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 3:30pm in E137 Howe-Russell-Kniffen unless
otherwise noted. Coffee and cookies are served before lectures at 3:20 in the Clarence
Cazalot Marathon Oil Atrium.
Fall 2018 Schedule
| Date | Lecture Topic | Speaker | Faculty Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 31 | "Cold Seepage: a Window to the Deep Petroleum System" | Davide Oppo University of Louisiana Lafayette |
Peter Clift |
| Sep. 7 | "Computational Geochemistry - Energy, Environment, and deep Earth" | Jianwei Wang LSU |
Peter Clift / Suniti Karunatillake |
| Sep. 14 | "Ice in the deep south: resolving long-standing debates about sea level rise" | Brent Goehring Tulane |
Peter Clift |
| Sep. 21 | "West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat in eastern Ross Sea: a review of evidence from expedition NBP1502B" | Phil Bart LSU |
Peter Clift / Suniti Karunatillake |
| Sep. 28 | "How stressed are we really?" | Karen Luttrell LSU |
Peter Clift / Suniti Karunatillake |
| Oct. 12 | "One Planet, Two Planets, Red Planet, Blue Planet" | Amy Williams Towson University |
Adam Forte |
| Oct. 19 | "Mesoarchean oxygenation of Earth’s surface environment – perspectives from ‘stable’ uranium isotopes" | Xiangli Wang University of South Alabama |
Guangsheng Zhuang |
| Oct. 26 | "Formation and eruption of large silicic magma chambers and their potential genetic relationship to Carlin-type gold deposits: Lessons from a dissected supervolcano in the Nevada Great Basin" | Kathryn Watts USGS |
Barb Dutrow |
| Nov. 2 | Jonathan Snow University of Houston |
Peter Clift | |
| Nov. 9 | "Machine learning and deep learning on seismic data" | John Thurmond STATOIL |
Peter Clift |
| Nov. 16 | "A Multi Model Investigation of the Lunar Interior with Applications to Mars and Beyond" | Heidi Fuqua Haviland NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center |
Suniti Karunatillake |
| Nov. 30 | "Melting and melt geometry in the mantle: Observations from nature and experiments" | Gordana Garapic SUNY New Paltz |
Carol Wilson |
Spring 2019 Schedule
| Date | Lecture Topic | Speaker | Faculty Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 18 | "Recent progress in understanding the Mesozoic opening stages of the Gulf of Mexico" | Paul Mann University of Houston |
Patricia Persaud / Peter Clift |
| Jan. 25 | "Great Oxidation Event and the Rise of Seawater Sulfate as recorded in Earth’s Oldest Evaporate Basin" | Aivo Lepland | Huiming Bao |
| Feb. 1 | Eric Ferre | Peter Clift | |
| Feb. 8 | "Organic molecular biomarker records of climatic and topographic change: Applications to the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau and other orogens" | Michael Hren University of Connecticut |
Guangsheng Zhuang |
| Feb. 15 | "LSU Mounds (16BTR6): Striking new discoveries from the LSU Mounds, now dated as the oldest man-made extant structures in the Western Hemisphere" | Brooks Ellwood LSU |
Peter Clift / Suniti Karunatillake |
| Feb. 22 | "Carbon in Earth's Deepest Interior and Our Habitable Planet" | Bin Chen Hawaii |
Jianwei Wang |
| Mar. 1 | "Fluvial sedimentology" | Catherine Russell Leicester University |
Peter Clift |
| Mar. 8 | "Permafrost change and landscape disturbance in the Canadian Arctic" | Scott Lamoureux | Peter Doran |
| Mar. 15 | "Not all bars are point bars: Simple meander kinematics predicts river migration and development of counter point bars" | Zoltan Sylvester UT Austin |
Peter Clift |
| Mar. 22 | "Incorporating geochronologic and thermochronologic data with geologic mapping in far western Nepal: Implications for tectonic models" | Delores Robinson University of Alabama |
Peter Clift |
| Mar. 29 | "Lost continents and preserved primordial reservoirs: Clues from the Earth’s deep interior" | Matthew Jackson UCSB |
Peter Clift |
| Apr. 5 | Amanda Keen-Zebert Desert Research Institute |
Peter Doran | |
| Apr. 12 | "The Great Oxidation Event: A Critical Transition in Earth's Atmosphere at ~ 2.45 Billion Years Ago" | Andrey Bekkr | Huiming Bao |
| Apr. 26 | "Insights on Channel and Sediment Dynamics from the Wax Lake Delta" | John Shaw University of Arkansas |
Carol Wilson |