Spring 2006 Colloquium Schedule

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

Click Here for Geology 591 Schedule and Papers

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)


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

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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

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


Tentative Fall 2006 Schedule:

25 Aug.
Tom Prickett (Tentative)

1 Sept.


8 Sept.


15 Sept.


22 Sept.


29 Sept.


6 Oct.


13 Oct.


20 Oct.


27 Oct.


3 Nov.


10 Nov.


17 Nov.
Last Day Before Thanksgiving Break

24 Nov.
Thanksgiving Break

1 Dec.


8 December
Last Day of Classes