Fall 2007/2008 Lecture Series
Departmental
Seminar Series: unless otherwise stated, all seminars meet in
room 10 Shideler Hall at 4:00 pm.
Refreshments are served prior to each lecture, beginning at 3:30 pm in room 113 SHD. Contact Brian Currie at 513-529-7578
if you have any questions.
Limper Lecture Series: unless otherwise stated, all lectures meet in room 115 Shideler Hall at 10:00 am. Refreshments are served prior to the lecture. Contact Kendall Hauer at 513-529-3320 if you have any questions.
Departmental News: check this feature for updates on the department.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Seminar Series
William K. Hart (Miami University)
"The Owyhee Plateau: A Window into 17 Million Years of Basalt Production in the Northwestern United States".
Seminar Series
Abinash Agrawal (Wright State University)
TBA
Seminar Series
"Silurian, Cretaceous, and Lower Miocene DNA Recovered from Primary Salt Crystals Reveals Unique Sequences and Unexpected Evolutionary Relationships within Halophilic Archaea".
Limper Lecture Series
Hailiang Dong (Miami University)
"Microbial Life in Extreme Environments - Implications for Environmental Cleanup and the Origin of Life".
Seminar Series
Lindsay Schoenbaum (Ohio State University)
"Tectonic-Climate Coupling: Erosion, Exhumation and High Topography in the Chinese Pamir."
Monday, October 22, 2007
Seminar Series
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Limper Lecture Series
Robert Stern (University of Texas @ Dallas)
"When did plate tectonics begin?"
R. Hays Cummins (Miami University)
"Hurricane Katrina - Science, Politics, and Catastrophe".
Seminar Series
"Magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE Deposits: The Role of Non-Magmatic Components."
Baldwin Frontiers in Geology Lecture
115 Shideler Hall @ 7:00 PM
Grant Heiken (Independent Consultant, Author, Past President International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior, Geologist (retired) Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Gods and Monsters - Human Perceptions of Volcanoes".
10 Shideler Hall @ 4:00 PM
Grant Heiken (Independent Consultant, Author, Past President International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior, Geologist (retired) Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Geology and Sustainability - The View From Rome".
Monday, November 12, 2007
Seminar Series
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Limper Lecture Series
Amy Weislogel (University of Alabama)
"Relationship between collisional tectonics, erosional exhumation, and sediment production: Insights from the Late Triassic Songpan-Ganzi turbidite complex, central China".
Jason Rech (Miami University)
"Climate and Culture Change in the Middle East".
Seminar Series
"Large Igneous Provinces and Ocean Drilling: Understanding the Ontong Java Plateau".
Seminar Series
Udo Becker (University of Michigan
"Nanoparticle-host interactions in natural systems."
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would like to be added to our seminar notice mailing list, please contact
Cathy Edwards by phone at 513-529-3216 or via email: edwardca@muohio.edu.
Hailiang Dong receives prestigious scientist award
Hailiang Dong, associate professor of geology, was awarded the Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Clay Scientist Award for 2008 from the Clay Minerals Society (CMS). It is the "highest award that our society presents to outstanding young researchers in the field of clay science based on their contribution to new knowledge through original and scholarly research" according to the society's president Ray Ferrell.
Dong received the award at the CMS annual meeting, held April 5-10 in New Orleans, at which he presented a keynote talk and a workshop.
Dong received the Miami University Distinguished Scholar Award for 2007-2008.