Spring Semester 2018
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will start at 12:30 in Natural Resources Rm 320
Thursday, January 18
No Speaker – Faculty meeting
Thursday, January 25
Hydrologic Impacts of Landslide Disturbances: Implications for remobilization and Hazard Persistence.
Ben Mirus, USGS Landslides Hazards Program
Faculty Host: Mike Ronayne
Thursday, February 1
Silicic calderas as regional strain markers in orogenic belts and what they say about metamorphic core complex evolution in the southwestern United States
Charles Ferguson, AZ Geological Survey, University of Arizona
Faculty Host: John Singleton
Thursday, February 8
Hikurangi Ocean Bottom Investigation of Tremor and Slow Slip (HOBITTS): Seafloor Seismic and Geodesy Studies Offshore New Zealand
Anne Sheehan, University of Colorado
Faculty Host: Derek Schutt
Wednesday, February 14 at 4:00 pm
Five things geophysicists should know about the shale plays.
Bruce Hart, Statoil, AAPG-SEG Distinguished Lecturer
Faculty Host: Sven Egenhoff
Thursday, February 15
No Speaker – Faculty meeting
Thursday, February 22
Faculty Slam
Derek Schutt & Jerry Magloughlin, CSU Dept of Geosciences
Thursday, March 1
Unconventional Oil and Gas Development: Implications for Soil and Water Quality
Thomas Borch, CSU
Faculty Host: Mike Ronayne
Thursday, March 8
Near Surface Geophysics from Pole to Equator
John Bradford, Colorado School of Mines
Faculty Host: Rick Aster
Thursday, March 15
No Speaker – Spring Break
Thursday, March 22
No Speaker – Faculty meeting
Thursday, March 29
Relative Influence of Landscape Variables, Discharge, and Forest Management on Sediment Yields in Temperate Mountain Catchments
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado
Faculty Host: Sara Rathburn
Thursday, April 5
Our Changing Cryosphere: Gaining insights into permafrost processes using geophysics
Andrew Parsekian, Univ of Wyoming
Faculty Host: Dan McGrath
Thursday, April 12
Giant Earthquakes and Earth’s Greatest Subduction Zones
Harold Tobin, Univ Wisconsin – Madison
Faculty Host: Rick Aster
Monday, April 16 at 4:00 pm
Alpine Hydrogeology: The Critical Role of Groundwater in Sourcing the Headwaters of the World.
Seminar at 4:00pm in WAGAR rm 232.
Masaki Hayashi, University of Calgary
NGWA Darcy Lecture
Faculty Host: Steven Fassnacht
Thursday, April 19
No Speaker – Faculty meeting
Thursday, April 26
Construction of a new restorable crustal-scale cross section across the Rocky Mountains in the I-70 corridor
Jim Granath and Ned Sterne, Consulting Geologists
Faculty Host: Lisa Stright
Thursday, May 3
Grad Student GeoSlam
CSU Geosciences Graduate Students
Grad Student Hosts: Nikki Seymour & Andrew McCarthy