Department of Earth Sciences

Vancouver

Earth Sciences Seminar Series

Please note the change in days and times for this semester's series. All talks are on Mondays from 1:00-2:00 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 Doug Stead .

Jan. 11th	Allan Moss Rio Tinto Technical Services "Future challenges facing the mining industry"
Fri. Jan. 22nd at 10:30am in SSB 8114	Francesca Furlanetto SFU Earth Sciences "Detrital zircon and garnet geochronology of the Wernecke Supergroup (Yukon): implications for a new tectonic model of the Northwestern Margin of Laurentia"
Jan. 25th	Tom Styles SFU Earth Sciences "Modelling fractured rock slopes "
Thurs. Jan. 28th at 11:30 am	Eva Kopplehus Univ. of Alberta "Cretaceous Park, the ancient paleoenvironment of Dinosaur Provincial Park"
Thurs. Jan. 28th at 3:30 pm in IRMACS Theater	Phil Currie Univ. of Alberta "Feathered dinosaurs and origin of birds"
Feb. 1st	Robin Renaut Univ. of Saskatchewan "Geothermal processes in the Kenya Rift Valley: impacts on sedimentation and life"
Feb. 8th	Chris Barnes UVic "Earth-ocean processes and events in real time: early results from the NEPTUNE Canada cabled ocean observatory"
Olympic Break Feb. 15th - 26th	No Seminars
Mar. 1st	Rick Guthrie BC Ministry of Environment "GSI Guinsaugon: Unravelling the truth behind the deadliest single landslide in a decade"
Wed. Mar. 3rd at 2:30pm in ASB 9896	Calvin Campbell Bedford Institute of Oceanography CSPG University Outreach Lecture Tour "Evolution of a passive continental margin: Insights from the Cenozoic geological history of the continental margin off Nova Scotia"
Mar 8th	Maya Kopylova UBC "Metamorphic diamonds"
Mar. 15th	Davide Elmo Golder Associates "Applications of the discrete fracture network approach: when geology and engineering meets art"
Mar. 22nd	Brian Bornhold UVic "Landslide-generated tsunamis in coastal areas of British Columbia and Alaska"
Mar. 29th	John Cassidy GSC "The Great Chilean Earthquake of 2010 - Observations and Applications to Cascadia"
Tues. Apr. 6th	Derek Turner SFU Earth Sciences "Middle to Late Pleistocene stratigraphy, tephrochronology and paleoenvironments of the White River and Silver Creek, Yukon"
Apr. 12th	Francesca Furlanetto SFU Earth Sciences "Paleoenvironmental setting of the Wernecke Supergroup based on stable and tracer isotope geochemistry from carbonates and shales"