EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE/BUREAU SEMINAR SCHEDULE

NEW MEXICO TECH - SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO

MSEC 101 - 4:00 P.M.

SPRING 1998

January 22
Steve Laubach, University of Texas @ Austin
"New Avenues in Natural Fracture Characterization"
(Host: P. Mozley)

January 29
Jay Quade, University of Arizona
"Himalayan Orogeny, Climate Change, and the Marine 87Sr/86Sr Record"
(Host: B. McIntosh)

February 5
Lowell Stott, University of Southern California
"Can methane be implicated in the abrupt global warming at the
Paleocene/Eocene boundary?"
(Host: C. Chapin)

February 12
Laura Ellen Jones, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Bias in CMT Moments for Central Asian Earthquakes"
(Host: R. Aster)

February 19
Christian Teyssie, University of Minnesota
"Migmatites, Granites, and Metamorphic Core Complexes"
(Host: L. Goodwin)

February 26
Bill Bull, University of Arizona @ Tucson
"Lichen Dating of Earthquake-Generated Landslides, a New Approach to
Paleoseismology"
(Host: B. Harrison)

March 5
Harold Tobin, New Mexico Tech
"Geophysical Approaches to Determination of Fluid Pressure and State of
Stress in Thrust Faults"
(Host: R. Aster)

March 12 SPRING VACATION

March 19
Jim Ni, New Mexico State University
"Rasing Tibet"
(Host: R. Aster)

March 26
Mark Rowan, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Allochthonous Salt Tectonics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico"
(Host: B. Hart)

April 2
Jeff Helen, Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah
"New Constraints on the Timing of Magmatism, Volcanism, Vein
Mineralization, and the Onset of Vapor-Dominated Conditions in
the Geysers Geothermal System, California"
(Host: M. Heizler)

April 9
Danny Katzman, Santa Fe Consultant "Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Environmental Characterization in DP
Canyon, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, New Mexico"
(Host: B. Harrison)

April 16
Dorothy Godfrey Smith, Delhousie University, Nova Scotia
"OSL Dating Technique"
(Host: B. Harrison)

April 23
George Denton, University of Maine
"Antarctic and Global Climate Change"
(Host: T. Wilch )