SPRING 2004 Speaker List
Date, Time, Location
Speaker
Title (click on the title to view an abstract of the presentation)
23 January 4-5 pm, SC 234
Rod Metcalf, UNLV
"Development and Polarity of Paleozoic Klamath-Northern Sierran Island Arc"
30 January 3:30 pm
GIS Speaker, TBA
TBA
Spring 2003 Speaker List
Date, Time, Location
Speaker
Title (click on the title to view an abstract of the presentation)
24 January 3:30-4:30 pm, SC 234 Steve Ellis, Vice President of Corridor & Facilities, Tobin Intl., Ltd.
TBA
29 January 3:30 pm Dr. John Suppe, Princeton University Linking the surface to the subsurface: Active tectonics of the southern Tianshan
21 February 3:30 pm TBA GIS in Earth Sciences
28 March 3:30 pm Sally Abbe, Wade Shoop City of Lubbock GIS: Past, present and future
25 April Barry Allison, TCEQ, Austin, TX GIS programs at Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; Xtreme GIS: Use of GIS in the space shuttle Columbia search and recovery effort
Fall 2002 Speaker List
Date, Time, Location
Speaker
Title (click on the title to view an abstract of the presentation)
9 September (Mon), 4-5 pm, SC 234 Dr. Mike Smith, U.S. Mineral Management Service MMS Role in Applying New Technology for Developing Conventional and Unconventional Energy Resources, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico
27 September (Fri), 3:30-4:30 pm, SC 234 Dr. Hal. Karlsson, TTU Oxygen isotopic geochemistry of recent icelandic mafic lavas
4 November (Mon), 3-4 pm, SC 234 Dr. Elizabeth Wheeler, North Carolina State University The Cretceous Trees of Big Bend - Really old growth forests
8 November (Fri), 3:30-4:30 pm, SC 234 Dr. Vance Holliday, University of Arizona Geology and paleoenvironments of the oldest archaeological sites on the Southern High Plains

SPRING 2001

Arc-continent collision in Taiwan as illuminated by one large (M7.6) and 37,000 tiny earthquakes
Dr. John Suppe, Princeton University

Depositional/Diagenetic and Production Histories of thge Upper Mississippian (Chester) Ooid Grainstones in the Austin Upper Mississippian Field: Lea County, New Mexico
Dr. George B. Asquith, Geosciences Department, Texas Tech University

The use of models and observations on the meso and global scale
Dr. Steven M. Lazarus, University of Utah

The importance of clay synthesis to petroleum industry
Dr. Necip Guven, Geoscience Department, Texas Tech University

Hurricane Bonnie wind flow characteristics and continued research opportunities
Dr. John L Schroeder, G-Systems, INC., Dallas TX

Jurassic-Cretaceous magmatism in the Blue Mountains province, Pacific Northwest: Implications for terrane amalgamation and accretion
Dr. Ken Johnson, Geosciences Dept. Texas Tech University/Wayland University

FALL 2000

Century-scale variation of seafloor temperatures inferred from offshore borehole geothermal data
Dr. Seiichi Nagihara, Texas Tech University

Outcrop characterization of reservoir quality and interwell-scale cement distribution in a tide-influenced delta, Frontier Formation Wyoming, USA
Dr. Shirley P. Dutton, Texas Bureau of Econ. Geology

The Search for Life on Mars: New Evidence within three Martian Meteorites
Dr. Everett K. Gibson, Jr., NASA Johnson Space Center

Reservoir Geology of the Albian (Middle Cretaceous) Mauddud Formation
Dr. Imelda JohnsonBadley, Ashton Environmental, U.K.

Geochemistry of subsurface reactive barriers for remediation of
contaminated ground water

Dr. Rick Wilkin, EPA, Oklahoma

Trace element and Nd-Sr-Pb isotopic data from mafic intrusive complexes, Trinity terrane, CA: Evidence of Mid-Paleozoic supra-subduction zone magmatism in a proto-arc paleotectonic setting
Dr. Rodney Metcalf, UNLV

Eocene Crustal Extension within the Coast Plutonic Complex, British
Columbia

Dr. Chris Andronicos, UTEP

Dr. Tapani Ramo

Archaeometry using Accelerator-Based Analytical Techniques
Dr. Javier Miranda, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City

Dr. Bradley Hacker, UCSB

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