Department Seminars

Seminars are located in Room 320 Warner College of Natural Resources Building on Monday afternoon, and will begin at 4:00 pm unless noted otherwise.  Questions?  Please call (970) 491-5661 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Date Speaker Title Host
SPRING SEMESTER 2013      
Monday, January 28 CSU Geosciences Faculty Down-to-Earth Research: What We Do (Summaries of Faculty Research) Derek Schutt
Monday, February 4 Dr. Gyana Tripathy, Post-doctoral Affiliate, AIRIE Program, Dept. of Geosciences, Colorado State University Re-Os Age and Depositional Environment of Black Shales from the GSSP Cambrian-Ordovician Boundary Holly Stein
Monday, February 11 TBA TBA TBA
Monday, February 18 TBA TBA TBA
Monday, February 25 TBA TBA TBA
Friday, March 1
10:00 a.m.
Phil Wannamaker, PhD, University of Utah Energy and Geoscience Institute
Stewing the Lithosphere: Views of Magmatic/Hydrothermal Processes in
Subduction and Extensional Environments from Electrical Conductivity
Dennis Harry
Monday, March 4 TBA
 
TBA
TBA
Monday, March 11 TBA TBA TBA
Monday, March 18 Spring Break    
Monday, March 25 Brandon McElroy, PhD, Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, University of Wyo Not all Rates are Created Equally--Quantifying Variability in Topographic Evolution Sara Rathburn
Thursday, March 28 Professor Daniel Hanes, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, St. Louis Univ. The Influences of the Strong Tidal Jet on the Ebb Tidal Delta, Sand Waves, and Nearshore Dynamics Near San Francisco, California Ellen Wohl
Monday, April 1 TBA TBA TBA
Monday, April 8 James McCalpin, GEO-HAZ Consulting, Inc.-Crestone, CO Ski Areas and their Slope Stability Problems: The Colorado Story Ellen Wohl
Monday, April 15 TBA  TBA TBA
Monday, April 22 Graham Kent, PhD, Director, Nevada Seismological Laboratory and Professor, Dept. of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Univ. of Nevada-Reno Development of Underwater Paleoseismic Techniques: An Application to Transtensional Environments Along the Western U.S. Plate Boundary Derek Schutt
Monday, April 29 Alan Koenig, Research Geologist, Laser Ablation ICP-MS Facility, U.S. Geological Survey Laser Ablation Trace Element Microanalysis: From Pyrite to Prostate Tissue, Apatite to Apple Trees, Garnets, Fish Ear Bones and More... Jerry Magloughlin
Monday, May 6 TBA TBA TBA