sonja Spasojevic | Dynamic models of creation and evolution of sedimentary basins |
| Apr. 06 | Lawrence Lawver | South American mammals - how did they get there? Or what vertebrate paleontologists can teach plate tectonic folk [and vice-versa] |
| Apr. 13 | Kathy Ellins | Diversity and Innovation in the Geosciences: DIG Texas |
| Apr. 20 | Jason Gulley | Glacier Hydrology |
| Apr. 27 | Dallas Dunlap | Seismic Architecture and Morphology of Mesozoic-Age Sediment Waves Offshore Morocco |
| May 4th | Jud Partin | Tales from the western tropical Pacific: Search for the "Golden" Samples |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title
of Talk |
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Sep.
01 |
Sean Gulick/John Goff |
Marine
geophysical reconnaissance of Hubbar Glacier and Russel Fiord: How we learned to joust with bergy bits and growlers |
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Sep.
08 |
Gail Christeson |
2D Waveform Inversion of Ocean Crust MCS Data: Preliminary
Results |
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Sep.
15 |
Julia Schneider |
Making Synthetic Mudrocks in the
Geomechanics Lab |
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Sep.
22 |
Nick
Hayman |
Rift
to drift at the extremes: A scientific travel-log from Tierra del Fuego to
the Caribbean, and black smokers in the Abyss |
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Sep.
29 |
Kirk McIntosh/Steffen Saustrup |
In
search of active faulting in mid-continent North America: seismic reflection
surveying on the Mississippi River |
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Oct.
06 |
Harm
van Avendonk |
A
seismic refraction study of the Cocos plate offshore
Nicaragua and Costa Rica |
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Oct.
13 |
Luc
Lavier |
Localization
processes in ductile shear zones: Implication for slow slip |
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Oct.
20 |
Britney
Schmidt |
Ice
and the Asteroid Belt |
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Oct.
27 |
Mead
Allison |
Seeking
a sediment record of recent Arctic climate change from the Colville Delta,
Beaufort Sea |
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Nov.
03 |
Brian
Horton |
CAUGHT:
Central Andean Uplift and the Geodynamics of High Topography |
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Nov.
10 |
Cathy
Busby |
Birth
of a Plate Boundary |
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Nov.
17 |
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Nov.
24 |
Paul
Mann |
Scenery
and geology of Rio de Janeiro, Iguazu Falls,
Cappadocia, the Bosphorus, southern Maine, and the
Rio Grande rift |
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Dec.
01 |
Jamie
Austin |
Bringing
the Excitement of Deep Ocean Exploration to a Classroom with No Ocean in
Sight – the E/V Nautilus Investigates
the Israel Continental Margin |
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Dec.
08 |
Hilary
Olson |
Partnering
with Science, Education, Outreach and Policy Experts to Increase Scientific
Literacy in America |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title/Topic of Talk |
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Jan. 20 |
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Jan. 27 |
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Feb. 03 |
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Feb. 10 |
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Feb. 17 |
Kathy Ellins |
TXESS Revolution: A Progress Report |
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Feb. 24 |
Nathan Downey |
Dynamics of a Taiwan-Like Orogeny |
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Mar. 03 |
Lindsey Lowe-Worthington |
New
Geophysical Parameters for Understanding the Evolution of the St. Elias
Orogeny, Southern Alaska |
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Mar. 10 |
Cliff Frohlich |
Speculations about the Origins of Shallow and Deep Moonquakes |
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Mar. 17 |
SPRING BREAK |
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Mar. 24 |
Paul Mann |
The 2010 Haiti Earthquake: When Science and Society Intersect |
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Mar. 31 |
Yao You |
Pore
Pressure Evolution and Its Control on Erosion Rate Breaching |
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Apr. 7 |
Derek
Sawyer |
Lithologic Controls on Subaqueous Mud Flow Dynamics and Deposits |
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Apr. 14 |
Craig Fulthrope |
Canterbury Tales: IODP Expedition 317, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand |
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Apr. 21 |
Sean Gulick |
Offshore Rapid Response to January 12 Earthquake in Haiti: Search for Coseismic Evidence |
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Apr. 28 |
Isaac Smith |
Martian Spiral Troughs on the Northern Ice Cap and Links to Climate |
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May 5 |
Ian Dalziel |
The Polar Earth Observing Network - POLENET |
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May 12 |
Amanda Baker |
Strain Rate Due to Cracking in the Northern Chilean Forearc |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title/Topic of Talk |
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Sept. 16 |
Nicholas
Hayman |
Fresh off the boat: 70 meters of core from below a forearc basin courtesy of NantroSEIZE Expedition 319 |
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Oct. 7 |
Jennifer Glidewell |
The Geology of Offshore |
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Oct. 14 |
** Canceled ** |
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Oct. 21 |
Doug Ratcliff |
GeoFORCE: Looking for Einsteins in Unique Places |
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Nov. 4 |
Carrie Whitehill |
Bare-Earth mapping of the active Pacific-North American plate margin: How to get your hands on Free Hi-Res LiDAR data! |
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Nov. 11 |
** Postponed ** |
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Nov. 18 |
Ryan Lester, Dan Eakin, Kirk McIntosh |
Recent |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title/Topic of Talk |
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Feb. 25 |
Andy Hemmings, |
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Mar. 04 |
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Mar. 11 |
Jamin Greenbaum, Dusty Schroeder, Isaac Smith |
Will Work For Food, Fuel, and a Groomed Ski-way: ICECAP Season 1 |
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Mar. 18 |
Spring Break |
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Mar. 25 @ 2pm |
Rob van der
Hilst |
Multiscale Seismic Imaging of Earth's Interior |
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Apr. 01 |
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Apr. 08 |
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Apr. 15 |
BEG Industry Day |
No UTIG Brownbag |
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Apr. 22 |
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Apr. 29 |
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May 06 |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title/Topic of Talk |
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Aug. 27 |
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Sept. 03 |
Harm van Avendonk |
High-frequency seismic reflections from the slab-interface between the Cocos plate and the mantle wedge beneath Costa Rica |
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Sept. 10 |
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Sept. 17 |
Ian Norton |
Uplift of the Cyrenaica Peninsula, Libya as a consequence of the Messinian desiccation event |
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Sept. 24 |
Nicholas Hayman |
Internal Structure of the Atlantis Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge (& some discussion about Oceanic Core Complexes worldwide) |
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Oct. 01 |
Cliff Frohlich |
Deep Focus Earthquake |
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Oct. 08 |
No Brownbag (GSA Meeting) |
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Oct. 15 |
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Tuesday Oct. 21 (BEG main conference room) |
Sean Gulick and Jamie Austin |
Surveying Crustal Structure Beneath the 2004 Sumatran Great Earthquake Rupture Area off Indonesia |
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Tuesday Oct. 28 |
Students: Hilary Strong, Eric Anderson, Ryan Elmore, and Lindsay Worthington |
Marine Geology and Geophysics Field Course |
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Nov. 05 |
Randy Keller (Univ. of Oklahoma) |
A geophysical view of the East African rift from Ethiopia southward |
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Tuesday Nov. 11 |
Students: Bobby Reece & Lindsay Worthington |
STEEP Cruise |
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Nov. 19 |
John Goff and Mead Allison |
Rapid Response to Galveston Following Hurricane Ike |
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Nov. 26 |
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Dec. 03 (1pm-2pm) |
Students (Hilary Strong, Stanley Stackhouse, Will Burnett, Yao You) |
Summer Internships in the Oil Industry |
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Dec. 10 |
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Dec. 17 |
AGU Fall Meeting |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title/Topic of Talk |
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Jan. 16 |
“Faces of Earth” Discovery
Channel Series - Free Pizza! |
Episode 1: “Building the Planet”
featuring three JSG scientists. |
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Jan. 23 |
“Faces of Earth” Discovery
Channel Series |
Episode 2: “Shaping the Planet” |
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Jan. 30 |
“Faces of Earth” Discovery
Channel Series |
Episode 3: “Assembling |
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Feb. 6 |
Holly Vinall |
“The assessment of world petroleum
systems through ArcGIS Play Fairway Mapping” |
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Feb. 13 |
Rebecca Boon |
“The |
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Feb. 21 |
Will King |
“Jamaican
Tectonics: Integrating GPS, Geomorphology, and Gravity” |
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Feb. 27 |
Jack Holt, Ph.D. |
“Radar sounding of
ice on Mars: My experience on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Science
Team” |
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Mar. 05 |
No Brownbag |
No Brownbag |
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Mar. 12 |
Spring Break (No brownbag) |
No Brownbag |
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Mar. 19 |
Yasuyuki Saito |
“Re-analysis
of the Apollo Heat Flow Experiment data including previously unanalyzed
data” And |
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Mar. 26 |
No Brownbag |
No Brownbag |
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Apr. 02 |
Candidate talks instead of Brownbag |
No Brownbag |
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Apr. 09 |
Matthew Hornbach, Ph.D. |
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Apr. 16 |
Duncan Young, Ph.D. |
A regional
look beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet using airborne radar sounding |
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Apr. 23 |
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Apr. 30 |
Ryan Elmore, Jamin Greenbaum,
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Date |
Speaker |
Title/Topic of Talk |
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Aug. 08 |
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What High
School Teachers and Research Scientists Can Do To Connect Students To Science
and To UTIG |
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Sept. 05 |
Sean
Gulick |
One Rock to Change the World: The Story of
the Chicxulub Impact Crater |
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Sept. 12 |
Luc
Lavier |
Finding the
Physical Evidence (rocks) for model predictions in the Pyrenees and the Alps |
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Sept. 19 |
Sasha
Peter Carter |
Finding
sub-ice lakes in East Antarctica using surface anomalies and hydraulic
potential |
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Sept. 26 |
Charles
Jackson |
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Oct. 03 |
Katherine
Ellins |
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Oct. 10 |
John
Goff |
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Oct. 17 |
Marcy
Davis |
Bathymetric
Mapping for Law of the Sea and other Arctic goings-on: HLY0703 |
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Oct. 24 |
Bradley
Opdyke |
Discovering
Paleotemperatures and Carbonate saturation state through Laser ablation
ICP-MS of Planktonic Foraminifera |
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Oct. 31 |
Nathan
Bangs |
The
mega-splay fault in the Nankai Trough subduction zone interpreted from
3D seismic images |
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Nov. 07 |
Rosemary
Came |
The link between abrupt climate
change and intermediate depth ocean circulation |
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Nov. 14 |
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Feb. 28 |
Dr. Ken Ridgeway |
Neogene basin development and deformation along the southern Alaska convergent margin |
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Mar. 07 |
Jamin Greenbaum |
Fabricating Satellites at UT - Implications for UTIG |
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Mar. 14 |
Spring Break |
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Mar. 21 |
Jamie Austin |
South Pacific- The expedition, not the musical |
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Mar. 28 |
David Contreras |
Regional structural and stratigraphic implications on Gas potential in the northwestern Eocene Maracaibo foreland basin. Eastern Venezuela |
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Apr. 04 |
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Apr. 11 |
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Apr. 18 |
Theresa Diehl |
Geoarchaeology in Greece and Egypt: Earth History's Impact on Ancient Human History |
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Apr. 25 |
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May 02 |
Yongsheng Xu, UTIG Postdoc Fellow |
Wind stress dependence on ocean surface velocity: implications for the study of ocean dynamics |
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May 10, |
Eleine Vence, graduate student |
Along-Strike Continuity of Caribbean-Tectonic Terranes and Their Controls on Source Rocks Offshore Colombia & Venezuela |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title/Topic of Talk |
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Sept. 13 |
Lindsay Lowe |
Alaska field work |
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11:30 a.m. |
Kevin Bain, Russell Young, Chase Asher, and Matt McDonald |
Arctic Exploration: USCGC Healy Cruise HLY0602 |
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Sept. 27 |
Ginny Catania |
Spring in Greenland: How I learned to stop worrying and love global warming |
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October 4 |
Paul Mann |
Scenery and Tectonics of Spain |
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October 11 |
Brian Arbic |
Teaching Science with the Peace Corps in Africa |
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October 18 |
Fausto Ferraccioli |
Recent Airborne Geophysics Exploration of the British Antarctic Survey |
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October 25 |
Ian Dalziel |
The West Antarctic GPS Network (WAGN): Measuring Motion in the Bedrock of the Antarctic Ice Cap |
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November 1 |
No seminar this week |
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November 8 |
Rob Scott |
How North Atlantic Warming is affecting Hurricane Activity |
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November 15 |
Natasha Putnam |
Education and Outreach in the Earth Sciences |
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November 22 |
Thanksgiving |
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November 29 |
Dr. Andria Bilich |
High-rate GPS as a tool for seismology |
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December 6 |
Hamed El-Mowafy |
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Date |
Speaker |
Title/Topic of Talk |
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May 2, 2006 |
Lisa Bingham (1st 1/2) and |
Lisa- Maya Ceramic Study |
Apr. 18, 2006 |
Margaret Kroehler |
Tectonic history of the Caribbean plate as preserved in the sequence stratigraphy of the Venezuelan basin and South Caribbean deformed belt |
Apr. 11, 2006 |
Clark Wilson |
JSG's New Superconducting Sensor Relative Gravity Meter |
Apr. 4, 2006 |
Cancelled |
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Mar. 28, 2006 |
Brian Arbic |
Climatic Warming of Atlantic Ocean Waters |
Mar. 21, 2006 |
Justin Funk |
The JSG NicLakes project: A high-resolution geophysical survey and coring study of the two largest lakes in Central America |
Mar. 14, 2006 |
No Talk |
Due to Spring Break |
Mar. 7, 2006 |
Srinivas Bettadpur |
Opportunituies with the GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) Satellite |
Feb. 28, 2006 |
Cancelled |
Cancelled due to conflict with "topping out" ceremony for new building construction |
Feb. 21, 2006 |
Dan Sinclair |
A filthy time in tropical paradise! |
Feb. 14, 2006 |
Yi Deng |
Has it Ever Rained Cats and Dogs in a Climate Model? |
Feb. 7, 2006 |
Cancelled |
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Jan. 31, 2006 |
Jay Pulliam and Matt Hornbach |
Galavanting Around the Gulf of Guinea: A Seismic Survey of Sao Tome |
Jan. 24, 2006 |
Harm Van Avendonk |
Land refraction data acquisition in Costa Rica |
Date |
Speaker |
Title/Topic of Talk |
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Sept. 06, 2005 |
Marcy Davis |
Moonlighting in the Volunteer State: The Making of 'Roadside Geology of Tennessee' |
Sept. 13, 2005 |
Jamie Austin and Steffen Saustrup |
Cruise off the Thailand Coast- Tsunami Research |
Sept. 20, 2005 |
Duncan Young |
Rusalka Planitia, Venus: Tectonic Architecture and Temporal Ambiguities |
Sept. 27, 2005 |
Kathy Ellins |
Educational and Public Outreach- New Directions and Opportunities that you should know about |
Oct. 4, 2005 |
Kirk McIntosh, Craig Fulthorpe, and Jason Stephens |
Recent Fieldwork Offshore Nicaragua and Costa Rica: Effects of Eustatic and Tectonic Forcing on Development of Forearc Basin Sequence Stratigraphy |
Oct. 11, 2005 |
Rob Scott |
Are Katrina and Rita the Writing on the Wall -- What do Climate Scientists Say about Hurricanes and Global Warming? |
Oct. 18, 2005 |
Sean Gulick |
High-Res Surveying and Coring in Southeast Alaskan Glacial Fjords and Shelf Sediments: Great Data and Beautiful Views! |
Oct. 25, 2005 |
Paul Mann |
Structural Comparison of the Canadian Rockies and the Solomon Islands, SW Pacific |
Nov. 1, 2005 |
Cliff Frohlich |
Some Remarkable Earthquakes, Past and Future; Especially, the 1 November 1755 Lisbon Earthquake |
Nov. 8, 2005 |
Christina Holland |
Budding Scientists: Working with 5th Graders as part of the GK-12 Program at the University of South Florida |
Nov. 15, 2005 |
Sasha Carter |
Subglacial Lakes and Airborne Radar Sounding: A Code for Detecting Deep Water |
Nov. 22, 2005 |
Martin Hanzlik |
Late Quaternary Sea Level History of Western Puerto Rico Inferred from High Resolution Seismic Lines |
Nov. 29, 2005 |
Yosio Nakamura |
Moonquakes: Who said the moon was dead? |
