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Fall 2006 Seminars

DATE	SPEAKER/TOPIC	SPONSOR
Aug 23 4 pm MSEC 101	Rob Bowman - New Mexico Tech: Welcome	EB
Aug 31 4 pm MSEC 101	Katherine Giles - New Mexico State Univ: Salt-sediment interactions. Host: Walsh	EB
Sept 7 4 pm MSEC 101	Clive Oppenheimer - Cambridge Univ: Super-volcanoes that shook the world.	EB
Sept 11 3:30 pm MSEC 103	Laura Bexfield - USGS Albuquerque: Geochemical characterization and simulation-optimization of groundwater resources in the Albuquerque area, Middle Rio Grande Basin, New Mexico. Details Host: Phillips	H
Sept 14 4 pm MSEC 101	Rune Holt - Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Rock physics and geomechanics applications to petroleum reservoir characterization and monitoring. Host: Spinelli	EB
Sept 21 4:30 pm MSEC 101	Ron Broadhead - NM Bureau of Geology: Helium in New Mexico: geologic distribution and exploration possibilities. Host: Spinelli	EB
Sept 28	No seminar - NMGS Field Conf.	EB
Oct 2 3:30 pm MSEC 103	Jim McCord - Hydrosphere: Groundwater modeling for conjunctive use water supply management. Host: Vivoni	H
Oct 5 4 pm MSEC 101	Glenn Spinelli - New Mexico Tech: Sediment strength and deformation affected by opal cementation in Nankai Trough. Host: Axen	EB
Oct 9 3:30 pm MSEC 103	David Jordan - Intera, Inc., Albuquerque: Water resources supply decision support system for Santa Fe County. Details. Host: Wilson	H
Oct 12 4 pm MSEC 101	Amanda Clarke - Arizona State Univ: Investigating the dynamics of explosive volcanic eruptions via laboratory experiments.Host: Dunbar	EB
Oct 16 3:30 pm MSEC 103	John Hawley - Hawley Geomatters, Albuquerque: Neogene basin-fill aquifer systems of the bi-national Paso Del Norte Region—Advances in characterization of their depositional history and hydrogeologic framework Details. Host: Phillips	H
Oct 19 4 pm MSEC 101	Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni - Univ of Michigan: Lithosphere-Mantle coupling: from continental deformation to great earthquakes. Host: Bilek	EB
Oct 26 4 pm MSEC 101	Paul Kapp - Univ of Arizona: Tibet tectonics. Host: Heizler	EB
Oct 27 3 pm MSEC 101	H.A.R. de Bruin - Wageningen University Research Centre: Long path scintillometry: a review. Abstract.	E
Oct 30 3:30 pm MSEC 103	Julie Coonrod - Univ of New Mexico: City of Albuquerque's water resources strategy and modeling of the Rio Grande diversion. Host: Hendrickx	H
Nov 2 4 pm MSEC 101	Sam Ndur - New Mexico Tech: Arsenic distribution in a gold mine tailings dam: A case study at Anglogold Ashanti, Obuasi, Ghana	EB
Nov 6 3:30 pm MSEC 103	Hydrology faculty candidate Jerry Fairley - Univ of Idaho: The hydrogeology of an active fault zone in the Alvord Basin of Southeast Oregon. Abstract.	H
Nov 8 10 am MSEC 105	Isabella Velicogna - Univ of Colorado: Monitoring ice sheets' mass variations from GRACE. Abstract.	G
Nov 9 4 pm MSEC 101	Jane Selverstone - Univ of New Mexico: Relationships between metamorphic fluid composition and rheology at depth in the crust. Host: Axen	EB
Nov 13 10 am MSEC 105	Eric Hetland - California Institute of Technology: A more general model of interseismic deformation. Abstract.	G
Nov 13 3:30 pm MSEC 103	Dirk Schulze-Makuch - Washington State Univ, Pullman: Extraterrestrial life in the solar system and beyond: Follow the water? Details. Host: Bowman	EB/H/A
Nov 15 3:30 pm MSEC 101	Eileen Poeter - Colorado School of Mines: DARCY LECTURE, All models are wrong: How do we know which are useful? Details. Host: Wilson	H
Nov 16 2 pm MSEC 105	Derek Schutt - Univ Wyoming: The Yellowstone Hotspot and how it got that way. Abstract.	G
Nov 16 4 pm MSEC 101	George Billingsley - USGS, Flagstaff: Grand Canyon geology. Host: Timmons	EB
Nov 20 3:30 pm MSEC 103	Hydrology faculty candidate Elizabeth Screaton - Univ of Florida: Fluid flow and the evolution of permeability during subduction. Abstract.	H
Nov 20 7 pm Macey Ctr	Seth Shostak - Director, SETI Institute: When will we discover the extraterrestrials? Harlow Shapley Lecture of the American Astronomical Society.	A
Nov 23	No seminar - Thanksgiving	EB
Nov 27 3:30 pm MSEC 103	Hydrology faculty candidate Ellen Herman - Bucknell University: Toward an understanding of sediment transport in fluviokarst. Abstract.	H
Nov 29 10 am MSEC 105	Jeffrey Johnson - Univ New Hampshire: Listening to volcanoes with infrasound.	G
Nov 30 4:30 pm MSEC 101	****Postponed until next semester. **** Rich Wanty - USGS: Title TBA	EB
Dec 7 4:30 pm Jones Annex 101	Oliver Wingenter - New Mexico Tech: Increasing ocean acidification and its impact on marine production of climate-relevant gases: A possible geo-engineering solution to the melting of the Antarctic ice sheets.	EB

SPONSOR LEGEND
EB	Department of Earth & Environmental Science and New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
H	Hydrology Program
G	Geophysics Program
A	Astrobiology Series
EB/H/G	Multiple Sponsors

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