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Geology Colloquium

All talks are scheduled on Fridays at 3:30pm in CHE 102 unless otherwise noted.
All are welcome.

Spring 2013

Date Speaker Title
January 11 ---- ----
January 18 Dr. Kevin P. Furlong, Department of Geosciences, Penn State University, USA Should We Run For the Hills: Rethinking Subduction Zone Earthquakes
January 25 ---- ----
February 1 Dr. Josef Dufek, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Multiphase Magmatism: From Crustal Construction to Eruptive Dynamics
February 8 Dr. Graham A. Tobin, Department of Geography, Environment and Planning, USF
Dr. Linda M. Whiteford, Department of Anthropology, USF		 Modeling Chronic Volcano Hazards: Community Resilience and Social Networks
February 15 ---- ----
February 22 Dr. Lori S. Glaze, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, NASA, USA A new simulation approach for modeling inflated pahoehoe lava flows
March 1 Dr. Bernie Housen, Department of Geology, Western Washington University, USA Time to Bury the Resurrection Plate? Paleomagnetism of the Ghost Rocks volcanics, Kodiak Island
March 8 Dr. Don P. Chambers, College of Marine Science, USFSP Measuring and Understanding Modern-Day Sea Level Rise
March 15 -- Spring Break -- -- Spring Break --
March 22 Dr. Kenneth C. Jezek, School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, USA Airborne and Spaceborne Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere
March 29 ---- ----
April 5 Dr. Peter La Femina, Department of Geosciences, Penn State University, USA Deformation of the Western Caribbean
April 12 ---- ----
April 19 at 2:30pm Dr. Esteban Gazel, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Lithosphere vs. asthenosphere magma sources in the Basin and Range: Insights from the Big Pine Volcanic Field
April 19 at 4:00pm Dr. Georg Houben, Department of Geosciences, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany Part 1) Experiments and modeling of layered freshwater lenses
Part 2) Groundwater resources of the Kabul basin (Afghanistan)
April 26 -- open -- -- open --

Fall 2012

Date Speaker Title
September 14 Dr. Antonio Costa, INGV, Italy, University of Reading, UK Modeling of Distal Deposits from Super-Volcano Eruptions
October 5 Dominic Papineau, Boston College Carbonaceous material associated with apatite on Earth and Mars and implications for the origin of life
October 19 Dr. Tim Dixon, Denis Voytenko, Judy McIlrath, Dept. of Geology, USF Fieldwork in Greenland and latest results on melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet
October 26 --cancelled-- -- cancelled --
November 2 --open-- -- open --
November 9 Andrew Calvert, US Geological Survey Attaining high-resolution eruptive histories for active arc volcanoes. Examples from the Cascades and Alaska
November 16 Peter Valley Fluid alteration and magnetite-apatite mineralization of the Lyon Mountain granite: Adirondack Mountains, New York State
November 30 Dr. Jonathan Wynn, Dept. of Geology, USF Ocean Acidification
December 7 --open-- -- open --
December 14 --open-- --open--

Spring 2012

Date Speaker Title
Jan 27, 2012 Dr. Matthew S. Lachniet, Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas A 2400-yr Rainfall Reconstruction for Mesoamerica Links Climate Change and Civilizations
Feb 10, 2012 Stephen Self, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Environmental Effects of Super-eruptions
Feb 17, 2012 Prof. Richard Davis Sea level change in the Gulf of Mexico: Past, Present and Future
Feb 24, 2012 Dr. Louise Hose, Texas A&M University, College Station Lessons from Active, Sulfide-rich Caves: Did "snottites" play a role in forming Carlsbad Cavern, Lechuguilla, and other giant caverns of the world?
Mar 2, 2012 Dr. Dhananjay Ravat, University of Kentucky, Lexington The Magnetic Mystery of Mars
Mar 9, 2012 Dr. Ralf Gertisser, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK A Look Inside Merapi: Lessons from Past Eruptions and the Catastrophic Events of 2010
Mar 30, 2012 Dr. Steve McNutt, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks Volcano Lightning
Apr 6, 2012 Dr. Drew S. Coleman, Department of Geological Sciences, Univerisity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Missed Connection: Ignimbrite Seeking Plutonic Relationship
Apr 13, 2012 open - - - -
Apr 20, 2012 Michael J. Wightman, P. G., GeoView - A Geophysical Services Company, St. Petersburg, Florida Professional Geology Seminar (TBA)
Apr 27, 2012 Dr. Bryan Jackson, Carnegie Institution, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC Evaporated/ing cores of gas giants
May 4, 2012 open - - - -

Fall 2011

TBA

Spring 2011

Date Speaker Title
Jan 14, 2011 Stephen Schellenberg, Dept. of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University Oceans of change: Redesigning a general-education oceanography course for online learning
Jan 28, 2011 Bruce McFadden, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida Miocene mammals of Panama: Tropical refugium of cradle of biodiversity?
Feb 12, 2011 Kazutaka Mannen, Visiting scientist at USF Geology Fuji Volcano: Geological background and latest eruption
Feb 25, 2011 Paul Umhoefer, Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University How plate tectonics works in the southern Gulf of California: A rapid birth in a hot setting
Mar 4, 2011 Peter Van Keken, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan TBA
Apr 8, 2011 Zeresenay Alemseged, Department of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences Hominins at Dikika, Ethiopia and their paleoecological context
Apr 15, 2011 Matt Haney, Boise State University Imaging shallow volcanic structure with multicomponent ambient noise tomography