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Guest Lectures



GEO 5050 Seminar Schedule, Spring 2013

3:00pm in the BSB E231

January 18
Kandy Knowles, Baylor DPS
Shooter on Campus

January 25
Dr. Katherine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University Climate Research Center
Climate Models and Climate Change: a Christian Perspective

February 1 (@ 4pm)
Dr. David Fastovsky, University of Rhode Island
K/T Boundary Extinctions

February 8
Dr. John Holbrook, Texas Christian University
Introductions for a Familiar Stranger: Rethinking Sequence Boundaries, Bypass, and Time in the Rock

February 15
Dr. Deborah Smith, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Maximum Magnitude Earthquake Assessment

February 18
Dr. Steven Forman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Holocene Lake level variability of Lake Turkana, Kenya and linkages to the Indian Ocean monsoon

February 22
TBA

February 28*
Dr. Henry Posamentier, Chevron Research
OT Lecturer, Public Lecture from 7:00-8:00pm

March 1
Dr. Henry Posamentier, Chevron Research, Departmental Lecture
Seismic Geomorphology

March 8
Dr. Pier Paolo Bruno, University of Utah & National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
High-resolution dense wide-aperture seismic profiling as a tool for seismic hazard assessment of fault-bounded extensional basins: examples from Vallo di Diano, Southern Italy, and from Centennial Valley, Montana

March 15
NO 5050, SPRING BREAK

March 22
Peter Nico, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA

March 29
NO 5050, GOOD FRIDAY

April 5
TBA

April 12
TBA

April 19
TBA

April 26
Awards Day
R.T. Hill, Outstanding TA, Dixion Field Assistantships, Convocation Recipients, etc.
Awards 2013 Power Point Presentation

May 3
TBA