Spring, 2010 Colloquium
Talks are held in 229 Natural History at 4:00 PM Fridays, except as noted below.
Pre-talk reception in room 247 NHB from 3:40 to 4:00.
22 Jan. No Colloquium (First week of semester)
29 Jan. "Structural diagenesis"
Steve Laubach, Texas Bureau of Economic Geology and UT Austin
5 Feb. "Temporal constraints on high sediment flux of the Lake Michigan lobe, NE
Illinois, during the last deglaciation"
Brandon Curry, Illinois State Geological Survey
12 Feb. Geology Alumni Achievement Award Receipient
"U-Pb-Hf-O isotopic studies of Adirondack anorthosites: implications for the tectonic setting and petrogenesis of massif anorthosites"
Pat Bickford, Syracuse University
19 Feb. "Geoengineering Approaches to Countering Climate Change"
Dan Whaley, CEO, Climos; B.A. Illinois, 1990
26 Feb. Threet Lecture in Sedimentary Geology
"Global Sea-Level Rise, Subsidence, and Sediment Mass Imbalance: The Inevitable Drowning of the Mississippi Delta"
Mike Blum, Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company
5 Mar. Research Review- No Colloquium
12 Mar. TBA
19 Mar. No Colloquium- Last day before spring break
26 Mar. No Colloquium- Spring Break
2 Apr. Ridge 2000 Distinguished Lecture
"Magmatic and tectonic effects on the chemical evolution of hydrothermal vent fluids at mid–ocean ridges"
Bill Seyfried, Univ of Minnesota
9 Apr. Jan Amend (Tentative)
16 Apr. The Richard L. Hay Lecture in Geology
"Tracking mantle chemistry and dynamics with high resolution seismology"
Ed Garnero, Arizona State University
23 Apr. TBA
30 Apr. Bill Shilts, ISGS: Chemical partioning in glacial sediments
To be scheduled:
Bruce Fouke