Department of Geology and Geophysics

Department of Geology and Geophysics

GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES
Spring 2008

INTERESTED OBSERVERS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND
FRIDAYS, 1:00 PM TO 2:15 PM IN POST 723

Date

Speaker/Topic

January 24 * Tadeuz Ulyrch - The role of amplitude and phase in processing and inversion
February 1 Matt Patrick - The life and death of a perched lava channel: Insights from Kilauea's ongoing eruption
February 8 Michael Poland - Magmanomics: Supply and demand at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii
February 15 Steve Miller - Climate change in Hawaii: framing the questions for ecology

February 22 TBA
February 29 Howie Scher - What will high resolution neodymium isotope records from marine sediments reveal? Examples from early Cenozoic abrupt climate events
March 7 Margo Edwards - Off-axis eruptions on the ultra-slow spreading Gakkel Ridge (Arctic Ocean)
March 7 ** Stephen J Mojzsis - Geology, age and origin of pre-3.75 Ga supracrustal rocks in northern Quebec
March 14 Mike Garcia - Where, when, what and why of secondary Hawaiian volcanism
March 21 NONE - Holiday
March 28 NONE - Spring Break
April 4 Ed Scott - New ideas about the origins of iron and stony-iron meteorites
April 11 Mike Drake - Water matters
April 18 Paul Wessel - Pacific absolute plate motion from 145 Ma to present
April 25 David Wilson - Kilauea volcano's very active summer: A summer 2007 seismic review
May 2 Ali El-Kadi - Modeling watershed processes as a management tool
* Thursday - 4:00 pm
** Special time - 4:00 pm