| Week of November 12-18, 2007 |
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| Speakers: |
Irina Filina, DGS PhD Candidate |
| Topics: |
Geophysical Investigations
of Subglacial Lakes Vostok and Concordia, East Antarctica |
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Series/Event: |
Dissertation Defense |
| Date & Time: |
Monday, 11/12, 8:00-9:00am |
| Location |
GEO 4.102 (Barrow Conference Room) |
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| Speakers: |
Caroline Beghein, Postdoctoral Research
Associate, Arizona State University |
| Topics: |
A Model Space Search Approach to Mantle
Seismic Anisotropy |
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Series/Event: |
DGS Tech Talk |
| Date & Time: |
Tuesday, 11/13, 12:30-1:30pm |
| Location |
GEO 3.116 |
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| Speakers: |
Trevor Budge, DGS PhD Candidate |
| Topics: |
Using NEXRAD Data to Delineate Recharge
Zones in Karst Aquifer |
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Series/Event: |
DGS Technical Session |
| Date & Time: |
Tuesday, 11/13, 4:00-5:00 pm |
| Location |
Geology Building 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium) |
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| Speakers: |
Chris Jass, DGS doctoral student |
| Topics: |
New Perspectives on Pleistocene
Biochronology and Biotic Change in the East-Central Great Basin: An
Examination of the Vertebrate Fauna from Cathedral Cave, Nevada |
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Series/Event: |
Dissertation Defense |
| Date &
Time: |
Wednesday, 11/14, 9:00-10:00am |
| Location |
GEO 4.102 (Barrow Conference Room) |
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| Speakers: |
Caroline Beghein, Postdoctoral Research
Associate, Arizona State University |
| Topics: |
A Seismological Trip to the Inner Core |
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Series/Event: |
UTIG Seminar |
| Date &
Time: |
Wednesday,11/14, 10:30-11:30am |
| Location |
UTIG Seminar Room 1.603, Pickle Campus |
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| Speakers: |
William Carlson |
| Topics: |
When did 'modern' plate tectonics begin?
Clues from the Llano Uplift |
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Series/Event: |
UGS Meeting |
| Date &
Time: |
Wednesday, 11/14, 5:15 p.m. |
| Location |
GEO 2.102 |
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| Speakers: |
TBA |
| Topics: |
TBA |
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Series/Event: |
Exploration Geophysics Seminar |
| Date &
Time: |
Thursday, 11/15, 1:00-2:00 pm |
| Location |
Geo 4.216B |
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| Speakers: |
Fenglin Niu, Assistant Professor, Rice
University |
| Topics: |
Seismic Imaging of Earth’s Deep
Interior: Implications for Mantle and Core Dynamics |
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Series/Event: |
DGS Technical Session |
| Date & Time: |
Thursday, 11/15, 4:00-5:00 pm |
| Location |
Geology Building 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium) |
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| Speakers: |
Ted Playton, Department of Geological
Sciences |
| Topics: |
Characterization, Variations, and
Controls of Reefal Carbonate Foreslopes |
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Series/Event: |
Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar |
| Date & Time: |
Friday, 11/16, 8:30-9:30 am |
| Location |
BEG Main Conference Room, Pickle Campus |
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| Speakers: |
Fenglin Niu, Assistant Professor, Rice
University |
| Topics: |
Depth of Cratonic Lithosphere and
Seismic Monitoring of Stress/Strain Transients |
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Series/Event: |
UTIG Seminar |
| Date & Time: |
Friday, 11/16, 1:00-2:00 pm |
| Location |
BEG Main Conference Room, Pickle Campus
(NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION) |
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| Speakers: |
Eric Barron, Dean, Jackson School of Geosciences |
| Topics: |
The Changing Debate on Global Warming |
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Series/Event: |
Outreach Lecture Series, Environmental
Science Institute and the Jackson School of Geosciences |
| Date & Time: |
Friday, 11/16, 5:45-7 p.m. - Pre-lecture Activities, 7-8:15 p.m. - Lecture |
| Location |
Welch Hall 2.224 |
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| Special Event- M.S. Thesis
Day |
| Date & Time: |
Saturday, 11/17, 9 a.m. - 12:20 followed
by BBQ lunch and poster viewing. |
| Location |
Geology Building 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium) |
| Speakers: |
Expected Schedule of
Presentations
9:00 - Wesley D. Crawford – The origin of partial disequilibrium major-
and trace-element zoning in garnets from the Picuris Mountains, NM
9:20 - Adam Lambert – Petrology of the southwest wall of the Grasberg
Igneous Complex, Papua Indonesia: Relationship to Cu-Au mineralization
9:40 - Francine Abrego – Experimental constraints on interactions and
coalescence of poly-dispersive bubbles in magmas
10:00 - Edgar Pinzon – Fracture pattern prediction using geomechanical
models incorporating diagenesis, with comparision to outcrop data
(Cambrian Eriboll Group sandstones, Northwestern Scotland) and core
observations (Tertiary Mirador Formation sandstones, Llanos foothills,
Columbia)
10:20-11:00 - COFFEE BREAK and POSTER VIEWING
11:00 - Margaret Cagle -- Temporal and spatial sulfate variability at a
lignite mine, northeast Texas
11:20 - Thomas J. Wiles -- The secondary permeability of “impervious”
cover in Austin, Texas
11:40 - Ben Linhoff – Uranium geochemistry in hypersaline soda lakes in
eastern Mongolia
12:00 - Sanjay Sood – Multitaper spectral analysis of wide-angle
refractions data from Coast Rica for t* estimation
12:20 BBQ LUNCH and POSTER VIEWING |
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This Week in Geosciences (TWIG) is a weekly communication from the Jackson School
of Geosciences. To submit events for TWIG, contact the communications team in
the JSG Dean's Office at
communications@jsg.utexas.edu or 512-471-2241.
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