Fridays at 4PM, 228 Natural History (except as noted below)
| Date | Speaker |
Host
Group |
8/27 |
Prof.
Thorne
Lay Univ. of California at Santa Cruz "Earth's Hidden Boundary Layer: Mysteries at the Base of the Mantle" (abstract) |
Li |
| 9/3 |
Dr.
Marc
Reinholdt, UIUC (Kirkpatrick Group) "Clay minerals: synthesis, structural spectroscopic characterizations and clay / polymer nanocomposites elaboration." (abstract) |
Kirkpatrick |
9/10 |
Prof.
Suzan
van der Lee Northwestern Univ. "Seismic constraints on thickness, rigidity, temperature and composition of the lithosphere and underlying mantle" (abstract) |
Chen |
9/17 |
Prof.
Eric
Calais Purdue University "Continental Deformation in Asia: New Insights from GPS Measurements and Deformation Models" (abstract) |
Marshak |
| 9/24 |
Joint
Geology/Geography Colloquium 3:30 PM in 228 NHB Dr. Jim Best Univ. of Leeds (on sabbatical at UIUC) "The geomorphology and sedimentology of a big braided river: flow, form and management issues in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh" (abstract) |
Bruce
Rhoads |
10/1 |
Prof. Jennifer Roberts Univ. of Kansas "Guess who’s coming to dinner— The consequences of nutrient-driven silicate weathering by microbial consortia." (abstract) |
Fouke |
10/8 |
Prof.
Ann Budd, Univ. of Iowa "Species boundaries in reef corals: Insight from the fossil record" (abstract) |
Blake |
10/15 |
Prof.
Jeremy
Fein Univ. of Notre Dame "Quantifying bacteria-water-rock adsorption reactions using a surface complexation approach" (abstract) |
Bethke |
| 10/22 |
Prof.
Feng
Sheng Hu, UIUC Plant Biology and Geology Depts. "Holocene Climatic Variability of the North American Midcontinent -- The Natural History of Drought" (abstract) |
Johnson |
| 10/29 |
Jeff
Catalano, Argonne National Laboratory "Probing Uranium Speciation in Contaminated Sediments and at the Mineral-Water Interface" (abstract) |
Altaner |
11/5 |
Haydn
Murray, Indiana University Dept. of Geology Distinguished Alumni Award Ralph E. Grim Lecture in Clay Mineralogy "Kaolin Occurrences, Genesis and Utilization" (abstract) |
Marshak |
| 11/12 |
Raymond
Arvidson, Washington Univ., St. Louis Walgreen Lecture "THE MARS EXPLORATION ROVER MISSION" (abstract) |
Kieffer |
| 11/19 |
No
Colloquium- Thanksgiving |
|
| 11/26 |
No Colloquium- Thanksgiving | |
| 12/3 |
Prof. Robert W.
Howarth, Cornell University "Human Alteration of the Nitrogen Cycle at Regional Scales: Causes, Consequences, and Steps towards Solutions" (abstract) |
Johnson |
| 12/10 |
No
Colloquium
|
|
Questions or comments? Contact Tom
Johnson
(tmjohnsn@uiuc.edu).
Tentative Spring Schedule:
| Date | Speaker |
Host
Group |
21 Jan |
Jeroen
Tromp |
Song |
| 28 Jan |
Gary
Parker |
Marshak |
4 Feb |
Gordon Grant |
Kieffer |
11 Feb |
David Archer |
Hu |
| 18 Feb |
Christian Teyssier? |
|
25 Feb |
Christian Teyssier? | |
4 Mar |
Yingwei
Fei, Carnegie Insitute of Washington "Phase transformations and chemical composition of the Earth's mantle" |
Li |
| 11 Mar |
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| 18 Mar | No
Colloquium- Spring break |
|
| 25 Mar |
No Colloquium- Spring break | |
| 1 April |
Prof.
Raymond Torres, Univ. of South Carolina Geomorphology |
Johnson |
| 8 April |
Prof.
Grant Garven, Johns Hopkins Univ. "Hot Fluids, Sea Floor Hydrogeology, and Formation of the World's Largest Zinc Deposit at Red Dog, Alaska" |
Bethke |
| 5 April |
Cliff Frolich |
Chen |
| 22 April |
Research Review? | |
| 29 April |
Research Review? | |
| 6 May |
No
Colloquium- First Day of Final Exams |