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UTIG Seminars: Fall Semester, 2017

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

Click the image to playDateSpeakerTitleHost
September 1Alex Robel, California Institute of TechnologyA Theory of the Marine-Terminating Glacier Response to ForcingGinny Catania
September 8Zeyu Zhao, Research Associate, UTIGBuilding velocity models and Imaging subsurface with plane wave data
Mrinal Sen
September 15Ikuko Wada, University of MinnesotaMantle wedge flow patterns in subduction zonesThorsten Becker
September 22Rob Porritt, Research Engineering/Scientist Associate V, UTIGTowards multi-scale seismic imaging of the crust and mantleThorsten Becker
September 29Jingyi "Ann" Chen, Assistant Professor, UT Cockrell School of EngineeringOn the Use of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) for Monitoring the Dynamics of the Changing EarthGinny Catania
October 6Jaap Nienhuis, Florida State UniversityPredicting delta morphology and delta change on a global scaleJohn Goff
October 13Duncan Young, Research Scientist, UTIGSub-glacial landscapes from ice penetrating radar in Antarctica from the scale of ice cores to ice sheets scalesDon Blankenship
October 20Michelle Tigchelaar, University of WashingtonWhat drives Antarctic ice sheet evolution? Insights from 800,000 year ice sheet simulation with transient climate forcingPedro DiNezio
October 27Karen Fischer, Brown UniversityWhat puts the “plate” in plate tectonics?Thorsten Becker
November 3David Kring, Lunar and Planetary InstituteThe Chicxulub Crater and Implications for the Impact – Origin of Life HypothesisGail Christeson
November 10Andrew Kemp, Tufts UniversityClimate and sea-level variability during the past ~2000 years
Fred Taylor
November 17Yuko Okumura, Research Scientist, UTIGEl Niño and La Niña: Asymmetry, Impact and Decadal VariabilityPedro DiNezio
December 1James Biemiller, Kris Darnell, and Denis Felikson, UTIGGraduate Student TalksLuc Lavier, Laura Wallace, Peter Flemings, and Ginny Catania

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