Colloquium Series

ConocoPhillips Colloquium Series

The Texas A&M University Department of Geology & Geophysics hosts a colloquium every Friday afternoon at 3:45 p.m. Presentations are held in the Dudley Hughes Lecture Hall (Room 101) of the Michel T. Halbouty Geosciences Building unless otherwise specified. The public is welcome to all seminars.

Spring 2008 Seminars

Jan 15, 2008 Dr. Stephen Ehrenberg
Senior Geologist, StatOil
Title: Seeing the Forest Using Databases of Average Petroleum Reservoir Values
 
Jan 22, 2008 Dr. Heinrich Bahlburg
Professor of Geology, Geologische-Palaontologisches Institut, Universitat Hamburg
Title: Basin analysis over different temporal spatial scales
 
Jan 24, 2008 Dr. Jergen Schieber
Professor of Geology, Indiana University
Title: Narrative of an Unrepentant Shale Geologist
 
Jan 31, 2008 Dr. Robert Weiss
Visiting Scientist, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington and NOAA Center for Tsunami Research
Title: Sandy Signs of Tsunamis: Interdisciplinary research on tsunami sedimentology
 
Feb 4, 2008 Dr. Peter Clift
Kilgour Professor of Geology, Dept. of Geology and Petroleum Geology, Kings College, University of Aberdeen
Title: The Marine Stratigraphic Record of Evolving Cenozoic Asian Monsoon and Orogenesis
Oceanography - Geology & Geophysics Seminar: 4:00 PM Monday, Feb 4, Rm. 110 Eller Building
   
Feb 12, 2008 Dr. Cedric John
Staff Scientist, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University
Title: Oligo-Miocene Sea-Level History: Adding One (Carbonate) Piece to the Puzzle
 
Feb 14, 2008 Dr. Bill Elliott
Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Environmental Studies, Southern Oregon University
Title: Sedimentation in a Cretaceous Forearc Basin: Implicatins for Tectonics in Western North America
 
Feb 19, 2008 Dr. Wonsuk Kim
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, Depts. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Geology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: The Pulse of Calm Fan Deltas
 
Feb 21, 2008 Dr. Robin Locklair
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Late Creataceous Orbital Chronology and Marine Carbon Burial Flux
 
Feb 28, 2008 Ms. Andrea Hawkes
Ph. D. Candidate, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Tsunami Sediment and Earthquake-Induced Subsidence along the Sunda and Cascadia Margins