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Week of October 15-21, 2007


Speakers:	Jeffrey Vincent, JSG Post Doc
Topics:	Mapping Coastal Wetland Changes Using Remote Sensing and GIS
Series/Event:	Soft Rock Seminar
Date & Time:	Monday, 10/15, noon-1 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Brad Wolaver, JSG PhD Candidate
Topics:	Hydrogeologic Characterization of the Cuatrocienegas Basin, Coahuila, Mexico
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 10/16, 4-5 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:
Topics:	"Faces of Earth"
Series/Event:	Special Screening of Discovery Channel t.v. program featuring JSG scientists
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 10/16, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Marcy Davis, UTIG Research Scientist Associate II
Topics:	TBA
Series/Event:	UTIG Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 10/17, Noon-1 p.m.
Location	ROC Seminar Room 1.603

Speakers:	Tim Taylor
Topics:	Petroleum Geology From An Engineering Perspective
Series/Event:	UGS Meeting
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 10/17, 5:15pm
Location	GEO 2.102

Speakers:	Jim Connelly, Professor, JSG
Topics:	Chronology of the Solar System's First Solids
Series/Event:	PGST Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 10/17, Noon-1:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	John Curchin, USGS Spectroscopy Laboratory, Denver, Colorado
Topics:	Cassini at Saturn: the View from VIMS
Series/Event:	Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 10/18, 10-11 a.m.
Location	J. J. Pickle Research Campus, BEG (Bldg. 130), Main Conference Room

Speakers:	Newt Gingrich
Topics:	Dinosaurs, Birds, and the Challenge of Science in the 21st Century
Series/Event:	Keynote Address
Date & Time:	Thursday, 10/18, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Location	Austin Convention Center - Meeting Room 18A-D, 500 East Cesar Chavez St.

Speakers:	Enrique Vivoni, assistant professor of hydrology, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM and candidate for JSG position "Earth Surface and Hydrologic Processes"
Topics:	Ecohydrology of Seasonally-Green Desert Landscapes
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Thursday, 10/18, 4-5 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Ted Playton, JSG graduate student
Topics:	TBA
Series/Event:	Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 10/19, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Location	J. J. Pickle Research Campus, BEG (Bldg. 130), Main Conference Room

Speakers:	Enrique Vivoni, assistant professor of hydrology, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM and candidate for JSG position "Earth Surface and Hydrologic Processes"
Topics:	Ecohydrology of Seasonally-Green Desert Landscapes
Series/Event:	UTIG Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 10/19, 10:30 a.m.
Location	Pickle Research Campus, ROC 1.603


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