Department of Geosciences 2006
Winter
Seminar Series
Geography Seminar Series
Tuesdays, 4:00 pm in Wilkinson 108
<link to Winter 2006 Geography speaker bios>
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
January 10
|
Jeanne Hunt,
Forest Land Use Manager,
Weyerhaeuser Company |
"Forestry Land
Use from an Industry Perspective" |
January 17
|
Eric Forsman, Wildlife Biologist, PNW USDA Forest Service |
"Spotted
Owls and the
Northwest Forest Plan - A History of the Controversy and Description of
Current
Land Allocations" |
January 24
|
Bob Van Dyk, Associate Professor and Department Chair,
Department of Politics and
Government, Pacific University |
"Landscape of Power in Oregon Forest Policy" |
January 31
|
David
Moscowitz, Cascadia Salmon Biodiversity
Program Director |
"Perspectives on Forestry
Management and Salmon in the Pacific Northwest"
|
February 7
|
Julia Jones, OSU Geography Professor
|
Discussion of past four weeks: Forestry
Land Use and Wildlife/Fisheries Issues |
February 14
|
Janine Rice,
Ph.D. candidate in Geography at OSU
and Jim Just, Executive
Director of Goal One Coalition |
"Urban Land
Use Conflict: A case of Citizens vs.
City" |
February 21
|
Todd Jarvis, Senior Researcher in Water Resources, Institute
for Water & Watersheds |
"True Grit:
Gravel, Grain and GIS - The Aggregate
Mining/Farmland Consensus Group Experience" |
February 28
|
Paul Klarin, Policy
Analyst for the Oregon Coastal Management Program |
"Coastal Hazards, Columbia River Sediment and Jetties, Liquid Natural Gas Plants, and Measure 37" |
March 7
|
Keith Cubic,
Planning Director for Douglas
County |
"Measure
37, why we have it and
what should be do now, from a professional (County) planner’s perspective"
|
March 14
|
Julia Jones, OSU Geography Professor
|
Discussion of past four weeks:
Controversial Land Use Issues and Conflicts
|
Geology Seminar Series
Thursdays @ 4:00 pm in
Wilkinson 108 (except where noted)
January 12
|
Brad
Singer, Department of Geology & Geophysics University of
Wisconsin-Madison |
"Structural
and temporal requirements for
geomagnetic field reversal from 40Ar/39Ar-dated
lava
flows" |
January 19
|
Steve
Hostetler, USGS, Corvallis/OSU |
"Present
and past
climate-wildfire interactions in the West" |
January 26
|
Jim
Tesoriero, USGS, Portland |
"Using
Age-dating and water chemistry to explain
the fate of contaminants in groundwater" |
February 2 (noon)
|
Charlie Bacon, USGS, Menlo Park |
Brown Bag seminar
on hot new U-Th zircon data for Veniaminof plutonic lithics from 3700 BP caldera-forming eruption. Also can talk about method and about Crater Lake granodiorite. |
February 2
|
Charlie
Bacon, USGS, Menlo Park |
"Lava–ice
interaction, caldera formation, and
magma evolution at Veniaminof volcano, Aleutian arc" |
February 9
|
Chris
Kincaid, University of Rhode Island |
"Modeling
circulation and
the thermal/chemical evolution of the mantle in subduction zones: A look at 2-D versus 3-D processes" |
February 16
|
Lisa
Morgan, USGS, Denver |
"Large
hydrothermal explosions in Yellowstone
National Park" |
February 23
|
Matt
Fouch, Arizona State University |
"Subduction
Zone Dynamics: Insights from
Anisotropy" |
March 2
|
John
Nabelek, COAS, OSU |
"Seismic
transect of the Himalaya" |
March 9
|
Anita Grunder, OSU Geology Professor |
"Insights into
the Development of Batholiths, the
Aucanquilcha Volcanic" |
March 16
|
Wayne
Thatcher USGS |
Title to be
announced |
last updated January 12, 2006 by ncs
|
