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Earth Sciences Seminar Series

Please note the change in times for this semester's series. All talks are on Tuesdays from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in SSB 7172 (unless otherwise noted) . Coffee and nibblies provided (but bring your own mug) !

If you are interested in giving a presentation to the department, please contact Dr Derek Thorkelson.

Jan. 10th

Andrew La Croix
SFU Earth Sciences

"Bioturbation-Permeability Relationships in the Medicine Hat Gas Field, Southeast Alberta, Canada"

Jan. 17th

Lee Hunt
CSEG Distinguished Lecture Tour

Quantitative Interpretation, New Challenges, and Economic Value

Jan. 24th

No seminar scheduled this week
(Round-Up)

Jan. 31st

Nick Roberts
SFU Earth Sciences

"2007 Chehalis landslide-generated tsunami"

Friday Feb. 3rd at 12:00pm

Carl Mendoza
U of A

"Wetland-Forestland Interactions on the Boreal Plain:
Implications for Reconstruction of Oil-Sands Mine Sites"

Feb. 7th

Shahin Dashtgard
SFU Earth Sciences

"River Sedimentation and its Relevance For the Exploitation of Canada's Oilsands"

Feb. 14th

Reading Break - No Seminar

Feb. 21st

Yabing Zhang
SFU Earth Sciences

"A Synthetic Rock Mass (SRM) approach for modelling underground hard rock mine pillars"

WED. Feb. 29th at 10:30am

CANCELLED

Mar. 6th

Catherine Johnson
UBC

"The MESSENGER Mission to Mercury: New Views of the Innermost Planet"

Mar. 13th

Jeff Tepper
U of Puget Sound

"Tertiary volcanism and slab windows, NW USA"

Mar. 20th

Tom Pratt
USGS

"Fracture mechanics at a large scale: Central Washington’s faults, folds and the Olympic-Wallowa lineament"

Mar. 27th

Jeff Zurek
SFU Earth Sciences

"Rifting and growth of the shallow magmatic system of Kilauea, Hawaii, revealed through gravity data"

Apr. 3rd

Maurice Colpron
YGS

TBA

Apr. 10th

TBA