This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

Week of February 5 - 11, 2007


Speakers:	Brandon McElroy (UT DGS PhD Candidate)
Topics:	Continuum Measures of Bed Topography in a Sandy River
Series/Event:	Soft Rock Seminar
Date & Time:	Monday, 02/05, Noon
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Xuemei Wang (Visiting Scientist, Zhongshan Univ., China)
Topics:	Study on Air Quality in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) Region, China
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 02/06, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	TBA
Topics:	TBA
Series/Event:	PGST Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 02/07, Noon-1:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Dennis Newell (Ph.D. Candidate in Geology at the University of New Mexico and Candidate for postdoc in Structural Diagenesis with FRAC
Topics:	Geochemistry of mineral springs of the Mount Everest region; a window into three structural levels of the lithosphere beneath the Tibetan Plateau
Series/Event:	BEG Technical Talk
Date & Time:	Thursday, 02/08 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Location	Bureau of Economic Geology 10100 Burnet Road, Bldg. 130

Speakers:	Sanjeev Kumar (Post Doc, UTIG)
Topics:	Seismic Interference Noise and Frequency depending AVO
Series/Event:	Exploration Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 02/08, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 4.216B

Speakers:	Dr. Clark Wilson (Dept. Chair, DGS, JSG)
Topics:	Groundwater from space: Contributions from the GRACE mission
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Thursday, 02/08, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	J. P. Nicot (BEG)
Topics:	Ground Water Use in the Gas-Producing Barnett Shale Area: How Much Water Is Truly Used by Industry?
Series/Event:	BEG Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 02/09, 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Location	Main Conference Room, Bldg 130, J. J. Pickle Research Campus

Speakers:	Fred Aminzadeh (President and CEO : dGB – USA, Sugar Land, TX)
Topics:	3D Sequence Stratigraphy Interpretation System (SSIS)
Series/Event:	Seismic Software Presentation
Date & Time:	Friday, 02/09, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Location	Main Conference Room, Bldg 130, J. J. Pickle Research Campus

Speakers:	Alex Orsi (Research Scientist, Physical Section, Texas A&M University Dept of Oceanography
Topics:	Characteristics of the Antarctic Slope Current and Front in the Ross Sea
Series/Event:	Institute for Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 02/09 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Location	UTIG Bldg 196, PRC, 10100 Burnet Road

Speakers:	Robert Mace
Topics:	TBA
Series/Event:	Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 02/09, 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.