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Events for February 8 - 14, 2010

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10

EES GRADUATE SEMINAR
4 pm, MSEC 105. Maya El Hariri presents "Investigating Along-Strike Variations of Source Parameters for Relocated Thrust Earthquakes Along the Sumatra-Java Subduction Zone." Pamela Moyer presents "Apparent Stress Variations at the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, and the Role of Subducting Bathymetry."

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11

EES/BUREAU SEMINAR
4 pm, MSEC 101. Frank Ramos (New Mexico State University) presents "The origin of Columbia River basalts: Insights from minerals and isotopes."

In the News

• Kudos to the NESSI Team! A Tech team consisting of Michelle Creech-Eakman, Colby Jurgenson, Dave Westpfahl and Penelope Boston, collaborating with researchers from JPL, published a paper in NATURE on using ground-based techniques to study the atmosphere of exoplanets. BBC article. An NMT press release is in the works.

• Above: hydrology students help Carlos Ramirez Torres' construct his first snowman - January 28, 2010. Carlos is from Puerto Rico. Thanks to Pat Valentine for the pictures.
• Congrats to Sue Bilek who was elected to the IRIS Board of Directors for a 3-year term. Details. More.
• NMT and Socorro's propensity for earthquakes are mentioned in an article about the Raton-area earthquake on January 18, 2010.
• Congratulations to Aaron Curtis, MS Student in Geology, for receiving a NM Space Grant Consortium graduate scholarship for 2010 for his research "Physical and biological dynamics of fumarolic ice caves and towers on Erebus Volcano, Antarctica. Aaron's advisor is Philip Kyle.
• Congratulations to recent PhD Bayani Cardenas for winning a prestigious CAREER Award from NSF, one of only two given this year in the field of hydrology.
• Many EES members presented at AGU in December 2009: Rick Aster, Sue Bilek, Hugo Gutierrez, Maya El Hariri, Jason Heath, Jeff Johnson, Hunter Knox, Amy Luther, Jonathan MacCarthy, Shoba Maraj, Omar Marcillo, Pam Moyer, Mark Murray, Diana Romero-Suarez, Christine Ruhl, Richard Sanderson, Cathy Snelson, Glenn Spinelli, Jana Stankova-Pursley, and John Wilson.
• The Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory is featured in a NMT article by Thom Guengerich.
• An article about freshwater springs along the Atlantic coastal shelves, co-written by Mark Person, was an Editor's Choice under Geology in the 27 Nov 2009 issue of Science.
• Geothermal drilling project status.
• MSEC Wall Design Project -- click here.
• More news here.

Recent Publications
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January 2010

Seright R.S., Campbell A.R., Mozley P.S. Stability of partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamides at elevated temperatures in the absence of divalent cations, Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPE Journal, 121460:1–15. doi:10.2118/121460-MS

December 2009

Conliffe J.F., Blamey N.J.F., Feely M., Parnell J., Ryder A.G. Hydrocarbon migration in Jurassic sandstones from the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland: Evidence from fluid inclusion studies, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 15: 1-11.

Heath J.E., Lachmar T.E., Evans J.P., Kolesar P.T., Williams A.P. Hydrogeochemical Characterization of Leaking, Carbon Dioxide—Charged Fault Zones in East-Central Utah, With Implications for Geological Carbon Storage. In McPherson B.J. and Sundquist E.T. (eds.) Carbon Sequestration and Its Role in the Global Carbon Cycle, Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 183, 350 pp., 2009

October 2009

Condie K., Aster R. Zircon Age Episodicity and Growth of Continental Crust, EOS transactions. AGU, 90, 13 October, 2009

Forsyth D., Lay T., Aster R., Romanowicz B. Grand Challenges for Seismology, EOS transactions. AGU, 90, 13 October, 2009

Frisbee M.D., Phillips F.M., Campbell E.R., Hendrickx J.M.H. Using Passive Capillary Samplers to Collect Soil-Meltwater Endmembers for Stable Isotope Analysis. In Webb R.M.T. and Semmens D.J. (eds.) Planning for an Uncertain Future—Monitoring, Integration, and Adaptation. Proceedings of the Third Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, 8-11 September 2008, Estes Park, CO

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