Fall 2007 Graduate Seminar (GEOl 591) Schedule

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)
(Reading)
Research Talk: Ted Flynn
Discussion of Reading: Fang Huang

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)
(Reading)
Research Talk: Bin Chen
Discussion of Reading: Mara Morgenstern

21 Sept.: "Microbially mediated weathering in subglacial systems"
Prof. Mark Skidmore, Montana State Univ.
(Abstract)
(Reading #1)
(Reading #2)
Research Talk: Zhaohui Yang
Discussion of Reading: Carly (?)

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)
(Reading)
Research Talk: ?
Discussion of Reading: Peter Berger

5 Oct.: Glenn and Susan Buckley Lecture in Environmental Geology
"Global greenhouse crises of the past"
Prof. Greg Retallack, Univ. of Oregon
(Abstract)
(Reading)
Research Talk: Charles Bopp
Discussion of Reading: Rivkah Cooke

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)
(Reading)
Research Talk: Jessica Palmer
Discussion of Reading: Lili Gao

19 Oct.: Walgreen Lecture
"Were the Dark Ages Triggered by Volcano-Related Climate Change?"
Dr. Ken Wohletz, Los Alamos National Lab
(Abstract)
(Reading)
Research Talk: Zhen Xu
Discussion of Reading: Chris Mead

26 Oct.: "The Southeast Caribbean Plate Boundary: New Insights from the Bolivar Project"
Prof. Gary Pavlis, Indiana University
(Abstract)
(Reading- Find Pindell et al. article at bottom of this linked page)
Research Talk:David Robison
Discussion of Reading: Meijuan Jiang

2 Nov.: Ralph E. Grim Lecture in Mineralogy
Chip Lesher, UC Davis
Research Talk: Alan Piggot
Discussion of Reading: Amanda Raddatz

(Reading)

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)
(Reading: Accepted Manuscript to be distributed via email)
Research Talk: Carly Hill
Discussion of Reading: Charlie Mitsdarfer

16 Nov.: No Colloquium- Last Day Before Thanksgiving Break
Research Talk: Mauricio Perillo

23 Nov.: No Colloquium- Thanksgiving Break

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

Article to be distributed via email by Deep.
Research Talk: Dong Ding
Discussion of Reading: Deep

7 Dec. No Colloquium- Last Day of Classes
Kevin Hughes