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UTIG Brown Bag Seminars

UTIG Seminar Schedule

Previous Brown Bag Talks

UTIG Brown Bag Seminars
Fall 2007

Wednesdays, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
1st floor Seminar Room, 1.603

These informal talks are intended to update people on recent research/activities of UTIG scientists and students. Talks are held in the UTIG seminar room (see bottom of page for address). The talks will last ~45-60 minutes.

Don't forget your lunch!

Date

Speaker

Title/Topic of Talk

Aug. 08

Steve Stevenoski
High School Science Teacher
Wisconsin Rapids, WI

What High School Teachers and Research Scientists Can Do To Connect Students To Science and To UTIG

Sept. 05

Sean Gulick
UTIG Research Scientist
Marine Geology and Geophysics

One Rock to Change the World: The Story of the Chicxulub Impact Crater

Sept. 12

Luc Lavier
UTIG Research Scientist
Tectonics/Geodynamics

Finding the Physical Evidence (rocks) for model predictions in the Pyrenees and the Alps

Sept. 19

Sasha Peter Carter
UTIG PhD Candidate
Cryosphere

Finding sub-ice lakes in East Antarctica using surface anomalies and hydraulic potential

Sept. 26

Charles Jackson
UTIG Research Scientist
and Shaoping Lu
UTIG/Physics PhD Candidate
Climate

An Introduction to Abrupt Climate Change

Oct. 03

Katherine Ellins
UTIG Geoscience Education Program Manager

Would you like to be a part of the TXESS Revolution?

Oct. 10

John Goff
UTIG Senior Research Scientist
Marine Geology and Geophysics

Vibracoring expedition to the New Jersey shelf:  Investigating the stratigraphic response to ~50,000 years of eustacy

Oct. 17

Marcy Davis
UTIG Research Scientist Associate II

Bathymetric Mapping for Law of the Sea and other Arctic goings-on:  HLY0703

Oct. 24

Bradley Opdyke
Department of Earth and Marine Sciences
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia

Discovering Paleotemperatures and Carbonate saturation state through Laser ablation ICP-MS of Planktonic Foraminifera

Oct. 31

Nathan Bangs
UTIG Senior Research Scientist
Marine Seismology

The mega-splay fault in the Nankai Trough subduction zone interpreted from 3D  seismic images

Nov. 07

Rosemary Came 
Postdoctoral Fellow
California Institute of Technology
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences

 The link between abrupt climate change and intermediate depth ocean circulation

Nov. 14


           

 

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Dec. 05

Beth Christensen
UTIG Visiting Scientist
Adelphi University

Micropaleontology

 African Paleoclimate and Hominid Evolution

Will be held in 2nd floor UTIG conference room (2.201)
AND @ 2:00 pm rather than at noon.

To give a talk or for more information about the seminar, please contact Jay Stephens.

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J.J. Pickle Research Campus, Bldg. 196
10100 Burnet Road (R2200)
Austin TX 78758-4445
Phone: (512) 471-6156; FAX: (512) 471-8844

 

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