This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

Week of February 26 - March 4, 2007


Speakers:	TBA
Topics:	TBA
Series/Event:	Soft Rock Seminar
Date & Time:	Monday, 02/26, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Irina Filina (UT DGS PhD Candidate)
Topics:	Geographical studies of the subglacial crust in Antarctica and implications for ice-sheet and subglacial lake dynamics
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 02/27 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Dr. Martin Robyr (UT DGS)
Topics:	Textural, chemical and microstructural investigations of snowball garnet prophyroblasts
Series/Event:	PGST Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 02/28, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Prof. J. David Archibald (Professor of Biology, San Diego State University)
Topics:	Origin, Biogeography, and Radiation of Eutherian and Placental Mammals: Comparing Paleontologic and Molecular Evidence
Series/Event:	Langston Centennial Lecture in Vertebrate Paleontology
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 02/28, 11:30-1:30 p.m.
Location	Barrow Conference Room 4.102

Speakers:	Dr. Ken Ridgeway (Professor at Purdue University)
Topics:	Neogene basin development and deformation along the southern Alaska convergent margin
Series/Event:	UTIG Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 02/28, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Location	.J. Pickle Research Campus, Bldg. 196, 10100 Burnet Road (R2200)

Speakers:	Dr. Christopher Kendall, Professor of Geology University of South Carolina and Distinguised Visiting Scientist JSG
Topics:	The Exploitation of Oil" - A History of the Entrepreneurs Who Made it Happen
Series/Event:	AAPG Student Chapter Seminar
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 02/28, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Terence Campbell (UT DGS MS Candidate)
Topics:	Integrating seismic geomorphology into improved reservoir models of shelf margin deltas, Corallita/Lantana field, Trinidad
Series/Event:	Exploration Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 03/01, 2-3:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 4.216B

Speakers:	J. David Archibald (Professor of Biology, San Diego State University)
Topics:	TK/T vertebrate extinction and survival: Dispelling myths and testing theories
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Thursday, 03/01, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Bob Hardage (BEG)
Topics:	TBA
Series/Event:	Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 03/02, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Location	Main Conference Room, Bldg 130, J. J. Pickle Research Campus

Speakers:	John Jaeger (Assistant Prof, Dept of Geological Sciences, University of Florida)
Topics:	Signal Transfer in a Glacial Source-to-Sink Sedimentary System
Series/Event:	Institute for Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 03/02 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Location	UTIG Bldg 196, PRC, Rm 1.603, 10100 Burnet Road

Speakers:	Philip Dellinger (EPA, Groundwater Division)
Topics:
Series/Event:	Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 03/02, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
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.