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Fall 2012 Weekly Seminar Series

Talks are on Wednesdays, 4:00 to 5:20 pm in 110 Willamette Hall.
Tea and cookies are served in Cascade 200 beginning at 3:30 p.m.


September 26 - James Syvitski (University of Colorado—Boulder)
(in 200 Cascade Hall, From 3:00-4:00 pm, there will be no tea)
Title: Life at the edge: sinking deltas

October 3 - Kipp Shearman (Oregon State University)
Title: Monitoring Oregon's coastal ocean using autonomous underwater vehicle gliders

October 5 - Hermann Engelhardt (TBA)
(FRIDAY–in 200 Cascade Hall – Special Seminar)
Title: Kamb Ice Stream Surge Potential and the Instability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

October 10 - Matt Jackson (Boston University)
Title: The lost continents and oceanic plates: resurrection in mantle plumes

October 17 - Jason Amundson (University of Alaska—Southeast)
Title: Iceberg-choked fjords: A “new” granular material

October 24 - Ginny Catania (University of Texas—Institute of Geophysics)
Title: Understanding ice sheet variability

October 31 - Mike Dungan (University of Oregon)
Title: New perspectives on U-series investigations of arc magmatism

November 7 - Emily Roland (USGS—Alaska Science Center)
Title: Fault structure and earthquake rupture properties at the Gofar Fault, East Pacific Rise

November 14 - Kate Maher (Stanford University)
Title: A hydrologic thermostat for chemical weathering and the geologic carbon cycle?

November 21 - No Seminar – Thanksgiving Week
Title: TBA

November 28 - Andrea Ogston (University of Washington)
Title: Water-surface elevation controls on sediment-transport dynamics in muddy intertidal flats

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