ESS Seminars & Lectures - Winter Quarter 2008



ALL ESS SEMINARS ARE HELD IN JHN 102, 3:30-4:50, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED


Thursday, January 10
 Brian Atwater, USGS, UW Earth and Space Sciences Department
Title:   "Geologic advisories of Indian Ocean tsunamis"


Monday, January 14
12:30, JHN 127
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Sanjoy Som, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Exploring Microbial Life in Hydrothermal Systems: Rationale (i.e. a little bit of science) and Cool
Deep-sea Videos"


Thursday, January 17 
Martin Jackson, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, 
The University of Texas at Austin
Title:  "Subaerial morphology and subsurface advance of allochthonous evaporite sheets"


Friday, January 18
Johnson 075, 3:30 PM
Atmospheric Sciences Colloquium
Stephen Warren, UW ESS and Atmos. Sci.
Title:  "Human population:  growth and decline"


Thursday, January 24 
Jean-Phillipe Avouac, Caltech, Geological and Planetary Sciences
Title:  "Seasonal strain and seismicity in the Himalaya: what climatic effects tell us about earthquakes"

Monday, January 28
12:30, JHN 127
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Amanda Henck, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Adventures doing field work in Jiuzhaigou National Park,
Sichuan, China"


Tuesday, January 29
9:00, JHN 117
Master's Exam
Samantha Ewing, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Fe isotope variations in a mid-ocean ridge sulfide structure"


Thursday, January 31
Dave Montgomery, UW, Earth and Space Sciences Department
Title:  TBD (Dirt:  The erosion of civilizations)


Friday, February 1
11:00 AM, JHN 170
Master's Exam
Twila Moon, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Changes in ice-front position on Greenland's outlet glaciers from 1992 to 2007" 


Monday, February 4
12:00, JHN 117
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Philipp Ruprecht, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Summer without an RA - Ways for an International Student to Survive Anyways" 
This 20-30 min presentation will guide you through our last year's summer adventures in the 
high mountains of Montana and Wyoming (i.e. Field Camp) and the Canaries. 


Monday, February 4
11:30, 123 MSB
MG & G  Lunch Seminar
Dr Kyle Straub, University of Minnesota
Title:  "Interactions between turbidity currents and sinuous submarine channels."


Tuesday, February 5
2:00, 14 OTB
Oceanography Seminar
Dr Kyle Straub, University of Minnesota, 
Title:  "Smart cars and dump trucks: A comparison of turbidity currents and rivers with implications for 
the construction of seascapes."


Wednesday, February 6
11:30, 123 MSB
MG & G Seminar
Dr Matt Wolinsky, University of Minnesota
Title:  "Clinoforms: A unifying framework for marine stratigraphy."


Thursday, February 7
2:00, 14 OTB
Oceanography Seminar
Dr Matt Wolinsky, University of Minnesota
"Delta dynamics: From surface processes to the sedimentary record."


Thursday, February 7
Ian Joughin, UW Applied Physics laboratory
Title:  "Seasonal Speedup along the Western Flank of the Greenland Ice Sheet"


Monday, February 11
12:30, JHN 127
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Brendan O' Donnell and Aaron Wech, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Big in Japan:Redux"


Monday, February 11
**THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED**
MG & G Lunch Seminar
Dr Cedric John, Texas A&M University
Title:  "Oligo-Miocene sea-level history: Adding one (carbonate) piece to the puzzle."


Tuesday, February 12
**THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED**
Oceanography Seminar
Dr Cedric John, Texas A&M University
Title:  "North American continental margin records of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: 
Implications for global carbon and hydrological cycling."


Wednesday, February 13
11:30, 123 MSB
MG & G Lunch Seminar
Dr Ben Sheets, ExxonMobil.
Title:  "Morphodynamic controls on channel length in deep and shallow water
distributive systems."


Thursday, February 14
2:00, 14 OTB
Oceanography Seminar
Dr Ben Sheets, ExxonMobil.
Title:  "Between bedforms and basin fill: Insights into mesoscale depositional
patterns from physical experiments." 


Thursday, February 14
Peter Ward, UW Biology Department
Title:  "How Dangerous are Asteroids to Earth-like Planets?"


Thursday February 21
John Clague, Simon Fraser University, Centre for Natural Hazards Research
Title:  "The Formation and Failure of Natural Dams"


Monday, February 25
12:30, JHN 127
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Gabriele Casale and Andy Gendaszek,  ESS Graduate Students
Title:  "TBD"


Thursday, February 28
Gwenn Flowers, Simon Fraser University, Department of Earth Sciences
Title:  "Holocene climate conditions and glacier variation in central Iceland from physically-based modeling and empirical evidence"


Monday, March 3
12:30, JHN 127
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Shelley Kunasek, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Los Surfeadors de Nicaragua"


Wednesday, March 5
3:30-4:30, JHN 026
ESS SPECIAL LECTURE - Space Science Faculty Candidate
Jasper Halekas, Assistant Research Physicist, SSL, UC-Berkeley
Title:  "The Enigma of Lunar Magnetism"


Thursday, March 6
11:30-12:30, ATG 154
ESS RESEARCH SEMINAR - Space Science Faculty Candidate
Jasper Halekas, Assistant Research Physicist, SSL, UC-Berkeley
Title:  "Lunar Surface Charging:  Lunar Prospector Observations"


Thursday, March 6
Ross Stein, USGS, Menlo Park
Title:  "The debate on what triggers earthquakes: Static or dynamic stresses"


Thursday, March 6
12:30, Physics-Astronomy A-102
Atmospheric Sciences Colloquium
Prof. Konrad Steffen, University of Colorado
Title:  "Surface melt and moulins in Western Greenland"


Monday, March 10
12:30, JHN 127
Brown Bag Lunch Series
TBD


Monday, March 10
3:30-4:30, JHN 026
ESS SPECIAL LECTURE - Space Science Faculty Candidate
Zoltan Sternovsky, Research Scientist, LASP, University of Colorado
Title:  "Selected Topics in Cosmic Dust Research"


Tuesday, March 11
10:30-11:30, JHN 111
ESS RESEARCH SEMINAR - Space Science Faculty Candidate
Zoltan Sternovsky, Research Scientist, LASP, University of Colorado
Title:  "Measurements of charged aerosol particles in the mesosphere using sounding rockets"



Thursday, March 13
ESS SPECIAL LECTURE - Space Science Faculty Candidate
Michael Nicolls, Research Physicist/Engineer, ESD/CGS, SRI International
Title:  "Incoherent Scatter Coordinated Science with the Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar"


Friday, March 14
2:30 PM, JHN 027
General Exam
Emily Mullen, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Petrologic, Geochemical, and Tectonic Evolution of the Mt. Baker Volcanic Field"



Fridiay, March 14
2:30-3:30, ATG 154
ESS RESEARCH SEMINAR - Space Science Faculty Candidate
Michael Nicolls, Research Physicist/Engineer, ESD/CGS, SRI International
Title:  "Studies of Natural and Irregularity Processes in the D region, Mesophere, 
and Lower Thermosphere with the Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar"



Monday, March 17
9:00 AM, ATG 154
General Exam
Philipp Ruprecht, ESS Graduate Student
Title: tba


Tuesday, March 18
2:00 PM, JHN 127
Master's Exam
Robert Sheerer, ESS Graduate Student
Title:  "Constraining Puget Lobe Climate and Ice Dynamics"



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