UNLV
Geoscience Seminar Schedule, Spring 2010
Seminars are held on Wednesdays in the
Lilly Fong Geoscience Building (LFG), Room 102
4:00 - 5:15 pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Topic |
January
13 |
Don Weidner
|
Stony Brook University |
High Pressure Rheology and Deep Earthquakes |
January
20
|
Safak Altunkaynak
|
Istanbul Technical University |
Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Post-Collisional Magmatism in Western Turkey: Petrologic and Geodynamic Implications |
January
27 |
Tom Piechota
|
UNLV |
Climate Change, Drought, and Water Supply of the Southwest |
February
3 |
Claudia Cannatelli |
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
Thermodynamic Modelling as a Tool to Understand the Evolution of Magmatic Systems: Campi Flegrei's Case Study |
February 10 |
John Wakabayashi |
Fresno State University
|
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Mélange? Another Look at the Notorious Mélanges of the Franciscan Complex, California |
February 17 |
Alan Gishlick
|
Peabody Museum of Natural History |
Geology on Bizarro World: Creationism and the Grand Canyon |
February 24 |
Donna Whitney
|
University of Minnesota
|
Subduction Dynamics and the Structural Petrology of Lawsonite Eclogite and Blueschist |
March
3 |
Interview Seminar
|
UNLV Geoscience Department
|
|
March
10 |
Paul Marinos
|
NTUA Athens, Greece
|
AEG Jahns Distinguished Lecture: Geology and Dam Engineering: An Evolving Contribution of Engineering Geology for Safety and Efficiency
|
March
17 |
Dave Moecher
|
University of Kentucky
|
Earthquake Cold-Case: The Petrologic Evidence for the Nature of the Deep Seismogenic Zone |
March
24 |
Interview Seminar
|
UNLV Geoscience Department
|
|
March
31
|
NO SEMINAR
|
|
Spring Break
|
April
7 |
Craig Manning
|
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
In Deep Water: New Insights into Geologic Fluids of the Crust and Upper Mantle - and Beyond |
April
15
(Thursday) |
Adolph Yonkee
|
Weber State University |
Evolution of Curved Mountain Belts: Up Around the Bend in the Wyoming Salient, Sevier Fold-Thrust Belt |
April
21 |
Mike Kraft |
Arizona State University |
Assessing Recent Weathering on Mars by Orbital Spectroscopy |
April
28 |
TBA |
|
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May
3 |
NO SEMINAR |
|
Finals Week |
Lilly Fong Geoscience Building (LFG) 104B
Phone: 702-895-3262; Fax: 702-895-4064
Email: geodept@unlv.edu
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Department of Geoscience
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 S. Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154-4010 |
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