2009
September 1st
Welcome to a new academic year in the Department of Geosciences!
12:30-2PM, TH513
September 8th
No Seminar due to furlough day and campus closure
September 15th
Toward X-Ray Vision: Geophysical Signatures of the Complex Shallow Subsurface
Susan Hubbard
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
***Second Semi-annual Dawdy Lecture in the Hydrologic Sciences***
***Birdsall Dreiss Distinguished Lecture***
September 22nd
Water Flow Dynamics in the Changing Florida Everglades
Evan Variano
UC Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering
September 29th
Rupturing Continental Lithosphere in the Main Ethiopian Rift: a hot plume meets a cold craton
Simon Klemperer
Stanford University, School of Earth Sciences
***NSF-MARGINS Distinguished Lectureship Program***
October 6th
Of Elephants, Earthquakes, Caves and Hot Rock - Recent Geological Engineering Adventures
Edmund Medley
Geosyntec Consultants
***Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer in Engineering Geology***
October 13th
Initial Results from the Bering Sea, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program leg 323
Ivano Aiello
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
October 20th
No seminar, GSA meeting
October 27th
Fieldwork on the seafloor: geology of the Nankai accretionary prism, Tenryu submarine canyon, Japan
Kurtis Burmeister
University of the Pacific, Department of Earth and Environmental Science
November 3rd
Sources and effects of acidic deposition on alpine lakes in National Parks of the Rocky Mountains
Leora Nanus
San Francisco State University, Department of Geosciences
November 10th
New tools for understanding and mitigating rock fall hazards in Yosemite National Park
Greg Stock
Yosemite National Park, Resource Management and Science
November 17th
Optical properties of evolving water masses in complex aquatic environments
Sherry Palacios
UC Santa Cruz, Department of Ocean Sciences
November 24th
No seminar, Thanksgiving break
December 1st
Student presentations
December 8th
Interpreting Pleistocene coastal terrace deposits overlying the 80-Ka wave-cut platform, Point Reyes Peninsula, Marin County, California
Steve Woodley, BS Thesis Defense
December 15th
Student presentations
2010
January 26th
Inoceramid bivalves, benthic ecology, and sources of intermediate waters in the Late Cretaceous North Atlantic
Kenneth MacLeod
University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Geological Sciences
February 2nd
Probing Climate Change Impacts on High Elevation Groundwater Using Multiple Tracers
Jean Moran
California State University East Bay, Department of Earth and Environmental Science
February 9th
Cool Cuisine: Food Climate Connections
Eugene Cordero
San Jose State University, Department of Meteorology and Climate Science
February 16th
Into the Icehouse: What Ocean Algae Tell Us About Northern Hemisphere Glaciation
Kira Lawrence
Lafayette College, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences
February 23rd
How did James Hutton Make Modern Geology and Why Should You Care
Steve Norwick
Sonoma State University, Department of Geology
March 2nd
Current Perceptions of California Tornadoes: A Whirlwind of Change Since 1990
John Monteverdi
San Francisco State University
March 9th
Managed aquifer recharge as tool for sustainable management of ground water quality and quantity in agricultural basins.
Calla Schmidt
University of California, Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences
March 16th
No seminar today
March 23rd
– Student presentations
Post-Middle-Pleistocene Tectonic Development of the Confidence Hills, Southern Death Valley, California
Josh Goodman
March 30th
No seminar today – spring break
April 6th
Fire and Ice in Alaska: Adventures at Emmons Lake Volcanic Center, Eastern Aluetian Arc
Margaret Mangen
U.S. Geological Survey, Long Valley Observatory
April 13th
Geoscience for the Public Good: The Challenges of Initialing the Clean Up of S.F. Bay at the Potrero Power Plant
Jay Ach
Port of San Francisco, Maritime Division
April 20th
Making Learning Meaningful: Using Technology to Foster Place-based Teaching in an Introductory Physical Geology Course
Julie Monet and Todd Greene
California State University, Chico, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences
***Co-Sponsored with the Center for Science and Mathematics Education***
April 27th
Student presentations
Student conceptions of weather at multiple cognitive levels
Elizabeth Polito
MS thesis defense
April 29th
student presentations
Using surface curvature to map geomorphic process regimes in a bedrock landscape, Henry Mountains, Utah
Skye Corbett
MS thesis defense
Analysis of high-frequency radar data in Central San Francisco Bay
Max Hubbard
MS thesis defense
May 4th
Student presentations
The dependence of bedrock erodibility on rock material properties: is tensile strength enough?
Jonathan Beyeler
BS Thesis defense
Applying geochronology and zircon geochemistry in the Zanskar Himalaya, northwest India
Forrest Horton
MS Thesis proposal
Wave-driven set-up and surfzone circulation at Ocean Beach
Isaac Jones
MS Thesis proposal
May 11th
Student presentations
Effects of interannual to multidecadal climate variability on recharge in the United States
Amber Kuss
MS Thesis proposal
Damping characteristics of wave propagation across the muddy Louisiana shelf
Anita Engelstad
MS Thesis proposal
EBSD analysis of eclogitized rocks from the Marun-Keu complex, Polar Urals, Russia
Pariskeh Hosaini
MS Thesis proposal
May 13th
Student presentations
40Ar/39Ar thermochronometry of deformed muscovite from the Zanskar Shear Zone, NW India
John Sommerfeld
MS Thesis proposal
Effects of Climate Change on the Zero-Flux Plane in Semiarid Aquifer Systems
Brent Everett
MS Thesis proposal
Topographic and Lithologic Controls on Cobble and Boulder Distributions in Stream Channel Networks
Eric Donaldson
MS Thesis proposal
May 18th
Student presentations
Thermobarometry of Eclogite-Facies Shear Zones in the Lofoten Islands, Norway
Steve Dutra
BS thesis defense
Modeling recharge response in a California coastal aquifer to future climate conditions
Michelle Newcomer
MS Thesis proposal
Nonlinear energetics of shoaling ocean waves
Sang Pak
MS Thesis proposal
May 19th
Student presentations
Slip Rate on the San Andreas Fault, San Francisco Peninsula, California
Leah Feigelson
MS thesis defense
Geophysical evidence for Quaternary deformation within the offshore San Andreas Fault System, Northern California
Brian Stozek
MS Thesis proposal
May 20th
Student presentations
Upwelling conditions and sea surface temperature off Northern California in the early Pliocene
Chelsea Reed
MS thesis defense
Pliocene-Pleistocene climate evolution: was the cooling global?
Dominika Wojcieszek
MS thesis defense