Colloquium Series Schedule: 2012/13

All lectures will be on Friday, 3:30 - 4:30pm in PAB 148, unless noted otherwise.

Please also note the weekly Planetary Science Colloquium.

Date	Name	Title
Jan. 11, 2013	Pablo Gonzalez (Western)	External non-tectonic modulation of crustal seismicity
Jan. 18	ES4490E students	Fourth year thesis project presentations
Jan. 25	Denis Tetreault (University of Windsor)	Exceptional Fossil Preservation: Invaluable Windows into the History of Life
Feb. 1	Carl Guilmette (University of Waterloo)	High-pressure anatectic paragneisses from the Namche Barwa, Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis: Textural evidence for partial melting, phase equilibria modeling and tectonic implications
Feb. 8	Galen Halverson (McGill University)	Late Proterozoic Emergence of a Habitable Planet: A Chronicle from Northwest Canada
Feb. 15	Ali Polat (University of Windsor)	The Origin of Archean Continental Crust: New Geodynamic Constraints from SW Greenland
Feb. 22	Reading Week - No Colloquium
Mar. 1	Allan Crowe (Environment Canada)	Deteriorating Beaches: are people or is nature to blame?
Mar. 8	Stephen Johnston (University of Victoria)	Bending and Breaking Pangaea
Mar. 15	Rob Rainbird (Geological Survey of Canada)	On the utility of sedimentary rocks and stratigraphic sequences to constrain Precambrian supercontinents: approaches, successes and limitations
Mar. 22	Rogerio Monteiro (Hutchison Visiting Professor, Western)	Structural Economic Geology: Ready for take-off! ... Can we make Western the runway?
Mar. 29	Good Friday, No Colloquium
Apr. 5	John Tse (University of Saskatchewan)	Do we understand the structure of amorphous silica?

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

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