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Departmental Seminar Series
2007- 2008 Academic Year
All Seminars are at 12:00 PM (Noon) on Fridays
in Room 224 Mechanical Services Bldg. unless otherwise noted
October 5
Dr. Torbjörn Törnqvist, Tulane University,
Tectonics, glacio-isostasy, compaction: What makes the Mississippi Delta
sink? (http://www.tulane.edu/~eens/geol/faculty/tornqvist.html)
October 12 TBA
October 19 Dr.
Mike Blum, LSU,
Mississippi River Response to the Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle and the
Flexural Ups and Downs of Mississippi Delta (http://www.geol.lsu.edu/Faculty/Blum/profile.html)
October 26
Dr. Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Tulane University, Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology,
Hurricane Katrina and Gulf Coast Forest Carbon Cycling
(http://www.tulane.edu/~jchamber/)
November 2
Nick Kraus, US Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg. Coastal Inlet
Functional Design: Anticipating Morphologic Response
November 9 TBA
November
16 Dr. Ronald Parsley, Tulane
University, (http://www.tulane.edu/~eens/geol/faculty/parsley.html)
Title: TBA
November 23
No Seminar - Thanksgiving.
November 30 Dr.
Alexander S. Kolker, Tulane University
New Perspectives on Sea level Change
(http://www.tulane.edu/~eens/geol/faculty/kolker.html)
December 7 Dr. Jaye E. Cable, LSU,
Oceanography
Carbon Cycling Associated with the Freshwater-Seawater Mixing Zone in
Marine Sediments of a Coastal Lagoon(http://www.sce.lsu.edu/faculty/cable.htm#b)
January 18
Dr. Douglas R. MacAyeal, Univ. of Chicago Icebergs in the climate
system: a story of sea-level instability, severe storms and geophysical-Jazz
(Just like New Orleans) (http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~drm7/)
January 31 (Thursday) Dr. Larry McKay,
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville Germs and Geology: Emerging Issues in
Waterborne Pathogen Research
http://web.utk.edu/~hydro/Birdsall-Dreiss.html
(GSA Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture Series)
February 8
Dr. James Kennett, UCSB The Earth’s Turmoil during the Last Deglacial Period (http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/People/FacultySummaries/KennettSummary.html)
(The Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer Series)
February 21
(5:00PM) Dr. James Miller, University of Minnesota, Duluth
The Urgent Demand for Field-trained Geologists in the
Booming Minerals Exploration Industry (http://www.d.umn.edu/~mille066/
)
(Rm 219 Mechanical Service Building)
February 22
Dr. James Miller, University of Minnesota, Duluth
The Precambrian Geology of the Lake Superior Region and
the Making of Laurentia (http://www.d.umn.edu/~mille066/)
February 29
Dr. Kirk Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Crocodiles in Greenland and Hippos in London: A Fossil-Fueled Tour of
Past and Future Climates
http://www.aapg.org/education/dist_lect/johnson.cfm
(AAPG Distinguished Lecture Series)
March 7
TBA
March 14
Dr. Alan M. Shiller, University of Southern
Mississippi Dissolved and colloidal trace
elements in rivers: problems and perspectives (http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/~w305860/)
March 21
No Seminar (Good Friday)
March 28 TBA
April 4
Dr. Sadredin C. Moosavi, Tulane University
Methane Emissions from Boreal & Arctic Peatlands: A
Positive or Negative Feedback to Global Warming?
(http://www.tulane.edu/~eens/geol/faculty/Moosavi.html)
April 11
TBA
April 18
Dr. Tim Dixon, University of Miami Title to be announced.
April 25
DR. Cin-Ty Lee, Rice University Weathering and
Igneous Differentiation in the Origin of Continental Crust
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