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Week of October 23-29, 2006

Monday, October 23, 2006
Soft Rock Seminar
GEO 3.222, 12:00 noon
Speakers/Topic: Wade Hutchings (Marathon), Carla Sanchez (UT DGS Doctoral Candidate) "Play Fairway Analysis and Seismic Geomorphology of Turbidite Slope Channels: Example from offshore West Africa"

Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Department of Geological Sciences Technical Session
GEO 2.324, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Speakers/Topics: None GSA week

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
PGST Brown Bag Seminar
GEO 3.222, 12:00 Noon
Speaker/Topic: None – GSA week

Thursday, October 26, 2006
Exploration Geophysics Seminar
GEO 4.216B, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Speaker/Topic: Dr. Mrnal Sen (DGS) "Bayesian Geophysical Inversion"

Department of Geological Sciences Technical Session
GEO 2.324, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Speakers/Topics: Chandan Kumar (UT DGS PhD Candidate) "Parameter estimation for seismic anisotropy."

Friday, October 27, 2006
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Main Conference Room, Bldg 130, 8:30 a.m.
J. J. Pickle Research Campus
Speaker/Topic: Abhijit Mukherjee (BEG) “Deeper groundwater flow and chemistry in the arsenic affected Western Bengal Basin, West Bengal, India”

Institute for Geophysics Seminar
UTIG Bldg. Room 800 (2nd Level), 11-12:00 p.m.
Speaker/Topic: Samar Khatiwala (LDEO) "Anthropogenic Carbon Uptake by the Ocean Estimated Using Transit-Time Distributions"

Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
GEO 3.222, 12:00 noon
Speaker/Topic: Geary Schindel, P.G. (Edwards Aquifer Authority) Excerpts from the Worst Case Scenario Hydrogeologists Handbook – How to survive being trapped on a ledge, drown in a cave, falling down a pit, struck by lightening, dealing with the press and politicians, and other hydrogeologic perils

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.