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 2017 SCHEDULE:
| DATE | LECTURE TOPIC | SPEAKER | FACULTY HOST |
| Sep. 1 | "A Lacustrine Record of Indian Summer Monsoon Variability and Links to Human Activity from Yunnan, China" | Aubrey Hillman University of Louisiana Lafayette |
Patricia Persaud |
| Sep. 8 | "A Silver Lining of Heavy Smogs" | Huiming Bao LSU |
Guangsheng Zhuang |
| Sep. 15 | "Shallow Seismology in a Post-Katrina World" | Juan Lorenzo LSU |
Huiming Bao / Guangsheng Zhuang |
| Sep. 22 | "GICE GICE baby - but was there Ice?" | Achim Herrmann LSU |
Huiming Bao / Guangsheng Zhuang |
| Sep. 29 | "Seismology in Alaska: Earthquakes, Bears, and High-Performance Computing" | Carl Tape University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Patricia Persaud |
| Oct. 6 | "Perchlorate from Atmosphere to Aquifer: Quadruple Isotope Tracing and Forensic Applications" | Neil Sturchio University of Delaware |
Huiming Bao / Peter Doran |
| Oct. 13 | "Can Continental Margin Sediments be Globally Correlated during Large Amplitude, Glacio-Eustatic Fluctuations?" |
Cecilia McHugh Queens College |
Peter Clift |
| Nov. 10 | "Dissolved Rare Earth Elements and Barium in the Ocean: New Insights from GEOTRACES and Beyond" | Alan Shiller University of Southern Mississippi |
Huiming Bao |
| Nov. 17 | "Water Resource Stewardship in the U.S. National Park Service" | Forrest "Ed" Harvey Water Resources Division |
Carol Wicks |
SPRING 2018 SCHEDULE:
| DATE | LECTURE TOPIC | SPEAKER | FACULTY HOST |
| Jan. 19 | "Geochemical Constraints on Duration of Weathering for Precambrian Paleosols" | Steven Driese Baylor University |
Huiming Bao |
| Feb. 2 | "Besides Thermodynamics, What Other Factors are Controlling Mineralization and Weathering at Near-Surface Conditions?" | Henry Teng George Washington University |
Jianwei Wang |
| Feb. 9 | "The Hydrothermal Dynamics of Yellowstone Lake" | Rob Sohn WHOI |
Karen Luttrell |
| Feb. 16 | "Warm Water Upwelling in the Cenozoic Era" | Yige Zhang Texas A&M University |
Guangsheng Zhuang / Yongbo Peng |
| Feb. 23 | "Fluvial Depositional Systems: A Basin-Scale Approach to Predicting the Distribution of Fluvial Deposits" | Adrian Hartley University of Houston |
Peter Clift |
| Mar. 2 | "Shear Heating Controls Mineralogy, Seismicity, and Convection in Subduction Zones" | Matt Kohn Boise State University |
Barb Dutrow |
| Mar. 9 | "Leaf Waxes as Paleoclimate Proxies: The Continuing Evolution of Stable Isotope-based Methods to Reconstruct Past Terrestrial Environments" | Brett Tipple USGS & UCSC |
Guangsheng Zhuang |
| Mar. 16 | "The Null Hypothesis: Globally Constant Rates of Erosion and Weathering During the Last 10 Million Years" | Jane Willenbring UCSD |
Peter Clift |
| Mar. 23 | "Early Primate Evolution, Greenhouse Gases, and Asian Paleogeography: A Paleogene Story" | Alexia Licht University of Washington |
Peter Clift |
| Apr. 6 | "Using Diffusion in Tektites to Investigate Impact Plume Dynamics" | Catherine Macris Indiana University - Indianapolis |
Barb Dutrow |
| Apr. 13 | "Life and Death by Impact: Drilling for Clues" | Sean Gulick University of Texas - Austin |
Suniti Karunatillake |
| Apr. 23 | "Feared and Actual Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer in Northwest Louisiana" | Douglas Carlson Louisiana Geological Survey |
Carol Wicks |
| Apr. 27 | "Initiation and Long-term Instability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet" | Amelia Shevenell University of South Florida |
Sophie Warny |