Colloquium Schedule (FALL 2007)

Faculty Organizer: Michael Rosenmeier

The Department of Geology and Planetary Sciecne Colloquium is held in Thaw Hall, room 11 every Thursday from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (refreshments served at 3:45 pm down the hall in SRCC 219). Exceptions to the normal date, time, and/or room are indicated in red. Colloquium is now an official Departmental course requirement (GLG-1015/2015) for both undergraduate and graduate students.

WEEK	DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TITLE
1	8/30	Brian Stewart	Univ. of Pittsburgh	Departmental welcome and introduction
2	9/6	William Harbert	Univ. of Pittsburgh	Sequestration 101: Geology and geophysics relevant to CO2 sequestration
3	9/13	COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED
4	9/20	NO COLLOQUIUM: Departmental Picnic
5	9/27	Mariek Schmidt	Smithsonian Institution	Evidence for water in volcanic rocks seen by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in Gusev Crater
6	10/4	Michael Poage	Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania	Soil geochemistry of the Antarctic dry valleys
7	10/9	Terry Engelder	Pennsylvania State Univ.	Acadian-Alleghanian Orogenesis as revealed by fracturing within the Appalachian foreland
8	10/18	Bruno Frohlich	Smithsonian Institution	Forensic investigations of early hominid and Bronze Age human remains from Mongolia
9	10/25	Eric Ferre	Southern Illinois Univ.	Magnetic fabrics and physical processes in mafic magma chambers
10	11/1	NO COLLOQUIUM: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
11	11/8	Andrew Breckenridge	Mercyhurst College	Timing of regional late glacial events and post-glacial sedimentation rates from Lake Superior
12	11/16	Jason Briner	SUNY - Buffalo	Fjords and ice sheet dynamics: Lessons learned from applying cosmogenic radionuclides to the Northeastern Canadian Shield
13	11/22	NO COLLOQUIUM: Thanksgiving Holiday
14	11/29	Kenneth G. Miller	Rutgers Univ.	Global sea-level changes over the past 100 million years
15	12/6	T.B.A.	T.B.A.	T.B.A.