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This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

Week of November 26-December 2, 2007
 

Speakers: Dan Lester, UT Department of Astronomy
Topics: Telescopes Up On the Rocks? A Reevaluation of the Moon as a Site for Astronomy
Series/Event: Center for Space Research Seminar Series
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11/27, 2 p.m.
Location Conference Room 2.806, MCC Building, 2nd Floor, 3925 W. Braker Lane, Ste 200

Speakers: Teh Ru Alex Song, Carnegie Fellow, Carnegie Institution For Science
Topics: Slab Melting and Serpentinization beneath the Central Mexico Subduction Zone
Series/Event: DGS Technical Session
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11/27, 1-2 p.m.
Location Geology Building 3.222

Speakers: Erick Leuro, DGS Ph.D. Candidate
Topic: Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Snow Accumulation Rates in Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica
Series/Event: DGS Technical Session
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11/27, 4-5 p.m.
Location GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers: Teh Ru Alex Song, Carnegie Fellow, Carnegie Institution For Science
Topics: Validating Tomographic Models with Broadband Waveform Modeling: An Example from the LA RISTRA Transect in the Southwestern United States
Series/Event: UTIG Seminar
Date & Time: Wednesday, 11/28, 11 a.m.-noon
Location ROC 1.603

Speakers: Beth Christensen, UTIG Visiting Scientist, Adelphi University
Topics: African Paleoclimate and Human Evolution
Series/Event: UTIG Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time: Wednesday, 11/28, Noon-1 p.m.
Location ROC Seminar Room 1.603, Pickle Campus

Speakers: Joe Liadsky, Optech Inc.
Topics: Lidar - Recent Advancements and Future Concepts at Optech
Series/Event: Center for Space Research Seminar Series
Date & Time: Thursday, 11/29, 2 p.m.
Location Conference Room 2.806, MCC Building, 2nd Floor, 3925 W. Braker Lane, Ste 200

Speakers: Farzam Javadpour, Research Scientist, Alberta Research Council
Topic: Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Injection in Geological Formations: Pore-to-Reservoir Up-scaling
Series/Event: DGS Technical Session
Date & Time: Thursday, 11/29, 4-5 p.m.
Location GEO 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

Speakers: Bill Ambrose, Tucker Hentz, Bureau of Economic Geology
Topics: New Interpretations of Reservoir Architecture in East Texas Field: Sequence Stratigraphic and Depositional Perspectives
Series/Event: Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time: Friday, 11/30, 9:30-10:30 a.m. (NOTE SPECIAL TIME)
Location BEG Main Conference Room, Pickle Campus

Speaker: Farzam Javadpour, Research Scientist, Alberta Research Council
Topic: Unconventional Studies of Shale Gas Sediments
Series/Event: UTIG Seminar
Date & Time: Friday, 11/30, 10:30 a.m.
Location ROC Seminar Room 1.603, Pickle Campus

 

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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