Spring 2008 Colloquium

NEWS:  Talks are once again in room 229 Natural History.

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.

18 Jan.: "Fault Tremor Ignited by Shaking from Distant Great Earthquakes;
Examples from the San Andreas Fault System and Vancouver Island."

John Vidale, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

Host: Song Group

(Abstract)


25 Jan.:  Ralph E. Grim Lecture:

"Regulating continent growth and composition by chemical weathering."

Cin-Ty Lee, Rice University

Host:  Li Group

(Abstract)


01 Feb.: "Understanding Magnetism of Terrestrial Planets from High-Pressure Experiments"

Jie Li, UIUC Geology

(Abstract)


08 Feb.: Buckley Lecture in Environmental Geology

"Climate Variability and Its Impacts on the Hydrology of Small Mid-Continent Lakes and Wetlands"

Franklin W. Schwartz:  2007 Geology Alumni Achievement Award Recipient

Host:  Department

(Abstract)


15 Feb.: "From continental collision to the Earth's deep water cycle: Preliminary synthesis of results from Project Hi-CLIMB"

Wang-Ping Chen, UIUC Geology

(Abstract)


22 Feb.: "Biological and abiotic reactions with iron and electron shuttles that promote hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) degradation"

Kevin Finneran, UIUC Environmental Engineering

(Abstract)


29 Feb.: SESE Joint Colloquium   (moved back to our normal Friday time slot)

" Orographic Precipitation and Isotope Fractionation along the American Cordillera"    

Ron Smith, Yale University

Host:  Anders Group

(Abstract)


07 Mar.: Sponsored by The W. Hilton Johnson endowment

"Sandbox Stratigraphy"

Chris Paola, University of Minnesota

Host:  Parker Group

(Abstract)


14 Mar.: ** No Colloquium- Last Day before Spring Break **


21 Mar.: ** No Colloquium- Spring Break **


28 Mar.: "The Ice-Age Earth: Geodynamics and Climate Dynamics"

Richard Peltier, Univ. of Toronto

Host:  Department

(Abstract)


04 Apr.: Ralph E. Grim Lecture in Mineralogy

"Radiography and computed tomography at high pressure: Applications to mantle melt physics"

Charles Lesher, UC Davis

Host:  Lundstrom Group

(Abstract)


11 Apr.: "Molecular isotope records of plant community change across the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum"

Francesca Smith, Northwestern University

Host:  Hu Group and Tom Johnson

(Abstract)


18 Apr.: Walgreen Lecture

Volcanism of the Snake River Plain

Mike McCurry, Univ. of Idaho

Hosts: Kieffer Group


25 Apr.: ** No Colloquium-  Research Review  **