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Fall 2008 Seminars

DATE	SPEAKER/TOPIC	SPONSOR
Sept 4 4 pm MSEC 101	Glenn Spinelli - New Mexico Tech, Consortium for Ocean Leadership (IODP) Distinguished Lecturer: Effects of Fluid Circulation in Subducting Crust on Seismogenic Zone Temperatures. Abstract. Host: Murray	EB/H
Sept 15 3:30 pm MSEC 101	Robert Bowman - New Mexico Tech: Properties and Environmental Applications of Surfactant-Modified Zeolites	EB/H
Sept 18 4 pm MSEC 101	Chuck Chapin - NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources: Interplay of Tectonic and Oceanographic Paleoclimate Events during Middle to Late Miocene Sedimentation Across the Southwestern USA. Host: Newton	EB
Sept 25 4 pm MSEC 101	Dan Breecker - Univ New Mexico: Improved Understanding of Soil Carbonate Formation Reveals Sensitivity of Earth’s Climate to Atmospheric CO2. Abstract. Host: Stacy Timmons	EB
Sept 29 3:30 pm MSEC 101	Lonnie Thompson - Ohio State Univ: Abrupt Climate Change and Our Future (Frontiers of Geophysics Lecture from the 2007 AGU Fall Meeting. Recorded Webinar.) Host: TBA	H
Oct 2 4 pm MSEC 101	Wolf Elston - Univ New Mexico: The Amazing Bushveld: A Tale Of Two Catastrophes. Host: Condie	EB
Oct 6-10	No Seminars this week - GSA
Oct 13 3:30 pm MSEC 101	David Romero - Balleau Groundwater, Albuquerque: The Local Area of Influence for Water Development Projects and the Associated Relationship to Regional Water Planning in New Mexico. Host: Wilson	H
Oct 16 4 pm MSEC 101	Meredith Nettles - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University: Glacier Acceleration, Glacial Earthquakes, and Ice Loss at Greenland's Outlet Glaciers. Host: Aster/Bilek	EB
Oct 20 3:30 pm MSEC 101	Dennis McQuillan - NM Environment Dept, Santa Fe: Air, Water, Food and Sex. Host: Phillips	H
Oct 23	No seminar: NMGS Field Conference	EB
Oct 27 3:30 pm MSEC 101	David Borrok - Univ of Texas at El Paso: Application of Cu, Fe, and Zn isotopes to identify metal loading sources and mechanisms in stream waters. Host: Bowman	H
Oct 30 4 pm MSEC 101	Richard Lindsay - Noble Energy Inc., SEG Honorary Lecturer, North America: Forgotten Geophysics: A Reminder That First-Order Effects Should Come First. Host: Snelson	EB
Nov 3 3:30 pm MSEC 101	Denise Fort - Univ of New Mexico: Managed Underground Storage. Host: Wilson	H
Nov 6 4 pm MSEC 101	James Conca - Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, NMSU: Nuclear Energy and Radioactive Waste Disposal in the Age of Recycling. Abstract. Download PowerPoint slideshow presentation here (26 MB). Host: Scholle	EB/H
Nov 10 3:30 pm MSEC 101	Stephanie Moore - Daniel B. Stephens & Assoc., Albuquerque: Preparing for and Monitoring New Mexico's First Artificial Recharge Project. Host: Bowman	H
Nov 13 4 pm MSEC 101	Sean Connell - NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources: Drainage Interaction and Sedimentary Architecture in Asymmetrically Subsiding Basins Using Experimental Stratigraphy. Host: Newton	EB
Nov 17 3:30 pm MSEC 101	Amanda White - Los Alamos National Laboratory: Vegetation Variability and its Hydro-Climatologic Dependence. Abstract. Host: Vivoni	H
Nov 19 Noon MSEC 351	Peter Bromirski - Univ of California - San Diego: Seismology and Oceanography: Climate Connections. Host: Aster	G
Nov 20 4-6:30 pm IRIS PASSCAL	IRIS PASSCAL 10th Anniversary Open House: presentations, tours, food, and drink. Flyer. NMT article. Host: Aster	EB
Nov 27	No seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday	EB
Dec 4 4 pm MSEC 101	Sam Fernald - New Mexico State Univ: Acequia System Surface-water Ground-water Interactions. Host: Newton	EB/H
Dec 11 4 pm MSEC 101	Nigel Blamey - New Mexico Tech: Quantitative Fluorescence Lifetime Analysis of Hydrocarbon-bearing Fluid Inclusions: A Paragenetic Study	EB

SPONSOR LEGEND
EB	Department of Earth & Environmental Science and New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
H	Hydrology Program
G	Geophysics Program
EB/H/G	Multiple Sponsors

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