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Week of October 22-28, 2007


Speakers:	Carolina Gomez, JSG Grad Student
Topics:	Clastic Wedge Development and Sediment Partitioning within a 260 km Fluvial-to-Marine Campanian Transect (3 my), Western Interior Seaway, SW Wyoming and N Colorado
Series/Event:	Soft Rock Seminar
Date & Time:	Monday, 10/22, noon-1 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	David Sandalow, senior fellow in foreign policy studies, Brookings Institution, author of Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction Roger Duncan, deputy general manager, Austin Energy Michael Webber, assistant professor, Cockrell School of Engineering, associate director, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, Jackson School Eugene Gholz, assistant professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs
Topics:	Panel Discussion on U.S. Energy Policy
Series/Event:
Date & Time:	Monday, 10/22, 5:30 p.m.
Location	Avaya Auditorium, Applied Computational Engineering (ACE) Building, room 2.302, corner of Speedway Avenue and 24th Street

Speakers:	Joe Hahn, Space Science Institute
Topics:	The Kuiper Belt
Series/Event:	Center for Space Research Seminar
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 10/23, 2-3 p.m.
Location	Conference Room 2.806, MCC Building, 2nd Floor, 3925 W. Braker Lane, Ste 200

Speakers:	Kerry Cook, Professor, Cornell University
Topics:	Atmospheric Jets and Precipitation Variations: Great Plains Hydrology and the West African Monsoon Jump
Series/Event:	Guest Speaker
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 10/23, 3-4 p.m.
Location	Main BEG Seminar Room (Pickle Research Campus)

Speakers:	Bradley Cey, UT DGS PhD Candidate
Topics:	Gas Dissolution during Groundwater Recharge
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Tuesday, 10/23, 4-5 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Bradley Opdyke, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Topics:	Discovering Paleotemperatures and Carbonate Saturation State Through Laser Ablation ICP-MS of Planktonic Foraminifera
Series/Event:	UTIG Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 10/24, 2-3 p.m.
Location	ROC seminar room 1.603, Pickle Research Campus

Speakers:	Kerry Cook, Professor, Cornell University
Topics:	Climate Change in South America: The Last Glacial Maximum and the Greenhouse Future
Series/Event:	Guest Speaker
Date & Time:	Wednesday, 10/24, Noon-1:00 p.m.
Location	GEO 3.222

Speakers:	Zhou Yu, Exploration & Production Technology, BP America Inc.
Topics:	Wavelet Transform-Based Self-Similarity and its Application to Seismic Data Processing and Imaging
Series/Event:	Exploration Geophysics Seminar
Date & Time:	Thursday, 10/25, 1-2 p.m.
Location	Geo 4.216B

Speakers:	Jung-Fu Lin, Lawrence Livermore Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Topics:	Spin Transitions of Iron in Earth's Deep Mantle
Series/Event:	DGS Technical Sessions
Date & Time:	Thursday, 10/25, 4-5 p.m.
Location	GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers:	Charles Brewster, Gulf Energy Exploration, Austin
Topics:	A Geological Exploration Model for Offstructure, Geopressured, Gas Accumulations in Lower Miocene Sandstones, Offshore Texas
Series/Event:	Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 10/26, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Location	J. J. Pickle Research Campus, BEG (Bldg. 130), Main Conference Room

Speakers:	Jung-Fu Lin, Lawrence Livermore Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Topics:	Mineral Physics of Iron and Light Elements in Earth's Core
Series/Event:	UTIG Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 10/26, 10:30 a.m.
Location	Pickle Research Campus, ROC 1.603

Speakers:	Bayani Cardenas
Topics:	Two talks: 1) Power-law Scaling of Residence Times: The Geomorphological Signature of Ground Water-Surface Water Connection at Nested Scales; and 2) Navier-Stokes Flow and Transport Simulations Using Real Fractures Shows Heavy Tailing Due to Eddies
Series/Event:	Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time:	Friday, 10/26, noon-1 p.m.
Location	Geo 3.222


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