Spring 2008 Graduate Seminar (GEOL 591) Schedule

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

25 Jan.: "Regulating continent growth and composition by chemical weathering."
Cin-Ty Lee, Rice University

(Paper to read)

01 Feb.: "Understanding Magnetism of Terrestrial Planets from High-Pressure Experiments"
Jie Li, UIUC Geology

(Review paper on planetary magnetic fields)

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

Franklin W. Schwartz, Ohio State

(Review paper on prairie pothole wetlands- pdf)

15 Feb.: Wang-Ping Chen

(Manuscript in press, by Tai-Lin and Wang-Ping- pdf)

22 Feb.: Kevin Finneran

(Article closely related to the talk)

28 Feb.: THURSDAY: Joint Colloquium with Atmospheric Sciences
Ron Smith: Hydrometeorology

(Paper closely related to the talk)

07 Mar.: Chris Paola: Sedimentology

(Review Paper- link)

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

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

28 Mar.: Richard Peltier: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Review Paper  (pdf)

04 Apr.: Charles Lesher:  Igneous Petrology

Tinker et al. Paper: Find it by going to the Dec. 2004 table of contents for The American Mineralogist. It is the paper that starts on Page 1701.

11 Apr.: Francesca Smith: Paleoclimate

(Paper to read- doi link)

18 Apr.: Mike McCurry- igneous petrology

(paper to read- pdf)

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