Fridays at 4PM, 229 Natural History (except as noted below)
| Date |
Speaker |
Host
Group |
20 Jan. |
No
Colloquium |
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| 27
Jan. |
Joint Colloquium: ISGS Centennial Series Ed Evenson, Lehigh University "Glaciohydraulic Supercooling, Basal Freeze-on, Debris Entrainment and Deposition at Modern Glacier Margins in Alaska and Iceland ... Is the present the Key to the Past?" (abstract) 228 Natural History Building |
ISGS |
3 Feb. |
Walgreen Lecture Paul Knauth, Arizona State Univ. “Impact origin of sediments at the Opportunity Landing Site on Mars with implications for Astrobiology” (abstract) |
Kieffer |
Thurs. 9 Feb. |
ISGS Centennial Series Dr. Scott Tinker Director, Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Dr. P. Patrick Leahy Acting Director, U.S. Geological Survey "The Role of Science in Policy-Making." Thursday, 4:00 pm, Beckman Institute Auditorium. (abstract) |
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10 Feb. |
Joint Colloquium: ISGS Centennial Series Dr. Scott Tinker Director, Texas Bureau of Economic Geology AAPG Distinguished Ethics Lecture: “The “I” in Business Ethics” (abstract) 228 Natural History Building |
ISGS |
| 17
Feb. |
Ralph Grim Mineralogy Lecture Prof. Franz Geiger, Northwestern Univ. "Environmental interfaces in geochemistry: From Cr(VI) to antibiotics" (abstract) |
Kirkpatrick |
24 Feb. Morning Talk |
ISGS
Centennial Series
Prof. Richard Alley, Penn State University “How
glaciers do what they do”
9:00 - 10:00 AM Room 134, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall (New Architecture Building) |
ISGS
|
24 Feb. |
Joint Colloquium: ISGS Centennial Series Prof. Richard Alley, Penn State University “The Day After the Day After Tomorrow: An Update On Abrupt Climate Changes” 4PM, Beckman Institute |
ISGS |
3 Mar. Morning Talk |
ISGS Centennial Series Prof. Paul Hoffman, Harvard University "Dissecting the global cap carbonate from the last snowball earth" (abstract) 9:00 - 10:00 AM Room 134, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall (New Architecture Building) |
ISGS
|
3 Mar. |
Joint Colloquium: ISGS Centennial Series Prof. Paul Hoffman, Harvard University "Snowball earth: science or snowjob?" (abstract) 228 Natural History Building |
ISGS |
| 10
Mar. |
Prof.
Lucy Flesch, Purdue University "Constraining the extent of crust-mantle coupling in central Asia using GPS, geologic, and shear wave splitting data" (abstract) |
W.-P. Chen |
| 17
Mar. |
No
Colloquium- Last Day Before Break |
-- |
| 24
Mar. |
No Colloquium- Break | -- |
| 31
Mar. |
Walgreen
Lecture Dr. Rosaly Lopes, JPL "The Surface of Titan: Results from the Cassini-Huygens mission" (abstract) |
Kieffer |
| 7
Apr. |
Ralph Grim Mineralogy Lecture Prof. David Bish, Indiana Univ. "Water On Mars: Can Hydrous Minerals Explain Observed Martian Surficial Water?" (abstract) |
Kirkpatrick |
| 14
Apr. |
Miaki
Ishii, Harvard University "December 26, 2004 and March 28, 2005 Sumatran Earthquakes Imaged by the Japanese Hi-net Array" (abstract) |
Li |
| Tues. 18 Apr. 7:30 pm |
Environmental
Horizons 2006 (link) Keynote Lecture Mohammed El Ashry, UIUC Geology Ph.D. 1966 228 Natural History Building |
|
| 21
Apr. |
Buckley
lecture in Environmental Geology Prof. Barbara Sherwood-Lollar Univ. of Toronto “Use of Stable Carbon Isotope Analysis to identify source and degradation of chlorinated solvents in groundwater" (abstract) |
Johnson |
| 28
Apr. |
No Colloquium Research Review |
Tentative Fall 2006 Schedule:
| 25
Aug. |
Tom Prickett
(Tentative) |
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| 1 Sept. |
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| 8 Sept. |
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| 15 Sept. |
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| 22 Sept. |
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| 29 Sept. |
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| 6 Oct. |
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| 13 Oct. |
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| 20 Oct. |
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| 27 Oct. |
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| 3 Nov. |
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| 10 Nov. |
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| 17 Nov. |
Last Day Before Thanksgiving
Break |
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| 24 Nov. |
Thanksgiving Break |
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| 1 Dec. |
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| 8 December |
Last Day of Classes |