Fall Semester 2017
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will start at 12:30 in Natural Resources Rm 320
Thursday, August 24
No Speaker – Faculty meeting
Thursday, August 31
Structure of the North American Lithosphere and a Shaken-up view of Intraplate Stress and Earthquakes
Will Levandowski, USGS Golden
Faculty Host: Derek Schutt
Thursday, September 7
Seminar Cancelled.
Thursday, September 14
Seminar Cancelled
Thursday, September 21
No Speaker – Faculty meeting
Thursday, September 28
Uncertainties & Challenges in Real-time Earthquake Shaking & Loss Estimation
David Wald, USGS Golden
Faculty Host: Rick Aster
Thursday, October 5
The EPA and Pavillion, Wyoming: Importance of science and public perception
Cat Campbell, Bayless
Faculty Host: Sven Egenhoff
Thursday, October 12
No Speaker – Faculty meeting
Thursday, October 19
4pm in Wagar Rm 231
GSA Birdsall-Dreiss Lecture — Water Resource Stewardship in the U.S. National Park Service
Please note: This lecture has different special time and location
Ed Harvey, National Park Service
Faculty Host: Bill Sanford
Thursday, October 26
Society of Economic Geologists Thayer Lindsley Visiting Lecture — Discovery of the Kencana Au-Ag ore deposit, Indonesia
Dan Wood, Retired Exploration Geologist from BHP and Newcrest Mining
Faculty Sponsor: John Ridley
Thursday, November 2
Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica: Airborne Geophysical Data for Bathymetry, Crustal Structure, and sub-Shelf Ocean Circulation
Christine Siddoway, Colorado College
Faculty Host: Rick Aster
Thursday, November 9
A Glacial Versus Tectonic Model for Pleistocene Integration of Western North American Watersheds and Formation of Modern Rivers
Cal Ruleman, USGS Denver
Faculty Host: Sara Rathburn
Thursday, November 16
No Speaker – Faculty meeting
Thursday, November 23
No Speaker – Fall Break
Thursday, November 30
Tectonic inheritance in metamorphic core complexes of the western U.S. with emphasis on the Funeral Mountains, Death Valley region
Michael Wells, Univ Nevada Las Vegas
Faculty Host: John Singleton
Thursday, December 7
No Speaker – Faculty meeting
Thursday, December 14
No Speaker – Finals Week & AGU
Spring Semester 2018
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
Title TBA
Charles Ferguson, AZ Geological Survey
Faculty Host: John Singleton
Thursday, February 8
Title TBA
Anne Sheehan, UC Boulder
Faculty Host: Derek Schutt
Thursday, February 15
No Speaker – Faculty meeting
Thursday, February 22
Thursday, March 1
Title TBA
Thomas Borch, CSU
Thursday, March 8
Thursday, March 15
No Speaker – Spring Break
Thursday, March 22
No Speaker – Faculty meeting
Thursday, March 29
Title TBA
Harold Tobin, Univ Wisconsin – Madison
Faculty Host: Rick Aster
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
Thursday, April 19
No Speaker – Faculty meeting
Thursday, April 26
Thursday, May 3
Thursday, May 10
No Speaker – Finals Week