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Seminar Series

SPRING 2012

University of Idaho / Washington State University

Seminars are held on Thursdays at 4:00pm with informal get-togethers with speakers starting at ~3:50pm.

  • All UI-hosted seminars are in McClure Hall, Rm 209.
  • All WSU-hosted seminars are in Webster Physical Sciences Bldg, Rm 11.


UI / WSU Seminar Series will resume in the Fall



Date

Location

Speaker/Title

Jan 19

UI

Ken Sprenke, University of Idaho
Ancient Mars: Some Circular Reasoning about Moons and Plumes

Jan 26

WSU

Katie Cooper, WSU
The Effects of Size, Configuration and Distribution of Continents on the Efficiency of Heat Transport

Feb 2

UI

Shemin Ge, University of Colorado
Groundwater and Earthquake Interactions - stress change beneath a reservoir

Feb 9

WSU

Gene Humphreys, University of Oregon
How accretion of Siletzia ended the Laramide orogeny, started the ignimbrite flareup, and eventually caused the Columbia River Flood Basalt eruptions

Feb 17

UI

Special FRIDAY Seminar, Chris Goldfinger, Oregon State University
Earthquake Recurrence, Segmentation, and Stress Triggering on the Cascadia Margin

Feb 23

WSU

John Goodge, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Uncovering the last continental frontier — peeling back the ice over Antarctica's geology

Mar 1

UI

Andrew Feustel, NASA
Adventures of a (Geoscientist) Astronaut: Nuts, Bolts, and Repairs in Earth Orbit

Mar 8

WSU

Chris Fisher, WSU
Recent advances (and applications) in radiogenic isotopic analysis by laser ablation (Lu-Hf, Sm-Nd, U-Pb)

Mar 15

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NO SEMINAR
***SPRING BREAK***

Mar 22

WSU

Allen McNamara, Arizona State University
Understanding Large-Scale Mantle Convection

Mar 29

UI

Rachel Walters, University of Florida
An NCIS approach to plume-ridge interaction at Iceland

Apr 5

WSU

Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin
Tectonic Evolution of Western Idaho: The Life and Times of the Western Idaho Shear Zone

Apr 12

UI

Juliet Crider, University of Washington
Paleorelief, paleogeotherm, and the state of the upper crust on the verge of orogenic collapse (Okanogan Range, Shuswap Metamorphic Core Complex, Washington and British Columbia)

Apr 19

WSU

Steve Self, The Open University
Emplacement mechanisms of continental flood basalt lava fields

May 3

UI

UI Graduate Student Presentations