Fall 2008 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.

29 Aug.  "Active Mountain Building Processes in Taiwan"

Kaj Johnson, Indiana University 

(abstract)

Host:  Wang-Ping Chen

5 Sept.  "Geophysical implications of new measurements and

models of thermal transport from crust to core"

Anne Hofmeister, Washington University, St. Louis

(abstract)

Host:  Jie Li

8 Sept. (Special Monday Talk)  4:00 PM, 228 Natural History

Jointly Sponsored by the Illinois State Geological Survey and The Department of Geology

GSA/AEG Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer in Engineering Geology

"Earthquake Hazards and Risk in the Pacific Northwest"

John Clague, Simon Fraser University

(abstract)

Host:  Tom Johnson

12 Sept. 3:00 PM,  112 Chem Annex

School of Earth Society and the Environment (SESE) Colloquium

"The surprises of property: remaking nature-society relations through privatization"

Becky Mansfield, Dept. of Geography, Ohio State University

(abstract)

Host:  David Wilson (Geography Dept.)

19 Sept. Consortium for Ocean Leadership, U.S. Support Program Distinguished Lecturer

"Deep-Ocean Circulation During Extremely Warm Climates"

Debbie Thomas, Texas A&M

(abstract)

Host:  Tom Johnson

26 Sept. Glenn and Susan Buckley Lecture in Environmental Geology

"Biogeochemistry of mercury with new insights from mercury stable isotopes"

Joel Blum, Univ. of Michigan

(abstract)

Host:  Craig Bethke

3 Oct. Lecture supported by the Hilton Johnson endowment

"Network scale power-law relationships for estimating sediment flux and bedrock incision rates"

Nicole Gasparini, Tulane University

(abstract)

Host:  Alison Anders

10 Oct.  "Correcting survey measurements in the western US for tectonic deformation"

Chris Pearson, National Geodetic Survey's Geodetic Advisor for Illinois

(abstract)

Host:  Tom Johnson

17 Oct. Richard L. Hay Lecture

"High-temperature Chemotrophic Environments are Excellent Model Systems for Understanding Microbial Controls on Geochemical Cycling"

Bill Inskeep, Montana State University

(abstract)

Host:  Bruce Fouke

24 Oct. Earthscope Distinguished Lecturer Series

"EarthScope explores the depths of western North America"

Matt Fouch, Arizona State Univ.

(abstract)

Host:  Craig Lundstrom

31 Oct.  R. James Kirkpatrick Lecture

"Tracking the Yellowstone hotspot: Evidence from volcanism, uplift and faulting for a mantle plume origin"

Lisa Morgan, US Geological Survey

Host:  Bruce Fouke

7 Nov.  Ralph E. Grim Lecture

"Making plutons a bit at a time and the rarity of large magma chambers"

Allen Glazner, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

(abstract)

Host:  Craig Lundstrom

14 Nov. "Evolution of a peat-contemporaneous channel and origin of split coal, Springfield Coal, Pennsylvanian of Illinois Basin."

Scott Elrick and John Nelson, Illinois State Geological Survey

(abstract)

Host:  Tom Johnson

21 Nov.  Last day before Thanksgiving Break- No Colloquium

28 Nov. Thanksgiving Break- No Colloquium

5 Dec.   "Sediment dynamics of fluvial trubidity currents - Lillooet Lake, Canada"

Ray Kostaschuk, University of Guelph

(abstract)

Host:  Jim Best

Other upcoming speakers :

13 March, 2009:  Mike Leeder, Univ. of East Anglia (Threet Lecture)

23 or 30 Jan., 2009:  Paleobotany

An Yin, Tectonics  of the Himalayan Oroge

Ken Kemner, Argonne Nat'l Lab, Synchrotron x-ray specroscopy

Scott Elrick, ISGS, Fossil Forests in Coal

David Walker, COMPRES speaker