This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

Week of November 13-19, 2006


Speakers:	TBA
Topics:	TBA
Series/Event:	Soft Rock Seminar
Date & Time:	Monday, 11/13, Noon
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Terence Garner (UT DGS PhD Candidate)
Topics:	Characterization of transport properties in granitic fractures with skins
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 11/14, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Natasha Putnam
Topics:	Education and Outreach in the Earth Sciences
Series/Event:	UTIG Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Monday, 11/15, 11:30 a.m.
Location	UTIG, Room 800

Speakers:	Mead Allison (Associate Professor, Tulane University)
Topics:	Source-to-Sink Sediment Dynamics and Terrestrial Carbon Burial on River-Dominated Continental Margins: Insights from the Mississippi-Atchafalaya Dispersal System
Series/Event:	UTIG Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 11/16, 11:00 a.m.
Location	UTIG, Room 800, mid-level

Speakers:	Dr. Philip J. Bart (Assoc. Professor, LSU, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics)
Topics:	Extreme expansions of the West Antarctic and East Antarctic Ice Sheets: a seismic-stratigraphic perspective from the margin
Series/Event:	Exploration Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 11/16, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 4.216B

Speakers:	Dr. Don Fisher, Dept. of Geoscienecs, Penn. State Univ.
Topics:	Structure, seismicity, volcanism, and landscape evolution along erosive convergent margins: Middle America and Japan
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Thursday, 11/16, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Dr. Stephen Palumbi (Marine Biologist and Professor, Stanford)
Topics:	The History and Future of Whales
Series/Event:	ESI Lecture
Date & Time:	Thursday, 11/16, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Location	Welch Hall, Room 2.224

Speakers:	Dr. Rob Reed (BEG)
Topics:	Pores in the Mississippian Barnett Shales of the northern Fort Worth Basin: primary, secondary, and possible fracture-related examples
Series/Event:	Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 11/17, 8:30 a.m.
Location	Main Conference Room, Bldg 130, J. J. Pickle Research Campus

Speakers:	Dr. Don Fisher, Dept. of Geoscienecs, Penn. State Univ.
Topics:	Structural and Thermal evolution of the active Taiwan Arc-Continent Collision
Series/Event:	Institute for Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 11/17 11:00 a.m.-Noon
Location	UTIG, Room 800

Speakers:	Dr. Wade Kress (USGS)
Topics:	Determination of canal leakage potential using continuous resistivity profiling techniques--and associated groundwater modeling
Series/Event:	Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 11/17, Noon
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Dr. Philip J. Bart (Assoc. Professor, LSU, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics)
Topics:	Direct Constraints on the Neogene Grounding History of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet via Correlations with ODP Leg 178 Sites
Series/Event:	Institute for Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 11/17, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Location	UTIG, Room 800

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.