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UTIG Seminars: Spring Semester, 2018

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

Click the image to playDateSpeakerTitleHost
January 19Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M UniversityWhy storms matter to climatePedro DiNezio
January 26Martin Puy, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIGLimitations on El Niño predictabilityPedro DiNezio
February 2Ganna (Anya) Portyankina, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado BoulderCold Jets in the Solar System with Focus on Mars and EnceladusJack Holt
February 9Sophie Nowicki, NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterWhy is projecting the sea level contribution from ice sheets so tricky?Ginny Catania
February 16Zachary Eilon, University of California, Santa BarbaraAn adaptive Bayesian inversion for upper mantle structure using surface waves and scattered body wavesHarm Van Avendonk
February 23Doug Brinkerhoff, University of MontanaIce and mud: how sediment dynamics drive periodicity in tidewater glaciersGinny Catania
March 2Piyoosh Jaysaval, UTIGHydrocarbon exploration using controlled-source electromagnetic method: from introduction to advances in modeling/inversionAdrien Arnulf
March 9Kaustubh Thirumalai, Brown UniversityPast and Future Extremes of the Indian OceanPedro DiNezio
March 23David Talmy, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWhat controls virus dynamics in global ocean microbial ecosystems?Patrick Heimbach
March 30An Nguyen, UT Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences (now Oden Institute)Arctic Ocean-Sea Ice State Estimation and Observing Network AssessmentGinny Catania
April 6Adrian Lenardic, Rice UniversityThe Asthenosphere, Mantle Convection, and the Dynamics of Plate TectonicsThorsten Becker
April 13James Tuttle Keane, California Institute of TechnologyThe Wibbly Wobbly Moon: The Rotational Dynamics of the Moon Over TimeDuncan Young
April 20Jean-Arthur Olive, l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, FranceShaping slow-spreading seafloor with detachment faultsLuc Lavier
April 27Vera Schulte-Pelkum, University of Colorado BoulderDeep crustal evolution, continental deformation, and the roots of faults from seismology and xenolithsThorsten Becker

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