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UTIG Seminars

Current Seminar Schedule

SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Spring 2002

Date/Time Speaker, Affiliation Title of Talk
1/3/2002 11:00:00 Dr. Zhaomin Wang, McGill University Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, Quebec CANADA "The McGill Paleoclimate Model and its Recent Applications"
1/18/2002 16:00:00 Charlie Kerans, University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX USA Outcrop and Subsurface Seismic Expression of Slope and Basin-Floor Carbonates
1/25/2002 16:00:00 Robert D. Rogers, UT Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX Neogene tectonic controls on the western (subduction) and northern (strike-slip) margins of the Chortis block (northern Central America)
2/1/2002 16:00:00 Donna Cathro and Graham Moss, UT Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX Clinoform Progradation Along A Submerged Oligocene-Miocene Cool-Subtropical Carbonate Shelf, Northern Carnarvon Basin, Australia: Implications for Sensitivity
2/07/2002 16:00:00 Robert Scott, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ The Ocean's Role in Seasonal to Interdecadal Climate Anomalies
2/08/2002 16:00:00 James Berryman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA Estimating Rock Porosity and Fluid Saturation Using Only Seismic Velocities
2/15/2002 16:00:00 Dr. Julie Morris, Washington University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO Geochemical Imaging of Subduction Zone Processes
2/22/2002 16:00:00 Prof. Thomas W. Gardner, Trinity University,  Department of Geosciences, San Antonio, TX Isostasy, flexure and Cenozoic landscape evolution of the US Atlantic margin
3/1/2002 16:00:00 Indrajit Roy, UT Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX Estimating Rock Properties from Post-and Pre-stack Seismic Data
3/8/2002 11:00:00 Jürgen Oberst, DLR Institute of Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Exploration, Berlin, Germany A Search for Deep Moonquake Nests in Lunar Seismograms
3/8/2002 16:00:00 Dr. Gerald North, Texas A&M University, Dept of Oceanography, College Station, TX Detecting Climate Signals Using Space-Time EOFs
3/22/2002 16:00:00 Dr. Douglas Foster, Phillips Petroleum, Bartlesville, OK Offset Plane Wave Migration
3/27/2002 16:00:00 Robert Nowack, Purdue University, Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, West Lafayette, IN Inversion of Seismic Attributes from 2-D and 3-D Wide angle Refraction Experiments
4/05/2002 16:00:00 Niall C Slowey, Texas A&M University, Department of Oceanography, College Station, TX Evidence from U-Th dating of Marine Sediments for the Mechanisms that Drive Glacial-Interglacial Climate Change
4/12/2002 16:00:00 Dr. Terry J. Wilson, Ohio State University, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Columbus, OH Kinematics and Dynamics of the Transantarctic Mountains Front, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica
4/19/2002 16:00:00 Robert Burger, UT Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX Mid-Pleistocene to Present Stratigraphic Responses in a Tectonically-driven depositional setting
4/26/2002 16:00:00 Dr. Robert Ferguson, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX Dept Imaging of Seismic Data in Heterogeneous Anisotropic Media
5/3/2002 15:00 -Special Seminars by UT Fellowship Recipients Ahmed, Imtiaz (Phillips Fellowship) 3:00PM
Burger, Bob (Ewing-Worzel Fellowship)3:25
Gudapati, Kris (Gale White Fellowship) 3:50
Kumar, Dhananjay (Ewing-Worzel Fellowship) 4:15
Lu, Hongbo (Ewing-Worzel Fellowship) 4:40
 
5/10/2002 15:00 -Special Seminars by UT Fellowship Recipients Meckel, Tip (Gale White Fellowship) 3:00PM
Nordfjord, Sylvia (BP Fellowship) 3:25
Xun, Hao (Gale White Fellowship) 3:50
There will be an award ceremony for the best presentation selected by the UTIG Fellowship Committee on the basis of content and delivery at 4:40PM on Friday, May 10.

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

Previous Seminar Schedules
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
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Fall 2002
Spring 2002
Fall 2001
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Fall 2000

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