This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

Week of March 26 - April 1, 2007


Speakers:	TBA
Topics:	TBA
Series/Event:	Soft Rock Seminar
Date & Time:	Monday, 03/26, Noon
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Laura DeMott (UT DGS MS) and Will Burnett (UT DGS MS)
Topics:	DeMott - Recent travertine deposits as proxy records of changing groundwater processes in urbanizing areas Burnett - The matrices of seismic data processing
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 03/27, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Prof. Steve Sparks - University of Bristol
Topics:	Volcanic Debris Avalanches
Series/Event:	PGST Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 03/28, Noon-1:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Prof. Steve Sparks - University of Bristol
Topics:	Kimberlites
Series/Event:	Special Lecture
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 03/28, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.102

Speakers:	Six of the world’s top polar ice researchers present their research and workshop findings followed by an interactive Q&A session.
Topics:	Global Warming, Climate Change and Rising Sea Levels: The Secrets of the Western Antarctic Ice Shelf
Series/Event:	Environmental Science Institute Public Day
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 03/28, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Location	Welch Hall, Room 2.224

Speakers:	Dr. David Vaughan - Glaciologist, British Antarctic Survey
Topics:	Come Ice or High Water: How will Global Warming Affect Antarctic Ice Sheets and Sea Levels?
Series/Event:	Environmental Science Institute Lecture Series
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 03/28, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Location	Welch Hall, Room 2.224

Speakers:	Jeff Shragge - Stanford
Topics:	Frequency domain waveform inversion by one-way wavefield extrapolation
Series/Event:	Exploration Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 03/29, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 4.216B

Speakers:	Prof. Steve Sparks - University of Bristol
Topics:	The Role of Water in Island Arc Volcanism
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Thursday, 03/29, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Jeff Paine, BEG
Topics:	Flying the Colorado: Finding Salinity Sources in Stream-Axis EM Data from West Texas
Series/Event:	Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 03/30, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Location	J. J. Pickle Research Campus, BEG (Bldg. 130), Main Conference Room

Speakers:	Peggy Vermeesch, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIG
Topics:	Broad Zone of Structural Uplift Beneath the Chicxulub Impact Structure
Series/Event:	Institute for Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 03/30, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Location	J. J. Pickle Research Campus, ROC (Bldg. 196), Room 1.603

Speakers:	Bruce Moring, USGS
Topics:	The Response of Texas Blackland Prairie Streams to a Gradient of Urbanization
Series/Event:	Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 03/30, 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 Lou Harwell in the Department at louharwell@mail.utexas.edu or 512-471-5172.