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Spring 2006 |
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Seminar
Date
(Usually Fridays,
3:30 pm,
PC-432.
Refreshments follow.) |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
| SPECIAL DAY and PLACE! Monday!
9-January-06
PC-341 |
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecture:
Reservoir Quality Assessment: Petrography as a Tool for Deciphering
Kinetically-dominated Systems and the Need for Petrographic Education |
Kitty
Milliken, Senior Research Scientist, University of Texas at Austin |
| 20-January-06 |
Episodic
hypoxia in the Mississippi bight |
Charlotte
Brunner, Professor of Marine Science,
Department of Marine Science,
University of Southern Mississippi |
| 27-January-06
SPECIAL PLACE!
Wertheim Conservatory
(click for map) |
U.S. Science Support Program/ Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)
2005-2006
Distinguished Lecture,
The
Once and Future Warm Earth: A Paleoceanographic View (Abstract) |
Professor Emeritus Dr. Ted C. Moore, Jr., University of Michigan
|
| 3-February-06 |
Fossils,
frauds, and faults: trilobite hunting in the High Himalaya |
Professor Nigel C. Hughes
Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside
|
| 10-February-06 |
National Association of Geoscience Teachers Distinguished Lecturer
Series (Supported by Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.)
The
Tourist the Gunslinger and the Gardener: Rethinking Metaphors of
Teaching and Learning to Enhance Student Reasoning. |
Professors
David Steer and
David McConnell,
Department of Geology, University of Akron |
| 17-February-06
SPECIAL PLACE!
Wertheim Conservatory
(click for map) |
National Ground Water Association/National Ground Water Educational
Foundation 2006 Distinguished Darcy Lecture All
Models Are Wrong: How Do We Know Which Are Useful?
Abstract and Biography
|
Dr. Eileen Poeter
Professor of
Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, and Director of
the International Ground Water
Modeling Center |
| 24-February-06 |
International Association for
Mathematical Geology Distinguished Lecturer Series
Characterizing Reservoirs by Analyzing Injection and Production Rate
Fluctuations
Abstract and Biography |
Larry W. Lake, PE, Ph.D.
Professor of Petroleum and
Geosystems Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
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| 3-March-06 |
Dissertation Proposal:
Fluid flow and solute transport modeling using
Lattice Boltzmann model
Abstract |
Mr. Shadab Anwar, Ph.D.
student, FIU Department of
Earth Sciences |
| 10-March-06 |
Association for Women
Geoscientists-ConocoPhillips Distinguished Lecture
Subduction,
Seismicity, and Serpentinization: Capturing a Subduction Event
Abstract |
Professor Patricia Fryer
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of
Hawai'i |
| 17-March-06 SPECIAL PLACE!
Wertheim Conservatory
(click for map) |
2006
Birdsall-Dreiss Lecture Sponsored by the
Geological Society of America
Hydrogeology Division
Permeable Reactive Barriers for Treating Groundwater Contaminated by
Dissolved Metals |
Professor David W. Blowes
Canada Research Chair in Groundwater Remediation, Leader of the Groundwater Geochemistry and Remediation Group, Department
of Earth Sciences University of Waterloo
|
| 31-March-06 |
Dissertation Proposal:
Thermodynamic Behaviors and Melting of Highly Symmetrical Monoatomic
Structures
Abstract |
Mr.
Jozsef Garai Ph.D. candidate,
FIU Department of
Earth Sciences |
| 7-April-06 |
1:
Flow Characterizations of a Submarine Groundwater
Discharge (SGD) in Biscayne Bay
2: The Application of Fullbore Formation MicroImager (FMI) in Geology
3: Detailed Stratigraphy and Micropaleontology of a Possible Cretaceous
Tertiary Boundary in El Rayo Formation
4: Possible causes of the Pb isotope anomalies observed in some ore
deposits from South-Western Mexico
5:AHED Water
Quality Tool Development in SFWMD
|
Student presentations: 1: Hector
Casanova
2. Hui Zhao
3: Michelle Sanchez Flores
4: Adriana Potra
5: Yao Yan |
| 14-April-06 |
Dissertation Proposal:
Diatom-based Paleoecological Evidence of Combined Effects of
Anthropogenic and Climatic Impacts on Salinity, Nutrient Levels and
Vegetation Cover in Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay
Abstract |
Ms.
Anna Wachnicka Ph.D. candidate,
FIU Department of
Earth Sciences |
| 21-April-06 |
ADVANCES
IN THE STUDY OF DIAMONDS: GEOLOGY, DEEP EARTH DYNAMICS & SPACE SYNTHESIS |
Stephen E. Haggerty, FIU Department of
Earth Sciences Distinguished Research Professor, Mantle petrology,
diamonds |
Fall 2005
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Seminar
Date
(Usually Fridays,
3:30 pm,
PC-432.
Refreshments follow.) |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
| 2-September-05 |
Google Earth |
Dr. Mike Sukop, Earth Sciences Department,
Florida International University |
| 9-September-05 |
The Cuaba Gneiss, Dominican Republic: an ultra high pressure (UHP) metamorphic terrane in the northern Caribbean |
Professor Gren Draper, Earth Sciences Department,
Florida International University
|
| 16-September-05 |
Geophysical Investigation of a Cement Kiln Dust Site in Northern
Michigan (abstract) |
Kate Glaccum, Earth Sciences Department, Florida International
University
|
| 23-September-05 |
From
Petropavlask to Tolbachik, a panoramic field trip to the Kachatka
Peninsula |
Susan Wacaster, Earth Sciences Department, Florida International
University |
| 30-September-05 |
Submarine Groundwater Discharge: A
lesser-known route for material exchange across land/sea margins |
Dr.
Peter Swarzenski
United States Geological Survey, St. Petersburg
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7-October-05
|
Complex
zoning in plagioclase in Deccan Giant Plagioclase Basalts |
Melroy Borges, Earth
Sciences Department, Florida International University
|
| 14-October-05 |
The
Effects of Fluid Temperature, Fluid Concentration, Geology, and
Groundwater Flow in a Carbonate Platform |
Alyssa Dausman, Earth
Sciences Department, Florida International University and United States
Geological Survey |
| 21-October-05 |
Cancelled due to Hurricane Wilma
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| 28-October-05 |
Cancelled due to Hurricane Wilma |
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| 04-November-05 |
Between a
Mass Extinction and a Marine Revolution: Tails of the Middle and Late
Triassic Benthic Paleoecology |
Nicole Bonuso, Department of Earth Sciences University of Southern
California |
| 18-November-05 |
Geochemical
Determination of the Fate and Transport of Injected Fresh Wastewater in
a Deep Saline Aquifer
|
Virginia Walsh, Earth Sciences
Department,
Florida International University and Miami-Dade Water and Sewer
Department
|
| 2-December-05 |
From Ocean Mapping to Groundwater
Discharge on Biscayne Bay: Working with the NOAA Corps
|
Hector Casanova, Earth Sciences
Department,
Florida International University |
Previous years:
2003-2004,
2004-2005
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