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THE ALUMNI/SHELL OIL COMPANY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Spring Semester, 2008
Thursday January 10
12:00-1:00 pm 207 NS |
Dr. Roy Plotnick, University of Illinois - Chicago |
"Middle Pennsylvanian Paleokarst Fills of Illinois: A Window into Pennsylvanian Vegetation and Paleoenvironments " |
Thursday January 10
4:10-5:00 pm 204 NS |
Dr. Roy Plotnick, University of Illinois - Chicago |
"Let Us Prey: Trace Fossils, Foraging Ecology, Chemoreception, and the Origins of Marine Landscapes" |
Wednesday February 20
4:10-5:00 pm 204 NS
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Dr. Kirk Johnson - Denver Museum of Nature & Science - AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
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"Crocodiles in Greenland and Hippos in London: A Fossil-Fueled Tour of Past and Future Climates" |
Thursday March 13
4:10-5:00 pm 204 NS |
Dr. Michael Celia - Princeton University - Darcy Lecturer |
"Geological Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option" |
Thursday March 20
4:10-5:00 pm 204 NS |
Dr. Joshua Feinberg - University of Minnesota |
"Single Crystal Paleomagnetism: A New Approach to Measuring the Ancient Magnetic Field of the Earth and Solar System" |
Thursday March 27
4:10-5:00 pm 204 NS |
Dr. Steve Brown - Illinois State Geological Survey |
"A tale of 4 ice lobes: the deglacial history of southern Michigan and
northern Indiana after the last glacial maximum" |
Thursday April 3
4:10-5:00 pm 204 NS |
Dr. Thomas Lowell - University of Cincinnati |
"Climate Change, Glacial Lake Agassiz, and other Misadventures" |
Thursday April 17
4:10-5:00 pm 204 NS |
Dr. Pablo A. Llerandi-Román - Grand Valley State University |
"Implementing a geoenvironmental and sociocultural conceptual model for constructivist geoscience teacher education" |
Fall Semester, 2007
Thursday September 6
4:10-5:00 pm 204 NS
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Dr. James J. Butler Jr., Darcy Lecturer
Kansas Geologial Survey / U. of Kansas |
"Getting the Information Ground Water Modelers Need: A Report from the Field" |
Thursday September 20
4:10-5:00 pm 204 NS |
Dr.Jan Hendrickx
New Mexico Tech
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"Mapping evapotranspiration and soil moisture in the Middle Rio Grande Basin" |
Thursday October 18
4:10-5:00 pm 204 NS |
Dr. Steve Wheatcraft
University of Nevada, Reno |
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Thursday November 6
12:30-1:30 pm 204 NS |
Dr. Andrey Kalinichev
Michigan State University
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"Structure and Dynamics of Aqueous Mineral Interfaces and Interlayers: Computational Molecular Modeling Approach" |
Thursday November 8
12:30-1:30 pm 1420 BPS
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Dr. Alison Stokes
University of Plymouth, UK |
"What on EARTH do your students think they're doing?" |
Thursday September 20
4:10-5:00 pm 204 NS |
Dr. Kay Behrensmeyer
Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History |
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Spring Semester, 2007
Thursday January 25; 4:00 pm,
204 Natural Science Bldg. |
Dr. Michael Velbel, Michigan State University |
Stardust Mission Preliminary Examination Team Results from Comet 81P/Wild 2: Large-Scale Radial Transport of High-Temperature Minerals to Comet-Forming Regions in the Early Solar Nebula |
Thursday February 20; 4:00 pm,
204 Natural Science Bldg. |
Dr. Bridget Scanlon, Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin
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Impacts of Changing Land Use and Land Cover on Subsurface Water Resources |
Thursday march 15; 4:00 pm,
204 Natural Science Bldg. |
Dr. Bill Sauck, Western Michigan University
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Groundwater Exploration in Egypt: milliGals and Submarine Radio Communications |
Thursday March 22; 4:00 pm,
204 Natural Science Bldg. |
Dr. John Rakovan, Miami University
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REE incorporation in apatite: Surface structural controls and crystal chemistry |
Thursday March 29; 4:00 pm, 204 Natural Science Bldg. |
Dr. Jeff Nunn, Louisiana State University |
Migration pathways in the Central North Slope Foreland Basin: Thermal and solute constraints |
Thursday April 12; 4:00 pm, 204 Natural Science Bldg. |
Dr. Brandon Curry Illinois State Geological Survey
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Paleoenvironments and timing of the last deglaciation in Illinois - ice walled lakes, topographic inversions, and large floods |
Thursday April 19, 4:00 pm, 204 Natural Science Bldg. |
Dr. Kristi Rogers, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
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Expedition to the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar: Geology and Taphonomy of a Stressed Terrestrial Ecosystem |
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