FIU
Fall 2009
Earth Sciences Graduate Seminar Series Generally Fridays, 3:00 -4:00 pm, PC 432
Seminar Date
Title
Speaker and Affiliation
August 28, 2009
Using Numerical Models to Meet Water and Environmental Challenges
Timothy J. Hazlett, Ph.D.
Vice President, Southeast
DHI
September 4, 2009 at Noon in PC-341
Hydrology of Volcanic Areas, with Particular Focus on Island Environments
Juan Carlos Santamarta Cerezal
Ingeniería Hidráulica , Civil y Forestal.
Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
September 11, 2009 4-5 pm in WC 130
How to Graduate Seminar
Please RSVP to Mery Castro by email (mejiam@fiu.edu)
FIU College of Arts & Sciences Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Professor Maureen A. Donnelly
Wednesday September 23, 2009
5 pm WC-130
Combined Environmental Studies/Earth Sciences Seminar
Economics of Groundwater Extraction in Small Scale Agriculture
Professor Mahadev Bhat
FIU Earth and Environment
October 2, 2009
3:15 pm
Mechanical Stratigraphy and Fracture Distribution in a Carbonate Oil Reservoir, Offshore Brazil
Professor Michael Gross
Tuesday October 13, 2009
5:15 - 6:15 pm WC-130
Dr. Emery Goodman, Angola Operations Technical Manager
ExxonMobil Production Company
Wednesday
October 14, 2009
Atmospheric Boundary layer and Hurricanes
Professor Ping Zhu
Friday
October 16, 2009:
Special Time:
4-5 pm
FUND YOUR SCIENCE: STRATEGIES FOR BEING SUCCESSFUL AT NSF
Barbara Ransom, PhD
Program Director, Oceanography
National Science Foundation
October 30, 2009
An Integrated Multidisciplinary Reservoir Study of the Middle Miocene Turbidites, Akhen Field, Offshore Nile Delta, Egypt
Dr. Essam Sharaf
Florida International University & US Geological Survey
November 6, 2009
Analytical and numerical modeling of open loop geothermal heating systems
Lorena Bello
Universität Tübingen
November 13, 2009
Student presentations
The use of U isotopes in continental subduction zones
Isotopic Studies of the Guerrero Terrane, Southwestern Mexico: Implications for Ore Genesis
Raul Brens
Adriana Potra
Printable Announcement
Wednesday November 18, 2009
The Everglades: Then and Now, Why and How
Dr. Thomas W. Dreschel
SECTION LEADER Watershed Management/Everglades Division
South Florida Water Management District
November 20, 2009
GeoMapApp and EarthChem applications for research and teaching / Plagioclase Phenocryst interpretations of the Azufre-Planchon-Peteroa volcanic center, Chile; Implications for magmatic processes
Comparing two methods for the detection of boundaries between slough and marl prairie vegetative communities
Modeling the Influence of Vegetation Dynamics on the hydrology of Awash River Basin using Semi-distributed Hydrologic Model
Sven Holbik
Mike Kline
Shimelis Dessu
December 4, 2009
Discovery of Upper Pleistocene Reefal Sponge Biostromes Within Relict Tidal Channels of the Miami Limestone, Southeastern Florida
Kevin Cunningham, PhD,
Florida Science Center, Ft. Lauderdale
United States Geological Survey
Friday, January 8, 2010
4-5 pm Wertheim Conservatory
National Ground Water Association 2010 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecture
Quantifying Flow and Reactive Transport in the Heterogeneous Subsurface Environment: From Pores to Porous Media and Facies to Aquifers
Timothy "Tim" D. Scheibe, PhD,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Friday, February 12, 2010
Geological Society of America Birdsall-Dreiss 2010 Distinguished Lecture Toward X-Ray Vision: Geophysical Signatures of Complex Subsurface Processes
Dr. Susan S. Hubbard, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
