Fall 2009 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 3:30 to 4:00.

28 Aug.  Charles R. Walgreen Lecture in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

"Granular Electrostatics"

Troy Shinbrot, Rutgers University

(abstract)

4 Sept.  "Understanding Ice Sheet Change: Towards improved prediction"

Ginny Catania, Univ. of Texas, Austin

(abstract)

11 Sept. "Investigating mineral-metal-microbe interactions with hard x-ray radiation"

Ken Kemner, Argonne National Lab

(abstract)

18 Sept. "Mantle sources and magma evolution: Insights from melt inclusion and mineral geochemistry"

Mike Rowe, Univ. of Iowa

(abstract)

25 Sept.  "Enceladus, the tiny, frigid satellite of Saturn: Life? No Life? No Conclusion?"

Susan Kieffer, Charles R. Walgreen Professor of Geology, University of Illinois

(abstract)

2 Oct. "Hazards Related to Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions”

Yevgeniy Kontar, Illinois State Geological Survey

(abstract)

8 Oct.  (Thurs.)  Microbiology Seminar:  Rick Colwell

9 Oct.   The R. James Kirkpatrick Geology Lecture

"Recycling of the deep lithosphere beneath the North China Craton"

Roberta Rudnick, University of Maryland

(abstract)

16 Oct. The Jack Threet Lecture in Sedimentary Geology

"Permian mass extinctions"

Paul Wignall, University of Leeds

(abstract)

23 Oct. Supported by the Hilton Johnson Endowment

"Erosion is a vector: What makes lateral cutting by landslides and meandering rivers so important?"

Colin Stark, Columbia University

(abstract)

30 Oct.  "A Sensitive Earth:Implications of Eocene Climate for Future Greenhouse Projections"

Matt Huber, Purdue University

(abstract)

4 Nov.    Special Brown Bag Seminar   12:00, 258 Natural History

"Introduction to the Oil & Gas Industry"

Robert W. Von Rhee,  M.S. Univ. of Illinois, 1977; Managing Partner, KVR Energy, Tulsa, OK

(abstract)

6 Nov.   The Glenn and Susan Buckley Lecture in Environmental Geology

"Nitrate Concentrations in Regional Aquifer Systems of the United States: A Case of Creeping Normalcy?"

Peter McMahon, U.S. Geological Survey

(abstract)

13 Nov. 2:30PM in 124 Burrill Hall, 407 S Goodwin Ave

A Climate and Society Presentation and a SESE Colloquium:

“Closing the Gap between Science and Practice”

Roger Kasperson, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University

Complete information on the Climate and Society Series web page

20 Nov.  Last day before Thanksgiving Break- No Colloquium

27 Nov. Thanksgiving Break- No Colloquium

4 Dec.  Xiaoning (David) Yang, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nuclear Testing Verification- Seismology