Distinguished Lecturer Series
(The Distinguished Lecturer Series meets on Mondays at 3:30 pm in Geology Room 105 unless otherwise indicated*. Refreshments will be served. Questions should be emailed to
Tammy Rittenour (tammy.rittenour@usu.edu)
SPRING 2013
| Jan 7 | Departmental meet & greet | |
| Jan 11 | (Fri): Alan Hidy (Dalhousie University) 'New chronology for the oldest and most extensive Cordilleran Ice Sheet in NW Canada' | |
| Jan 14 | No seminar | |
| Jan 21 | MLK Day (no seminar) | |
| Jan 28 | Micah Jessup (University of Tennessee) 'Strain partitioning, partial melting and mid-crustal flow in the Himalaya' | |
| Feb 4 | Brandon McElroy (University of Wyoming) 'Not all rates are created equally- quantifying variability in topographic evolution' | |
| Feb 11 | Thomas Evans (Montana State University) 'Fluvial Terrestrial Vertebrate Taphonomy: Bodies and bones in rivers and why we care' | |
| Feb 18 | Presidents Day (no seminar) | |
| Feb 25 | Nancy Riggs (Northern Arizona University) 'The Early Mesozoic Cordilleran arc as reflected in detritus in Upper Triassic sedimentary successions on and off the Colorado Plateau ' | |
| March 4 | Travis Dunn (USU Police) 'Active Shooter' | |
| Mar 11-15 | Spring Break (no seminar) | |
| March 18 | Student | |
| March 25 | Larry Coats (University of Utah) 'Paleoclimates, Sea Ice, Mega-Icebergs, and Krill: The Complicated Occupation History of Adélie Penguins in the Ross Sea, Antarctica' | |
| April 1 | Alexis Ault (University of Arizona-USU) 'From cratonic surface histories to dating fault slip: Innovative applications of (U-Th)/He chronology' | |
| April 12 | (Fri): Warren Schulingkamp (Louisiana Geological Survey) 'The Bayou Corne, LA, Sinkhole: How Misinformation Can Lead to a Disaster' | |
| April 15 | Jim McCalpin (GEO-HAZ consulting) 'Paleoseismology; Has it Reduced Seismic Hazards, and if not, How Do We Change Course?' GSA Jahns Lecture | |
| April 15 (7pm) | Jim McCalpin (GEO-HAZ consulting) 'The Mountains Are Falling Apart; A Spectrum of Mass Failures from Landslides through Deep-Seated Gravitational Spreading (Sackung), to “Unfolding” of Folds' GSA Jahns Lecture. Location: Italian Place, Federal Ave (?) | |
| April 22 | Department Award Ceremony |
All lectures are held at 3:30 on Mondays in Geology rm 105 unless stated otherwise
Refreshments will be provided
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