Distinguished Lecture Series

	Chevron proudly sponsors the University of Wyoming Department of Geology and Geophysics Distinguished Lecturer Series
Date	Speaker	Topic	Affiliation
9/3/09	Caroline Strömberg	Vegetation structure and the role(s) of angiosphers in Late Cretaceous ecosystems in North America	University of Washington Host: Mark Clementz
9/7/09	No Speaker	Labor Day
9/14/09	Kevin Rosso	Rock-Respiring Bacteria: Electron Transfer at the Mineral-Microbe Interface	Pacific Northwestern National Laboratory Host: Carrick Eggleston
9/21/09	Ken Dueker	EarthScope 100 million dollar array, Yellowstone crustal flow, Colorado Rockies and Coast Mt. Batholith evolution, inner core boundary bumps, 410 km depth melt-layers: Imaging the Planet with Earthquakes	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Host: Ken Sims
9/28/09	Peter DeCelles	A tale of two Tibets: mid-Cenozoic basin development along the Indus and Bangon sutures	University of Arizona Host: Barbara Carrapa
10/5/09	Ilya Tsvankin	Fracture characterization using surface and borehole seismic data: Advances and challenges	Colorado School of Mines Host: Subhashis Mallick
10/12/09	Mike Cosca	Insights into geological processes using high-spatial resolution UV-laser ablation Ar/Ar geochronology	U.S. Geological Survey - Denver Host: Barbara Carrapa
10/19/09	No Speaker	Geological Society of America
10/26/09	Daniel Fisher	A remarkably preserved woolly mammoth calf from northwestern Siberia	University of Michigan Host: Mark Clementz
11/2/09	Brenda Beitler Bowen	Geologic CO2 sequestration in the Illinois Basin	Purdue University Host: Clementz & Carrapa
11/9/09	Mladen Nedimovec	Structure and evolution of the Juan de Fuca plate from accretion to subduction	Dalhousie University Host: Steve Holbrook
11/16/09	Brian Kraatz	Paleogene fossils of Asia: an emerging story of mammalian evolution	Western University of Health Sciences Hosts: Carrapa & Clementz
11/23/09	Darryl Granger	Cosmogenic nuclide burial dating: from landscape evolution to human evolution	Purdue University Host: Cliff Riebe
11/30/09	Sondra Wyld	Jura-Cretaceous orogenesis and basin formation in the U.S. Cordillera: New perspectives from the arc and back-arc region of Nevada	University of Georgia Host: Art Snoke
All Seminars will be held in room 216 of the Geology Building at 3:10 pm unless otherwise specified. A reception in the Geology Atrium will follow each talk.