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


Washington University in St. Louis E&P Sci Seminar List
List of past seminars: Spring '98-Fall '99 | Fall '00-Spring '01 | Fall '01-Spring '02 Fall '02-Spring '03
 

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