Department of Geology Colloquium Series

DATE
SPEAKER INFO

Thurs.
Sept 18 2008
4:00 PM

"Sulphate Formation on Mars by Radiolytic Oxidation  of Sulphide Minerals"
by
Liliana Lefticariu (SIUC)


Thurs.
Oct 16 2008
4:00 PM

"Initiation of subduction by extrusion tectonics"
by
John Encarnacion (St Louis University)


Thurs.
Oct 23 2008
4:00 PM

"Magnetic properties of soil and their use as a proxy for soil drainage"
by
David Grimley (ISGS)


Thurs.
Oct 30 2008
4:00 PM

"Late Miocene to early Pliocene planktonic foraminiferal sea surface temperature estimates"
by
Brendan Lutz (Department of Geology SIUC)


Monday
Nov 3 2008
4:00 PM

" Evaluating Source to Sink Controls on the Permian Record of Deep-Water Sedimentation in the Delaware Basin, West Texas, USA"

by
Michael Gardner (Montana State University)
2008 AAPG Distinguished Lecturer


Friday
Nov 7 2008
4:00 PM

"Tracking the fate and transport of contaminants with heavy stable isotopes"
by
Tom Johnson (U. Illinois-Urbana)


Friday
Nov 7 2008
6:00 PM
Brown Auditorium

Special Presentation on Climate Change featuring "An Inconvenient Truth"
by
Scott Ishman (Department of Geology SIUC)


Monday
Nov 17 2008
4:00 PM

"Adventures of an ANDRILLian: Geoscience research in Antarctica"

by
LuAnn Dahlman (NOAA)
NAGT Distinguished Speaker


SPRING 2009


Thurs.
Feb 5 2009
4:00 PM

"Paleogeography of Ancient Egypt's Eastern Frontier, NW Sinai"
by
Stephen Moshier (Wheaton College)


Thurs.
Feb 19 2009
4:00 PM

"Microbial Geochemistry in Shallow-Sea Hydrothermal Systems"
by
Jan Amend (Washington University)


Thurs.
Mar 5 2009
4:00 PM

"When the Sahara was green: climate change and human occupation of North Africa during the Pleistocene"
by
Jennifer Smith (Washington University)


Thurs.
Mar 19 2009
4:00 PM

"When Good Rocks Go Bad: Pyrite Oxidation and the Generation of Acid Mine Drainage"
by
Jeanette Pope (DePauw University)


Thurs.
Mar 26 2009
4:00 PM

"Supergiant Fields in an Overpressured Lacustrine Petroleum System; The South Caspian Basin"
by
Greg Riley (AAPG Distinguished Speakere)


TUESDAY
Mar 31 2009
4:00 PM

"Paleoclimate and Human Evolution: What We've Learned from Scientific Drilling"
by
Andy Cohen (Univ. of Arizona)


Thurs.
Apr 16 2009
4:00 PM

"TBA"
by
Jim Drahovzal (Kentucky Geological Survey)
 

All talks are on Thursdays at 4:00 and are in Parkinson 110 unless otherwise noted. Refreshments and stimulating conversation begin at 3:30 in Parkinson 104.

For additional scheduling information, please contact:

Dr. Nicholas Pinter
Department of Geology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901-4324
Phone: (618) 453-7375
FAX: (618) 453-7393
E-Mail: npinter@geo.siu.edu

 

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