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UTIG Seminars

Current Seminar Schedule

SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Fall 2003

Date/Time Speaker, Affiliation Title of Talk
05Sept/4PM Kathy Ellins, UTIG "UTIG Education and Outreach Programs-Activities, Achievements and Future Plans"
12Sept/4PM Youlong Xia, UTIG "Optimal Parameter and Uncertainty Estimates of a Land Surface Model with Bayesian Stochastic Inversion (BSI)"
19Sept/4PM Rob Scott, UTIG "Upper Ocean Kinetic Energy Flux Between Length Scales Estimated with Remote Sensing Data"
26Sept/4PM Nathan Bangs, UTIG Evolution of the Nankai Trough Plate-Boundary Thrust from the Trench into
the Seismogenic Zone
03Oct/4PM Jeff Karson, Duke University "The Greatest Extensional Tectonics Show on Earth: Seafloor Spreading From Core Complexes to Continuously Collapsing Calderas"
10Oct/4PM Rob Ferguson, DOGS Model Independent AVO
17Oct/4PM Don Chambers, Center for Space Research, UT Global Mean Sea Level Rise: A Review of What We Know (and Do Not Know)
24Oct/4PM Terry Pavlis, Univ of New Orleans "Tectonics in the Extreme Environments: Interactions Between Erosion and Tectonics in the St. Elias Orogen, Southern Alaska"
30Oct/4PM Stephen Ackley, Clarkson University "Climate Interactions with the Polar Sea Ice Covers:  The Antarctic Sea Ice Paradox"
07Nov/4PM Harm Van Avendonk, UTIG "Structure and Composition of the Central Aleutian Arc from a Sparse Wide-Angle Seismic Data Set"
14Nov/4PM Jerry North, Texas A&M Univ. "Analysis of the Simplest Climate Models"
18Nov/2PM Jonathan Snow, Max Planck Institute "Petrology of the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge System"
21Nov03 Fellowship Talks Talks by Students

 

Seminars are usually held on Fridays at 4:00 p.m. but check the day of the week on your calendar to be certain. There are exceptions. The Institute's seminars are held at:
4412 Spicewood Springs Rd.
(Office complex behind Walgreen's at the corner of Spicewood Springs Rd. and Mesa Dr. in northwest Austin.)
Building 500, Upstairs
Austin, Texas 78759
(512) 471-6156

Other Seminar Schedules
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