All are Welcome!
Spring Semester 2019
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will start at 12:30 in Michael Smith Natural Resources Bldg. Rm 320
Thursday, January 31
Ken Sims, University of Wyoming
A Tale of Two Pools: The Geohydrobiology of Phase Separation in a Yellowstone Hydrothermal System
Faculty Host: Rick Aster
Tuesday, February 12th*
Yuko Asano, University of Tokyo
Toward Understanding the Hydrology of Mountain Catchments During Large Floods: Quantifying Response Speed of Hillslopes and Channels in Steep Catchments
*Seminar to be held at 1:00pm in room NATRS 345
Faculty Host: Ellen Wohl
Thursday, February 21
Jay Chapman, University of Wyoming
The radiogenic isotopic record of Cordilleran magmatism: implications for orogenic cyclicity
Faculty Host: John Singleton
Thursday, March 7
Scott Shahverdian, Utah State University
Did it Work? Low-tech Stream Restoration at Scales that Matter
Faculty Host: Sara Rathburn
Thursday, March 28
Paul Myrow, Colorado College
Rate of Post-Snowball Earth Sea Level Rise Derived (in part) From Analysis of Bedforms
Faculty Host: Judy Hannah
Thursday, April 11
James Hagadorn, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Surfing Colorado’s newest mass extinction: Insights from ugly rocks
Faculty Host: Sven Egenhoff
Thursday, April 25
Chris Holm-Denoma, USGS Lakewood
How much can we learn from a grain of sand? An ancient Colorado perspective
Faculty Host: John Singleton
Thursday, May 2
Carolyn Crow, CU Boulder
Five Decades of Lunar Sample Science: How the Apollo Missions Continue to Revolutionize our Understanding of the Solar System
Faculty Host: Rick Aster
Fall Semester 2018
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will start at 12:30 in Natural Resources Rm 320
Thursday, September 6
Richard Palin, Colorado School of Mines
Uniformitarianism throughout Earth history: the metamorphic perspective
Faculty Host: Jerry Magloughlin
Tuesday, September 25*
David Boutt, University of Massachusetts
GSA Hydrogeology Division Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture:
*Seminar to be held at 4:00pm in room NATRS 345
Faculty Host: Bill Sanford
Monday, October 1*
John Dilles, Oregon State
SEG Thayer Lindsley Visiting Lecturer: Tops and Bottoms of Porphyry Copper Deposits Revisited: From Source Magmas to the Lithocap Alteration Zones
*Seminar to be held at 3:00pm in room NATRS 345
Faculty Host: Nikki Seymour
Thursday, October 11
Doug Peters, Tuvera Exploration
Use of historical aerial photography for mining and industrial environmental site assessments
Faculty Host: Jerry Magloughlin
Thursday, October 25
Eric Mueller, University of Wyoming
Geomorphic response to controlled floods in the Colorado River basin
Faculty Host: Sara Rathburn
Monday, October 29*
Andreas Ewald, Dept. of Geography and Geology, University of Salzburg, Austria
Rock Slope Instability following Deglaciation – Implications from the Kitzsteinhorn, Austria
*Seminar to be held 12:00-1:00pm in room 345
Faculty Host: Ellen Wohl
Thursday, November 1
Adam Wlostowski, CU Boulder, INSTARR
Storage-discharge relationships across the Critical Zone Observatory Network: Linking catchment function to critical zone architecture
Faculty Host: Ellen Wohl
Thursday, November 8
Robert Anderson, CU Boulder
The debris-covered glacier – rock glacier continuum and its geomorphic consequences
Faculty Host: Dan McGrath
Thursday, November 29
Andres Aslan, Colorado Mesa University
Origin of the Upper Colorado River System
Faculty Host: Andy Darling