2002/2003/2004 Coordinators: Prof. David Mustart and Matthew Horrigan
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Jane Duxbury (BS thesis defense)
Determination of the Pre-1890 Paleolake Bottom of Mountain Lake, Presidio of San Francisco
Terry McGuire (BS thesis defense)
A Small Unmapped Surficial Deposit, and its Paleographic Implications Point Reyes, CA
Jen Davis (MS thesis proposal)
Influence of Sediment Supply and Bed Roughness on Partial Alluviation of Bedrock Channels
Zita Maliga (MS thesis defense)
Hydrological Reconstruction of Extinct, Thermal Spring Systems Using Hydrobiid Snail Paleoecology
Tuesday, May 18
Mary Snow (MS thesis proposal)
Sediment Flux of Montezuma Slough, Suisun Marsh, California
Rianda Levin (MS thesis proposal)
Subsurface Geometry and 3-D Mapping of the Windsor Basin, Sonoma County, California
Anne Marie Scherer (MS thesis defense)
GIS Analyses of Quaternary Marine Terraces, Pt. Reyes Peninsula, CA
April 13, 2004
Clues from Coral: Tropical Temperatures and Global Climate
Dr. Robert Dunbar
Professor of Geological and Enviromental Sciences
Director of Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Environment and Resources
Stanford University
March 16, 2004
Investigating Background Trace Element Concentrations in the Franciscan Formation San Francisco, California
March 11, 2004
Continental Crust Gets Eaten in Subduction Zones:
Evidence and Geologic Consequences
Dr. Dave Scholl
Marine Geologist, US Geological Survey
Adjunct Professor, Stanford University
February 25, 2004
Eruption of Mt Mazama and the
Evolution of Crater Lake, Oregon
Dr Charlie Bacon
Volcanologist, US Geological Survey
February 18, 2004
Fluvial-Deltaic Cyclicity in the Ridge Basin, Southern California: Evidence for Kinematic Cyclostratigraphy
Speaker: Dr Morgan Sullivan
Assistant Professor of Geology
Chico State University
November 12, 2003
Weathering and Palagnitization of Basaltic Ash on Hawaii and Iceland as a Terrestrial Analog for Mars
Prof. Randy Southard, PhD
Professor of Soil
Associate Dean for Enviromental Sciences
University of California Davis
November 6, 2003
Relationships Between Law and Science
Scott R. Morgan
Staff Counsel
Department of Water Resources
State of California
October 15, 2003
Antarctic and Global Climate Change: What Have We Learned From the Coldest Place on Earth?
Dr. Robert Dunbar
Professor of Geological and Enviromental Sciences
Director of Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Environment and Resources
Stanford University
October 9, 2003
The Discovery of California's First Known Impact Crater
Richard D. Blake
Associate Program Leader for Fossil Energy
Lawrence Livermore Lab
California Registered Geologist
September 10, 2003
Stream Incision, Tectonics, Uplift, and Evolution of the Topography of the Sierra Nevada, California
Consulting Geologist
October 17, 2002
Historic Man-made Changes to
the Floor of San Francisco Bay
Florence Wong
Coastal and Marine Geology Team
U.S. Geological Survey
Critical Milestones in a 40-yr Research Career
Monty Hampton
Former Chief, Marine Geology Division
U.S. Geological Survey
Menlo Park, CA
May 21, 2002
BS Thesis
Petrology of Amphibolites near the Wester-Addie
ultramafic ring, Eastern Blue Ridge Mtns, NC
Anne Marie Scherer
BS Thesis
Determining uplift rates and patterns from Quaternary marine
terraces of the Point Reyes Peninsula, CA
Tandis Bidgoli
BS Thesis
Influences of non-native plants of the geochemical
properties of a serpentinite soil, Presidio SF
Jim Neiss
May 16, 2002
MS Thesis Proposal
Investigating background trace element levels in San Francisco Soils
Megan Simpson
MS Thesis Proposal
Cold seeps in the Great Valley Sequence and
comparison with other Pacific Rim localities
Kristin Hepper
MS Thesis Proposal
Morphologic measurements of Pleistocene
vertebrate fossils near Estero San Antonio, Marin County
Robert Davies
BS Thesis Proposal
Grain size analyses of terrigenous and carbonate sediment
on the fringing reef of Molokai, Hawaii
Simon Barber
May 7, 2002
MS Theses Defense
Neotectonic Character of the Serra Fault, Northern San Francisco Peninsula, California
Drew Kennedy
Neotectonics and Paleoseismology of the Southern Rogers Creek Fault, Sonoma County, CA
Carrie Randolph
April 25, 2002
David Harris
Gemologist
Carbon is Forever:
All You Wanted To Know About Diamonds
April 11, 2002
Jeffrey Warner
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sequestration of Iodine in Soils
April 4, 2002
Erwin Seibel, Professor of Geology (SFSU)
The Formation and Breakup of Ice on the Great Lakes
November 30, 2000
Scott Greene, Professor of Geography and Human Environmental Studies*
*with Joint Appointment in Geosciences
March 21, 2000
Horacio Ferriz
Consulting Engineering Geologist
Instructor, CSU Stanislaus
December 7, 1999
Ray Pestrong, Professor of Geology
Karen Grove, Professor of Geology
Erdmann Rogge, Geosciences
November 23, 1999
Paul Sweeney, BRGG
November 11, 1999
Tara Kheradyer, SFSU:
September 23, 1999
Joyce Blueford, Math/Science Nucleus:
September 9, 1999
Lisa White, Associate Professor of Geology (SFSU) and Fellow, California Academy of Sciences
Visit to Zimbabwe
May 20, 1999
May 13, 1999
