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Spring 2008 Seminars

DATE	SPEAKER/TOPIC	SPONSOR
Jan 31 4 pm MSEC 101	Bill Chavez - New Mexico Tech, SEG International Exchange Lecturer: Mineral Exploration and Metals Supply: The New Roles of Economic Geology. Host: Campbell	EB
Feb 4 3:30 pm MSEC 101	Mike Celia - Princeton Univ: Geological Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option, 2008 Darcy Lecture of the National Ground-Water Association. Abstract. Host: Wilson	H
Feb 7 4 pm MSEC 101	Dave Love - NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources: Our ongoing geological investigations of the northern Tularosa Basin. Abstract. Host: Newton	EB
Feb 14 4 pm MSEC 101	Kevin Stafford - PhD Candidate in Geology, NMT: Hypogene Karst Porosity within the Central Basin Platform: Yates Field, Pecos County, Texas. Abstract. Host: Boston	EB
Feb 18 3:30 pm MSEC 202	Alex Rinehart - MS Student in Hydrology, NMT: Effects of Vegetation, Albedo, and Radiation Sheltering on the Distribution of Snow in the Valles Caldera, New Mexico, MS Thesis Defense. Abstract.	H
Feb 21 4 pm MSEC 101	Jeff Johnson - New Mexico Tech: Lava Dome Souffle: Long Period Earthquakes and Co-eruptive Volcano Respirations Captured with a Video Camera at Santiaguito Volcano (Guatemala). Host: Murray	EB
Feb 25 3:30 pm MSEC 101	Laura Bexfield - U.S. Geological Survey, Albuquerque, NM: Near-Decadal Trends of Pesticide Detection Frequency and Concentration in Ground Water of the United States, 1993-2003. Abstract. Host: Phillips	H
Feb 28 4 pm MSEC 101	Jim McCord - AMEC - Earth & Environmental, Socorro: The Role of Hydrologic Analyses in Water Rights Administration: Three Case Studies from the Intermountain West. Host: Newton	EB
Mar 3 3:30 pm MSEC 101	Kate Richards - Geomatrix Consultants, Inc., Newport Beach, CA: Application of an Integrated Surface Water/Groundwater Flow Model to Assess Chloride Transport in the Upper Santa Clara River Basin, Santa Clarita, California. Host: Bowman	H
Mar 13	Spring Break - no seminar	EB
Mar 20 4 pm MSEC 101	Richard C. Aster - New Mexico Tech: Climate Seismology -- Observing the Dynamics and Processes of Earth's Atmosphere, Oceans, and Cryosphere with Seismographic Data. Abstract. Host: Murray	EB
Mar 24 3:30 pm MSEC 101	Jasper A. Vrugt - Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, LANL: Adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling for Estimating Parameters in High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Flow and Transport Models. Abstract. Host: Vivoni	H
Mar 27 2 pm MSEC 202	Gary Robbins - University of Connecticut: Geochemical Linkages Between Increasing Rural Development and Elevated Manganese Levels in Domestic Wells in Fractured Crystalline Bedrock.	H
Mar 27 4 pm MSEC 101	Scott Phillips - Los Alamos National Lab: Regional Phase Amplitude Tomography: Asia and USArray. Host: Murray	EB
Apr 1 3 pm MSEC 101	John Moylan - 2007 Jahns Distinguished Lecturer: Geologic Influences on Midcontinent Dams	EB/H
Apr 3 4 pm MSEC 101	Shane Ingate - IRIS/PASSCAL: EarthScope Magnetotellurics: A Shocking Experiment. Host: Murray	EB
Apr 7 3:30 pm MSEC 101	David Bedford - Univ of Colorado and USGS.: Effects of Vegetation on Overland Flow and Infiltration at Hillslope Scale. Abstract. Host: Hendrickx	H
Apr 21 Noon MSEC 202	Anna Szynkiewicz - Univ Indiana: Origin of White Sands gypsum dunes--implications for Mars analog studies. Abstract.	E
Apr 21 3:30 pm MSEC 101	Patrick Longmire - Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory: Isotope and Aqueous Chemistry Investigations of Groundwater in the Española Basin, New Mexico. Abstract. Host: Wilson	H
Apr 24 4 pm MSEC 101	Kate Miller - Univ Texas at El Paso: Crustal Structure of the Southern Rio Grande Rift: New Results from Seismic Refraction and Xenoliths. Host: Snelson	EB
Apr 28 3:30 pm MSEC 101	Jungho Park - New Mexico Tech: Reactive Transport Modeling of the Geochemical and Microbiological Processes of the Middendorf Aquifer, South Carolina. Abstract. Host: Bowman	H
May 1 11:30 am NRAO auditorium Lunch provided	David Gutzler - Univ of New Mexico: Water and Drought in the 21st Century; Jonathan Overpeck - Univ of Arizona: Climate Change, Sea Level, and Drought: Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference? Discussion afterward focusing on how audience members can use the presentations to inform the general public about these issues (12:45-1:45)	EB/H
May 1 4 pm MSEC 101	Laura Rosales-Lagarde - PhD Candidate in Geochemistry: Investigation of the Geologic Controls on Spring Water Chemistry in the Northern Chiapas Range, Southern Mexico. Host: Boston	EB
May 8 4 pm MSEC 101	Amanda Rowe - PhD Candidate in Geology, NMT: Genetic Fluid Evolution of the Goat Hill Orebody, Questa Climax-type Molybdenum Porphyry, New Mexico. Host: Campbell	EB

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

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