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Welcome to the Seminar Series

Welcome to the Seminar Series in the Department of Geological Sciences!

This is the place to find out who, what, when, and where for our next scheduled seminar. The links will take you to a printable flyer announcing each speaker that can be posted.

If you would like to receive one of these announcements, either by normal postal services or by e-mail, then please let us know. As our seminar series evolves please let us know how we can make it better. In fact, if you know of someone who you think we should invite, then feel free to e-mail or write us.

We hope to see you there!

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Seminar Highlight

The Fall 2009 Schedule will be posted soon!

Spring 2009 Seminars
*All seminars start at 1pm in CSL 422 unless otherwise noted*

February 4th - 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
Stephen Hasiotis - University of Kansas, Department of Geology
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February 11th - Geologic and Hydrologic Role of Sill Intrusion and Delineation of the Oceanic Crustal Boundary in the Central Gulf of California
Jared Kluesner - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Physical Laboratory
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February 18th - Reconstructing Asian Monsoon History from Chinese Speleothems
Kathleen R. Johnson, Dept. of Earth System Science, UC Irvine
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March 11th - Technical Assessment of the Barents Sea Petroleum Potential
Imperial Barrel Team - San Diego State University, Department of Geological Sciences

To Be Rescheduled - Accelerating Moment Release Before Large Earthquakes: Life and Death of an Earthquake Prediction Scheme
David Bowman - California State University Fullerton, Department of Geological Sciences

March 25th - Understanding earthquakes at the microscopic scale
Greg Hirth - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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April 15th Post-rifting deformation in Afar, Ethiopia, following the 2005 intrusion event
Jill Pearse - California State University Fullerton, Department of Geological Sciences

April 22nd Not-So-Simple Cinder Cone Plumbing Systems: Examples From the Sierra Nevada
Brandon Browne - California State University Fullerton, Department of Geological Sciences
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April 29th - Imaging Fault Damage Zones with Seismic and Geodetic Data
Elizabeth Cochran - University of California Riverside, Department of Earth Sciences
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May 6th - TIR spectroscopy of shocked Deccan basalt: Implications for Mars and Martian meteorites
Shawn Wright - University of New Mexico, Institute of Meteoritics and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Seminar Calendar
Past Seminars
The Fall 2008 Seminar Schedule
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The Fall 2007 Seminar Schedule
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The Spring 2006 Seminar Schedule
The Fall 2005 Seminar Schedule
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The Fall 1999 Seminar Schedule
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The Fall 1998 Seminar Schedule
The Spring 1998 Seminar Schedule
The Fall 1997 Seminar Schedule
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The Spring 1996 Seminar Schedule
The Fall 1995 Seminar Schedule
The Spring 1995 Seminar Schedule
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