ConocoPhillips Seminars

The Texas A&M University Department of Geology and Geophysics hosts a seminar every Friday morning 11:30 a.m. Presentations are held in the Dudley Hughes Lecture Hall (Room 104) of the Michel T. Halbouty Geosciences Building unless otherwise specified. The public is welcome to all seminars.

Geology and Geophysics Spring 2012 Seminars

21 March 2012	Judith Hubbard Harvard University Title: Mountain building, fault structure, and seismic hazard in the Tibetan Plateau and Southern California
19 March 2012	Oleg Poliannikov Massachusetts Institute of Technology Title: Interferometric imaging of subsurface structures and seismic events
13 March 2012	Lindsay Worthington Department of Geology and Geophysics Texas A&M University Title: Using seismic imaging to investigate orogenic processes in southern Alaska and beyond
9 March 2012 11:30–12:30 Halbouty 104	Kati Tänavsuu-Mikeviciene Dept. of Geology and Geological Engineering Colorado School of Mines Title: Evolution and sequence stratigraphy of the organic-rich Green River Formation Piceance Creek lake basin - Implications for the Eocene lake history in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming
7 March 2012 11:30–12:30 Room 104	Andrew Petter St. Anthony Falls Laboratory University of Minnesota Title: :Interpreting fluvial strata through the concept of sediment extraction
2 March 2012 11:30–12:30 Halbouty 104	Jeffrey A. Nittrouer Dept. of Geology and Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Title: Hydrodynamics and sediment-transport properties of the lowermost Mississippi River: Development of river-channel morphology and fluvial-deltaic stratigraphy
29 February 2012 11:30–12:30 Room 104	Lorena Moscardelli Bureau of Economic Geology University of Texas, Austin Title: From mass transport deposits to Mars: The Journey!
24 February 2012	Leah Schneider Department of Geosciences Pennsylvania State University Title: Global calcareous nannoplankton response to Paleocene and Eocene warming intervals
17 February 2012	Karl Butler
10 February 2012	Alexis Vizcaino Marti Department of Environment and Marine Geosciences Stanford University Title: Chasing earthquakes and climate events in Holocene sediments from offshore Portugal and Patagonia
3 February 2012	No seminar
27 January 2012	Darryl De Ruiter Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University Title: Autralopithecus sediba and the origin of the genus Homo
20 January 2012 3 p.m. 4 p.m. reception with refreshments	The Center for Tectonophysics and the Department of Geology and Geophysics Special Seminar and Reception George Mitchell and Me: The confluence of geopolitics and science of Texas-style gas production in the State of Pennsylvania Professor Terry Engelder '73, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University Location: The Stephen W. Hawking Auditorium, George and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy

Geology and Geophysics Fall 2011 Seminars

09/02/2011	Andreas Kronenberg and Rick Giardino Department of Geology and Geosphysics Texas A&M University Title: Welcome to the Department
09/09/2011	Dr. Tom Olszewski Department of Geology and Geophysics Title: The Permian Reef of West Texas: How Do Complex Ecological Communities Respond to Environmental Change?
09/16/2011	Dr. Dan Peppe Department of Geology, Baylor University Title: Late Pleistocene lake level change and the expansion of arid grasslands: evidence from the Lake Victoria region, Equatorial Africa
10/07/2011	Dr. Jasper Konter University of Texas - El Paso The cause for rejuvenated volcanism in Samoa
10/21/2011	Dr. Lindsay Lowe Worthington Texas A&M University Glacial climate and collisional tectonics: the extremes of mountain-building in southern Alaska
10/28/2011	Dr. Heath Mills, Dr. Wolfgang Bach, Dr. Adam Klaus ODASES Texas A&M University Welcome to Expedition 336: Corking and coring the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Subsurface Microbiology
11/04/2011	Dr. David Gaylord School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Washington State University Title: Subedifice collapse of an andesitic stratovolcano: The Maitahi Formation, Taranaki Peninsula, New Zealand
11/11/2011	Dr. Janok P. Bhattacharya Robert E. Sheriff, Professor of Sequence Stratigraphy Deparment of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston Title: Death of the Sequence Boundary: Applying modern concepts to the Cretaceous Interior Seaway of North America
11/18/2011	Dr. Franco Marcantonio Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University Title: Thorium isotopes, sediment fluxes and climate change
12/2/2011	Dr. Elizabeth Anthony - to be rescheduled for Spring. in lieu of a seminar talk, your seminar committee would like to take this opportunity to discuss our goals for the seminar series, our ideas about how to make it better, and to get your feedback. Refreshments will be provided.

Geology and Geophysics Spring 2011 Seminars

1/28/2011	Mike Tice Department of Geology and Geosphysics Texas A&M University Title: Shining a light on early life: The archean evolution and paleoecology of photosynthetic bacteria
2/4/2011	Dr. Janok Bhattacharya University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Title: Death of the Sequence Boundary: Applying Modern concepts to the Cretaceous Interior Seaway of North America
2/11/2011	Terry Tullis Brown University, Department of Geological Sciences Title: Flash weakening, earthquake simulators, and the Southern California Earthquake Center
2/18/2011	Richard Groshong University of Alabama, Department of Geological Sciences Title: Bed length does not remain constant during deformation: Recognition and why it matters
2/25/2011	Gail Christeson University of Texas-Institute of Geophysics Title: Chicxulub Crater -- What an Impact
3/4/2011	Sonja Spasojevic California Institute of Technology Title: Long-term sea level and vertical motion of continents from dynamic earth models
3/25/2011	Matthew Schmidt TAMU-Department of Oceanography Title: Florida Straits deglacial temperature and salinity change: Implications for tropical hydrologic cycle variability during the Younger Dryas
4/1/2011	Thomas Gill University of Texas-El Paso, Department of Geological Sciences Title: The importance of dust to the Earth System (no fooling!)
4/8/2011	Alan Brandon University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Title: Making the moon, new perspectives from tungsten and neodymium isotopes
4/15/2011	Tom Bianchi TAMU-Department of Oceanography Title: Anthropogenic effects on carbon cycling in large river deltas
4/22/2011	Scott Wing Smithsonian Institution, Department of Paleobiology Title: The effects of rapid global warming at the Palaeocene-Eocene boundary on terrestrial ecosystems
4/29/2011	Leslie Reid University of Calgary, Department of Geoscience Title: Exploring college students' misconceptions in introductory geology

Geology and Geophysics Fall 2010 Seminars

9/3/2010	Andreas Kronenberg Department Head Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M Univeristy Title: Introduction to the Department of Geology and Geophysics and New Students
9/10/2010	Dr. Peter Copeland University of Houston Title: Oligoscene Laramide Deformation in Southwestern New Mexico: Implications for Farrallon Plate Geodymics
9/17/2010	Dr. Max Hu University of Texas, Arlington Fluid Flow and Chemical Transport in Fractured Roc
9/24/10
10/1/2010	Dr. Will Sager Department of Oceanography, TAMU Changing Perspectives of Hotspots, Seamount Chains, and Ocean Plateaus
10/8/2010	Dr. Cin-Ty Lee Rice University Continent Formation, Cretaceous Greehouse, and Burial of Organic Carbon
10/15/2010	Dr. John Robbins Harris postdoc, TAMU Mosasaur ecology inferred through stable carbon isotope analysis
10/22/2010	Dr. Matt Hornbac University of Texas High tsunami frequency along strike-slip faults: new insights from Haiti and Jamaica.
10/29/2010	Evgeni Chesnokov University of Houston Multi-scale seismology
11/5/2010	Dr. Robert Gregory Southern Methodist University The Oman margin before the post-Miocene uplift of the Oman Mountains
11/12/2010	Dr. Jessie A. Pincus Department of Construction, Texas A&M University Applications in archaeological geophysics: recent studies from ongoing work in the Southern Levant
11/19/2010	Dr. David Ward Montana State Univerisity
12/3/2010	Dr. Sebastian Krastel-Gudegast University of Kiel
12/10/2010	Dr. Ganqing Giang University of Nevada Las Vegas

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