Seminar Schedule
This is an archive. To view current seminar schedule visit the Friday Seminars Page.
The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston offers its seminars on most Friday afternoons during the fall and spring semesters. For more information regarding seminars please visit the seminars resource page.
Time: Most seminars are held at 11:00 am. A change of times will be noted under the date of the seminar.
Location: Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held in room SR1 116 of the Science and Research Building 1. A change of rooms will be noted in red (bold) in the Date column.
Assistance with Speaker Setup: An EAS TA is assigned the task of: providing lapel microphone and making a sound check, providing remote slide changer with built in laser pointer, and loading the speaker’s slides. For the spring 2016, semester this person is: Vanessa Caicedo (vacaicedo@uh.edu ).
Fall 2016 Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Presentation | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/27/2016 | N/A | ||
| 9/2/2016 | Tongwei Zhang University of Texas, BEG |
Gas adsorption and gas storage in organic-rich shale systems | Qi Fu |
| 9/9/2016 | Nicole Gasparini Tulane University |
Diagnosing climatic and tectonic controls on topography: Best practices and application to the Northern Bolivian Andes. | Peter Copeland |
| 9/16/2016 | James Klaus University of Miami |
Evolution of a Plio-Pleistocene reef margin in the Caribbean: Results of the Dominican Republic Drilling Project (DRDP) | Juan Carlos Silva-Tamayo |
| 9/23/2016 | Jeff Nittrouer Rice University |
Hydrodynamic controls on the downstream elimination of gravel in a tectonically active fluvial-deltaic system: a case study from the Selenga River, Lake Baikal, Russia. | Joel Saylor |
| 9/30/2016 | Nicolas Perez Texas A&M |
Structural inversion in the southern Peruvian Andes | Joel Saylor |
| 10/7/2016 | Kim Klitgord University of Houston |
Exploration of circum-Atlantic margins from government, academic and industry perspectives | Will Sager |
| 10/14/2016 | Janok Bhattacharya McMaster University |
Deep Rivers in Deep Time | Guoquan Wang |
| 10/21/2016 | Gustavo Cuchiara University of Houston |
Advances in Planetary Boundary Layer modeling | Bernhard Rappenglueck |
| 10/28/2016 | Zach Sharp University of New Mexico |
A calibration of the triple oxygen isotope fractionation in the SiO2-H2O system and applications to natural samples | Tom Lapen |
| 11/4/2016 | Dan Hauptvogel University of Houston |
Antarctic sediment provenance | Margarete Jadamec |
| 11/11/2016 | James Flynn University of Houston |
Preliminary results from one of the three major campaigns this summer, the first measurements of halogens coming in off the Gulf, measurements from the coastal waters of Korea, and measurements comparing NOx processing in clean (northern Michigan) and polluted forests (Conroe). | Qi Fu |
| 11/18/2016 | Robert Wellner ExxonMobil |
Less is More when it comes to Sequence Stratigraphy: Complex Sequence Boundary Development in the Lower Cretaceous Manville Group, Subsurface Alberta, Canada | Joel Saylor |
| 11/25/2016 | N/A | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| 12/2/2016 |
Stephen Roberts |
Reconstructing past temperatures in Antarctic lake sediments and penguin colony responses to climate and explosive volcanism on the Antarctic Peninsula | Julia Wellner |