Fall 2013
September 3
Welcome to the new academic year party
September 10
Applied Biogeochemistry and Environmental Policy Conundrums
Marc Los Huertos
Science and Environmental Policy, CSU Monterey Bay
September 17
The measure of topography: Using terrestrial lidar as a tool to quantify and model a landscape
Skye Corbett
US Geological Survey
***Semi-annual Earth & Climate Science Alumni Lecture***
September 24
The Many Uses of Trenching in Engineering Geology
James P. McCalpin
GEO-HAZ Consulting, Inc.
October 1
Integrated Water Management for Environmental Flows in the Rio Grande
Sam Sandoval Solis
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis
October 8
Sampling the Source of the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Frederick Chester
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University
***Consortium for Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer***
October 15
MIS-6 pluvial lake-level history of Lake Manly, Death Valley: tectonic implicaitons
John Caskey
Department of Earth and Climate Sciences, SFSU
October 22
Table Mountains, Tuffs and Neogene Tectonics of the Sierra Nevada & Walker Lane
Chris Pluhar
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, CSU Fresno
October 29
No Speaker Series – GSA Meeting
November 5
Gradients of Geomorphic Response of the Muddy River Drainage to the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980-2000
Tom Lisle
Senior Fluvial Geomorphologist, Stillwater Sciences
***Semi-annual Dawdy Lecture in the Hydrologic Sciences***
November 12
The changing northern–southern hemisphere temperature difference: historical observations and future projections
Andrew Friedman
Department of Geography, UC Berkeley
November 19 - Student Presentations
Near-surface structure of the San Andreas Fault, San Francisco Peninsula Segment
Carla Rosa
M.S. Defense
November 26
No Speaker Series – Fall Recess
December 3th - Student Presentations
Are discontinuous rating curves in sand bedded rivers due to bedform transitions or bed scour?
Yousef Yousfi
B.S. Defense
The influence of bed roughness on partial alluviation in bedrock channels
Jennifer Davis
M.S. Defense
December 5 – Student Presentations
Neotectonic characterization of the Los Osos/Edna Valley fault system
Aileen Chea
M.S. Thesis Proposal
Spring 2014
February 4th
Tethyan oceanic extensional complexes from Calabria, Italy and possible California analogues
David Shimabukuro
Department of Geology, Sacramento State University
February 11th
The early Pliocene: climate patterns of sustained global warmth
Petra Dekens
Department of Earth & Climate Sciences, SFSU
February 18th
Seeing clouds in 3D: Stereo photogrammetry of atmospheric convection
David Romps
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, UC Berkeley
February 25th
Wind canyons and zombie volcanoes: extreme geomorphology in the central Andes
Jonathan Perkins
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
***Semi-annual Earth & Climate Science Alumni Lecture***
March 4th
Why do gravel bed rivers meander?
Christian Braudrick
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
March 11th
Beneath the Volcano: Zircon and the evolution of Miocene magma reservoirs in the Colorado river extensional corridor
Jonathan Miller
Department of Geology, San Jose State University
March 18th
Testing the influence of observed global warming on the likelihood of unprecedented extreme events
Noah Diffenbaugh
Department of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford University
March 25th
No Speaker Series – Spring Recess
April 1st
Petroleum Exploration & Production--Through the Eyes of a Geochemist
Paul Henshaw
Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
April 8th
Pattern from process: simple strategies for understanding complex dynamics in aquatic landscapes
Laurel Larsen
Department of Geography, UC Berkeley
***Semi-annual Dawdy Lecture in the Hydrologic Sciences***
April 15th
No Speaker Series
April 22nd – Student Presentations
Mathematical Modeling of Fog Water Deposition, San Francisco, California
Ryan Corbett – MS Defense
Quasigeostrophic Diagnosis of an Explosively Developing Cyclone Along the Northern California Coast
Geoffery Roest – MS Defense
April 24th – Student Presentations
***Special day and time: Thursday 12:30 to 2 PM***
Experimental Study on Particle Size Reduction in Debris Flows
Omid Arabnia
Productivity Along the California Margin During Early Pliocene Warmth
Valerie Schwartz – MS Defense
April 29th – Student Presentations
Petrology and geochronology of high-grade metamorphic rocks from Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico
Derik Gonzales
Error Propagation and Uncertainty in Predictions of Nonpoint-Source Nitrate Contamination in Groundwater
ZiZi Searles – MS Defense
May 6th – Student Presentations
P-T-t-d History of the Great Himalayan Sequence in the Zanskar Shear Zone, NW India
Emma Beck – MS Defense
May 7th – Student Presentations
***Special day and time: Wednesday 11:30 to 1 PM***
(U-TH)/HE Apatite Exhumation Rates for the Central Black Mountains, Death Valley, California
Erika Amir – MS Defense
Post-Middle Pliocene Tectonic Development of the Noble Hills, Southern Death Valley
John Niles – MS Defense
May 8th – Student Presentations
***Special day and time: Thursday 12:30 to 2 PM***
Vulnerability of Recently Recharged Groundwater in the California Coastal Basin Aquifer to Nitrate Contamination.
Gabriela Geyer – MS Defense
ICP-MS and XRF Soil Metal Concentration Screening Comparison by Quantitative Analysis
Michael Wrigley – MS Defense
May 9th – Student Presentations
***Special day and time: Friday 12:00 to 12:45***
Origins of Water at the Exploratorium in Central San Francisco Bay
Maeve Daugharty – MS Defense
May 13th – Student Presentations
Coriolis Effects on Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation
Hannah Mewhirter – Senior Project
Petrotectonic Study of High-Grade Franciscan Rocks in the Vicinity of Ring Mountain, CA
Andrew Nieblas – BS Defense
May 19th – Student Presentations
***Special day and time: Monday 12:30 to 2 PM***
Dry Deposition Patterns and Short-Term Temperature Effects of Anthropogenic Black Carbon Emissions in Northern California
Ryan Ford – BS Defense
Determining the Urban Heat Island Effect in Black Rock City, NV Throughout the Course of the 2013 Burning Man Festival
Malori Redman – BS Defense
Observations of living-roof carbon, water vapor and heat exchanges using eddy covariance
Ryan Thorp – BS Defense