This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

TWIG Archive-2007, TWIG Archive-2006

Week of April 30 - May 6, 2007


Speakers:	Carlos Uroza
Topics:	TBA
Series/Event:	Soft Rock Seminar
Date & Time:	Monday, 4/30, Noon-1:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Akhil Datta-Gupta, PhD, Texas A & M
Topics:	Compressible Streamlines
Series/Event:	Department of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering Graduate Seminars
Date & Time:	Monday, 4/30, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Location	CPE 2.204

Speakers:	Dr. Philip Metzger, Granular Mechanics and Surface Systems Laboratory NASA, Kennedy Space Center
Topics:	Erosion and Cratering of Extraterrestrial Soil by the Exhaust of Landing Rockets
Series/Event:	DGS Special Seminar
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 5/01, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Georgia Huggins (UT DGS MS) and Enzo Aconcha (UT DGS MS)
Topics:	Huggins - Miocene-Pliocene deltaic infill of the Northern Basin, Trinidad Aconcha - Characterization of patch Reef Architectures from well logs, seismic and core data
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 5/01, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Dr. Alessandro Forte, GEOTOP-UQAM-McGill, Montreal, Canada
Topics:	Mantle Flow Dynamics Below the African Plate
Series/Event:	Institute for Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 5/3, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 4.216B (EGS)

Speakers:	Trevor Aitken - Devon Energy
Topics:	Salt Diapir Induced Slide Blocks
Series/Event:	Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 5/04, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Location	J. J. Pickle Research Campus, BEG (Bldg. 130), Main Conference Room

Speakers:	Theresa Diehl - Ewing-Worzel Fellowship; Emily Pangborn - Gale White Fellowship; Reeshidev Bansal - Gale White Fellowship; Justin Funk - Ewing-Worzel Fellowship
Topics:	UTIG Student Talks
Series/Event:	Institute for Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 5/04, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Location	J. J. Pickle Research Campus, ROC (Bldg. 196), Room 1.603

Speakers:	Kirk Holland
Topics:	Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District
Series/Event:	Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 5/04, Noon-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 Lou Harwell in the Department at louharwell@mail.utexas.edu or 512-471-5172.