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Seminar Schedule

Spring 2003

Jan 20 H	Rhea Graham - Interstate Stream Commission, Albuquerque: Public Involvement in a State Water Plan. Host: Suzanne Mills
Jan 21 H	Brad Wilcox - Texas A & M University: Streamflow and Woody Plant Encroachment: Where's the Linkage? Case Study--Edwards Plateau, Texas. Abstract. Host: Wilson **Tuesday, 2:30-3:30 pm, MSEC 103**
Jan 23 EB/H	Penny Boston - New Mexico Tech: Caves: The Planet Within.
Jan 27 H	Enrique Vivoni - MIT: Incorporating the spatial variability in topography, hydrometeorology and hydrological processes within a multi-resolution watershed model. Abstract. Host: Wilson
Jan 30 EB/H	John Sigda - NMT PhD Student: Conduits to Catchments: Deformation Band Faults in the Vadose Zone. Host: Wilson
Feb 3 G	Walter Mooney - USGS: The structure and evolution of the North American Lithosphere: The Growth of a Continent. Abstract. Host: Aster/Tobin. **Monday, 1pm, Gold Building Room 208**
Feb 3 H	Mark Rains - U of California, Davis: Ecohydrologic Analysis of a Riverine and Reservoir-Fringe System: A Case Study in Support of Reservoir Management Efforts. Abstract. Host: Phillips
Feb 6 EB	Roel Snieder - Colorado School of Mines: Coda Wave Interferometry. Abstract. Host: Aster
Feb 7 G	Roel Snieder - Colorado School of Mines: The Arrow of Time. Abstract. Host: Aster **Friday, noon, MSEC 202 (EES Conference Room)**
Feb 13 EB	Scott Paterson - U of Southern California: Construction of Cordilleran magma chambers: durations, rates, and internal processes. Host: Goodwin
Feb 17 H	Bayani Cardenas - NMT PhD Student: Streambed conductance: helpful or harmful to water resource management. Host: Bowman
Feb 20 EB	Bill Chavez - New Mexico Tech: Sustainable Development in Mining: Defining the Role of Geology in the Minerals Industry.
Feb 27 EB	James Boles - U.C. Santa Barbara: Methane seepage along faults in the Santa Barbara coastal area, California: geologic and modern evidence. Host: Mozley
Mar 3 H	Dennis McQuillan - NM Environment Dept: Stable Isotope Nitrate Plume Characterization in New Mexico Ground Water. Host: Wilson
Mar 5 H	Stanley A. Leake - USGS, Tucson, AZ: Safe Yield, Sustainability, and Ground-Water Pumping in the Southwest. Abstract. **Wednesday, 3pm, MSEC 103**
Mar 6 EB	W. Steven Holbrook - U of Wyoming: Methane Hydrates: Boon or Bane? Abstract. Host: Tobin Plus Special Lunch Talk at Noon in Gold Conference Room: "Mantle melting during continental breakup: Insights from volcanic and non-volcanic rifted margins."
Mar 13 EB	No Seminar: Spring Break
Mar 17 H/EB	Jean Bahr - U of Wisconsin, Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer (GSA): Groundwater as an Ecosystem Resource. Abstract. Host: Phillips (Monday, 3:15pm, MSEC 103)
Mar 18 H/	Otto Strack - U of Minnesota: Analytical Element Modeling of Groundwater Systems. Abstract. Host: Wilson **Tuesday, 2:30pm, MSEC 101**
Mar 20 EB	Christopher Bailey - College of William and Mary: Tale of Two Shear Zones: Structural Analysis of Extensional and Contractional Mylonites? Host: Goodwin
Mar 25 G	Ed Garnero - U of Arizona: Deep Mantle Anisotropy and Heterogeneity from Detailed Waveform Modeling. Abstract. Host: Aster **Tuesday, noon-1pm, MSEC 202**
Mar 27 EB	Dirk Schulze-Makuch - U of Texas, El Paso: Planetary Exploration for Life in the Solar System.
Mar 31 H	Deborah Hathaway - S.S. Papadopulos and Assoc.: A probabilistic evaluation of the Middle Rio Grande water supply, and implications for regional water planning. Host: Bowman
Apr 4 EB	Greg Mack - New Mexico State U: Extensional neotectonics in central Greece. Host: Dunbar **NOTE: On Friday, 4-5 pm in MSEC 101**
Apr 10 EB	Tobias Fisher - U of New Mexico: Volatile systematics of the Central American Volcanic Arc: insights to Nitrogen and Carbon cycling through subduction zones. Host: McIntosh
Apr 14 H	Suzanne Mills - NMT MS Student: Why does the Rio Grande get salty?: Using environmental tracers to investigate river salinization. Host: Phillips
Apr 17 EB	Chris Henry - Nevada Bureau of Mines and Economic Geology: Neogene development of the northern Walker Lane, western Nevada: An evolving transform plate boundary. Host: McIntosh
Apr 24 EB/H	David Boutt - NMT PhD Candidate: The Role of Fluids in the Mechanics of the Shallow Crust. Host: McPherson
May 1 EB	Joel Pederson - Utah State Univ: The view from Grand Canyon: Landscape evolution of the Colorado Plateau and dryland responses to climate change. Host: Dunbar
May 8 EB/H	Jennifer Wilson - NMT PhD Candidate: Small-displacement Faults in the Bandelier Tuff--Mechanical Controls on Structures and Their Hydrologic Significance. Host: Goodwin
May 15 EB	Sytze Van Heteren - Dutch Institute of Applied Geoscience (TNO-NITG): Optical dating of young coastal dunes on a decadal time scale. Host: Van Dam

Future Schedules: Fall 2003
Past Schedules:
Fall 2002
Spring 2002
Fall 2001
Spring 2001
Fall 2000
Spring 2000
Spring 1999
Spring 1998

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