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UTIG Seminars

Brown Bag Seminars

Previous Seminar Schedules

SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Spring 2006

Date/Time

Speaker, Affiliation

Host

Title of Talk

06Jan
4PM

No Talk Scheduled

 

 

13Jan
4PM

No Talk Scheduled

 

 

20Jan
4PM

Adrian Lenardic, Rice University

Harm van Avendonk

"40-60 and the Earths Heat Loss"

27Jan
4PM

Philip Fontana, Veritas Marine Acquisition

Nathan Bangs

"Marine 3D Seismic Surveys - Towed Streamer Survey Design and Data Acquisition"

02Feb
4PM

Byron Parizek, Res. Associate, G Comer Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, PSU

Don Blankenship

"Simulating Ice Sheets: The Good, The Bad, and The UTIG"

03Feb

4PM

Joe Cartwright, Professor, School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Cardiff University Nathan Bangs "Transport of Mafic Magma through the Crust via Sill Complexes: Evidence from 3D Seismic Data"

7Feb
4PM

Tom Neumann, Research Associate, Univ. of Vermont

Don Blankenship

"Accumulation Rate from Internal Layers: An Inverse Approach"

10Feb

4PM

Uri ten Brink, Adjunct Scientist, The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Field Center Paul Mann

"Collapse of the Puerto Rico Trench, Uplift of Puerto Rico, and Implications to Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards"

 

14Feb
4PM

Benjamin Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Charles Jackson

"Causes of Sea Surface Temperature Change in Atlantic and Pacific Hurricane Formation Regions"

16Feb

4PM

DelWayne Bohnenstiehl, LDEO

Nathan Bangs

"Passive Underwater Acoustics: Methods and Applications in Marine Seismotectonics"
 

21Feb 4PM Donna Shillington, School of Earth and Ocean Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton Nathan Bangs "Evolution of the Newfoundland Nonvolcanic Rifted Margin: New insights from Drilling and Geophysical Data"
23Feb 4PM Mladen Nedimovic, Doherty Associate Research Scientist, LDEO Nathan Bangs "3D Structure from 2D Seismic Reflection Surveys"

24Feb
4PM

Susan Hovorka, Research Scientist, BEG

Harm van Avendonk

"Testing the Permanence of Geologic Storage of CO2: the Frio Brine Pilot Experiment, Texas"

27Feb 4PM Matt Hornbach, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIG Nathan Bangs TBA

03Mar
4PM

Mike Hudec, Research Scientist, BEG

Paul Mann

"Far-Traveled Minibasins and the Great Plio-Pleistocene Salt Surge, Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico"

09Mar
4PM

Henrietta Edmonds, Associate Prof., UT -Department of Marine Science
Port Aransas, Texas

Ian Dalziel

"Styles of venting on the Gakkel Ridge, Artic Ocean"
 

17Mar
4PM

SPRING BREAK
No seminar

 

 

24Mar
4PM

Jay Pulliam, Research Scientist, UTIG

Nathan Bangs

"Seismic Studies of the Northeast Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone"

31Mar
4PM

Mike Murphy, Assistant Professor, University of Houston

Kirk McIntosh

"Syncollisional Extension and Basin Development in the High Himalaya"

07Apr
4PM

Janok Bhattacharya, Professor, University of Houston

Paul Mann

"Applying Deltaic and Shallow Marine Outcrop Analogs to the Subsurface"

20Apr
11AM

Albena Mateeva, Shell

Yosio Nakamura

"Passive Seismic Imaging with Virtual Sources"
 

21Apr
4PM

Robbie Toggweiler, Princeton University

Rob Scott

"Origin of the 100,000-yr Cycle in Atmospheric CO2"

28Apr
4PM

David Holland

Co-Director, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science Assoc. Prof. of Mathematics, Atmosphere-Ocean Science, NYU

Rob Scott

"Numerical Modeling of Ocean Circulation Over the Continental Shelf and Beneath the Ice Shelves in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica"

05May
3:45PM

Student Talks

Jamie Austin

Titles

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.
     Building 800, Mid Level (above parking garage)
     Austin, Texas 78759
     (512) 471-6156
(Office complex behind Walgreen's at the corner of Spicewood Springs Rd. and Mesa Dr. in northwest Austin.)

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