Distinguished Speakers Series for 2009-2010
Tuesdays 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Thornton Hall 604 (unless otherwise noted)
Please join us for lunch and refreshments in the Geoscience conference room
at 12:30. Seminar will begin at 1PM.
Seminar Coordinator: Petra Dekens (dekens@sfsu.edu)
For disability-related accommodations: call (415) 338-2993
or email (geosci@sfsu.edu)
Archive of Presentation Topics
2009
September 1st
Welcome to a new academic year in the Department of Geosciences!
12:30-2PM, TH513
September 8th
No Seminar due to furlough day and campus closure
September 15th
Toward X-Ray Vision: Geophysical Signatures of the Complex Shallow Subsurface
Susan Hubbard
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
***Second Semi-annual Dawdy Lecture in the Hydrologic Sciences***
***Birdsall Dreiss Distinguished Lecture***
September 22nd
Water Flow Dynamics in the Changing Florida Everglades
Evan Variano
UC Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering
September 29th
Rupturing Continental Lithosphere in the Main Ethiopian Rift: a hot plume meets a cold craton
Simon Klemperer
Stanford University, School of Earth Sciences
***NSF-MARGINS Distinguished Lectureship Program***
October 6th
Of Elephants, Earthquakes, Caves and Hot Rock - Recent Geological Engineering Adventures
Edmund Medley
Geosyntec Consultants
***Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer in Engineering Geology***
October 13th
Initial Results from the Bering Sea, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program leg 323
Ivano Aiello
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
October 20th
No seminar, GSA meeting
October 27th
Fieldwork on the seafloor: geology of the Nankai accretionary prism, Tenryu submarine canyon, Japan
Kurtis Burmeister
University of the Pacific, Department of Earth and Environmental Science
November 3rd
Sources and effects of acidic deposition on alpine lakes in National Parks of the Rocky Mountains
Leora Nanus
San Francisco State University, Department of Geosciences
November 10th
New tools for understanding and mitigating rock fall hazards in Yosemite National Park
Greg Stock
Yosemite National Park, Resource Management and Science
November 17th
Optical properties of evolving water masses in complex aquatic environments
Sherry Palacios
UC Santa Cruz, Department of Ocean Sciences
November 24th
No seminar, Thanksgiving break
December 1st
Student presentations
December 8th
Student presentations
December 15th
Student presentations
