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AUTUMN QUARTER 2006 ESS Seminar Series note: refreshments will be served in the foyer at 3:00 PM, prior to the seminar. Thursday, Sept. 28 NO ESS SEMINAR TODAY 2:30-3:30 PM, JHN 102 Foyer New Student, Faculty and Staff Welcome Reception 3:30-4:30 PM, JHN 175 Graduate student meeting and elections Monday, Oct. 2 10:30 AM, Room QRC 154 Wendy McCausland - Final Exam ESS Graduate Student, UW Title: "Tracking subduction tremor in Cascadia using regional network and small-aperture seismic array data" 4:00 PM, JHN 022 ExxonMobile Career Opportunities Presentation Dr. Gary Gray ExxonMobile Upstream Research Co. Tuesday, Oct. 3 3:30 PM, JHN 102 ESS SEMINAR SERIES Dr. Gary Gray ExxonMobile Upstream Research Co. Title: "Industry perspectives on Structural-Mechanical Modeling" Monday Oct. 9 12:30, MSB 123 MG&G Seminar Tom Pratt Title: "Do Episodic Tremor and Slip (ETS) events influence seismicity rates on the northern Cascadia subduction zone region?" Thursday, Oct. 12 3:30 PM, JHN 102 ESS SEMINAR SERIES Kelin Wang Title: "Great earthquakes and submarine wedges at subduction zones" Monday, Oct. 16 12:30, MSB 123 MG&G Seminar Andrea Ogston Title: "Sediment transport processes, from knee-deep to the briney-deep" Thursday, Oct. 19 3:30 PM, JHN 102 ESS SEMINAR SERIES Paul Johnson Title: "Feeding the North Pacific silica plume from Cascadia Basin" Friday, Oct. 20 3:30 PM, JHN 075 Jennifer Kay - Final Exam ESS Graduate Student, UW Title: "Physical controls on cirrus cloud inhomogeneity and radiative impacts" Monday, Oct. 23 12:30, MSB 123 MG&G Seminar John Delaney Title: "The ORION regional cabled observatory: An opportunity to explore next generation Earth and Ocean science." Thursday, Oct. 26 3:30 PM, JHN 102 ESS SEMINAR SERIES Michael Studinger Title: “Subglacial lakes in Antarctica: Linking geodynamics, glaciology and biology with aerogeophysical methods” Monday, Oct. 30 12:30, MSB 123 MG&G Seminar Preston Martin Title: "Tidal and seasonal dynamics of a muddy inner-shelf environment, Gulf of Papua" Thursday, Nov. 2 3:30 PM, JHN 102 ESS SEMINAR SERIES Jeff Freymueller Title: "What Can Geodesy Tell Us About Past and Future Large and Great Earthquakes in the Alaska Subduction Zone?" Friday, Nov. 3 1:00 PM, JHN 026 Jennifer Horwath - Final Exam ESS Graduate Student Title: "Quantification and Spatial Assessment of High Arctic Organic Carbon Storage in Northwest Greenland." Monday, Nov. 6 12:30, MSB 123 MG&G Seminar Tina Drexler Title: "Sediment Dispersal in the Gulf of Lions: The journey from the Rhone River through submarine canyons in the southwest gulf" Thursday, Nov. 9 3:30 PM, JHN 102 ESS SEMINAR SERIES David Fastovsky Title: "The Extinction of the Dinosaurs" Monday, Nov. 13 12:30, MSB 123 MG&G Seminar Tami Ben Zvi Title: "The P wave velocity structure of Deception Island, Antarctica, from two-dimensional seismic tomography" Thursday, Nov. 16 3:00 PM, JHN QRC 154 Noah Finnegan - Final Exam ESS Graduate Student Title: Channel Morphology and Bedrock River Incision: Theory, Experiments, and Application to the Eastern Himalaya" Thursday, Nov. 16 4:00 PM, JHN 102 (Please note time change for todays seminar, refreshments will be served at 3:30) ESS SEMINAR SERIES Donna Whitney Title: Orogeny and Tectonics of Metamorphic Crystallization" Monday, Nov. 20 12:30, MSB 123 MG&G Seminar David Butterfield Title: "Direct Observations of Seafloor Lava Eruption on the Marianas Arc" Thursday,Nov. 23 HAPPY THANKSGIVING Monday, Nov. 27 12:30, MSB 123 MG&G Seminar Pizza and Slides Thursday, Nov. 30 3:30 PM, JHN 102 ESS SEMINAR SERIES Steve Warren Title: "Ocean Surfaces on Snowball Earth: Implications for Survival of Surface Life". Monday, Dec. 4 1:30 PM, ATG 154 Joe MacGregor - General Exam ESS Graduate Student Title: "Development and applications of a radar-attenuation model for polar ice sheets." Monday, Dec. 4 12:30, MSB 123 MG&G Seminar Jonathan Kellogg Title: TBA Tuesday, Dec. 5 7:30 PM, JHN 102 A Mindlin Foundation Lecture Professor Christian France-Lanord Director, Research Federation on Water, Soil & Earth Nancy, France Title: "The Chilling Effect of Mountain Growth: Has the Rise of the Himalaya Changed the Atmospheric Balance of Greenhouse Gasses?" Wednesday, Dec. 6 10:30 AM, ATG 154 Wes Thelen - General Exam ESS Graduate Student Title: A seismological comparison of Bezymianny Volcano, Russia and Mount St. Helens, Washington Thursday, Dec. 7 12:00, ATG 154 Chris Brummer - Final Exam ESS Graduate Student Title: "Influence of mass wasting on bed-surface armoring, lag formation, and sediment storage in mountain drainage basins of western Washington" Thursday, Dec. 7 3:30 PM, JHN 102 ESS SEMINAR SERIES Professor Christian France-Lanord Title: "Rates of physical and chemical erosion in the Himalaya: geochemical constraints using river sediments" Monday, Dec. 11 MG&G Seminar AGU week, no seminar HAPPY HOLIDAYS! The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. 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