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Spring 2006 Seminars

DATE	SPEAKER/TOPIC	SPONSOR
Jan 19 4 pm MSEC 101	NO SEMINAR TODAY	EB
Jan 23 3:30 pm MSEC 103	Gary Weissmann - Univ of New Mexico: HydroGEOLOGY: A geological approach to groundwater studies. Host: Wilson	H
Jan 26 4 pm MSEC 101	Marta Torres, NAGT Distinguished Speaker - Oregon State Univ: Submarine Springs: The hot and the cold. Host: Bilek	EB
Feb 2 4 pm MSEC 101	Kyle Nichols - Skidmore College: Long-term rates and dates of desert piedmont processes: Advancing over a century of research using cosmo-genic nuclides. Host: Harrison	EB
Feb 6 3:30 pm MSEC 103	Jan Kleissl - New Mexico Tech: Land-atmosphere interaction: Recent advances and applications in simulation and sensing technology	H
Feb 9 4 pm MSEC 101	Lewis Land - New Mexico Bureau of Geology: Multitracer investigations of groundwater residence times in a karstic aquifer: Roswell Artesian Basin, New Mexico. Host: Bowman	EB
Feb 16 4 pm MSEC 101	Ted Moore - Univ of Michigan: The once and future warm Earth: A paleoceanographic perspective. Host: Tobin	EB
Feb 20 3:30 pm MSEC 103	Bayani Cardenas - New Mexico Tech: The surface water-groundwater interface: Crossing boundaries.	H
Feb 23 4 pm MSEC 101	Ramon Arrowsmith - Arizona State Univ: Integrated studies of fault zone structure and earthquake geology along the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield. Host: Tobin	EB
Feb 27 3:30 pm MSEC 103	George Pinder - Univ of Vermont: The Woburn Toxic-Tort Trial. (The story of the trial depicted in the book and movie, A Civil Action, from the perspective of a participating expert witness.)	H
Feb 28 11 am MSEC 103	George Pinder - Univ of Vermont: Groundwater remediation design using tools of applied mathematics. (An overview of models and optimization tools used in groundwater hydrology. While not mathematical, it shows how mathematical tools can be used in a variety of applications including aquifer remediation.)	H
Mar 2 4 pm MSEC 101	Kris Harper - New Mexico Tech: Weather wars: Squaring off over cloud seeding in Washington state (1950-1955). Host: Boston	EB
Mar 6 3:30 pm MSEC 103	Joe Galewsky - Univ of New Mexico: Mountains hidden in the sky: Feedbacks between climate and topography. Host: Vivoni	H
Mar 8 4 pm MSEC 101	Seth Stein - Northwestern Univ, IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lecturer: Ultralong period seismic study of the December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and implications for regional tectonics and tsunami hazards. Host: Aster	EB/ Physics
Mar 9 4 pm MSEC 101	Jeff Johnson - Univ of New Hampshire: Constraining eruptions with infrasound. Host: Aster	EB
Mar 16 4 pm MSEC 101	No seminar - Spring Break	EB
Mar 23 4 pm MSEC 101	Jon Pelletier - Univ of Arizona: Geomorphology and sediment transport in the Yucca Mountain region: Pure and applied science problems. Host: Harrison	EB
Mar 30 4 pm MSEC 101	Bruce Simonson - Oberlin College: How to find an asteroid impact with a hand lens. Host: Sweeney	EB
Apr 3 3:30 pm MSEC 103	David Blowes - Univ of Waterloo, 2006 Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer: Permeable reactive barriers for treating groundwater contaminated by dissolved metals. Host: Phillips	H
Apr 6 4 pm MSEC 101	Harold Tobin - New Mexico Tech: Peering into the plate boundary: Drilling and instrumenting a subduction zone megathrust.	EB
Apr 11 4 pm MSEC 101	Larry Lake -Univ of Texas at Austin, IAMG 2006 Distinguished Lecturer: Scales, scaling and scale-up. Host: Wilson More info.	H/ PNGE
Apr 13 4 pm MSEC 101	***CANCELLED*** Dave Reynolds - ExxonMobil: Topic TBA. Host: Chamberlin	EB
Apr 17 3:30 pm MSEC 103	Vince Tidwell - Sandia National Laboratories: Integrated decision support modeling. Host: Wilson	H
Apr 20 4 pm MSEC 101	Charles Chapin - NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources: Effects of paleooceanographic and climatic changes on sedimentation and erosion in the southwestern US. Host: McIntosh	EB
Apr 27 4 pm MSEC 101	Mousumi Roy - Univ of New Mexico: Ideas on the Cenozoic Evolution of the Colorado Plateau based on geophysical and geological data. Host: Axen	EB
May 1 3:30 pm MSEC 103	Bart Wickel - (1) Water and nutrient dynamics of a humid tropical agricutural watershed in Eastern Amazonia and (2) Applications of MODIS direct broadcast data for Ecosystem monitoring in Mexico	H
May 4 4 pm MSEC 101	Steve Semken - Arizona State Univ: Sense of place in geoscience teaching and learning: Cognitive and affective exploration. Host: Aster	EB

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

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