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GEOLOGY TALKS 2008-2009




SEMINARS / SPECIAL LECTURES / BROWN BAGS

2008 Talks

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Noon, Monday, May 12, Palmer 16

Lindsey Leighton, of the Allison Center for Marine Research at San Diego State University: "Organism characteristics that promote survivorship through the Permo-Triassic interval."

---- Two talks by Will Ouimet. Will studies the rates and processes of erosion at the earth's surface and understanding how landforms and landscapes evolve in diverse tectonic and climatic settings. He has a Ph.D. in Geology and Geochemistry from MIT, and is currently in a post-doctoral research position at Penn State.

6:30 p.m., Monday, March 24 – Palmer 16 "Dissecting the Eastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau: A study of landslides, erosion and river incision in a transient landscape"

Noon, Tuesday, March 25 - Pizza lunch - Palmer 16 "Carving Canyons: A Look at Bedrock River Incision"

---- Saturday, April 5 - Geology Day - 9 p.m. to 2 p.m., Tutt Science Lecture Hall

---- Friday, April 25, noon, Palmer 16
Class of '08 - Regional Studies - Baja, California

Casey Moore from the University of Santa Cruz will be speaking at Colorado College, sponsored by the US MARGINS program.

Tutt Science Building Lecture Hall Tuesday, March 4 - 3:30 p.m.

"Where have all the earthquakes gone?"

Casey Moore's scientific work involves the linkage of structural geology and fluid flow in rock evolution. Currently he is studying processes of earthquake generation along faults, especially what makes some faults seismogenic and others not. He is also interested in how the earthquake processes are expressed and sequenced in the structural evolution of accretionary prisms. Casey Moore has studied both modern submarine subduction processes and ancient exhumed equivalents in California, Alaska, Japan, southern Mexico, and the Caribbean. RSVPs are not necessary - but please note the location (Tutt Science Lecture Hall) A paper that he is co-authored is attached as a pdf file. pdf

2007 Talks

The Colorado College Department of Geology
presents the 2007 Parker Distinguished Visitor Lecture

Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:30 p.m.
Tutt Science Lecture Hall

Nadine McQuarrie
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geosciences Princeton University

"What controls the width of mountains....examples from the Andes"

Dr. McQuarrie is a structural geologist who works on the evolution of mountain belts around the globe.  Her diverse research projects include many cutting edge topics such as the interaction between erosion and deformation in fold-thrust belts in Bolivia and Ecuador, Kinematics of the Himalayan Orogen in Bhutan and evolution of arc-continent collision in time and space in East Timor.

RSVPs are not needed, but please note the location and time above. 

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The Colorado College Department of Geology presents:

Pizza lunch -
Friday, November 9, 2007
noon, Palmer 16

Dan Dalton, Class of '08
"USGS Seismology: Developing and Maintaining the Jackson Hole Seismic Network"

Betsy Friedlander & Karri Sicard, Class of '07
"New Zealand Regional Studies 2007: Narrowly avoiding dodgy geo-hazardous situations"

Please sign up for pizza in the Geology Office no later than 1 p.m. Thursday, November 8.


Previous talks 2006–2007:

Date

Name

Title

Friday 10/12/07
Noon, Palmer 16



PLEASE SIGN UP IN THE GEOLOGY OFFICE NO LATER THAN 1 P.M. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11

Speaker:

Sharon Smith, CC Biology '67

Professor, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmoshperic Science and Co-Director, Center for Oceans and Human Health

 

"Climate Change and the Upwelling Ecosystems of the Northern Arabian Sea"

Friday 05/07/07
Noon, Palmer 16

Lou Derry, Director, Program in Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biocomplexity

Cornell University Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

 

"Heat and CO2 fluxes near the Main Central Thrust, Nepal Himalaya "

Friday 05/03/07
Noon, Palmer 16

Kris Jaeger, Graduate Student, Colorado State University

 

"The cut and fill cycle of arroyos in the American Southwest: A case study in Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona"

Friday 04/27/07
Noon, Palmer 16

Hali Kilbourne,

Hali is a paleoclimatologist with a degree from University of South Florida, currently doing postdoc work with NOAA in Boulder.

 

"Geologic archives of climate address multi-decadal variability in the modern climate system"

Tuesday 03/06/07
noon,
Pizza Lunch, Palmer 16

Katharina Billups, a sponsored speaker of The Joint Oceanographic Institutions/U.S. Science Advisory Committee (JOI/USSAC)

 

"Pizza Lunch Talk"

Thursday 02/22/07
noon,
Pizza Lunch, Palmer 16

Scott Wing, who is co-teaching the senior seminar with Henry Fricke

If you wish to eat pizza, please RSVP to let me know you'll be attending. If you want to attend but not eat, you don't need to RSVP.

 

"Terrestrial paleoclimate and plant fossils - what's the connection?"

Monday 02/19/07
3 pm, Palmer 16

Dr. Craig Manning, Professor of Geology, University of California, Los Angeles

2007 Parker Lecture in Geology, World-renowned expert on tectonics, mountain building, and high-temperature metamorphism

 

"In Deep Water: On the Novel Chemistry of High-Pressure Fluids and Their Role in Geologic Processes"

Lunchtime Seminar Lunchtime seminar pdf

Date

Name

Title

12/07/06
noon, Palmer 16

Justin Strauss

 

Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy, and Chemostratigraphy of the Chaffee Group Upper Devonian)

12/07/06
noon, Palmer 16

Meredith Bush and Jon Rotzien:

 

"MARINE GEOPHYSICS aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer: the myth, the legend, the icebreaker"


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PHONE: 719-389-6621, FAX: 719-389-6910 geology at @coloradocollege.edu



updated on 05/16/2008
 

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