This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

Week of October 2-8, 2006


Speakers:	Jeff Nittrouer (UT DGS)
Topics:	Measurements of Bed Material and Suspended Sand Flux Within the Lower (Tidally Influenced) Mississippi River
Series/Event:	Soft Rock Seminar
Date & Time:	Monday, 10/2, Noon
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Ben Davis (UT DGS MS Candidate) Hunter Danque (UT DGS MS Candidate)
Topics:	Davis: Structural analysis of Grenville-age foreland deformation, Trans-Pecos, Texas Danque: Comparison of three West Antarctic subglacial volcanos from aerogeophysical data and potential for associated hydrothermal systems
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 10/3, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Dr. Sabine Wulf (Research Fellow, UTIG)
Topics:	Volcanic ash as a powerful tool in paleoclimate research
Series/Event:	PGST Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 10/4, Noon-1:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Dr. David W. Scholl (Stanford/USGS)
Topics:	Paradigm altering drilling discoveries: The unanticipated documenting of upper plate crustal thinning at subduction zones and the movement (non-fixity) of Pacific hotspots
Series/Event:	PGST Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 10/5, 2-3:30 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.202

Speakers:	None scheduled, SEG conference, New Orleans
Topics:
Series/Event:	Exploration Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 10/5, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 4.216B

Speakers:	Dr. David W. Scholl (Stanford University/USGS)
Topics:	The making of the volumetric real estate of our continents—a perspective gained by observations at subduction zones about whether, since the archean, we’ve been gaining, losing, or staying about the same
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Thursday, 10/5, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Dr. Kerry Emanuel (MIT)
Topics:	Is Climate Change Increasing Hurricane Activity?
Series/Event:	ESI Outreach Lecture Series
Date & Time:	Thursday, 10/5, 5:45-7 p.m. (pre-lecture fun) & 7-8:30 p.m. (lecture, Q&A)
Location	Welch Hall, Room 2.224

Speakers:	Dr. Bob Loucks (BEG)
Topics:	Mississippian Barnett Shale in the Fort Worth Basin: Lithofacies and Depositional Setting of a Deepwater Shale-Gas Succession
Series/Event:	Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 10/6, 8:30–9:15 a.m.
Location	Main Conference Room, Bldg 130, J. J. Pickle Research Campus

Speakers:	Tip Meckel (Research Associate, BEG)
Topics:	Southern Louisiana’s subsidence problem: geologic contributions and post-Katrina geophysical research opportunities
Series/Event:	Institute for Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 10/6, 11:00 a.m.-Noon
Location	UTIG Room 800

Speakers:	Colin Clark (Save Our Springs)
Topics:	The Fragile World of Barton Springs and the Edwards Aquifer
Series/Event:	Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 10/6, Noon
Location	GEO 3.222

This Week in Geosciences (TWIG) is a weekly communication from the Department of Geological Sciences at the Jackson School. To submit events for TWIG, contact Terry Edgar in the Department at tedgar@mail.utexas.edu or 512-471-5172.