Fall 2005 Colloquium Schedule

Fridays at 4PM, 229 Natural History (except as noted below)

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Speaker
Host Group

  26 Aug.
No Colloquium
--
2 Sept.
Frank Richter, Univ. of Chicago
"CAIs:  Present at the Creation

(Conditions in the Protoplanetary Disk as seen by Ca- Al-rich Inclusions in Primitive Meteorites)"(abstract)
Lundstrom

9 Sept.
Rob Sanford, UIUC Geology
"Bacterial Mediated Metal Reduction and Other Novel Biogeochemical Processes: the Anaeromyxobacter  Case-Study" (abstract)
Fouke

16 Sept.
Jim Van Orman, Case Western Reserve Univ.
2005 Geochemical Society Clark Medal Recipient
"Chemical exchange between Earth's core and mantle"
(abstract)
Li
23 Sept.
Kathy Nagy, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
"A new atomic-scale picture of in-situ sorption of ions on mica taken with the X-ray reflectivity camera" (abstract)
Johnson

30 Sept.
Mark Brandon, Yale University
"The Roles of Climate and Orogeny on Accelerated Late Cenozoic Erosion Rates"
(abstract)
Marshak

7 Oct.
Tracy Gregg
"Loki Patera, Io: 
A Mid-Ocean Ridge without Plate Tectonics"
(abstract)


Kieffer
14 Oct.
9 to 11 AM
Special Event:  ISGS 100th Anniversary Celebration
Dr. Harrison Schmitt
Apollo 17 Astronaut and Planetary Geologist
"Full Moon, Old Earth"
9 to 11 AM, 228 Natural History

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14 Oct.
Prof. Xiaodong Song, UIUC Geology
"Earthquake Doublets, Inner Core Rotation, and ARCTIC Experiment(abstract)

Johnson
21 Oct.
Prof. Harry Green, UC Riverside
"Potential Trigger Mechanisms
 for Deep-Focus Earthquakes" (abstract)
W.-P. Chen
28 Oct.
Dr. Russell H. Vreeland, West Chester University
"On Pillars of Salt: the survival of microbes and DNA in ancient salt crystals" (abstract)

Fouke
4 Nov.
Keith Koper, St. Louis Univ.
"Fine-scale Heterogeneity Within Earth's Inner Core"
(abstract)
Song
11 Nov.
S. Balachandar, UIUC TAM
"Scalar and particulate Gravity Currents -
        Modeling and Large Scale Simulations" (abstract)

W.-P. Chen
18 Nov.
No Colloquium:  Last day before Break

25 Nov.
No Colloquium:  Thanksgiving Break
2 Dec.
Jeff Dorale, Univ. of Iowa
"Strong contrasts in Mid-continental flooding regimes among Holocene, Last Glacial, and Last Interglacial climates"

Lundstrom
9 Dec. AGU:  No colloquium (tentative)

Questions/Comments, contact Tom Johnson <tmjohnsn@uiuc.edu>


Spring, 2006 Schedule- Tentative


Speaker
Host Group

  20 Jan.
No Colloquium  (Tentative)
--
27 Jan.



3 Feb.
Paul Knauth
Geology of Mars


10 Feb.
Tentative: Dr. Scott Tinker
Director, Texas Bureau of Economic Geology

17 Feb.
Franz Geiger, Northwestern


24 Feb.



3 Mar.



10 Mar.


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17 Mar.
No Colloquium- Last Day Before Break

--
24 Mar.
No Colloquium- Break --
Wed., 29 Mar.
Tentative:  Alex Navrotsky

31 Mar.
Walgreen Lecture
Dr. Rosaly Lopes, JPL
Planetary Geology

7 Apr.
Prof. David Bish, Indiana Univ.
Clay Mineralogy

14 Apr.



Wed. 19 Apr. Environmental Horizons '06 Keynote Lecture
Mohammed El Ashry, UIUC Geology Ph.D. 1966

21 Apr.
Tentative: Buckley lecture in Environmental Geology
Prof. Barbara Sherwood-Lollar
Univ. of Toronto


28 Apr.


Questions/Comments, contact Tom Johnson <tmjohnsn@uiuc.edu>