ESS Seminars & Lectures - Spring Quarter 2008


ESS SEMINAR SERIES are held in Johnson Hall (JHN) 102,  3:30-4:50 (unless otherwise noted)
Refreshments served in the foyer prior to the seminar.


Thursday, April 3
2:00 pm, MSB 123
Special Oceanography Seminar
Dr Glenn Spinelli, New Mexico Tech, Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz
Title: Fluid and heat circulation on the Juan de Fuca Ridge flank and in Nankai Trough subduction zone

ESS SEMINAR SERIES
3:30 pm, JHN 102
Professor Anita Grunder, Oregon State University, Geosciences
Title: Volcanic perspective on batholith assembly: the Aucanquilcha Volcanic Cluster
of the central Andes

Friday, April 4
1:30 pm, MSB 123
MG&G Specialty Seminar
Dr Glenn Spinelli, New Mexico Tech, Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz
Title: Sediment strength and deformation affected by opal cementation

Monday, April 7
12:30 pm, JHN 117
ESS Brown Bag Seminar
Jessica Dake and Molly Ravits. ESS Undergraduates
Title: Avoiding shelly pahoehoe in Paradise: Pele awakes at the arrival of UW geologists

Wednesday, April 9
3:00 pm, Location TBA
Oceanography Seminar
Dr Evan Solomon, UC San Diego, Ph.D. Scripps
Title: TBA

Thursday, April 10
12:30 pm, Location TBA
MG&G Specialty Seminar
Dr Evan Solomon, UC San Diego, Ph.D. Scripps
Title: TBA

ESS SEMINAR SERIES
3:30 pm, JHN 102
Professor David Schmidt, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon.
Title: Reanalysis of the Oregon Cascadia uplift data and a new model for
locking on the subduction zone

Wednesday, April 16
3:00 pm, OTB 14
Oceanography Seminar 
Dr Mike Hutnak, USGS, Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz
Title: Enormous heat and fluid fluxes driven through mid-plate outcrops on ocean crust

Thursday, April 17
12:30, MSB 123
MG&G Specialty Seminar
Dr Mike Hutnak, USGS, Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz
Title: Hydrothermal fluid circulation on the eastern flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge: Observations and numerical models

ESS/QRC SEMINAR
3:30 pm, JHN 102
Professor George Hilley, Stanford University, Stanford Tectonic Geomorphology Lab (STGL)
Title: Erosional Controls on Chemical Weathering of Bedrock

Monday, April 21
12:30, JHN 117
ESS Brown Bag
Dan Morgan, ESS Graduate Student
Title: Conquer your own penal colony (formerly known as Boobies)

Thursday, April 24
ESS/QRC SEMINAR
3:30 pm, JHN 102
Professor Paul Bierman, University of Vermont, Geology Department
Title: Eroding and Incising the Appalachian Mountains

Thursday, May 1
ESS/QRC SEMINAR
3:30 pm, JHN 102
Professor Dorothy Merritts, Franklin and Marshall, Earth and Environment
Title: Natural Streams and the Legacy of Water Powered Milling

Friday, May 2
12:30, JHN 127
ESS Brown Bag
Lucy Walsh, ESS Undergraduate Student
**NOTE DAY CHANGE FOR THIS WEEK ONLY**

Tuesday, May 6
MINDLIN LECTURE SERIES
7:30 pm, JHN 102
Professor Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado, Boulder
Title: New Horizons' Mission to Pluto 
(general audience talk)

Wednesday, May 7
MINDLIN LECTURE SERIES
3:30 pm, JHN 111
Professor Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado, Boulder
Title: New Horizons' Observations of the Jovian Magnetosphere
(technical talk)

Thursday, May 8
MINDLIN LECTURE SERIES
12:00 noon, JHN 102
Professor Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado, Boulder
Lunchtime discussion regarding the status and retention of women 
in the disciplines of physics and astronomy.
(Open to all individuals who are interested in this topic.)

ESS SEMINAR SERIES
3:30 pm, JHN 102
Professor Meredith Nettles, Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Title: Glacier flow and glacial earthquakes in Greenland

Monday, May 12
12:30 pm, JHN 117
Jody Bourgeois, ESS Professor
Title: Sicily, why you wish you were going

Wednesday, May 14
ESS SPECIAL Seminar - Research Faculty Candidate (Planetary Science)
3:30 pm, JHN 111
Stephen Wood, Research Scientist, UW
Title: Co-evolution of icy-dirt surfaces in the solar system

Thursday, May 15
ESS SEMINAR SERIES
3:30, JHN 102
Professor and Chair Alan Levander, Rice University, Department of Earth Sciences
Title: Lithospheric deformation along a subduction to transform plate boundary 
in the southern Caribbean

Monday, May 19
12:30, JHN 117
ESS Brown Bag
Colin Hailey, ESS Undergraduate
Title: TBA

Wednesday, May 21
10:30 am, JHN 117
FINAL EXAM
Erin Lay, Physics Graduate Student
Title: World-wide Lightning Location and Lightning-to-Ionosphere Coupling

Thursday, May 22
ESS AWARDS PROGRAM
3:30 pm, JHN 102

Monday, May 26
HOLIDAY

Tuesday, May 27
3:30 pm, JHN 026
ESS SPECIAL Seminar - Research Faculty Candidate (Planetary Science)
Giuseppe Mitri, NASA Postdoctoral Research Associate, JPL/CIT
Title: Titan's Surface and Interior

Thursday, May 29
ESS SEMINAR SERIES
3:30 pm, JHN 102
Professor Roland Bürgmann, UC Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Title: Active Tectonics and Non-Tectonics of the San Francisco Bay Area

Friday, May 30
QRC Talk
11:30 am - 12:30 pm, JHN 377 (QRC Library)
Nancy E. Brown, Ph.D., UW, Earth and Space Sciences
Title: A Particle Interactions Cellular Automata Model for Channel Form 
Evolution, Particle Motion, and Steady State Roughness

Monday, June 2
12:30 pm, JHN 117
ESS Brown Bag
Andie Ritchie, ESS Graduate Student
Title: TBA

2:00 pm, JHN 117
FINAL EXAM
James Prager, Physics Graduate Student
Title: Experimental Investigation of Plasma Downstream of a High Power Helicon

Thursday, June 5
ESS SEMINAR SERIES
3:30 pm, JHN 102
Professor Eric Cheney, UW, Earth and Space Sciences
Title: Cenozoic shortening on the eastern flank of the central Cascade Range, 
Washington State, USA

Friday, June 6
Atmospheric Sciences Colloquium
3:30 pm, JHN 075
Professor Stephen Warren, UW, Atmospheric Sciences
Title: The Snows of Eastern Siberia (Yakutia and Chukotka)

Monday, June 9
1:30 pm, JHN 117
MASTERS EXAM
Erin Whorton, ESS Graduate Student
Title: Debris-Laden Basal Ice Layers: Their Effects on Polar Glacier
Dynamics

Friday, June 13
9:30 am, ATG 154
FINAL EXAM
Lora Koenig, ESS Graduate Student
Title: Firn Properties Relevant to Passive Microwave Remote Sensing

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