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Colloquium Series Schedule: 2012/13

 

All lectures will be on Friday, 3:30 - 4:30pm in B&G 0153, unless noted otherwise.

Please also note the weekly Planetary Science Colloquium.

Date

Name

Title

Sept. 14, 2012 Tony Irving (University of Washington)
Forensic Science of Meteorites: Samples from Extant and Former Primitive and Planetary Parent Bodies
Sept. 21
Patricia Corcoran (Western)
Plastics, Water and Beaches: a Degrading Relationship
Sept. 28 Terry Carter (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources)
Bedded Salt in Ontario: Geology, Mining and Hydrocarbon Storage
Oct. 5
Thanksgiving, No Colloquium

Oct. 12
Greg Hodges (Fugro Airborne Surveys)
Economic Geophysics: The (better) Integration of Geophysics and Geology
Oct. 19
Sobhi Nasir (Sultan Qaboos University)
Geological CO2 storage in Oman Ophiolite
Oct. 26 Wayne Goodfellow (Geological Survey of Canada)
Sedimentary-Exhalative (SEDEX) Deposits – Current Concepts
Nov. 2
Jisuo Jin/Phil McCausland (Western)
Using fauna to determine the location of the equator in North America during the Late Ordovician
Nov. 9 ES4452Z field participants

Geology of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa

Nov. 16
Ulrich Kretschmar (Golden Scarab Corporation)
Syngenetic Gold: Lode Vein Geology and Exploration Implications
Nov. 23
Don Lawton (University of Calgary)

Post-earthquake seismic reflection survey, Christchurch, New Zealand

Nov. 30
Departmental Retreat, No Colloquium

Dec. 7
Environmental Science 4949F students
Community Service Learning and Plastics Pollution


Economic Geophysics: The (better) Integration of Geophysics and Geology

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