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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Host: Bruce Fouke
24 Oct. Earthscope Distinguished Lecturer Series
"EarthScope explores the depths of western North America"
Matt Fouch, Arizona State Univ.
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
Host: Craig Lundstrom
14 Nov. "Snapshot in Time: Geologic Secrets of the Danville, Illinois, Fossilized Forest"
Scott Elrick and John Nelson, Illinois State Geological Survey
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
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