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This Week in Geosciences (TWIG)

Week of November 16-22, 2009
 
Speakers: Joel Johnson
Topics: Quantifying gully erosion and climatic forcing through environmental monitoring
Series/Event: Soft Rock Seminar
Date & Time: Monday, 11/16, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Location JGB 3.222
Speakers: Ivan Wong, Seismic Hazards Group at URS
Topics: A Decade Of A “Whole Lot Of Shaking”: Lessons Learned For Evaluating Earthquake Dam Safety
Hosted by: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, UT-Austin Student Chapter
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11/17, 2009, 2:00-3:00 p.m. (followed by reception in ECJ 9.102C)
Location: RLM 7.114
Speakers: Dennis P. Dunn, UT Austin and ACC
Topics:

Arkansas Xenoliths: Tectonic Implications for basement rocks of the northern U.S. gulf coast
Series/Event: iPGST Seminar
Date & Time: Wednesday, 11/18, noon-1 p.m.
Location JGB 3.222
Speakers: Ryan Lester, Dan Eakin & Kirk McIntosh
Topics: Recent Taiwan Cruise
Series/Event: UTIG Brown Bag Seminar
Date & Time: Wednesday, 11/18, Noon-1 p.m.
Location ROC Seminar Room 1.603, Pickle Campus
Speakers: Michelle Stocker
Topics: Exploring the effects of apomorphy-based identification on our understanding of faunal dynamics in the Late Triassic
Series/Event: Paleo Brown Bag
Date & Time: Thursday, 11/19, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Location JGB 3.218
Speakers: Marc Hesse, DGS
Topics: The dynamics of melt extraction beneath mid-ocean ridges
Series/Event: DGS Technical Session
Date & Time: Thursday, 11/19, 4:00-5:00 pm
Location JGB 2.324 (Boyd Auditorium)
Online Live Broadcast
Speakers: Rong Fu, DGS
Topics: Intensified summer rainfall variability over the southeastern United States in recent decades: What caused this change and how well can we predict it?
Series/Event: BEG Seminar
Date & Time: Friday, 11/20, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Location BEG Main Conference Room, Pickle Campus
Online Live Broadcast
Speakers: Jason Stephens
Topics: Tectonic and depositional evolution of an active forearc basin based on 2-D multi-channel seismic reflection data, Sandino Basin, offshore Nicaragua
Series/Event: UTIG Seminar
Date & Time: Friday, 11/20, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Location ROC Seminar Room 1.603, Pickle Campus
Speaker #1: Jerome Neufield, Cambridge University, UK
Topic #1: Fluid dynamics of CO2 sequestration: leakage and convective dissolution
Speaker #2: Madeleine Golding, Cambridge University, UK
Topic #2: Gravity currents propagating along channels in porous media
Series/Event: Hydro Brown Bag
Date & Time: Friday, 11/20, Noon
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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