Spring 2007 Colloquium

Geological Sciences Colloquium Schedule: Fall 2008 All talks are held in the Benson Earth Sciences Conference Room (380) every Wednesday at 4:00 pm unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served at 3:30 on the 3rd floor
Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
9/3	Dena Smith	University of Colorado	Ancient Insects: Diversification, Preservation and Paleoecology
9/10	Jason Neff	University of Colorado	Manifest Dust; the environmental legacy of the settlement of the western US
9/17	Karen Chin	University of Colorado	Using fossil feces to help reconstruct a temperate Arctic marine ecosystem from the Cretaceous of Canada
9/24	Karl Mueller	University of Colorado	Erosional and Rheologic Controls on Late Quaternary Shortening in the Western Taiwan Thrust Belt
10/1	James Syvitski	University of Colorado	Sinking Deltas
10/8	Michael Manga	University of California - Berkeley	Why do volcanoes only sometimes erupt explosively
10/15	Gregory Beroza	Stanford University	Episodic Tremor and Slip: Close Relatives in the Slow Earthquake Family
10/22	David M. Harwood	University of Nebraska	Antarctic ice sheet response to Miocene and Pliocene global warm events: ?new information from the ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) Program
10/29	Gerard Roe	University of Washington	What do glaciers tell us about climate change?
11/5	Shari Kelley	Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. New Mexico Tech. Socorro	Exhumation history of the Colorado Plateau
11/12	TBA
11/19	Doug Yule	University of California	Megaquakes of the Himalaya
11/26	Thanksgiving Week
12/3
12/10
12/17	AGU Week
Questions, comments or suggestions for future speakers may be directed to: Roger Bilham