Spring 2008 Colloquium Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title of Talk

Friday
Feb 8

Leslie Melim
Western Illinois University

"Geomicrobiology of Subaqueous Speleothems; A Geologist's View"

Friday
Feb 15

Kevin Smart
Southwest Research Institute

"Applications of Geomechanical Modeling to Problems in Structural Geology and Tectonics"
- Cancelled

Friday
Feb 22

Paul Wallace
University of Oregon

"The role of water in subduction zone magmatism: New insights from melt inclusions in high-Mg basalts from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt"
- Cancelled

Wed
Feb 27

Michael Celia
Princeton University

"Geological Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option"  National Groundwater Association 2008 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecture

Friday
Feb 29

Jack Horner
Montana State University

"Dinosaur Diversity and Extinction Approaching the K-T Boundary"
Venue: MONTGOMERY AUDITORIUM

Friday
Mar 7

Enrique Gomezdelcampo
Bowling Green State University

"A Modified DRASTIC Model for Siting Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in Williams County, Ohio"

Friday
Mar 28

Sallie Greenberg
Illinois State Geological Survey

Illinois carbon sequestration (Title TBA)

Friday
April 4

Bryce Willems
Northern Illinois University

John Sosulski
Northern Illinois University

"Jokulhlaups of Disenchantment Bay, Alaska: Actions of a misbehaving glacier"

"Utilizing Ichnology to Understand the Depositional Environment of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica During the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene"

Friday
April 11

Cliff Clark
Sr. Division Geologist/Geophysicist
Cohort Energy Company

"Exploration Trends in the US Domestic Energy Industry with an Emphasis on Shale Gas Developments (with a secondary focus on the shortage of students studying geology, geophysics, and engineering, and the bright future in these fields)"

Friday
April 25

Beth Aarestad
Northern Illinois University

"CH₃OH in High-Pressure Phases of H₂O: Implications for Ice-Rich Planets"

All Colloquia are co-sponsored by the Graduate Colloquium Committee of Northern Illinois University.

All talks will be held in Davis Hall 308 at 4:00 p.m. on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, unless otherwise noted. For maps or directions, and any updates to this schedule, please call the Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences at 815-753-1943.