All seminars are at 4 pm in the Geology building (#12), room 103, unless otherwise noted.
Schedule will be updated as more speakers become available.
The Baja Microplate: Its rigidity and the modern earthquake cycle
Rocco Malservisi, University of South Florida
Thursday, October 18
Pleistocene climate variability in tropical West Africa on interannual to orbital timescales, inferred from the Lake Bosumtwi sediment record
Nick McKay, SESES
Tuesday, October 23
Detrital signatures of Cenozoic foreland basin evolution in Columbia
Joel Saylor, SESES
Thursday, October 25
Aerial imagery for mapping invasive species, Buffel grass in remote aboriginal communities of the Musgrave Ranges, Australia
Victoria Marshall, University of Adelaide, Australia
Tuesday, October 30
Sabbatical research and networking in the Czech Republic, Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, France, Tanzania, and Bangladesh
Nancy Johnson, SESES
Tuesday, November 6
Testing the role of rift obliquity in the formation of the Gulf of California
Scott Bennett, University of California at Davis
Tuesday, November 13
Approaching the long-term shaping of European Cultural Landscapes through the use of multi-proxy paleoenvironmental analyses
Ana Ejarque, SESES
Tuesday November 27
Climate and provenance evolution history of the Chinese Loess Plateau during the past 8 million years
Dr. Junsheng Nie, Lanzhou University
Thursday, November 29
Continental-scale hockey sticks, Kiwi clams, carbon connections and other sabbatical activities
Darrell Kaufman
Tuesday Jan 22
Jahns lecture: The mountains are falling apart: A spectrum of mass failures from landslides through deep-seated gravitational spreading (sackung), to “unfolding” of folds
James McCalpin
Tuesday, January 29
A model-based evaluation of coupled soil carbon and water cycles in structurally heterogeneous savanna ecosystems
Frances O'Donnell
Thursday, January 31
From desert park to "war zone": shifting conservation landscapes on the US - Mexico border
Jessica Piekielek
Thursday, February 7
Oligo-Miocene extension at ground-zero in the India-Asia collision: Response to rollback of subducting Indian plate continental lithosphere
Peter DeCelles
Tuesday, February 12
Research activities at NAU's Institute for Sustainable Energy Solutions
Tom Acker
Tuesday, February 19
Using Reconnaissance Detrital and Igneous Zircon Dating to Unravel the Tectonics of Tibetan Terranes
Jerome Guynn
Tuesday, February 26
Holocene climate variability; evidence from the Eastern North Atlantic
Hans Petter Sejrup
Tuesday, March 5
The Sequence Stratigraphic and Paleoclimatic Controls on Microbial Carbonates of the Carbonate-evaporite Dominated Late Carboniferous (Moscovian) Paradox Basin, Southeastern Utah
Gary Gianniny
Thursday, March 14
Opportunities with Arizona Hydrological Society
Mariah Giardina
Tuesday, March 26
Oil Sands: Canadian Experience, Global Implications
Michael Collier
Tuesday, April 2