401/501 Colloquium Series

Spring 2010 Schedule of Talks

This weekly colloquium series is a long-standing tradition in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and is held in both Fall and Spring semesters. The talks present the results of current research by top geoscientists from around the world (including New Mexico).

Talks are always free and open to the public, and are held on Friday afternoons at 2:00 PM in Northrop Hall, Room 122 (the large Lecture Hall at the east end of the building). Refreshments are available before the talks beginning at 1:45 PM.

Note: This schedule largely complete. Please note the URL of the page (http://epswww.unm.edu/401seminar.htm) and check back. Sometimes schedules change and this page will be updated to reflect any changes that come up.

  • January 22
    No Colloquium Scheduled

  • January 29
    Please note Special Time for this talk only at 3:30 PM:
    David Gutzler, University of New Mexico, Earth & Planetary Sciences
    "Toward Prediction of North American Droughts"

  • February 5
    Kate Giles, New Mexico State University
    "Tracking the Migration of Salt Diapirs Using Halokinetic Sequence Stratigraphy"

  • February 12
    Colloquium Canceled for this Date
     (Sorry about the short notice)

  • February 19
    Libby Anthony, University of Texas at El Paso
    "Making a Difference One Volcano at a Time: Magma Processes and Geothermal Energy in the East Africa Rift System"

  • February 26
    Andrew Gettelman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder
    "Simulating Clouds in the Earth’s Climate System: How a Climate Model Deals With Clouds and Why They Matter"

  • March 5
    Arjun Heimsath, Arizona State University
    "The Earth is Eroding: Quantifying Surface Processes and Why We Care"

  • March 12
    Veronique LeRoux, Rice University
    "Major and Trace Elements Heterogeneities in the Earth’s Mantle Perspectives From Mantle Outcrops and Transition Metal Systematic of Basalts"

  • March 19
    SPRING BREAK - NO COLLOQUIUM

  • March 26
    Beckey Dorsey, MARGINS Guest Speaker
    "Crustal Recycling along an oblique-divergent plate boundary: from the Colorado Plateau to the Salton Trough and Gulf of California"

  • April 2
    Paul Koch, University of California, Santa Cruz
    "Conservation Paleobiology: Using the Past to Plan for the Future"

  • April 9
    Ken Macleod, University of Missouri
    ** Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer Series **
    "Inoceramid Bivalves, Benthic Ecology, and Sources of Intermediate Waters in the Late Cretaceous North Atlantic"

  • April 16
    Michael S. Fulp, Consulting Geologist, Albuquerque, NM
    "Geology Careers in the Exploration and Mining Industry"

  • April 23
    Nancy Riggs, Northern Arizona University
    "The Early Mesozoic Cordilleran arc as Reflected in Detritus in Upper Triassic Sedimentary Successions in the Basin and Range and Colorado Plateau"

  • April 30
    Mark Stone, University of New Mexico, Civil Engineering Department
    "The Influence of Riparian Vegetation on Flood Attenuation and Risk"

  • May 7
    EPS/ENVS Undergraduate Research Symposium
    Detailed Schedule information to be Announced.