Distinguished Speakers Series for 2008-2009
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
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)
2009
May 21st (Note: Special Time)
Harnessing natural C isotopes to understand organic matter transformations in estuarine sediments
Jonathon Polly (MS)
Temperature Effects on Ice Strength Properties: Implications for Erosion Resistance on Titan
Beth Zygielbaum (MS)
Research and Building of a Self-Regulating Baffle for Fish Passage in Culverts
Brian Grace (BS)
Thesis Defenses -- TH604 - 12:00-2:00 PM
May 19th
Hillslope rock fragment production: grain size distributions, abundance and climatic influences
Jiill Marshall
Expermental investigation of fluvial inclusion on Titan by low-velocity sediment impacts
Peter Polito
MS Thesis Defenses -- TH604
May 14th
Background trace metal concentrations in soils of the San Francisco Bay Area, California
Dylan Duvergé
Molluscan biostratigraphy of Merced Formation, San Francisco, California
Kim Luttgen
Eclogite-facies pseudotachylite in deep crustal rocks exposed in northern Norway
Deoborah Shulman
MS Thesis Proposals -- TH604
May 13th
Chelsea Reed
Dominika Wojcieszek
MS Thesis Proposals -- TH604
May 12th
A dry combustion method to determine 12C and 13C abundances in marine dissolved organic carbon
Leah Johnson
Harmonic analysis of central San Francisco Bay currents using HR radar data
Max Hubbard
Geochemical signature of the Leo Pargil Gneiss Dome: implications for Himalayan channel flow
Willie Hassett
MS Thesis Proposals -- TH604
April 28th
Feedbacks between biotic and abiotic influences on travertine deposition, Fossil Creek, Arizona
Brian Fuller
MS Thesis Defenses -- TH604
April 21st
Stratigraphic investigation of the North Westside Basin, San Francisco and northern San Mateo County
Terry McGuire
Neotectonic investigation of the southern Death Valley fault zone, southeastern California
Heather Green
MS Thesis Defenses -- TH604
March 12th (Note: Special Time)
Stratigraphic investigation of the North Westside Basin, San Francisco and northern San Mateo County
Terry McGuire
MS Thesis Defense -- 3:30 PM, TH604
March 10th
Jason J. Gurdak
Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
Colorado Water Science Center
February 24th
Martin O. Saar
Chair: Hydrogeology and Geofluids Research Group
Department of Geology and Geophysics
University of Minnesota, Miinneapolis
February 17th
Groundwater recharge, flow and discharge in a crystalline watershed: a new conceptual model
Tom Gleeson
Queen's University, Canada
2008
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
