Spring 2008 Colloquia
Seminar series at other departments
IUB Anthroplogy
IUB Astronomy
IUB Biology
IUB Chemistry
IUB Geography
IUB Physics
IUB SPEA
Indiana Geological Survey
Ph.D. Dissertation Defenses (campus wide)
IUPUI Geology (Indianapolis)
Purdue EAS (West Lafayette)
Bloomington Science Café (at Borders)
See Also
Sigma Gamma Epsilon the undergraduate and graduate student organization.
January 14
Juergen Schieber, Indiana University
Colloquia Organization and a Talk on Shales
January 28
Aileen Yingst, UWisc Green Bay
Geology Without the Rocks: Conducting Field Work on One Planet When You're
Stuck On Another.
February 7
Michael Peacoc, AAPG lecturer
Athabasca Oil Sands: Understanding the Oil Sands from the Regional Scale to the
Project Scale, Kearl. - A Case History
February 11
Eric Calais, Purdue University
The East African Rift: Present-Day Kinematics and Current Rifting Events
February 18
Paul Hoffman, Harvard, Double Treat
Brownbag: Cap carbonates: Signatures of snowball Earth?
Colloquium: The Pleistocene glacial controversy and discovery of the greenhouse effect and the dynamic lithosphere
February 25
Dibyendu Sarkar, UT San Antonio
Arsenic in Urban Environment: A Promising Remedial Alternative to an Emerging Public Health Issue
March 3
Laura Crossey, U. New Mexico
"Continental Smokers"
Abstract
March 17
Jeanette Pope, DePauw University
TBA
March 24
Gary Parker, UIUC
Cyclic steps from the high mountains to the bottom of the ocean: a universal morphology of rivers and turbidity currents
April 7
Stephen Mojzsis, U. Colorado
A glimpse into the nature of the Hadean Earth from the chemistry of pre-3.9 billion year old zircons
April 14
Bob Downs, U. Arizona
Compression Mechanisms of Minerals
April 21
Michael Brudzinski, Miami U., Ohio
Bump and Grind: The Hazards of Plates that Want to Get Down
April 28
Bill Dietrich, UC Berkeley
Is there a topographic signature of life?"
