Fall 2007 Colloquium

Talks are held in 229 Natural History at 4:00 PM Fridays, except as noted below.
Pre-talk reception in room 247 NHB from 3:30 to 4:00.

24 Aug.: “Inaugural R. James Kirkpatrick Lecture in Mineralogy and Geochemistry”
Prof. Jim Kirkpatrick, UIUC Geology

31 Aug.: “Developments in the School of Earth, Society, and Environment (SESE)”

Prof. Don Wuebbles, SESE Director

7 Sept.: GSA Birdsall-Dreiss Lecture
"Impacts of Changing Land Use and Land Cover on Subsurface Water Resources"
Dr. Bridget Scanlon, Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, UT Austin
(Abstract)

14 Sept.: "The Rayleigh-Taylor Instability: From water falling out of a glass to fire falling out of the sky"
Dr. Pinaki Chakraborty, UIUC Geology
(Abstract)

21 Sept.: "Microbially mediated weathering in subglacial systems"
Prof. Mark Skidmore, Montana State Univ.
(Abstract)

26 Sept.: Wednesday Colloquium- 228 Natural History Bldg.
2007 National Ground Water Association Darcy Lecture
"Getting the Information Ground Water Modelers Need: A Report from the Field"
Dr. Jim Butler, Kansas Geological Survey
(Abstract)

5 Oct.: Glenn and Susan Buckley Lecture in Environmental Geology
"Global greenhouse crises of the past"
Prof. Greg Retallack, Univ. of Oregon
(Abstract)

12 Oct.: "High-Pressure and Temperature Investigations in the Fe-C and Fe-P systems: Implications for Planetary Interiors"
Prof. Henry Scott, Indiana University South Bend
(Abstract)

19 Oct.: Walgreen Lecture
"Were the Dark Ages Triggered by Volcano-Related Climate Change?"
Dr. Ken Wohletz, Los Alamos National Lab
(Abstract)

26 Oct.: "The Southeast Caribbean Plate Boundary: New Insights from the Bolivar Project"
Prof. Gary Pavlis, Indiana University
(Abstract)

2 Nov.: Ralph E. Grim Lecture in Mineralogy
"Radiography and computed tomography at high pressure: Applications to mantle melt physics"
Chip Lesher, UC Davis

(Abstract)

9 Nov.: Richard L. Hay Lecture
"Measuring geophysical processes in space from the shifting weight of the Earth: Old problems, new methods, new results."
Prof. Frederik Simons, Princeton University
(Abstract)

16 Nov.: No Colloquium- Last Day Before Thanksgiving Break

23 Nov.: No Colloquium- Thanksgiving Break

30 Nov.: "Landscape response to tectonics and climate: a cosmogenic nuclide perspective"
Prof. Darryl Granger, Purdue Univ.

(Abstract)

7 Dec. No Colloquium- Last Day of Classes