| Seminars | Saint
Louis University Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences |
| 2003-2004 Academic Year Schedule |
Seminars are held at 3:30 PM
(unless specified otherwise)
in Room 342 Macelwane Hall
Cookies and coffee at 3:15 PM
| Fall 2003 Speakers |
Date |
| Dr. Joel Aquino, formerly with Rio Tinto Mining - "How We Discovered a Gold Mine" | September 5 |
| Dr. Robert Pasken, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Meteorology - "Forecasting Pollen Concentrations in the St. Louis Area Using High Resolution Mesoscale Meteorological and Transport/Dispersion Models" | October 10 |
| Dr. Chuck Langston, Center for Earthquake Research and Information, University of Memphis - "Tanzania Safari: The Lithosphere of the East African Rift" | October 31 |
| Dr. William Ellsworth, Earthquake Hazards Team, USGS - "Scientific Drilling into the San Andreas Fault: The SAFOD Experiment" | November 7 |
| Dr. Rodger Edwards, Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK - "Storm Chase Forcasting" |
November 18 12:45 P.M. |
| Mimi R.
Garstang, RG, The Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources
- "The Missouri Geological Survey and
Resource Assessment Division: The Type of Work Done and the
Educational Requirements for Staff" |
November 21 |
| Spring 2004 Speakers | Date |
| Ms. Cheryl Seeger, The Missouri Department of Natural Resources - "Southeast Missouri Olympic Dam Type Deposits" |
January
16
|
| Dr.
William Dannevik, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
California - "Current Status of Climate
Change Research" |
January 23 |
| Dr. Jacques Hinderer, NASA Goddard Space Center, Maryland - "Results From the Global Geodynamics Project, 1997-2003" | February 13 |
| Dr. X. B. Yang, Iowa State University - "Effects of Weather and Impact of Climate on the Epidemics of Plant Disease" |
February
16
*MONDAY*
|
| Thomas Schlatter, Forecast Systems Lab, NOAA - "Trends in Meteorological Observing Systems for the Purpose of Mesoscale Prediction in the U.S." | February 20 |
| Dr. David Crossley, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, SLU - "Continental Hydrology and Atmospheric Pressure from a Ground-based Gravity Network" | February 27 |
| Dr.
Robert Ripperdan, U. Puerto Rico - "The Ordovician Glacial Epoch: A Pleistocene
Analog in a Paleozoic World?" |
March 4 *THURSDAY* |
| Dr.
Carolyn Dowling, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State - "A Geochemical Study of Arsenic Release Mchanisms
in the Bengal Basin Groundwater" |
March 8 *MONDAY* 3:00/3:15 |
| Dr. William Gallus, Iowa State University - "Warm Season Rainfall Predictability Issues" |
March 15 *MONDAY* |
| Dr. Eric
Brevik, Valdosta State University - "A 5,000 Year Record of Carbon Sequestration in
a Coastal Lagoon-Wetland Complex" |
March 16 *TUESDAY* 3:00/3:15 |
| Dr.
Andrey Bekker, Carnegie
Institution of Washington -"Dating the Rise of
Atmospheric Oxygen" |
March 19 |
| Dr. Rudy Wenk, University of California - Berkeley - "Directionality in the Earth: How Texture and Anisotropy Develop During Deformation" | March 26 10:00 AM |
| Dr. Craig Bina, Northwestern University - "Mantle Phase Transitions: Composition, Subduction, Stresses, and Seismicity" | April 23 |
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