Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2012

Geophysics Seminar

All talks are held in the Benson Earth Sciences Auditorium (180)
every Wednesday at 4:00 pm unless otherwise noted.
**Refreshments are served at 3:30 on the 3rd floor**

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
1/18 Scott Tinker BEG, UT-Austin The Global Energy Transition: What Will it Take to Make the Switch, RASEI lecture
1/25 Scott Burns Portland State Urban Landslides: Challenges to Forensic Engineering Geologists, GSA Richard Jahns Distinguished Lecture
2/1 Jerry Magloughlin CSU The hottest fault rocks: friction melts and pseudotachylytes
2/8 David Bell ASU A mantle perspective on the post-Gondwana tectonomagmatic evolution of southern Africa
2/15 James Syvitski CU-Boulder The Anthropocene- a new geologic epoch?
2/22 Zach Sharp University of New Mexico A Unifying Hypothesis for Lunar Volatiles
2/29 Geoff Abers LDEO Imaging with Geophysics: The Heat and Water Cycling in Modern Subduction Zones, GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecture
3/7 Dolores Robinson U of Alabama, CIRES visitor Controls on the evolution of the Himalayan thrust belt
3/14 Jason Briner SUNY-Buffalo The response of the world's fastest glacier to abrupt climate change: Ice margin reconstructions of Jakobshavn Isbrae, West Greenland
3/21 Jane Selverstone University of New Mexico Diamonds from the Alps: constraints on physical and chemical conditions during oceanic subduction
3/28     Spring Break - No Colloquium
4/4

Alison Duvall

CU-Boulder, CIRES The tectonic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau: insights from the deformation and erosion history of northern Tibet and the surrounding region
4/11

Kate Campbell

USGS TBD
4/18

John Kaldi

University of Adelaide CO2 Sequestration: what are the big issues and opportunities?     RASEI lecture
4/25 Peter DeCelles University of Arizona Oligo-Miocene extension in southwestern Tibet: Response to rollback of subducting Indian continental lithosphere, or A tale of two Tibets
5/2 Steve Holbrook University of Wyoming Arcs, Continents, and the Andesite Paradox, GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecture

Questions, comments or suggestions for future speakers may be directed to:
Lang Farmer