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Fall 2009 Seminars

Now Available: Spring 2010 Schedule


The Department of Geosciences at the University of Houston offers its seminars on most Friday afternoons during the fall and spring semesters.


Time: Most seminars are held at 3:00pm. A change of times will be noted under the date of the seminar.

Location: Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are held in room 116 in the Science and Research 1external building on the campus. A change of rooms will be noted in italics in the Presentation column.


Date

Speaker

Presentation
08/28/09 Dr. Kirt Campion
Marathon Oil		 Deep-Water Systems in West Africa - A Paradigm Shift in Exploration Models
09/04/09 Dr. Anne Thompson
Penn State University		 Pollution vs Dynamical Influences on Ozone Vertical Structure in the Sub-Tropics and Tropics:  Insights from Sonde Data
09/18/09 Dr. John Holbrook
University of Texas at Arlington		 Large Mid-Continent Earthquakes are a Thing of the Past: The Facies Proxy Record of Holocene Deformation Events in the New Madrid Seismic Zone Courtesy of the Mississippi River
09/25/09 Dr. Roger Bilham
University of Colorado		 TBA
10/09/09 Dr. David Abt
Brown University		 Shear-wave Splitting and Upper Mantle Flow Beneath Nicaragua and Costa Rica
10/23/09 Dr. John Weber
Grand Valley State University		 TBA
10/30/09 Dr. Scott Herndon
Aerodyne Research Inc./Boston		 Using A Mobile Laboratory To Characterize Urban Emissions And Their Atmospheric Fate
11/06/09 Dr. John Shafer Chronology of Martian Meteorites and the origin of the Shergottites
11/13/09 Dr. David van Acken Pyroxenite Formation in the Totalp Ultramafic Massif, Eastern Switzerland: Constraints from Highly Siderophile Elements
11/20/09 Dr. Kyle Strom
Civil and Envirn. Engrg., University of Houston		 Floc Properties and Settling Velocity of Galveston Bay Sediments