Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminars Fall 2009

All seminars will be held on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. in 303 Slone, preceded by refreshments at 3:30, unless otherwise noted.Aug. 27
Dr. Lahoucine Hanich, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology - Marrakech, Cadi Ayyad University – Morocco, “Management of the irrigation in the Tensift Wastershed, Morocco”

Sept. 3
Drs. Frank  Ettensohn, Alan Fryar, David Moecher, Dhananjay Ravat, Christopher Romanek, and Edward Woolery, “Current Research at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences”

Sept. 10 (MMRB 102, 4:15 PM)
Drs. Jim Cobb, Jerry Weisenfluh, Dave Harris, Zhenming Wang, Drew Andrews, and Jim Dinger, “Current Research of the Kentucky Geological Survey”

Sept. 17
Dr. James Hower, Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, “Studies of coal fires:  Kentucky, Alabama, and Wyoming”

Sept. 24
NO LECTURE (American Association of Petroleum Geologists Short Course, Sept. 22) 

Oct. 1
Dr. Donna Jurdy, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, “Mars Magnetic Mystery” 

Oct. 8
Dr. John White, Dept. of Geography and Geology, Eastern Kentucky University, “The Geology and Petrology of the Volcanic Island of Pantelleria, Italy”

Oct. 15
Dr. Gary O’Dell, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, Morehead State University, “Developing Student Research in Karst Hydrology”

Oct. 22
NO LECTURE (Geological Society of America Annual Meeting)

Oct. 29, 4:00 p.m. (W.T. Young Library Auditorium)
Dr. Len Peters, Secretary, Energy and Environment Cabinet, "Intelligent Energy Choices for Kentucky's Future: Developing Our Energy Resources in a Carbon-Constrained World"

Nov. 4 (7 PM, W.T. Young Library Auditorium)
Dr. Seth Stein, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, “How new science gives a much less scary view of central U.S. earthquakes”

Nov. 5
Dr. Seth Stein, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, “Studying the Great December 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami with the Earth’s Normal Modes”

Nov. 12
Dr. Jeffrey Greenberg, Geology Department, Wheaton College, Title TBA

Nov. 19
Dr. Sunil Mehta, U.S. Dept of Energy, Hanford, Washington, “Modeling Transport in the Engineered Barrier System For the Proposed High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain” 

Nov. 26
NO LECTURE (Thanksgiving Break)

Dec. 3 (Graduate Student Doubleheader)
Mr. John Warden, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, “The hydrology of Yalgorup National Park and its relation to Tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala) health”;

Mr. Suvankar Chakraborty, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, Title TBA