UNLV Geoscience Seminar Schedule, Spring 2013
Seminars are held on Wednesdays in the
Lilly Fong Geoscience Building (LFG), Room 102
4:00 - 5:15 pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
Date: 2/6 Speaker: Danping Yan Affiliation:
Colorado School of Mines/China Univ. of Geoscience
Topic:
Tectonic evolution of the Longmen Shan thrust belt, eastern Tibetan
Plateau
Date: 2/13 Seminar Cancelled
Date: 2/20 Speaker: TBA Affiliation:
TBA
Topic: TBA
Date: 2/27 Speaker: Katie
Keranen Affiliation: University of Oklahoma
(GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lectureship Program)
Topic: Extension beyond the rift boundaries:
magmatism, heat, and depth-dependent deformation in Ethiopia
Date: 3/6 Speaker: Economic
Geology Faculty Position Interview Lecture
Date: 3/13 Speaker: Economic
Geology Faculty Position Interview Lecture
Date: 3/20 No Seminar
Date: 3/27 No Seminar - Spring Break
Date: 4/3 Speaker: Noah
Planavsky Affiliation: Caltech/Dartmouth
Topic: New insights in Earth's oxygenation
Date: 4/10 Speaker: Matt
McMackin Affiliation: Consultants, Inc
Topic: TBA
Date: 4/17 Speaker: Whitey
Hagadorne Affiliation: UNLV
Topic: Death of a Megapredator
Date: 4/24 Speaker: Geoff Pumlee
Affiliation: USGS
Topic: Linking earth and health sciences to help
understand a fatal lead poisoning outbreak associated with artisanal
mining in Nigeria
Date: 5/1 Speaker: Stacia Gordon
Affiliation: University of Nevada Reno
Topic: Petrogenesis, timescales, and consequences of
partial melting in orogeny
Date: 5/8 Speaker: Russell Myers Affiliation: Corvus Gold
Topic: Applied Geochemistry
