This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

Week of December 4 - 10, 2006


Speakers:	Jennifer Aschoff (UT DGS PhD Candidate)
Topics:	Relationships between Thrust-belt-controlled Conglomerates and Extensive Sandstone Tongues in the North American Cordilleran Foreland Basin
Series/Event:	Soft Rock Seminar
Date & Time:	Monday, 12/04, 12:00 noon
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Kathryn Young (UT DGS Master candidates)
Topics:	Discrimintation between gas and brine saturation using AVO analysis in the Columbus Basin, Offshore Trinidad
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 12/05, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Keith Trasko (UT DGS MS Candidate)
Topics:	Kinematic Analysis of Outcrop Scale Structures in the Lopez Point-Ragged Point Area, Coast Ranges, California
Series/Event:	PGST Seminar
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 12/6, , 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Brian Arbic (UTIG)
Topics:	Forward Modeling of the Global Oceanic Tides, at the Surface and at Depth, in the Present and in the Ice Ages
Series/Event:	Institute for Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 12/07 11 a.m.-Noon
Location	UTIG Room 800 (Mid Level, above parking garage)

Speakers:	Dr Sergey Fomel (Research scientist, BEG)
Topics:	Understanding seismic heterogeneity
Series/Event:	Exploration Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 12/07, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 4.216B

Speakers:	Dr. Julio Friedman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Topics:	Tackling subsurface uncertainty: stochastic integration and inversion of geological and geophysical data sets
Series/Event:	BEG Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 12/07, 11:00-12:00
Location	BEG, 10100 Burnet Road, Bldg. 130

Speakers:	Dr. Terry Quinn (UT DGS)
Topics:	Skeletal Geochemistry of Corals as Climate Proxies: Past Successes and Future Challenges
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Thursday, 12/07, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Dr. Daniel Kurtzman
Topics:	ENSO and PDO Impacts on Precipitation in Southern and Central US: Spatial Distribution and Predictions Validity
Series/Event:	Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 12/08, 11 a.m.
Location	Main Conference Room, Bldg 130, J. J. Pickle Research Campus

Speakers:	Dr. Mark Lenz (NOAA/NWS)
Topics:	A Glance into Today's Weather Service
Series/Event:	Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 12/08, 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.