Welcome to the Earth & Environmental Sciences Seminar Series
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SPRING 2013
| Date and time | Speaker | Institution | Title | Venue |
| Thursday, January 24, 4:00-5:00PM |
Dr. Rob Negrini | CSU Bakersfield | "A Middle Pleistocene Lacustrine Delta Underneath the Modern Kern River Alluvial Fan: Structural Control, Regional Stratigraphic Context, and Impact on Groundwater Quality" | MCL 121 |
| CANCELLED Friday, February 8, 12:00-1:00PM |
Dr. Jonathan Allen | Chevron, Bakersfield | "Improved Reservoir Characterization at Kern River Field, California, U.S.A: New Insights into an Old Field Using 4D Saturation Modeling" | |
| Wednesday, February 13, 12:00-1:00PM |
Jes Therkelsen | CSU Fresno | "Filmmaking & Science: Fostering Dialogue & Discussion through Media" | PB 191 |
| CANCELLED Wednesday, February 20, 12:00-1:00PM |
James P. McCalpin | GEO-HAZ Consulting Inc. | "The Mountains are Falling Apart; A Spectrum of Mass Failures from Landslides through Deep-Seated Gravitational Spreading (Sackung), to "Unfolding" of Folds" | |
| Friday, March 1, 1:00-2:00PM |
Dr. Katie Keranen | University of Oklahoma | "Extension beyond the rift boundaries: magmatism, heat, and depth dependent deformation in Ethiopia" | PB 192 |
| Thursday, March 7, 4:00-5:30PM |
Dr. Jay Lund | UC Davis | "Can we stop undermining our water supplies? Groundwater and California's water future" | PB 191 |
| Friday, March 8, 1:30-3:00PM |
Dr. John Wakabayashi | CSU Fresno | "The 2013 State of the Franciscan Address Complicated gets worse: The thick gray line between melanges and coherent unites and implications for subduction processes and engineering." | S2 125 |
| CANCELLED Thursday, March 14, 1:00-2:00PM |
Susan Cannon | |||
| Friday, March 15, 1:00-2:00PM *parking permit available for off campus participants- call 559-278-3086 for a parking code |
Dr. Charles "Chip" Lesher | UC Davis | "The SORET Effect Revisited: Implications for Magmatic Differentiation and Core - Mantle Interaction" | AG 109 |
| Monday, March 25-29 | SPRING BREAK | |||
| Wednesday, April 3, 5:00PM |
Switch Movie Screening | GSA Switch Energy Awareness and Efficiency Program | Switch Energy Project | PB 191 |
| Thursday, April 11, 1:00-2:00PM |
Dr. Dawn Sumner | UC Davis | "Curiosity on Mars: Characterization of a Habitable Environment" | PB 194 |
| Thursday, April 11, 4:30-5:30PM |
Dr. Dawn Sumner | UC Davis | "Curiosity on Mars: Adventures in Rover Science" | PB 194 |
| Tuesday, April 30, 4:00-5:00PM |
EES 201 Presentations | CSU Fresno | Student presentations | PB194 |
| Thursday, May 2, 1:00-2:00PM |
Dr. Kurt Cuffey | UC Berkley | "The Trough, the Cirque, and the Sierra: New Thoughts on Some Old Problems in Glacial Geomorphology" |
PB192 |
| Monday, May 6, 4:00-5:00PM |
EES 201 Presentations | CSU Fresno | Student presentations | PB194 |
FALL 2012
| Date and time | Speaker | Institution | Title | Venue |
| Monday, October, 1, 3:00-4:00PM |
Miriam Goldstein | UCSD | “Ecology of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: abundance, distribution and biotic interactions” |
EE 191 |
| Thursday, October 4, 4:00-5:00PM
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Dr. Jeff Knott | CSU Fullerton | Tephrochronology & Basin Evolution in Death Valley | MCL 121 |
| Thursday, October 18 | Dr. Roy Shlemon | AEG | AEG Meeting | ___ |
| Monday, October 22, 2:00-3:00PM |
Dr. Kathleen Marsaglia | CSU Northridge | "Chasing Bits and Pieces of New Zealand From Source To Sink: Sand Provenance Studies in New Zealand Sedimentary Systems and Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration Across “Zealandia” | EE 191 |
| Thursday, November 1, 4:00-5:00PM |
Dr. David John | USGS | "Miocene magmatism in the Bodie Hills volcanic field, California and Nevada: A long-lived eruptive center in the southern segment of the ancestral Cascades arc" | PB 191 |
| Thursday, November 8, 1:00-2:00PM |
Dr. Jonathan M.G. Glen | USGS Menlo Park | Tectonics of Surprise Valley: Potential Fields & Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing | S2 206 |
| Thursday, November 15, 1:00-2:00PM |
Bruce Hilton | AEG | Engineering Geology Along the CA High Speed Rail Corridor | PB 191 |
| Thursday, November 29, 4:00-5:00PM |
Dr. Kena Fox-Dobbs | University of Puget Sound | "Isotopic patterns among Kenyan savanna herbivores: gazelles, zebras and small mammals" | S2 309 |
| Thursday, December 13, 1:00-2:00PM |
Dr. Greg Stock | AEG | "Rock fall dynamics and deposition: an integrated analysis of the 2009 Ahwiyah Point rock fall, Yosemite National Park" | PB 191 |
