Geology & Geophysics Lecture Series
Special lectures are hosted by the department to help expand student's access to a wide range of topics and distinguished academics. Financial support for the lecture series is provided by the LJ Wilbert Endowment, Grover E. Murray Educational Fund, and the Marathon Oil Distinguished Speaker Series Fund.
All lectures will take place on Fridays at 3:30 p.m. in E137 Howe-Russell-Kniffen unless otherwise noted. Coffee and cookies are served before lectures at 3:15 in the Clarence Cazalot Marathon Oil Atrium.
Spring 2022 Schedule
| Date | Lecture Topic | Speaker | Faculty Host |
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| Jan. 21 | "Tales from the Mississippi River source-to-sink system: Tectonic, climatic, and anthropogenic influences Miocene to Anthropocene" | Sam Bentley LSU |
Carol Wilson |
| Jan. 28 | "Assessing long-term wellbore integrity using reactive transport modeling" | Ipsita Gupta LSU |
Phil Bart |
| Feb. 4 | "New Insights from a Young Ocean Basin: Overview of Drilling Results from IODP Expedition 385, Guaymas Basin, Mexico with a Focus on Current and Future Studies of the Basin Sedimentary Record " | Kathleen Marsaglia CSUN |
Peter Clift |
| Feb. 11 | "Improving detrital zircon as a provenance tool through grain size analysis and quantitative sedimentology" | Ryan Leary NMT |
Adam Forte |
| Feb. 18 | "Geophysical applications in the search for the grave of the notorious hanged killer, William (Wild Bill) Longley" | Brooks Ellwood LSU |
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| Feb 25 | "Applied Sedimentology: Tales from the Dark Side" | Clare Falcon LGS |
Carol Wilson/Jon Snow |
| Mar. 4 | "Mapping Geological Hazards Using Satellite Remote Sensing" | Chunli Dai LSU |
Karen Luttrell |
| Mar. 11 | "What lies beneath? Using sub-ice archives to assess Holocene (in)stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet " | Ryan Venturelli Tulane |
Phil Bart |
| Mar. 25 | "How, How Fast, How Big will the Volcano Erupt?: Deciphering Magma Transport, Unrest, and Eruption using Transdisciplinary Approaches" | Mattia Pistone UGA |
Barbara Dutrow |
| Apr. 8 | "Late Quaternary Fluvial-Deltaic Evolution along the Northern and Western Gulf of Mexico shelves" | Davin Wallace USM |
Peter Clift |
| Apr. 22 | "Coupling Geoethics to Sustainability" |
Maria Capello *This presentation offered entirely online - click here for Zoom Meeting Access |
Peter Clift |
| Apr. 29 | "Lithospheric structure and tectonics of Texas: 1.2 billion years of plate interactions involving southern Laurentia and their consequences" | Jay Pulliam Baylor University |
Patricia Persaud |
| May 6 | TBD |
Robert Mahon UNO |
Adam Forte |