Geosciences Department Seminar Series


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Department of Geosciences
2008 Spring Seminar Series

Geography Series
Tuesdays, 4:oo pm, 108 Wilkinson Hall**Unless otherwise noted

Date	Speaker	Title
April 8	Peter Walker University of Oregon Dept. of Geography	"New vision or end of the trail? Oregon's Measures 37 and 49 as ideological process."
Friday, April 18 235 Wilkinson Hall	JunJie Wu Oregon State University Dept. of Agriculture & Resource Economics	"Environmental amenities and urban spatial structures."
April 29	Thomas Harvey and Martha Works Portland State University Dept. of Geography	"Urban growth controls and the Galactic City: redefining a nearly ubiquitous metropolitan landscape." and "Can the way we eat change metropolitan agriculture?"
May 6	Mike Hibbard University of Oregon Dept. of Planning, Public Policy and Management	"The way forward: Strategic economic development in Kake, Alaska."
May 13	Rob Ribe University of Oregon Director, Institute for a Sustainable Environment	"Federal landscapes of the spotted owl: Public perceptions of changing forest plans and practices with notes on rural-urban differences."
Friday, May 23	Vivek Shandas Portland State University Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning	"Ecological Impacts of Human Choice: Preferences for riparian vegetation and water consumption along an urban to suburban gradient."
June 3	Roger Hammer Oregon State University Dept. of Sociology	"Rural-to-Urban and Urban-to-Rural Migration in Oregon."

Geology Series
Thursdays, 4:oo pm, 108 Wilkinson Hall**Unless otherwise noted

Date	Speaker	Title
April 3	Martin Streck Portland State University	"The complex assembly history of an unusual magma: high-magnesian andesite from Mt. Shasta."
April 10	Loren Davis Oregon State University	"Searching for the first Americans along the eastern Pacific margin: geoarchaeological problems and prospects."
April 17	Jeff Lee Central Washington University	"The North Himalayan Gneiss Domes, Southern Tibet: A window into middle crustal processes during continental collision."
April 24	Rebecca Bendick University of Montana	"Coseismic and post seismic displacements from the 8 October 2005 Kashmir earthquake."
May 1	Jon Major USGS, CVO	"Rapid fluvial response to removal of removal of Marmot Dam, Sandy River--the first winter's results."
May 8	Ray Weldon University of Oregon	"Reanalysis of the Oregon Cascadia uplift data and a new model for locking on the subduction zone."
May 15	Terry Toedtemeier Portland Art Museum	"Minus tide: photographs of intertidal features on basalt headlands of the northern Oregon coast."
May 22	John Clague Simon Fraser University and GSA Jahns Lecturer	"The last great ice sheet in Western Canada."
May 29 Gilfillan Auditorium	Uri ten Brink USGS, Woods Hole IRIS Distinguished Lecturer	"Peace and science in the Middle East."
June 5	Andrew Fountain Portland State University	"Glaciers and glacier change of the American west."

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