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UTIG Seminars: Fall Semester, 2014

Back catalogue of UTIG Seminars. Click the images below to watch a recording of the seminar.

Click the image to playDateSpeakerTitleHost
August 29Phil Duffy, Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryThe IPCC 5th Assessment Report: Process and Key FindingsKaustubh Thirumalai and Yuko Okumura
September 5Tyrone Rooney, Michigan State UniversityFrom Initiation to Termination - The Critical Role of Magma in Rift EvolutionHarm Van Avendonk
September 12Amelia Shevenell, University of South FloridaThe Southern Ocean Reveals Its Climate Secrets: Paleotemperatures from Antarctic Margin Marine SedimentsSean Gulick and Yuko Okumura
September 19Tim Bartholomaus, UTIGSeismicity, Seawater and Seasonality: Tracking Ice Loss From the Fronts of Tidewater GlaciersJoe MacGregor and Joseph Levy
September 26Fred Taylor, Senior Research Scientist, UTIGCoral Records of Paleo-Uplifts in Southwest Pacific Forearcs: Recurrence Times, Geography of Uplift, and Uplift Rates Varied Drastically Over a Few Thousand YearsNicholas Hayman and Joseph Levy
October 3Mrinal Sen, Professor and Jackson Chair in Applied Seismology, UTIGPushing the Limits of Seismic ResolutionNicholas Hayman
October 10Cyril Grima, Research Associate, UTIGLeveraging Radar Sounding with Surface Reconnaissance: From Antarctic Science to Planetary Landing SitesJoe MacGregor and Yuko Okumura
October 17Jay Pulliam, Baylor University & UTIGLithospheric Modification at the Southern Edge of Laurentia Revealed by Broadband SeismologyHarm Van Avendonk and Nicholas Hayman
October 24Dave Schneider, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Understanding Antarctic Climate Change in the Context of Global WarmingYuko Okumura and Joseph Levy
October 31Rodrigo Fernandez-Vasquez, Research Associate, UTIGDeglaciation of Marine Environments, Lessons and Questions from Patagonia and the Antarctic PeninsulaSean Gulick and Joe MacGregor
November 7Peter Clift, Lousiana State UniversityThe Asian Monsoon and Its links to Cenozoic OrogenesisKirk McIntosh and Harm Van Avendonk
November 14Aaron Wech, U.S. Geological SurveyUsing Messy Seismicity to Investigate Earthquakes and Plate Boundary DynamicLaura Wallace and Joe MacGregor
November 21Onno Oncken, Freie Universität Berlin, GermanyLocking, Mass Flux and Topographic Response at Plate Boundaries – The Chilean CaseNicholas Hayman
December 5Maureen Walton and Jie Xu, UTIGGraduate Student TalksSean Gulick and Craig Fulthorpe

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