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All Seminars are held in CDH (Condon Hall) 109 3:30-4:50
Unless otherwise noted.
Monday October 3
12:00, QRC 154**
LAVA LUNCH Returns!
Roberto Scandone
University of Roma-tre.
Title: "Physical insights intoVolcano
workings - Vesuvius 1631-1944 & St. Helens, 1980-1986".
Join us for what promises to be an explosive inaugural
meeting! (sorry...*really* bad pun, very sorry there)
As usual, the Lava Lunch will last for about an hour,
and we'll try to spend the last 5 minutes on meeting
times and scheduled speakers. Hope to see you all there!
Tuesday, October 4th
110 Kane Hall 7:00 p.m. **
Professor Richard L. Dowden
Professor emeritus, Physics Department,
University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand
Title: “Lightning: What it is, what makes it
and what danger it is to life and property.
How we locate it throughout the whole world
with simple equipment and display it on the
web every 10 minutes”
Thursday, October 6
Professor Richard L. Dowden
Professor emeritus, Physics Department,
University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand
Title: “World Wide Lightning Location by VLF”
Lightning radiation from a few Hertz to optical
frequencies is used for location of lightning
strokes. World-wide location within ~ 10 km, a
response time of ~10 minutes is being achieved
with ~20 active receivers around the world.
Friday, October 7
10:00 a.m. ATG 154**
Guy Medema – Final Exam
ESS Graduate Student, UW.
Advisors: Bob Crosson and Ken Creager
Title: “Juan de Fuca Slab Geometry from
Earthquake Wide-Angle Reflections, Evidence
of a Subducted Pseudofault and an Anomalous
SP Converted Phase at the Mantle Wedge”
Wednesday, October 12
2:30p.m. ATG 310C**
Melanie Fitzpatrick - Final Exam
ESS Graduate Student, UW
Advisor: Stephen Warren
Title: "Sea Ice, Clouds and Climate: determining the
Shortwave Radiation Budget in the Southern Ocean."
Thursday, October 13
Professor Christina Hulbe
Assistant Professor, Portland State University, Oregon
Title: “Ice streams stop and start: evidence from the
Ross Ice Shelf, interpreted using numerical models of
ice shelf flow”
Thursday, October 20
Professor Roberta Rudnick
Professor, Department of Geology,
University of Maryland
Title: “Using geochemistry to unravel continental
dynamics: an example from the North China craton”
Tuesday, October 25
Ocean Sciences Building 425**
ESS/PCC/JISAO Lecture
Gavin Schmidt, NASA/Goddard
Consistent multi-proxy modeling of the 8.2 kyr abrupt climate change
event.
Wednesday, October 26
11:30-12:20, CDH 139
ESS BROWNBAG
Lora Koenig
"Sea Ice, Polar Bears and a Little Science"
Come take a photo journey through my travels on the
Russian Ice Breaker Kapitan Dranitsyn in the Barents, Kara and Laptev
Seas (above Siberia). Interspersed in the beautiful pictures will be
musing on sea ice extent changes and how satellites are predicting
them.
Thursday, October 27
Professor Rebecca Lange
Professor, Dept of Geological Sciences,
University of Michigan
Title: "Origin of continental crust, granitoid batholiths,
and andesite volcanoes"
Friday, October 28
11:30-12:20 CDH 139**
Professor Rebecca Lange
Professor, Dept of Geological Sciences,
University of Michigan
Title: "Sound speed, compressibility and equation of state for silicate melts."
Ombudsman Presentation
1:30 p.m. CDH 109**
Wednesday, November 2
11:30-12:20, CDH 139**
ESS Brownbag
Bretwood "Hig" Higman, ESS Graduate Student
Title: "Biloxi and Tyonek: two places that aren't here"
This year I visited Tyonek. There I met a man with a gun who told me
I should not could not be there. Later I went to Biloxi. There I met
a man with a gun who told me I should not could not be there. This
might suggest these two places are the same. For this talk I will
show pictures of both, and you can decide for yourself.
Thursday, November 3
Dr. Peter Huybers
NOAA/UCAR Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral
ScholarWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Title: “The scaling of climate variability from months
to millennia and from Greenland to the globe."
Wednesday, November 9
11:30-12:20, CDH 139**
ESS BROWNBAG
Jennifer Glass, ESS/Oceanography Sr. Undergraduate
& ESS GeoClubPresident
"An August Amongst The Volcanoes Of Southern Italy":
"How I Ruined All My Clothes With The Stink of Hydrogen-Sulfide
So None Of The Italian Boys Would Dance With Me"
Jen will show photo-highlights from her recent trip to Italy and
visits to Etna, the Eolian Islands (Vulcano and Stromboli), the Campi
Fleigri (Monte Nuevo and Solfatara), Vesuvius and Pompeii. Brand-new
research on these fascinating volcanoes will be discussed. For all
levels: everyone from entering undergrads to profs are encouraged to
join in a celebration of the wonders of Southern Italy.
Thursday, November 10
Professor Katharine Cashman
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Oregon
Title: "Volatile controls on volcanic eruptions: insight from 25 years
of activity at Mount St. Helens"
Wednesday, November 16
11:30-12:20, CDH 139*
ESS BROWNBAG
Claire Todd, ESS Graduate Student
Title: "Surface exposure ages and pretty pictures from Reedy Glacier, Antarctica"
Thursday, November 17
Dr. David Lambert
NSF Director
Title: “Infrastructure Opportunities and Challenges
for the Solid Earth Sciences”
Thursday, November 24
Happy Thanksgiving
Wednesday, November 30
11:30-12:20, CDH 139**
ESS BROWNBAG
Beth Martin, Bre MacInnes ESS Graduate Students
Title: Bears, berries and big waves
Subtitle: How to shipwreck a tank
This talk will be a short review of our field work on the coast of
Kamchatka, Russia followed by the story explaining the title of the
program and lots and lots of pretty pictures. There is something for
everyone - tsunamis, volcanoes, rivers, glaciers, and of course, donuts.
Thursday, December 1
Professor Sandy Tudhope
Professor, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh, U.K.
Title: "Variability and change in ENSO: evidence from
living and fossil corals in the Pacific"
Friday, December 2
3:00 p.m., QRC 154**
Noah Finnegan - General Exam
ESS Graduate Student
Advisors: Bernard Hallet & David Montgomery
Title: "Controls on the Hydraulic Geometry of Incising River Channels"
Thursday, December 8
No Seminar
AGU
Wednesday, December 14
10:00 a.m., CDH 105**
Karen Gran - Final Exam
ESS Graduate Student, UW
Title: "Fluvial recovery following basin-wide sediment loading at Mount Pinatubo,
Philippines".
Wednesday, December 14
10:00 a.m., ATG 154**
Lora Koenig - General Exam
ESS Graduate Student, UW
Title: "Ice sheet firn properties from Space-borne passive microwave sensors"
Friday, December 16
3:00 p.m., JHN 022**
Bretwood "Hig" Higman - General Exam
ESS Graduate Student, UW
Title: "Grading in tsunami deposits as a record of tsunami flow"
Tsunami deposits are a common and durable records of tsunamis. I have
found that tsunami deposits can be interpreted as detailed but incomplete
records of the changing tsunami flow. This makes it possible to
distinguish long and short period tsunamis from their deposits, and to
identify deposits from individual waves or pulses in the tsunami.
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