Spring 2013 Colloquium Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk |
| 1/25 | Chad Deering, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh |
The temporal and spatial distribution of volatile
transfer from source to surface in the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand. |
| 2/22 | Harm Van Avendonk, University of Texas at Austin, GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecturer |
Seismic
refraction study of the Cocos Plate offshore Nicaragua and Costa Rica. |
| 3/7* Thur. |
Jonathan Warnock, Northern Illinois University |
Variable nutrient cycling in Holocene Prydz Bay. Thursday in Davis Hall, room 309, 4:00pm |
| 3/22 | David Mills, Northern Illinois University |
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations and Surface
Water Quality. |
| Clint Bailey, Northern Illinois University |
The use of groundwater geochemistry and stable isotope
analyses to identify the source waters of The Nachusa Grasslands Nature Conservancy's conduit
springs. |
|
| 3/29 | Kasey Todd, Northern Illinois University |
The effects of shear deformation on planetesimal core
segregation: Results from in-situ X-ray microtomography. |
|
4/5 |
Cait Randerson, Northern Illinois University | Small scale glaciations during the Pliocene in the
AND-1B core. |
| Phil Kenroy, Northern Illinois University |
Fracture controlled paleohydrologic systems in the vicinity of salt diapirs. |
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| 4/12 | Karel Waska, Northern Illinois University |
Hyper-alkaline aquifers of Calumet Wetlands. |
| 4/19* 5pm DH309 |
Jordan Clark, University of California, Santa Barbara |
Reorganization of groundwater flow in the
Floridian Aquifer during sea level rise following the Last Glacial Maximum. |
| 4/22* Mon. |
Sarah Friedman, Southern Illinois University |
Paleomagnetics of the lower oceanic crust at Hess Deep. |
| 4/24* Wed. |
Andrea Greer, Northern Illinois University |
Biodegradation of drilling fluid contamination South McMurdo Sound, Antarctica ANDRILL. |
| Rachael Hines, Northern Illinois University |
Amphibole stability using new thermobarometric formulations on calc-alkaline magmas of Volcan Dona Ines, Chile. |
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| 4/26 | Robert Stewart, ARCADIS |
Genesis of rare earth element (REE) deposits in weathering crusts from Southeast Asia. |
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, *except as noted. For maps or directions, and any updates to this schedule, please call the Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences at 815-753-1943.