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  Friday
Room 234 McGilvrey Hall
2:15 - 3:15 p.m. (unless otherwise noted)
   
  Fall Semester 2009

September 4    Verne Friberg (U. Akron)

September 18    Edmund Medley, 2008-2009 Jahns Distinguished Lecturer in Engineering Geology: "Of Elephants, Earthquakes, Caves, and Hot Rock - Recent Geological Engineering Adventures"
Dr. Abdul Shakoor, Nate Saraceno, Dr. Edmund Medley, Sarah Hudy, Matt Waugh,
Tej Gautam, Yonathan Admassu, Madan Maharjan, Adem Ali, and Edmund Baffoe-Twum.

Oct. 2    Graduate student research presentations (Jenna, Yonathan, Adiel, Adina)

October 9    Joe Ortiz (Kent State University) "The Arctic Response to Global Change"

October 16    Michael R. Brudzinski (Miami University) "Dancing with the Plates: How the Earth Likes to Shimmy Before it Quakes"

October 23  Larry Wickstrom, State Geologist and Division Chief, Ohio Geological Survey, CO2 Sequestration

October 30    Peg Yacobucci (Bowling Green State University)

November 13    Duane Krueger (AEG President)

November 20    Kelly LaBlanc (Oberlin College) "Glacial dispersion patterns as a test for spatial modeling of subglacial quarrying"

December 4    John Kovacs (Gannett Fleming)

December 11  

 

  Spring Semester 2009

April 17    David A. Waugh, Ph.D. candidate in Geology, "Paleohistology of Decapod Cuticle"

March 18 (Wednesday)    Mark Molinari, AEG President and Principal Engineering Geologist, URS Corporation, Seattle WA, "The 2003 Washington SR-20 Rock Avalanche: A Case Study from Emergency Response through Characterization, Design and Construction"

February 27    Peter S. Dahl: Kent State University, "Geology and Geochronology of the Nemo Area, Black Hills, South Dakota: Implications for Precambrian Continental Reconstructions"

February 13    Jesse Davis: Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Thermochronology and Thermal Models of Incremental Pluton Emplacement: Insight into the Connections Between Plutons and Large Volume High Silica Ignimbrite Eruptions"

January 30    PhD students in Geology (N.P. Ranasinghage, D. Waugh, A. K. Ali, K. Amey, Y. Admassu, T. P. Gautam, A. Prvanovic) will present 7-10 minute summaries of their current research.

 
  Fall Semester 2008

November 21    David Steer, University of Akron
November 14    Rod Feldmann, Kent State University
November 7      Zeb Page, Oberlin College
October 24       Tracy Gregg, SUNY Buffalo, DIstinguished NAGT Lecturer
October 10       Shelley Judge, College of Wooster
September 26   Scott Simpson, Case Western Reserve University
September 12   John L. Clague, Simon Fraser University, Jahns Lecture