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This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

Week of March 31 - April 6, 2008
 
Speakers: Chris E. Forest, research scientist, M.I.T.
Topics: Quantifying Uncertainty in Climate Predictions
Series/Event: UTIG Seminar
Date & Time: Monday, 3/31, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Location ROC seminar room 1.603, Pickle Campus
Speakers: Patricia Wood Dickerson
Topics: Mid-Ordovician Volcanism, Mega-Olistoliths, and Evolution of the W. Ouachita-Cuyania Basin
Series/Event: Soft Rock Seminar
Date & Time: Monday, 3/31, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Location JGB 3.222
Speakers: Chris E. Forest, research scientist, M.I.T.
Topics: Discussion on Quantifying Uncertainties in Climate Change Impacts
Series/Event: This is a 30 minute presentation and 30 minute discussion to the Global Change Studies Center (all are welcome to attend)
Date & Time: Tuesday, 4/1, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Location JGB 4.102 (Barrow Conference Room)
Speakers: Leslie Hayden, postdoctoral researcher, UCLA
Topics:

Grain Boundary Diffusion: Metal and Carbon Fluxes Through the Mantle?
Series/Event: Special Seminar
Date & Time: Tuesday 4/1, 1-2 p.m.
Location JGB 3.120
Speakers: Leslie Hayden, postdoctoral researcher, UCLA
Topics: Rutile and Sphene: New Tools for Characterizing Silicic Magma Systems
Series/Event: UTIG Seminar
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4/2, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Location ROC 1.603, Pickle Campus
Speakers: M. David Soto, M.S. Geological Science
Topics: Structural and Basinal Architecture and Active Strike-Slip Faulting of the Eastern Offshore Area of Trinidad
Series/Event: BEG Tech Talk
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4/2, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Location BEG Main Conference Room
Speakers: Bayani Cardenas
Topics: Geology and Hydrology Through the Eyes of a Pit Viper
Series/Event: UGS Meeting
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4/2, 5:15 p.m.
Location JGB 3.222
Speakers: Sergey Fomel, BEG/DGS
Topics: Automatic Painting of 3-D Seismic Volumes
Series/Event: Bureau of Economic Geology Seminar
Date & Time: Friday, 4/4, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Location BEG Main Conference Room, Pickle Campus
Speakers: Calvin Alexander, Jr., University of Minnesota
Topics:

The Soudan Mine as a Martian Analog
Series/Event: Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time: Friday, 4/4, noon-1 p.m.
Location JGB 3.222
Speakers: Sixteen JSG graduate students will present the results of their research in 12 minute talks
Topics:

Presentations include sedimentology and stratigraphy, geophysics, structural geology-tectonics, paleontology, hydrology, and volcanology
Series/Event: MS Thesis Day with Research Posters
Date & Time: Saturday, 4/5, 9:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Location JGB 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)

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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