Except as noted, all presentations are in GY143 at 4:00 p.m., with refreshments served in the lobby at 3:30 p.m.

January 14 - Juergen Schieber, Indiana University
Colloquia Organization and a Talk on Shales

January 28 - Aileen Yingst, UWisc Green Bay
Geology Without the Rocks: Conducting Field Work on One Planet When You're Stuck On Another.

February 7 - Michael Peacoc, AAPG lecturer
Athabasca Oil Sands: Understanding the Oil Sands from the Regional Scale to the Project Scale, Kearl. - A Case History

February 11 - Eric Calais, Purdue University
The East African Rift: Present-Day Kinematics and Current Rifting Events

February 18 - Paul Hoffman, Harvard, Double Treat
Brownbag: Cap carbonates: Signatures of snowball Earth?
Colloquium: The Pleistocene glacial controversy and discovery of the greenhouse effect and the dynamic lithosphere

February 25 - Dibyendu Sarkar, UT San Antonio
Arsenic in Urban Environment: A Promising Remedial Alternative to an Emerging Public Health Issue

March 3 - Laura Crossey, U. New Mexico
"Continental Smokers"
Abstract

March 17 - Jeanette Pope, DePauw University
TBA

March 24 - Gary Parker, UIUC
Cyclic steps from the high mountains to the bottom of the ocean: a universal morphology of rivers and turbidity currents

April 7 - Stephen Mojzsis, U. Colorado
A glimpse into the nature of the Hadean Earth from the chemistry of pre-3.9 billion year old zircons

April 14 - Bob Downs, U. Arizona
Compression Mechanisms of Minerals

April 21 - Michael Brudzinski, Miami U., Ohio
Bump and Grind: The Hazards of Plates that Want to Get Down

April 28 - Bill Dietrich, UC Berkeley
Is there a topographic signature of life?"

Please contact Tricia Miles to make arrangements for a colloquium presentation or to submit an abstract for an upcoming colloquium.