| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| September 27 |
Professor Anne W. Nolin |
"Monitoring Snow and Ice in a Changing Climate" |
| October 4 |
Professor Shan de Silva,
Chairperson, Department of Space Studies,
University of North Dakota |
"Volcanism in the Andes - spatial analysis and thermomechanical modeling" (joint with Geology program) |
| October 11 |
Professor Dawn J. Wright |
"Cracks, Creatures and Creative GIS in the Southern and Eastern Pacific" |
| October 18 |
Professor Gordon E. Matzke |
"Exploring Human Geography: Perspectives on Teaching and Research" |
| October 25 |
Professor Julia A. Jones |
"Long-term Ecological Research and Ecosystem Informatics" |
| November 1 |
Professor A. Jon Kimerling |
"Visualizing the Terrain" |
| November 8 |
Professor Laurence Becker |
"Planning for African Rice Conservation" |
| November 15 |
Professor Ronald E. Doel |
"Historians as Geographers (and vice versa): Environmental History and the History of Science" |
| November 22 |
Professor Aaron Wolf |
"Spiritual Transformation and Conflict Transformation in Water Disputes" |
| November 29 |
Dr. Mary V. Santelmann |
"From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Human-Environment Interactions" |
| September 29 |
Professor John H. Dilles |
Introduction to Colloquium:
"Pen-computer geologic mapping of porphyry copper deposits, Atacama Desert, Chile" |
| (Tues. October 4, 4:00 p.m., Wilkinson 108) |
Professor Shan de Silva, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Space Studies, University of North Dakota |
"Volcanism in the Andes - spatial analysis and thermomechanical modeling" (joint with Geography program) |
| October 6 |
Professor Kerry Sieh, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech |
"Active, Tandem Suturing in Taiwan: Implications for Past and Future Earthquakes" |
| (Thu. October 6, 8:00 p.m., LaSells Stewart Center) |
Professor Kerry Sieh, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech |
Condon Lecture: "The Giant Sumatran
Earthquakes of 2004 and 2005" |
| October 13 |
Professor Robert Harris, COAS-OSU |
"Climate Change from Borehole Temperature Records" |
| October 20 |
Gary Blackie, President, Bois d’Arc Petroleum Co. |
"Exploration geology for petroleum" |
| October 27 |
Dr. Bob Butler, Professor of Geophysics, Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Portland |
"Teachers on the Leading Edge: A place-based and field-based teacher professional development program featuring active continental margin geology of the Pacific Northwest" |
| November 3 |
Professor Ilya Bindeman, University of Oregon |
"Origin of low-∂ 18O magmas at Yellowstone" |
| November 10 |
Jack Meyer, Chief Geologist, NW Natural Gas |
Tentative title: "The geology of the Mist Gas field" |
| (Mon. November 14, 4:00 p.m., Wilkinson 235) |
Dr. Thomas G. Sharp (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA: Mineralogical Society of America Lecturer) |
"Subduction through the transition zone: phase transitions, deep focus earthquakes and role of H2O" |
| November 17 |
Prof. Tanya Blacic, Visiting Geology/geophysics Professor at OSU Geosciences |
"Constructing the crust along the western Galapagos Spreading Center: Correlation of seismic layer 2A with axial magma lens and topographic characteristics" |
| November 24 |
Thanksgiving - no seminar |
|
| December 1 |
Dr. Frank Tepley, COAS-Geosciences, Oregon State University |
"New insights into magmatic processes from intra-crystalline isotope studies" |
