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School of Earth Sciences

2011-2012 Geophysics Department Seminars

Date(s):September 29, 2011 - May 31, 2012
Time:12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Location: Mitchell Building, Room 350/372

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Free and open to the public

All events in this series

September

29th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
"The Role of Shear Failure on Stress Characterization"
  • Speaker: Alvin Chan (Mark Zoback)
  • Related Departments: Shell Exploration & Production Company
October

6th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
"The Dynamic Petroleum System Concept"
  • Speaker: Ken Peters (Tapan Mukerji)
  • Related Departments: GES/Schlumberger
October

13th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Producing Natural Gas from Shale – Opportunities and Challenges of a Major New Energy Source
  • Speaker: Mark Zoback
  • Related Departments: Geophysics Department
October

20th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Geophysics Department Townhall Meeting
  • Speaker: Greg Beroza
  • Related Departments: Geophysics Department
October

27th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
In Situ Stress Estimation in the Shallow Nankai Accretionary Wedge
  • Speaker: Chandong Chang
  • Related Departments: Geophysics Blaustein Visiting Professor
November

3rd
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
An exploration of stream-riparian groundwater exchange: Integrating hydrologic and geophysical data
  • Speaker: Kamini Singha (Rosemary Knight)
  • Related Departments: Penn State University
November

10th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Relaxation Measurements to Determine Hydrogeological State Variables
  • Speaker: Kristina Keating (Rosemary Knight)
  • Related Departments: Rutgers University
November

17th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Imaging of multishot seismic data
  • Speaker: Luc Ikelle (Biondo Biondi)
  • Related Departments: Texas A & M University
December

1st
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Asymmetric crustal thinning of non-volcanic rifted margins formed by sequential normal faulting
  • Speaker: Marta Perez-Gussinye (Simon Klemperer)
  • Related Departments: Dept. Earth Sciences-University of London UK
January

12th
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Investigating the Crumbs of Creation

Special Time 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

  • Speaker: Sigrid Close
  • Related Departments: Stanford University, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
January

19th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Bridging the gap between empirical ground motion models and numerical simulations of ground motion
  • Speaker: Norm Abrahamson
  • Related Departments: Pacific Gas and Electric
January

26th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Living with a Restless Caldera - Campi Flegrei: A Scientific and Personal Journey Through the Land of Hades
  • Speaker: Tiziana Vanorio
  • Related Departments: Stanford University, Department of Geophysics
February

2nd
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
On modern software architecture for multiphysics modeling: This is not your parents' Fortran
  • Speaker: Damian Rouson
  • Related Departments: Sandia National Laboratories
February

9th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Deciphering tectonic tremor to track deep fault creep
  • Speaker: David Shelly
  • Related Departments: US Geological Survey
February

16th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Hot mantle upwelling across the 660 beneath Yellowstone
  • Speaker: Brandon Schmandt
  • Related Departments: Caltech
February

23rd
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Risking Tsunami: Geophysical hazards and disaster risk reduction
  • Speaker: Brian McAdoo
  • Related Departments: Vassar University
March

1st
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Numerical insights into the formation of the earliest crust on the Moon
  • Speaker: Jenny Suckale
  • Related Departments: Harvard University
March

8th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Waiter, there’s an eclogite in my jelly sandwich
  • Speaker: Vera Schulte-Pelkum
  • Related Departments: University of Colorado
March

15th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
TBA
  • Speaker: Marin Clark
  • Related Departments: University of Michigan
April

5th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Seismo-acoustic studies of volcanic eruptions: source processes and atmospheric propagation
  • Speaker: Robin Matoza
  • Related Departments: University of California, San Diego
April

12th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
TBA
  • Speaker: Helge Gonnermann
  • Related Departments: Rice University
April

19th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Towards subsurface borehole-based passive time-lapse monitoring
  • Speaker: Stew Levin
  • Related Departments: Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
April

25th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
TBA

Note special day (Wednesday)

  • Speaker: Peter van Keken
  • Related Departments: University of Michigan
May

3rd
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
A Discontinuous Understanding of Continental Plate Boundaries
  • Speaker: Brendan Meade
  • Related Departments: Harvard University
May

10th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Biogeophysics- Searching for Geophysical Signs of Life
  • Speaker: Estella Atekwana
  • Related Departments: Oklahoma State University
May

17th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
On the origin of Valles Marineris on Mars
  • Speaker: Jeff Andrews-Hanna
  • Related Departments: Colorado School of Mines
May

24th
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Decoding the multiscale poromechanics of shale
  • Speaker: Alberto Ortega
  • Related Departments: Schlumberger
May

31st
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Glacier dynamics: external drivers and internal modulation
  • Speaker: Gwenn Flowers
  • Related Departments: Simon Fraser University