Distinguished Speakers Series Fall 2008
Tuesdays 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Thornton Hall 604 (unless otherwise noted)
Please join us for lunch and refreshments in the Geoscience conference room
from 11:45 to 12:15
Seminar Coordinator: Petra Dekens (dekens@sfsu.edu)
For disability-related accommodations: call (415) 338-2993
or email (dekens@sfsu.edu)
August 26th
Welcome to a new academic year in the Department of Geosciences!
12:30-2PM, TH513
September 2nd
Adventures in deep time paleoclimate: rapid response charateristics of the global climate system revealed from neodymium isotope records of ancient seawater
Howie Scher
UC Santa Cruz, Department of Ocean Sciences
September 9th
The use of medium-resolution satellite imagery for the derivation of geotechnical slope stability parameters
Leonhard Blesius
San Francisco State University, Geography Department
September 16th
Noah Finnegan
Coupling of rock uplift and river incision in the Namche Barwa-Gyala Peri Massif, Tibet
UC Berkeley
September 23rd
Enhancing the Quality of Science & Creating a Competitive Edge: A Research Presentation for Search Committees
Beth Mitchneck
University of Arizona, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
***Intended for Faculty of COSE***
September 30th
Ocean-estuary exchange between San Francisco Bay and the coastal Pacific
Mark Stacey
UC Berkeley, Environmental Engineering Program
October 7th
PG&E, Meteorology, and Renewable Energy
Woody Whitlatch, Pacific, Gas and Electric Company
October 14th (1 PM)
California's changing hydrologic landscape: dealing with uncertain climate change impacts
Ed Maurer
Santa Clara University, Civil Engineering Department
***Second Semi-annual Dawdy Lecture in the Hydrologic Sciences***
October 21st
Reactivity of dissolved organic carbon in sediment porewaters: Clues from natural carbon isotope abundances
Tomoko Komada
Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, SFSU
October 28th
Magmatic mush column magmatism: McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
4PM, TH 529
Bruce Marsh
Johns Hopkins University
October 29th
Please note this talk is on a Wednesday!
12:30PM, TH604
Magma in the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear repository
Bruce Marsh
Johns Hopkins University
***This talk is sponsored by Mineralogical Society of America's Distinguished Lecturers series***
November 4th
Student Speakers
James Chayka
MS Proposal
Quantitative linkages between watershed conditions andmainstem channel characteristics in Lagunitas Creek, Northern California
Molly Cornell
BS Defense
Characterization of Anomalous Graphite from the Maksyutov Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphic Complex, Russia
Willie Hassett
BS Defense
Early Miocene Granitoids from the Leo Pargil Gneiss Dome, Northwest Himalaya
November 11th
No speaker – Veterans Day
November 18th
No Speaker
November 25th
No speaker – Thanksgiving Holiday
December 2nd
Student Speakers
December 9th
Student Speakers
