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Spring 2005
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Seminar
Date
(Usually Fridays,
3:30 pm,
PC-432.
Refreshments follow.) |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
| 14-Jan-05 |
From
Icehouse to Supergreenhouse: Cretaceous Climate Change on Long and Short
Time Scales |
Dr. Brian T. Huber, Department of Paleobiology,
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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21-Jan-05
Special Place!
Wertheim Conservatory |
2005 Darcy lecture: Inert Gas Tracers in Ground Water |
Dr. Kip Solomon Professor and
Director of the Noble gas Laboratory,
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
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| 28-Jan-05 |
Word for large documents |
Mike Sukop/ FIU Earth Sciences
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| 4-Feb-05 |
Noninvasive Imaging of Preferential Flow Pathways in the Miami Oolitic Limestones(abstract,
movie) |
Dr. Mark P. Grasmueck
University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
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11-Feb-05
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Spatial Characterization of Multiphase Structures in 3D by Computed Tomography |
C-L. Lin, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering
University of Utah
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| 18-Feb-05 |
Travel and Geology of the Darien, Panama |
Laurel S. Collins
Associate Professor, Earth Sciences Department
Florida International University
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Special Time/Special Place!
Tuesday! 1-Mar-05 1:30 pm
Wertheim Conservatory |
2005 Birdsall-Dreiss Lecture: Examining the Exchange of Groundwater with the Stream/Floodplain System: Physical, Thermal and Geochemical Approaches with Ties to Stream Renaturalization
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Professor William Woessner/University of Montanna
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| 18-March-05 |
Geodetic GPS measurements in South Iceland: Strain accumulation and partitioning in a propagating ridge system |
Peter LaFemina, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
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| 01-April-05 |
Hurricane Induced Shoreline change to Florida barrier islands determined from LiDAR data |
Quin Robertson, Doctoral Candidate/International Hurricane Research Center
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| 8-April-05 |
1: Fracture Flow simulations based on geometrical characteristics
using LBM 2: Using Geochemical Archives in Lake Deposits as Indicators
for Paleolimnological Change
3: Clay Mineral Assemblages in Shallow
Marine Platforms: A Comparison between the Mexican and the Provencal
Platform
4: A New
Onscreen Technique Involving Measurement of Grain Dimensions in
Microscopic Scale Using GIS
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Student Presentations
1:
Carmen Serpa
2: Bryan Carrol
3: Camilo Ponton
4: Palov Pal
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| 15-April-05 |
1:
Composition of Plagioclase and
Pyroxene Hosted Melt Inclusions from Basaltic Andesites of the Current
Eruption at Arenal Volcano 2:
Analysis of Geologically Fractured
Terrain Using Remote Sensing and GIS : Establishing a Correlation
between Fracture Intensity and Vegetation Growth
3: Andesite Forming Processes Within Calbuco Volcano, Southern Chile
4:
Interannual variability in stable isotopic signatures of particulate
organic matter from Florida Bay and the Florida Reef Tract |
Student Presentations
1:
Susan Wacaster
2: Sumanjit Aich
3: Tiffany McKelvey
4: Samantha Evans
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Fall 2004 |
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Seminar
Date
(Usually Fridays,
3:30 pm, Special time, 2:30 pm -
PC-432.
Refreshments follow.) |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
| 3-Sep-04 |
Cancelled due to Hurricane Frances |
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| 10-Sep-04 |
Cancelled due to Hurricane Ivan |
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| 17-Sep-04 |
Bacteria-formed minerals: From Earth
to Mars? |
Dr. Hexiong Yang, Associate Professor in Mechanical
Engineering/Center for the Study of Matter under Extreme Conditions, Florida International University
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| 24-Sep-04 |
High-resolution
cyclostratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian interval: Paleoceanographic
implications, a comparison between DSDP Site 386 and ODP Site 1261A |
Peter Horst, Ph.D. candidate, FIU
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| 1-Oct-04 |
Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope
Patterns in Modern and Geologic Records from South Florida Coastal
Ecosystems |
Samantha Evans, Ph.D. candidate, FIU
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8-Oct-04
Special
Location:
Wertheim Conservatory |
South Florida Water Management
District's vision for the future |
Nicolás Gutiérrez Jr. Esq., Chair,
South Florida Water
Management District Governing Board.
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| 15-Oct-04 |
Capturing Surface-Level Winds during
Hurricane Landfall |
Forest Masters, Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering/International
Hurricane Research Center, Florida International University |
| 22-Oct-04 |
Brief History, Mission & Ongoing
Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project Aquifer Storage and
Recovery Work
and
A Planning Decision Framework for Brackish Water ASR Projects |
Chris Brown, Senior
Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Jacksonville, FL.
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| 29-Oct-04 |
The IHRC Response to Hurricane Charley
and
Fracture Flow Simulations Based on
Geometrical Characteristics Using Lattice Boltzmann Method
and
Trace element diffusion in Deccan
Giant Plagioclase feldspars
and
Geochemistry of a deep well injection
site, Miami-Dade County, Florida: initial observations
and
Equation of State for Multiphase
Simulations Using Lattice Boltzmann Methods: A review of existing
theories |
Quin Robertson
Carmen Serpa
Melroy
Borges
Virginia Walsh
Pedro Alvarez
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| 5-Nov-04 |
Changes in Paleoproductivity caused by
the Neogene closing of the Central American Seaway
(CAS): Inferences from Columbia Basin sediments
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Sreepat Jain, Ph.D. candidate, FIU
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| 12-Nov-04 |
Theory and Applications of SEM/FIB DualBeam Instrumentation |
Lucille Giannuzzi/FEI Company
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| 19-Nov-04 |
Emergence of the Isthmus of Panama:
Paleoceanographic implications in the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
and
Variation of Aptian facies and their
relationships with local physiographic influences on the
paleoceanographic global factors: An example from the Mexican and
Provencal platforms
and
Stable Isotope (15N, 13C)
Paleolimnological Investigation of Recent Sediments in Lake Monroe, FL,
USA
and
Analysis of Geologically Fractured
Terrain Using Remote Sensing & GIS
and
Diatom – Based Quantitative
Reconstructions of Salinity Fluctuations in Florida Bay (Florida, USA)
in the last 3000 yrs
and
Usage of sea grass-associated
foraminifera to reconstruct sea grass history of Florida Bay
|
Lizette
Leon-Rodriguez
Camilo Ponton
Bryan P. Carroll
Sumanjit Aich
Ania Wachnicka
Jie Cheng
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| 23-Nov-04 |
Seismic and Gravity Investigation of
Sediment Depth, Bedrock Topography, and
Faulting in the Tertiary Flint Creek Basin, Western Montana
and
Spatial Moment analysis of Reactive
contaminant transport in open channel with porous bed
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Jeremy Stalker
Shadab Anwar
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3-Dec-04
Special time, 2:30 pm |
Cutting the Devil's Toenails: Evo-Devo
in Jurassic
Oysters |
Doug Jones, Director and Professor,
Florida Museum of
Natural History, University of Florida
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