Thursdays, 3:30 PM, unless otherwise indicated
Room 2079 Natural History Building
Post-talk reception: Natural History Building Rm. 3083 - "The Core"
August 29: No colloquium (first week of classes)
September 6: The Phillips Lecture (Joint event with Plant Biology)
"Using the Past to Reinvent Conservation for a Post-Normal World"
Steve Jackson, USGS, SW Climate Science Center, Tucson, AZ: climate and ecosystem
September 13: R. E. Grim Lecture
"From grains to plates: Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics along the southern Alaska convergent margin"
Emily Finzel, U Iowa, sedimentary processes
September 20:
"Relationships between CO2, thermodynamic limits on silicate weathering, and the strength of the silicate weathering negative feedback"
Matt Winnick, UMass Amherst (Host: Jenny Druhan)
September 27: "Ion adsorption phenomena into the hydrothermal regime"
Mike Machesky, IL State Water Survey
October 4: Presentation of the Department of Geology 2018 Alumni Achievement Award
"The multi-million-pound uranium deposit at Panna Maria, TX and my 65-year journey in Geology"
Dr. Norb Cygan (B.S. '54; Ph.D. '62) (Host: Tom Johnson)
October 11: Buckley Lecture in Environmental Geology
"Centennial Glacier Retreat as Categorical Evidence of Regional Climate Change"
Gerard Roe, U Washington (Host: Alison Anders)
October 18: Valedictory presentation- retiring faculty member
Steve Marshak, U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Host: Tom Johnson)
October 25: Geology Grad Student Lightning Talks
November 1: Buckley Lecture in Environmental Geology
"The Energy-Water Nexus of Hydraulic Fracturing: A Geochemical Perspective"
Avner Vengosh, Duke University, Environmental Geochemistry (Host: Tom Johnson)
November 8: R.E. Grim Lecture
"The Green Dog That Did Not Bark: The Curious Incidence of Seismic Anisotropy Beneath Mid-Ocean Islands"
Jeffrey Park, Yale University, Seismology/Mineral Physics/Tectonics (Host: Xiaodong Song)
November 15: "Exploration of Unknown Microbial Life in Great Boiling Spring, Nevada" Brian Hedlund, UNLV (Hosts: Bruce Fouke and Rob Sanford)
November 22: No colloquium (Thanksgiving Break)
November 29: Kirkpatrick Lecture
"New Insight into the Origin of the New Madrid Seismic Zone"
Christine Powell, U Memphis, seismotectonics (Host: Xiaodong Song)
December 6: Sherilyn Williams-Stroud, ISGS,
"Interpreting Structure and Reservoir Stress with Microseismic Data" (Host: Alison Anders)
December 13: No colloquium (Reading Day)