Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Topic |
| Aug. 26 |
UNLV Geoscience Faculty
|
UNLV Geoscience Department |
My Summer |
Aug. 28
(Friday) |
UNLV Geoscience Students
|
UNLV Geoscience Department |
My Summer |
| Sep. 2 |
Ganqing Jiang
|
UNLV Geoscience Department |
Redox Evolution at the Dawn of Animal Life |
| Sep. 9 |
Brenda Buck |
UNLV Geoscience Department |
Salt Heave: A New Formation Process for Patterned Ground and Model for Hyperarid Soil Formation, Atacama Desert Chile |
| Sep. 16 |
Gabriel Judkins |
UNLV Geoscience Department
|
Mexican Produce Agriculture and Land Degradation: A Study of Soil Salinization in the Mexicali Valley, Mexico |
| Sep. 23 |
James King
|
Desert Research Institute,
Las Vegas |
Salty Dust: Seasonal Variations of PM10 Dust Emissions at the Salton Sea, CA |
| Sep. 30 |
Scott Ball
|
MWH Americas, Inc.
|
Engineering Geology and Geologic Documentation During Tunnel Construction - A Case Study |
| Oct. 7 |
Peter Reiners
|
University of Arizona (Tucson)
|
Thermochronology Outside the Box |
| Oct. 14 |
Paul Hall
|
Boston University
|
A Viscous Plug in the Ridge Sink: Melting, Dehydration, and Plume-Ridge Interaction
|
| Oct. 21 |
NO SEMINAR
|
|
GSA Conference |
| Oct. 28 |
Bill Leeman
|
National Science Foundation (NSF)
|
Snake River Plain-Yellowstone Rhyolites as a Key to Understanding a
Lithosphere-Scale Magmatic System
|
Nov. 4
|
Edward Evenson
|
Lehigh University
|
Dave Weide Memorial Lecture Series: Charles Darwin, Geologist, and the Origin of Darwin's Boulders
|
| Nov. 11 |
NO SEMINAR
|
|
Veteran's Day |
| Nov. 18 |
Scott Nowicki
|
UNLV Geoscience Department |
The Surface Layer of Earth and Mars Viewed in the Infrared |
| Nov. 25 |
NO SEMINAR |
|
Thanksgiving Recess |
| Dec. 2 |
Harry Green |
Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES) |
How do Earthquakes Occur Deep Inside the Earth? |
