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November

Webinar Highlight - Kenneth S. Deffeyes: PEAK OIL AND THE GREAT RECESSION 11.17.2009

October

Seminar Highlight - Kenneth S. Deffeyes: PEAK OIL AND THE GREAT RECESSION 10.27.2009

Geology 200 - Split Mountain 10.26.2009

AAPG BBQ 10.25.2009

Geology 200 - Stewart Lithia Mine 10.06.2009

September

Geology 200 - Lot D Brunton Exercise 09.15.2009

August

New Member of the Family 08.30.2009

June

Dr. Clive Dorman Appointed Department Educational Outreach Chair 06.04.2009

May

New Photos Online 05.28.2009

Dr. Patrick Williams - Receives Grant for "Recent Slip-per-Event History, Coachella Valley Segment, San Andreas Fault" 05.19.2009

Thesis Defenses Online 05.15.2009

Dr. Eric Frost, Dr. Barry Janov, and Dr. Gordon Lee - Receives Grant for "Theoretical Analysis, Explanatory Studies and Technical Services" 05.13.2009

Dr. Harold Magistrale - Receives Grant for "Construction of the Western Basin and Range Community Velocity Model" 05.13.2009

Dr. Harold Magistrale - Receives Grant for "Construction of the Western Basin and Range Community Velocity Model" 05.13.2009

Dr. Harold Magistrale - Receives Grant for "Enhancement of the Wasatch Front Community Velocity Model" 05.13.2009

Dr. Steven Day and Dr. Kim Bak Olsen - Receives Grant for "A Petascale Cyberfacility for Physics-based Seismic Hazard Analysis" 05.08.2009

Thesis Defenses - Wednesday May 13th 05.07.2009

Webinar Online - Shawn Wright: TIR spectroscopy of shocked Deccan basalt: Implications for Mars and Martian meteorites 05.07.2009

April

Seminar Highlight - Shawn Wright: TIR spectroscopy of shocked Deccan basalt: Implications for Mars and Martian meteorites 04.30.2009

Webinar Online - Elizabeth Cochran: Imaging Fault Damage Zones with Seismic and Geodetic Data 04.30.2009

Seminar Highlight - Elizabeth Cochran: Imaging Fault Damage Zones with Seismic and Geodetic Data 04.23.2009

Webinar Online - Brandon Browne: Not-So-Simple Cinder Cone Plumbing Systems: Examples From the Sierra Nevada 04.23.2009

Webinar Online - David T. King, Jr.: The Cretaceous-Paleogene ("KT") Boundary In Belize and Alabama 04.23.2009

Dr. Eric Frost - Receives Grant for "NONCLASS Enclave and MDA Collaboration" 04.23.2009

Seminar Highlight - Brandon Browne: Not-So-Simple Cinder Cone Plumbing Systems: Examples From the Sierra Nevada 04.18.2009

Dr. Barry Hanan - Receives Grant for "Collaborative Research: Geochemical Consequences of Slab Break Off and Lithospheric Delamination" 04.15.2009

Webinar Online - Jill Pearse: Post-rifting deformation in Afar, Ethiopia, following the 2005 intrusion event 04.13.2009

Seminar Highlight - Jill Pearse: Post-rifting deformation in Afar, Ethiopia, following the 2005 intrusion event 04.13.2009

Pacific Section Imperial Barrel Winners 04.08.2009

NEW SOFTWARE - Midland Valley 3DMove 04.07.2009

March

Webinar Online - Greg Hirth: Understanding earthquakes at the microscopic scale 03.26.2009

New Photos Online - Volcanology - Pinecate 03.24.2009

Seminar Highlight - Greg Hirth: Understanding earthquakes at the microscopic scale 03.23.2009

SDSU Science Sampler/San Diego Science Festival 03.11.2009

Seminar Highlight - David Bowman; Accelerating Moment Release Before Large Earthquakes: Life and Death of an Earthquake Prediction Scheme 03.11.2009

Annual Alumni Banquet - April 24, 2009 03.11.2009

Dr. Gary H. Girty Awarded the Presidents Top 25 Award 03.10.2009

Seminar Highlight - Technical Assessment of the Barents Sea Petroleum Potential 03.08.2009

New Photos Online - Alumni Field Trip 03.05.2009

Dr. George Jiracek - Receives Grant for "US Electromagnetic Geophysics Community Workshop" 03.02.2009

February

Webinar Online - Kathleen R. Johnson; Reconstructing Asian Monsoon History from Chinese Speleothems 02.19.2009

Seminar Highlight - Kathleen R. Johnson; Reconstructing Asian Monsoon History from Chinese Speleothems 02.13.2009

Webinar Online - Jared Kluesner; Geologic and Hydrologic Role of Sill Intrusion and Delineation of the Oceanic Crustal Boundary in the Central Gulf of California 02.11.2009

Seminar Highlight - Jared Kluesner; Geologic and Hydrologic Role of Sill Intrusion and Delineation of the Oceanic Crustal Boundary in the Central Gulf of California 02.05.2009

Webinar Online - Stephen T. Hasiotis; Ichnology for the 21st Century: Understanding the differences between continental and marine trace fossils, with implications to the diversity, distribution, and evolution of soil biota 02.05.2009

Dr. Steven Day - Receives Grant for "Earthquake Rupture Simulations: Thermo-mechanical Models, and Validation With Strong Motion Data" 02.04.2009

Dr. Thomas Rockwell - Receives Grant for "Improving the Chronology of Deformation and Earthquakes at La Rinconada, Argentina" 02.04.2009

January

Headwave Inc. Donates Software 01.26.2009

New Undergraduate Advisor - Jared Morrow 01.20.2009

Dr. Kim Bak Olsen - Receives Grant for "A Collaborative Project: 3D Rupture Dynamics, Validation of the Numerical Simulation Method" 01.02.2009

Dr. Pattrick Williams - Receives Grant for "Rate Constraints for the Hayward Fault at Berkeley: Evaluation of the 335-Meter Strawberry Creek Offset" 01.01.2009

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