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Seminar Series

SPRING 2013

University of Idaho / Washington State University

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

  • UI-hosted seminars are in McClure Hall, Room 209.
  • WSU-hosted seminars are in Webster, Room B11.


April 25, 2013 (4:00pm, McClure 209)

Cenozoic Landscape Evolution of the Sierra Nevada and Basin and Range: Implications for Tectonics and Topography

Elizabeth Cassel, University of Texas at Austin



Date

Location

Speaker/Title

Jan 17

WSU

Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Washington State University
Planetary Habitability and Rapid Environmental Change

Jan 24

UI

Rosalba Bonaccorsi, NASA-Ames and SETI Institute
Astrobiology Field Research in a High-Fidelity Desert Analog Site: The Ubehebe Volcanic Field (Death Valley, California)

Jan 31

WSU

Ronald Sletten, University of Washington
Curiosity: Initial Results from the Mars Science Laboratory

Feb 7

UI

Brittany Brand, Boise State University
Integrating Field and Numerical Techniques to Understand the Dynamics of Pyroclastic Density Currents: Mount St Helens

Feb 14

WSU

Sarah Gleeson, University of Alberta (Canada)
Chlorine Isotopes in Hydrothermal Systems

Feb 21

UI

Brian Yanites, Geological Sciences, University of Idaho
Controls on landscape evolution: insights from natural and numerical experiments

Feb 28

WSU

Holly Stein, AIRIE Program, Colorado State University and CEED Centre of Excellence, University of Oslo, Norway
Re-Os Archive in the Earth's Crust

Mar 7

UI

Eric Mittelstaedt, Geological Sciences, University of Idaho
Keeping it thin and hot: A weight management plan for aging oceanic lithosphere by interaction with the Galapagos Mantle Plume

Mar 14

Spring Break -- No Seminar

Mar 21

WSU

Mike Cosca, USGS (Denver)
SEMINAR CANCELLED
Timing and Composition of Pliocene Volcanism from Northern Colorado and Implications for the Northern Rio Grande Rift

Mar 28

UI

William Phillips, Idaho Geological Survey
The Last Glaciation of Idaho

Apr 15

UI

Student Seminars

Apr 18

UI

Erik Gulbranson, University of Wisconsin
The response of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change: polar environments during the late Paleozoic ice age

Apr 25

UI

Elizabeth Cassel, University of Texas at Austin
Cenozoic Landscape Evolution of the Sierra Nevada and Basin and Range: Implications for Tectonics and Topography