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UTIG Seminars: Spring Semester, 2017

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

Click the image to playDateSpeakerTitleHost
January 20Marc Andre Gutscher, CNRS, IUEM, University of Brest, FranceGeodynamics of the Calabrian subduction: Evidence from new seismic and bathymetric surveysJamie Austin
January 27Adam Sobel, Professor, Columbia UniversityUnderstanding deep convection by parameterizing large-scale dynamicsCharles Jackson
February 3Gerard Roe, Professor, University of WashingtonCentennial glacier retreat as categorical evidence of regional climate changeGinny Catania and Charles Jackson
February 10David Shean, Research Associate, University of WashingtonUsing repeat, high-res DEMs to quantify Antarctic ice shelf basal melt, mountain glacier mass balance, and landscape evolutionGinny Catania and Joseph Levy
February 15Scott Henderson, PhD Student, Cornell University
Geodetic Observations and Reservoir Models of Active Magmatic Intrusions in the
Central Andes
Gail Christeson
February 17Lori Glaze, Deputy Director, NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterVenus: The Forgotten PlanetPedro DiNezio and Krista Soderlund
February 24Jim Fuller, Postdoc, California Institute of TechnologySaturn Ring SeismologyThorsten Becker and Krista Soderlund
March 3Mitch D'Arcy, Postdoc, GFZ German Research Centre for GeosciencesLandscape Sensitivity to Climate: Debris Flow Fans in Owens Valley, CaliforniaPedro DiNezio
March 10Tim Goudge, Postdoc, UT Jackson School of GeosciencesExtraterrestrial Sed/Strat: Constraining the Evolution of a Delta Deposit on Mars using Remote SensingJoseph Levy and Jack Holt
March 24Colleen Dalton, Assistant Professor, Brown UniversitySeismological Constraints on the Temperature and Composition of the Lithosphere and AsthenosphereNicholas Hayman and Harm Van Avendonk
March 31Jennifer Telling, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of HoustonFrom South to North – LiDAR Data Along the San AndreasChastity Aiken
April 7Lars Hansen, Associate Professor, University of Oxford, United KingdomCauses and Consequences of Upper-mantle Seismic Anisotropy: The Link Between Olivine Microstructure and the Nature of Plate TectonicsThorsten Becker
April 14Megan Duncan, Postdoctoral Associate, Carnegie Geophysical LaboratoryThe Rise of Oxygen in the Atmosphere and the Carbon Subduction CycleMatthew Weller
April 21Julie Elliott, Assistant Professor, Purdue UniversityAn Integrated View of Tectonic Deformation in the Northeastern PacificSean Gulick
April 28Valerie Trouet, Associate Professor, University of ArizonaInfluence of the North Pacific Jet stream on California hydroclimate and wildfire regimes over the last 500 yearsKaustubh Thirumalai and Jud Partin
May 5Patrick Heimbach, Associate Professor, UT Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences (now Oden Institute)An ECCO Perspective on the Early 21st Century Temporary Surface Warming SlowdownYuko Okumura

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