Fall 2006 Colloquium Schedule

Fridays at 4PM, 229 Natural History (any exceptions are noted below)

Click Here for the Geology 591 Schedule and Papers

 

Date

Speaker

Host Group

25 Aug.

Dr. Thomas Prickett
The History of Groundwater Modeling (abstract)

Bethke

1 Sept.

Dr. Carmen Sanchez-Valle, UIUC Geology
Fluid-mineral interactions in subduction zones: constraints from experiments in the diamond-anvil cell (abstract)

 

8 Sept.

Grim Lecture in Mineralogy
Paul Fenter, Argonne
Observing Mineral-Water Interfaces with 'X-ray Vision' (abstract)

Kirkpatrick

15 Sept.

Scott Olson, UIUC
Earthquake Engineering
Using liquefaction features to evaluate the strength of paleoearthquakes (abstract)

 

22 Sept.

Grim Lecture in Mineralogy
Brian Phillips
SUNY, Stony Brook
Incorporation of large adsorbed ions in calcite:
structural information from NMR spectroscopy (abstract)

Kirkpatrick

29 Sept.

 Daniel Holm
Kent Sate University

Proterozoic tectonic evolution of the upper Great Lakes region
Tectonics (abstract)

Marshak

6 Oct.

Wendy Mao

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Viewing the core-mantle boundary through a diamond window (abstract)

Li

13 Oct.

Prof. Gabe Bowen, Purdue Univ.
Prospects for a High-Carbon Future Inferred from Earth’s Past: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (abstract)

Johnson

20 Oct.

Eric Sandvol
University of Missouri-Columbia

The Eastern Turkey Seismic Experiment:  The Study of A Young Continent-Continent Collision (abstract)

Song

27 Oct.

Joint Walgreen and CAS Lecture
Grant Heiken
Los Alamos National Laboratory
GEOLOGY AND URBAN SUSTAINABILITY—THE VIEW FROM ROME (abstract)
Room 228 Natural History
Sponsored by: Center for Advanced Studies Initiative on Mega-Disasters and Charles R. Walgreen Chair to Susan W. Kieffer

Kieffer

3 Nov.

Mark Reagan
Univ. of Iowa

Lundstrom

10 Nov.

John Hawley
Hawley Geomatters, Albuquerque, NM
NEOGENE BASIN-FILL AQUIFER SYSTEMS OF THE BI-NATIONAL PASO DEL NORTE REGION—ADVANCES IN CHARACTERIZATION OF THEIR DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY AND HYDROGEOLOGIC FRAMEWORK

2006 Geology Alumni Award Recipient (abstract)

Marshak

17 Nov.

Last Day Before Thanksgiving Break

 

24 Nov.

Thanksgiving Break

 

1 Dec.

Fangzhen Teng

University of Chicago

Diffusion-induced lithium isotopic fractionation in crust and mantle rocks (abstract)

Lundstrom

8 December

Last Day of Classes

 

 

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