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This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

Week of April 14-20, 2008
 
Speakers: Eric Ekdale, DGS PhD Candidate
Topics: Variation Within the Inner Ear of Fossil and Extant Eutherian Mammals
Series/Event: DGS Technical Session
Date & Time: Tuesday, 4/15, 4-5 p.m.
Location JGB 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)
Speakers: Alan Robock, Professor, Rutgers University
Topics:

Smoke and Mirrors: Is Geoengineering a Solution to Global Warming?
Series/Event: Special Seminar
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4/16, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Location JGB 2.216
Speakers: Duncan Young, UTIG Research Science Associate V
Topics: A Regional Look Beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Using Airborne Radar Sounding
Series/Event: UTIG Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4/16, Noon-1 p.m.
Location ROC Seminar Room 1.603, Pickle Campus
Speakers: Alan Robock, Professor, Rutgers University
Topics: Climatic Consequences of Nuclear Conflict - Nuclear Winter is Still a Threat
Series/Event: Special Seminar
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4/16, 2-3 p.m.
Location JGB 3.222
Speakers: Guest speaker from Exxon
Topics: What it Means to be a Petroleum Geologist
Series/Event: UGS Meeting (Conan's pizza provided)
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4/16, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Location JGB 3.222
Speakers: Cameron Wobus, Research Scientist, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Topics: Can Erosion Drive Tectonics? Case Studies from the Central Nepalese Himalaya
Series/Event: DGS Technical Session
Date & Time: Thursday, 4/17, 4-5 p.m.
Location JGB 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)
Speakers: N.A.
Topics: N.A.
Series/Event: Undergraduate Honors Research Program Information Session
Date & Time: Thursday, 4/17, 5:00-6:00 pm
Location JGB 3.222
Speakers: Cameron Wobus, Research Scientist, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Topics: Fluvial Erosion and Landscape Dynamics
Series/Event: UTIG Seminar
Date & Time: Friday, 4/18, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Location ROC Seminar Room 1.603, Pickle Campus
Speakers: Adam Zerrenner, FWS
Topics:

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Water, Land Use, and Endangered Species
Series/Event: Hydro Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time: Friday, 4/25, noon-1 p.m.
Location JGB 3.222
 

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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