UTIG Seminars

UTIG Seminar Series

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2018
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
19 Jan	Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M University	Pedro Di Nezio	Why storms matter to climate Video Broadcast
26 Jan	Martin Puy, UTIG	Pedro Di Nezio	Limitations on El Niño predictability Video Broadcast
02 Feb	Ganna (Anya) Portyankina, University of Colorado Boulder, LASP	Jack Holt	Cold Jets in the Solar System with Focus on Mars and Enceladus Video Broadcast
09 Feb	Sophie Nowicki, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Ginny Catania	Why is projecting the sea level contribution from ice sheets so tricky? Video Broadcast
16 Feb	Zachary Eilon, University of California Santa Barbara	Robert Porritt	An adaptive Bayesian inversion for upper mantle structure using surface waves and scattered body waves Video Broadcast
23 Feb	Doug Brinkerhoff, University of Montana	Ginny Catania	Ice and Mud: How Sediment Dynamics Drive Periodicity in Tidewater Glaciers Video Broadcast
02 March	Piyoosh Jaysaval, UTIG	Adrien Arnulf	Hydrocarbon exploration using controlled-source electromagnetic method: from introduction to advances in modeling/inversion Video Broadcast
09 March	Kaustubh Thirumalai, Brown University	Pedro Di Nezio	Past and Future Extremes of the Indian Ocean Video Broadcast
23 March	David Talmy, MIT	Patrick Heimbach	What controls virus dynamics in global ocean microbial ecosystems? Video Broadcast
30 March	An Nguyen, UT ICES	Ginny Catania	Arctic Ocean-Sea Ice State Estimation and Observing Network Assessment Video Broadcast
06 April	Adrian Lenardic, Rice University	Thorsten Becker	The Asthenosphere, Mantle Convection, and the Dynamics of Plate Tectonics Video Broadcast
06 April 4:00 pm	Chuck Mosher, ConocoPhillips	Doug Foster	Compressive sensing principles for seismic survey design Video Broadcast
13 April	James Tuttle Keane, Caltech	Duncan Young	The Wibbly Wobbly Moon: the Rotational Dynamics of the Moon Over Time Video Broadcast
20 April	Jean-Arthur Olive, LDEO	Luc Lavier	Shaping slow-spreading seafloor with detachment faults Video Broadcast
27 April	Vera Schulte-Pelkum, University of Colorado Boulder	Thorsten Becker	Deep Crustal Evolution, Continental Deformation, and the Roots of Faults from Seismology and Xenoliths Video Broadcast

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2017
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
01 Sep	Alex Robel, CalTech	Ginny Catania, UTIG	A Theory of the Marine-Terminating Glacier Response to Forcing Archived Link
08 Sep	Zeyu Zhao (UTIG)	Mrinal Sen, UTIG	Building velocity models and Imaging subsurface with plane wave data Archived Link
15 Sep	Ikuko Wada (University of Minnesota)	Thorsten Becker, UTIG	Mantle wedge flow patterns in subduction zones Archived Link
22 Sep	Rob Porritt (UTIG)	Thorsten Becker, UTIG	Towards multi-scale seismic imaging of the crust and mantle Archived Link
29 Sep	Jingyi "Ann" Chen (UT, Cockrell School of Engineering)	Thorsten Becker, UTIG	On the Use of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) for Monitoring the Dynamics of the Changing Earth Archived Link
06 Oct	Jaap Nienhuis (Tulane University)	John Goff, UTIG	Predicting delta morphology and delta change on a global scale Archived Link
13 Oct	Duncan Young (UTIG)	Don Blankenship, UTIG	Sub-glacial landscapes from ice penetrating radar in Antarctica from the scale of ice cores to ice sheets scales Archived Link
20 Oct	Michelle Tigchelaar (University of Washington)	Pedro Di Nezio, UTIG	What drives Antarctic ice sheet evolution? Insights from 800,000 year ice sheet simulation with transient climate forcing Archived Link
27 Oct	Karen Fischer (Brown University)	Thorsten Becker, UTIG	What puts the "plate" in plate tectonics? Archived Link
03 Nov	David Kring (Lunar and Planetary Institute)	Gail Christeson, UTIG	The Chicxulub Crater and Implications for the Impact - Origin of Life Hypothesis Archived Link
10 Nov	Andrew Kemp (Tufts University)	Fred Taylor, UTIG	Climate and sea-level variability during the past ~ 2000 years Archived Link
17 Nov	Yuko Okumura (UTIG)	Pedro Di Nezio, UTIG	El Nino and La Nina: Asymmetry, Impact and Decadal Variability Archived Link
01 Dec	UTIG Graduate Students James Biemiller, Kris Darnell, Denis Felikson		Talks The influence of tectonic inheritance on crustal extension style: Applications to metamorphic core complexes in Papua New Guinea Simulations of fluid flow and phase behavior in multi-component hydrate systems Greenland Ice Sheet thinning: How far inland can it reach?

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2017
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
20 Jan	Andre Gutscher, CNRS, University of Brest	Jamie Austin, UTIG	Geodynamics of the Calabrian subduction: Evidence from new seismic and bathymetric surveys Archived Link
27 Jan	Adam Sobel, Professor, Columbia University	Charles Jackson, UTIG	Understanding deep convection by parameterizing large-scale dynamics Archived Link
03 Feb	Gerard Roe, Professor, University of Washington	Ginny Catania / Charles Jackson, UTIG	Centennial glacier retreat as categorical evidence of regional climate change Archived Link
10 Feb	David Shean, Research Associate, University of Washington	Ginny Catania / Joe Levy, UTIG	Using repeat, high-res DEMs to quantify Antarctic ice shelf basal melt, mountain glacier mass balance, and landscape evolution Archived Link
17 Feb	Lori Glaze, Deputy Director, NASA Goddard	Pedro DiNezio / Krista Soderlund, UTIG	Venus: The forgotten Planet Archived Link
24 Feb	Jim Fuller, Postdoc, Caltech	Thorsten Becker / Krista Soderlund, UTIG	Saturn Ring Seismology Archived Link
03 Mar	Mitch D'Arcy, Postdoc, GFZ/Potsdam University	Pedro DiNezio, UTIG	Landscape Sensitivity to Climate: Debris Flow Fans in Owens Valley, California Archived Link
10 Mar	Tim Goudge,	Joe Levy/ Jack Holt, UTIG	Extraterrestrial Sed/Strat: Constraining the Evolution of a Delta Deposit on Mars using Remote Sensing Archived Link
24 Mar	Colleen Dalton, Assistant Professor, Brown University	Nick Hayman / Harm Van Avendonk, UTIG	Seismological Constraints on the Temperature and Composition of the Lithosphere and Asthenosphere Archived Link
31 Mar	Jennifer Telling,	Chastity Aiken, UTIG	From South to North - LiDAR Data Along the San Andreas Archived Link
07 Apr	Lars Hansen, University of Oxford	Thorsten Becker, UTIG	Causes and Consequences of Upper-mantle Seismic Anisotropy: The Link Between Olivine Microstructure and the Nature of Plate Tectonics Archived Link
14 Apr	Megan Duncan, Postdoctoral Associate, Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory	Matt Weller, UTIG	The Rise of Oxygen in the Atmosphere and the Carbon Subduction Cycle Archived Link
21 Apr	Julie Elliott, Assistant Professor, Purdue University	Sean Gulick, UTIG	An Integrated View of Tectonic Deformation in the Northeastern Pacific Archived Link
28 Apr	Valerie Trouet, Associate Professor, University of Arizona	Kaustubh Thirumalai / Jud Partin, UTIG	Influence of the North Pacific Jet stream on California hydroclimate and wildfire regimes over the last 500 years Archived Link
5 Apr	Patrick Heimbach, Associate Professor, UT Austin, ICES/JSG	Yuko Okumura, UTIG	An ECCO Perspective on the Early 21st Century Temporary Surface Warming Slowdown Archived Link

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2016
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
2 Sep	Glenn R. Sharman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin	Brian Horton, UTIG	Drainage Reorganization of the Early Cenozoic Rockies-Gulf of Mexico Sediment Routing System Archived Link
9 Sep	Mathieu Morlighem, Assistant Professor, UC Irvine	Ginny Catania, UTIG	The challenge of modeling ice sheets in a changing climate Archived Link
16 Sep	Nicola Tisato, Assistant Professor, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin	Nicholas Hayman, UTIG	Seismic Wave Attenuation in Saturated Rocks: Theory, Laboratory and Numerical-experiments Archived Link
23 Sep	Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, Postdoctoral Fellow , Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside	Jake Walter, UTIG	Geometric Regulators of the Seismic Cycle and Fault Dynamics Archived Link
30 Sep	Steve Phillips, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIG	Peter B. Flemings, UTIG	The Influence of the Indian Monsoon on Productivity and Sedimentation in the Northern Bay of Bengal Over the Last Glacial-interglacial Cycle Archived Link
7 Oct	Shuo Shuo Han, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIG	Nathan Bangs, UTIG	Fluid content of the incoming Juan de Fuca plate and its impact on the subduction processes at Cascadia Archived Link
14 Oct	Sylvia Dee, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Environment and Society (IBES), Brown University	Pedro Di Nezio, UTIG	Characterizing Decadal Variability in a Fickle Climate: New Methods in High-Resolution Paleoclimatology Archived Link
21 Oct	Matt Weller, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIG	Thorsten Becker, UTIG	Evolving Worlds: A Story of Planetary Evolution and Bi-Stability Archived Link
28 Oct	Caleb Fassett, Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College	Joseph Levy, UTIG	Landform Evolution Rates on the Moon and Mercury Archived Link
04 Nov	Anders Carlson, Associate Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University	Jud Partin, UTIG	Searching for evidence of Greenland ice-sheet collapse in the past Archived Link
10 Nov	Hao Cao, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology	Krista Soderland, UTIG	Building a Dynamical Picture of the Interiors of Giant Planets with Juno and Cassini
11 Nov	Navjit Sagoo, Postgrad Associate, Geology & Geophysics, Yale University	Charles Jackson, UTIG	Investigating the Indirect Effects of Dust on Paleoclimates via Ice Clouds Archived Link
18 Nov	Colleen Milbury, Postdoc, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University	Krista Soderlund, UTIG	Probing the Moon and Mars with gravity and magnetic fields Archived Link
2 Dec	Benjamin Wagman, Dan Lalich and Eric Petersen, UTIG graduate students	Charles Jackson and Joe Levy, UTIG	AGU practice talks Archived Link
9 Dec	Tom Jordan, British Antarctic Survey	Ian Dalziel, UTIG	Mapping the hidden mosaic of Antarctica: From microplate movement to continental assembly

UTIG Seminar Series - Archive

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2016
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
22 Jan	Dargan Frierson, University of Washington Department of Atmospheric Sciences	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Why Tropical Rainfall Peaks in the Northern Hemisphere, and Why Models Have a Double Rain Band Problem" Archived Link
29 Jan	Jake Covault, Bureau of Economic Geology	Sean Gulick and Lawrence Lawver, UTIG	"Supercritical Submarine Channel Morphodynamics From Western North America " Archived Link
5 Feb	Joellen Russell, University of Arizona	Pedro DiNexio, UTIG	"The Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) " Archived Link
12 Feb	Sarah Penniston-Dorland, University of Maryland	Laura Wallace, UTIG	"Strength and Heat in the Subduction Channel: Evidence From Metamorphic Rocks and Geodynamic Models" Archived Link
19 Feb	Demian Saffer, Penn State University	Peter Flemings and Laura Wallace, UTIG	"Phyllosilicates, Friction, and Fluids: The Role of Clays in Plate Boundary Fault Processes" Archived Link
26 Feb	Diego Melgar, University of California, Berkeley	Adrien Arnulf, UTIG	"The 2015 Mw8.3 Illapel, Chile Earthquake: Along-Dip Segmentation of Megathrust Properties and Lessons for Local Tsunami Warning" Archived Link
4 Mar	Qinghua Ding, University of Washington	Yuko Okumura, UTIG	"A Global View of Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Variability Over the Last 60 Years" Archived Link
11 Mar	Mark Behn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Harm Van Avendonk, UTIG	"Coupling of Ice Flow, Surface Melting, and Sub-Glacial Hydrology in the Greenland Ice Sheet" Archived Link
25 Mar	Lucas Beem, UTIG	Laura Wallace, UTIG	"Transient Basal Thermodynamics at South Pole Indicate Past Basal Sliding" Archived Link
1 Apr	Peter Haeussler, United States Geological Survey	Sean Gulick, UTIG	"The 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake, Megathrust Splay Faults, and Focused Exhumation in Prince William Sound, Alaska" Archived Link
8 Apr	Jason Sylvan, Texas A&M University	Nicholas Hayman, UTIG	"Searching For Signs Of Life In Subseafloor Igneous Basement" Archived Link
15 Apr	Heather DeShon, Southern Methodist University Dedman College of Humanities & Science	Cliff Frohlich, UTIG	"Death of a Fault: A Comparison of Seismicity in the New Madrid Seismic Zone and North Texas" Archived Link
22 Apr	Massako Tominaga, Texas A&M University	Nicholas Hayman, UTIG	"The Origin of Jurassic Magnetic Quiet Zone ~ and the Evolution of Deep Submergence Magnetometry" Archived Link
29 Apr	Kehua You, UTIG	Peter Flemings, UTIG	"Methane Hydrate Formation by Long-Range Gas Transport into the Hydrate Stability Zone" Archived Link
6 May	Mason Fried, Brad Gooch, and Sebastian Ramirez, UTIG Graduate Research Assistants	Ginny Catania, Don Blankenship, Sean Gulick and Brian Horton, UTIG	"Graduate Students Seminar" Archived Link
9 May	Deborah Khider, Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth Science Department, University of Southern California	Pedro DiNezio, UTIG	"The Future of Past Climates: EarthCube and 21st Century Paleoclimatology" Archived Link

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2015
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
28 Aug	Sean Gulick, UTIG	Nick Hayman, UTIG	"Unroofing the St. Elias Mountains: Quantifying Sediment Flux in an Collisional, Glaciated Margin Using the Deep Sea Record" Archived Link
04 Sep	W. Roger Buck, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	Luc Lavier, UTIG	"The Mechanics of Extension in Very Different Areas of Plate Convergence: Reverse Subduction Exhuming Ultra-High Pressure Rocks in New Guinea, and Normal Faulting and Tsunami generation during the Tohoku-Oki Earthquake " Archived Link
11 Sep	Matthew Siegler, Planetary Science Institute	Krista Soderlund, UTIG	"Polar Ice and Physical Evidence of Lunar True Polar Wander" Archived Link
18 Sep	Chris Lowery, UTIG	John Snedden, UTIG	"Controls on the Development of Anoxia in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, USA" Archived Link
25 Sep	Donna Shillington, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"Controls on Faulting, Water Cycling and Earthquakes in the Alaska Subduction Zone" Archived Link
29 Sep Tuesday	Bradley Opdyke, The Australian National University	Fred Taylor, UTIG	"Rediscovering Dolomite" Archived Link
02 Oct	Kathleen Hodgkinson, UNAVCO	Lada Dimitrova, UTIG	"Measurements of Slow Slip Phenomena in Cascadia and Parkfield Recorded by Plate Boundary Observatory Strainmeters " Archived Link
09 Oct	Laura Kerber, Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Joe Levy, UTIG	"Explosive Volcanism on Mars: Chronology, Sources, and Applications to Human Exploration" Archived Link
14 Oct Wednesday (at JGB 4.102)	Prof. Mojib Latif, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"State-Dependence of Atmospheric Response to Extratropical North Pacific SST Anomalies" Archived Link
16 Oct	Roland Burgmann, University of California, Berkeley	Whitney Behr, DGS	"What Gives in the Lower Crust? Evidence from Postseismic Relaxation and Tidally Triggered Tremors" Archived Link
23 Oct	André Revil, Colorado School of Mines	Harm Van Avendonk, UTIG	"New Techniques in Hydrogeophysics and Biogeophysics: Non-Intrusive Ground Water Flow and Biological Activity Sensors" Archived Link
30 Oct	Monica Wolfson-Schwehr, University of New Hampshire	Nick Hayman, UTIG	"The Effect of Fault Structure on Oceanic Transform Fault Seismicity" Archived Link
06 Nov	Nick Dygert, JSG	Nick Hayman, UTIG	"Kinetic Fractionation of Noble Gases beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges: New Insights into Mantle Mixing and Heterogeneity" Archived Link
13 Nov	Jolante van Wijk, New Mexico Tech	Harm Van Avendonk, UTIG	"Initiation, Crustal Architecture, and Extinction of Pull-Apart Basins" Archived Link
20 Nov	Samer Naif, Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Laura Wallace, UTIG	"Electromagnetic Imaging of Water-Rich Faults and Melt-Rich Asthenosphere at the Middle America Trench" Archived Link
27 Nov	No Seminar - Thanksgiving Break
04 Dec	Maureen Walton Jie Xu GRA Student Presentations		Revisiting the 1899 earthquakes of Yakutat Bay, Alaska Point-bar scaling and application to the Lower Miocene of the Gulf of Mexico basin Archived Link
11 Dec	Frédérique Leclerc, Earth Observatory of Singapore	Fred Taylor, UTIG	Long-term permanent deformation of overriding plates: Markers to better understand convergence accommodation and the seismic behavior of subduction zones Archived Link
18 Dec	No Seminar - Fall AGU Meeting

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2015
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
23 Jan	Joel Le Calvez, Schlumberger	Jamie Austin, UTIG	"Applications of real-time microseismic monitoring – intregration of various technologies to improve stimulation treatments"
29 Jan Thursday	Arthur B. Weglein Mission-Oriented Seismic Research Program, University of Houston	Ian Dalziel, UTIG	"Identifying and responding to prioritized and pressing challenges in exploration seismologyquot;
30 Jan	Walter Roest, Ifremer	Larry Lawver, UTIG	"Combining Extended Continental Shelf Exploration and Scientific Interests: The Case of the Demarara Plateau Offshore French Guiana" Archived Link
06 Feb	Catherine McCammon, University of Bayreuth, Germany	Afu Lin, JSG	"Geophysical Constraints on the Early Earth" Archived Link
09 Feb Monday	Douglas R. Schmitt, University of Alberta, Edmonton	Ian Dalziel, UTIG	"Seismic Anisotropy of Rocks: Measuring, Modeling, and Meaning" Archived Link
13 Feb	Sean Solomon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	Jack Holt, UTIG	"The Iron Planet: Structure, Evolution, and Magnetism of Mercury's Core" Archived Link
20 Feb	Hiroko Kitajima, Texas A&M University	Nathan Bangs, UTIG	"Stress States and Physical Properties along the Megathrust Plate Boundary at the Nankai Trough" Archived Link
23 Feb Monday	James C. Zachos, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz	Ian Dalziel, UTIG	"Tempo and Scale of Paleocene and Eocene Climate and Carbon Isotope Cycles: Implications for the Origin of Hyperthermals and Other Phenomena" Archived Link
27 Feb	Jessica Tierney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Yuko Okumura, UTIG	"Past and Future Climate Change in the Horn of Africa" Archived Link
06 Mar 2 pm	Brandon Schmandt, University of New Mexico	Nick Hayman, UTIG	"Seismic Structure beneath EarthScope’s USArray and the Origin of the Yellowstone Hotspot" Archived Link
13 Mar	John Snedden, UTIG	Nick Hayman, UTIG	"Interaction of Deep-water Deposition and a Mid-Ocean Spreading Center, Eastern Gulf of Mexico Basin, USA" Archived Link
20 Mar	Spring Break - No Seminar
27 Mar	Pedro DiNezio, University of Hawaii	Yuko Okumura, UTIG	"The climate of the Indo-Pacific warm pool at the Last Glacial Maximum" Archived Link
30 Mar Monday	Demian Saffer, Penn State University	Ian Dalziel, UTIG	"In Situ Stress and Pore Pressure Magnitude along Subduction Zone Megathrusts: Integration of Laboratory, Drilling, Geophysical and Numerical Modeling Approaches" Archived Link
03 Apr	Samantha Hansen, University of Alabama	Jake Walter, UTIG	"Investigating the Seismic Structure beneath the Northern Transantarctic Mountains" Archived Link
10 Apr	Brendan Hermalyn, NASA Ames/Skybox	Joe Levy, UTIG	"Ejecta from Impacts: New Experiments and Insight from Missions" Archived Link
17 Apr	Claudia Tebaldi, NCAR	Charles Jackson/Yuko Okumura, UTIG	"Choosing the Next Scenarios: How Close Is Too Close, How Different Is Too Different" Archived Link
24 Apr	David Stillman, Southwest Research Institute-Boulder	Joe MacGregor, UTIG	"Evidence of Flowing Liquid Water on Mars, Right Now" Archived Link
01 May	John (Mike) Wallace, University of Washington	Yuko Okumura, UTIG	"Detecting Climate Change in the Presence of Natural Climate Variability" Archived Link
08 May	Graduate Student Presentations: Bud Davis and Kaustubh Thirumalai	Larry Lawver, UTIG Terry Quinn, UTIG	The Dispersal of East Gondwana from Breakup to the Start of the Cretaceous Normal Superchron Linking Atlantic Ocean Dynamics and Hydroclimate During the Little Ice Age Archived Link
19 June	Chastity Aiken, Georgia Institute of Technology	Jacob Walter, UTIG	Triggered Seismic Activity in Geothermal Regions and Along Strike-Slip Faults of the Western Hemisphere Archived Link

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2014
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
29 Aug	Phil Duffy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Kaustubh Thirumalai/ Yuko Okumura	"The IPCC 5th Assessment Report: Process and Key Findings" Archived Link
05 Sep	Tyrone Rooney, Michigan State University	Harm Van Avendonk	"From Initiation to Termination - The Critical Role of Magma in Rift Evolution" Archived Link
12 Sep	Amelia Shevenell, University of South Florida	Sean Gulick/ Yuko Okumura	"The Southern Ocean Reveals Its Climate Secrets: Paleotemperatures from Antarctic Margin Marine Sediments" Archived Link
19 Sep	Tim Bartholomaus, UTIG	Joe MacGregor/Joe Levy	"Seismicity, Seawater and Seasonality: Tracking Ice Loss From the Fronts of Tidewater Glaciers" Archived Link
26 Sep	Fred Taylor, UTIG	Nick Hayman/Joe Levy	"Coral Records of Paleo-Uplifts in Southwest Pacific Forearcs: Recurrence Times, Geography of Uplift, and Uplift Rates Varied Drastically Over a Few Thousand Years" Archived Link
03 Oct	Mrinal Sen, UTIG	Nick Hayman	"Pushing the Limits of Seismic Resolution" Archived Link
10 Oct	Cyril Grima, UTIG	Joe MacGregor/ Yuko Okumura	"Leveraging Radar Sounding with Surface Reconnaissance: From Antarctic Science to Planetary Landing Sites" Archived Link
17 Oct	Jay Pulliam, Baylor University & UTIG	Harm Van Avendonk/Nick Hayman	"Lithospheric Modification at the Southern Edge of Laurentia Revealed by Broadband Seismology" Archived Link
24 Oct	Dave Schneider, National Center for Atmospheric Research	Yuko Okumura/ Joe Levy	"Understanding Antarctic Climate Change in the Context of Global Warming" Archived Link
31 Oct	Rodrigo Fernandez-Vasquez, UTIG	Sean Gulick/ Joe MacGregor	"Deglaciation of Marine Environments, Lessons and Questions from Patagonia and the Antarctic Peninsula" Archived Link
07 Nov	Peter Clift, Lousiana State University	Kirk McIntosh/Harm Van Avendonk	"The Asian Monsoon and Its links to Cenozoic Orogenesis" Archived Link
14 Nov	Aaron Wech, U.S. Geological Survey	Laura Wallace/Joe MacGregor	"Using Messy Seismicity to Investigate Earthquakes and Plate Boundary Dynamic" Archived Link
21 Nov	Onno Oncken, Freie Universität Berlin	Nick Hayman	"Locking, Mass Flux and Topographic Response at Plate Boundaries – The Chilean Case" Archived Link
28 Nov	Thanksgiving Break - No seminar
05 Dec	Graduate StudentPresentations: Maureen Walton and Jie Xu	Sean Gulick/Craig Fulthorpe	Maureen Walton: "Updated Mapping and Seismic Reflection Processing along the Queen Charlotte Fault, Southeastern Alaska" Jie Xu: "Sediment Input Pathways from North American Highlands to the Gulf of Mexico Based on Detrital Zircon U-Pb and U-Th/He Dating" Archived Link

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2014
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
16 Jan 12:00 PM	Serge Shapiro, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (Thursday)	Ian Dalziel	"Triggered versus Induced Earthquakes and Bounds of the Magnitude Probability" Archived Link
17 Jan 10:30 AM	Adrien Arnulf, University of California, San Diego	Harm Van Avendonk	"Anatomy of an Active Submarine Volcano" Archived Link
24 Jan 10:30 AM	Canceled due to weather
31 Jan 10:30 AM	Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University	Nick Hayman/Omar Ghattas	"Toward Exascale Seismic Imaging: Taming Workflow and I/O Issues" Archived Link
07 Feb 10:30 AM	Tim Bartholomaus, UTIG (Canceled due to weather)	Joe MacGregor	"Seismicity, Seawater and Seasonality: New Insights into Iceberg Calving from Yahtse Glacier, Alaska" Archived Link
14 Feb 10:30 AM	Jin-Oh Park, University of Tokyo	Nathan Bangs	"Along-Strike Variations in the Nankai Shallow Décollement Properties and Their Implications for Tsunami Earthquake Generation" Archived Link
21 Feb *2:00 PM*	Christie Rowe, McGill University (Time Change)	Laura Wallace	"JFAST: Results from the Rapid Response Drilling Expedition to the Japan Trench following the M9.0 Tohoku-oki Earthquake" Archived Link
28 Feb 10:30 AM	Nathan Bangs, UTIG	Nick Hayman	"A 3D Look at the Structure, Hydrogeology, and the Seismogenic Zone along the Costa Rica Margin" Archived Link
07 Mar 10:30 AM	Michael Erb, UTIG	Charles Jackson	"The Response of Radiative Feedbacks and Equatorial Pacific Seasonality to Orbital Forcing" Archived Link
14 Mar 10:30 AM	Spring Break
21 Mar 10:30 AM	Krista Soderlund, UTIG	Don Blankenship	"Convective Dynamics in the Interiors of Ice Giants and Icy Satellites" Archived Link
28 Mar 10:30 AM	Brady Cox, UT Department of Civil Engineering	Sean Gulick	"Deep V_s Profiling for Dynamic Characterization of Christchurch, New Zealand: Towards Reliably Merging Large Active-Source and Ambient-Wavefield Surface Wave Methods" Archived Link
04 Apr 10:30 AM	Hugh Daigle, UT Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering	Sean Gulick	"Methane Migration and Massive Hydrate Deposits in Marine Sediments" Archived Link
07 April 2:00 PM	Mark Warner, Imperial College, London, UK Special Seminar	Gail Christeson	"3D Full-Waveform Inversion: High-Resolution, High-Fidelity Physical Properties From Seismic Data, 2:00 PM ROC 1.603, April 7"
11 Apr 10:30 AM	Julie Richey, U.S. Geological Survey	Kaustubh Thirumalai	"Reconstructing Precipitation Variability in the Western Tropical Pacific over the past Millennium" Archived Link
18 Apr 10:30 AM	Shang-Ping Xie, University of California, San Diego	Yuko Okumura	"Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics of Global Warming" Archived Link
25 Apr 10:30 AM	Maureen Davies, Australian National University	Sean Gulick	"To Tune or Not to Tune: Changes in Northeast Pacific Ventilation through Termination 1" Archived Link
02 May 10:30 AM	UTIG Graduate Students: Kris Darnell , Kaustubh Thirumalai, and John Swartz	Peter Flemings Terrence Quinn Sean Gulick	"Simulations of Seafloor Methane Venting from Warming-Induced Hydrate Destabilization" "A replicated record of northern Gulf of Mexico climate variability during the late Holocene" "Gulf of Alaska continental slope morphology: Evolution of a glaciated transform margin" Archived Link

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2013
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
30 Aug 10:30 AM	Suzon Jammes, UTIG	Nick Hayman	"Structural Styles of Mountain Building Controls of Rheological and Rift Inheritances" Archived Link
06 Sep 10:30 AM	Jacqueline Reber, UTIG	Nick Hayman	"Sheath Folds in Simple Shear: An Analytical and Experimental Approach" Archived Link
13 Sep 10:30 AM	Kirk McIntosh, UTIG	Nick Hayman	"The Transition from Subduction to Arc-Continent Collision: How it Works in Taiwan" Archived Link
20 Sep 10:30 AM	Bethany Ehlmann, California Institute of Technology	Joe Levy	"Aqueous Environments During Mars' First Billion Years" Archived Link
27 Sep 10:30 AM	John Chiang, University of California, Berkley	Yuko Okumura	"Extratropical Cooling, Interhemispheric Thermal Gradients, and Tropical Climate Change" Archived Link
01 Oct 09:30 AM	David Lumley, University of Western Australia (Tuesday seminar)	Craig Fulthorpe/Peter Flemings	"Wave-Theoretic Imaging and Inversion of Time-Lapse Seismic Wavefields" Archived Link
04 Oct 10:30 AM	Whitney Behr, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences	Nick Hayman	"Rheological Properties of the Mantle Lid Beneath the Mojave Region" Archived Link
11 Oct 10:30 AM	Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Penn State University	Joe MacGregor	"The Role of Water in Glacier Dynamics in Greenland and Antarctica" Archived Link
18 Oct 10:30 AM	Maureen Long, Yale University	Harm Van Avendonk	"Adventures in Anisotropy: Constraints on Mantle Dynamics from Seismological Observations" Archived Link
23 Oct 12:00 PM	Tim Dixon, University of South Florida (Wednesday seminar)	Steve Grand (UTIG / DGS)	"The September 5, 2012 M 7.6 Nicoya Earthquake, Costa Rica: a Natural Lab for Large Subduction Zone Earthquakes" Archived Link
01 Nov 10:30 AM	Alberto Malinverno, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University	Peter Flemings / Harm Van Avendonk	"Gas Hydrates, Methanogenesis, and Carbon Cycling at Continental Margins" Archived Link
08 Nov 10:30 AM	Mark Fahnestock, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska	Joe MacGregor	"Observing Glacier-Ocean Interactions on Calving-To-Seasonal Timescales to Constrain Causes of Tidewater Glacier Acceleration" Archived Link
15 Nov 10:30 AM	Frederick "Fritz" Hanselmann, Texas State University, San Marcos	Jamie Austin	"The Search for Lost Ships: Methodology for Discovering and Studying Sunken Shipwrecks" Archived Link
22 Nov 10:30 AM	UTIG Student Presentations: Dan Eakin and Elizabeth Logan-Curry	Charles Jackson	Dan Eakin: "Origins and Evolution of the Gagua Ridge Bathymetric Feature: A Possible Example of Failed Subduction in the West Philippine Basin" Elizabeth Logan-Curry: "A Simple Approach to Bottom Crevasses: The Thin Elastic Beam" Archived Link

UTIG Seminars - Summer 2013
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
19 June 12:00 PM	Amy McAdam, Planetary Environments Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Wednesday Seminar)	Joe Levy, UTIG	"Investigating the Signatures of Aqueous Alteration on Mars" Archived Link

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2013
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
18 Jan 10:30 AM	Steve May, Chief Geoscientist for ExxonMobil Research, Professional Lead for the GSA/ExxonMobil Bighorn Basin Field School	Ian Norton	Detrital zircon geochronology from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA: Implications for tectonostratigraphic evolution and paleogeography
25 Jan 10:30 AM	John Vidale, University of Washington	Nick Hayman	West Coast Earthquake Early Warning - Issues and Imperatives
01 Feb 10:30 AM	Cliff Frohlich	Nick Hayman	Emerging Results Concerning Human-Triggered Earthquakes in Texas
08 Feb 10:30 AM	Britney Schmidt	Don Blankenship	Getting Under Europa's Skin: Ice Dynamics and Habitability from Terrestrial Analogs
15 Feb 10:30 AM	Joseph Levy	Nick Hayman	Going fast: Vanishing ice, flowing brine, and the intersections of geology, hydrology, and climate from McMurdo to Mars
22 Feb 10:30 AM	Joseph MacGregor	Ginny Catania	Insights Into Ice-sheet Dynamics From Radar Sounding
01 Mar 10:30 AM	Duncan Young	Don Blankenship	Insights into the Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from Aerogeophysics
06 Mar 10:30 AM	Gerard Schuster, King Abdullah University Science and Technology	Paul Stoffa	Seismic interferometry and beyond: Harvesting signal from coherent noise
08 Mar 10:30 AM
15 Mar 10:30 AM	Spring Break	No seminar
22 Mar 10:30 AM	Shun-ichiro Karato, Yale University	Luc Lavier	Origin of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Structure in the Upper Mantle
26 Mar 10:30 AM	Andreas Aschwanden, University of Alaska-Fairbanks	Charles Jackson	Why We Model Ice Sheets
29 Mar 10:30 AM	Leigh Stearns, University of Kansas	Ginny Catania	Are We Any Closer to Understanding the Complex Interaction of Ice-Ocean Dynamics in Greenland?
02 Apr 10:30 AM	Douglas J. Foster, ConocoPhillips	Paul Stoffa	Interpretation of the Amplitude of Seismic Reflections
03 Apr 10:30 AM	John Dewey, Natural History Museum, London	Ian Dalziel	Transtension in the brittle field: The Eastern California Shear Zone
12 Apr 10:30 AM	Clara Deser, National Center for Atmospheric Research	Yuko Okumura	Climate Projections over North America in the Coming Decades: Uncertainty due to Natural Variability
16 Apr 10:30 AM	Nicholas Schmerr, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory	Don Blankenship and Luc Lavier	Seismology in the Solar System: Exploring the Interiors of the Planets
19 Apr 10:30 AM	Wes Patterson, John Hopkins University, Applied Physics Lab	Britney Schmidt	Judging a book by its cover: Inferring the plumbing of Europa's icy shell from surface geology
24 Apr 10:30 AM	Jacob Walter, Georgia Institute of Technology	Ginny Catania	Dynamic Behavior of Ice Sheets on Seismic and Slightly Longer Timescales
26 Apr 10:30 AM	Michael Bender, Princeton University	Terry Quinn	Climate of the Last 800 Ka And Beyond Recorded in Ice Cores
03 May 10:30 AM	Drew Eddy Dylan Meyer	Harm Van Avendonk, Peter Flemings	Fellowship Talks

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2012
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
31 Aug 10:30 AM	Ginny Catania, UTIG	Nick Hayman, UTIG	"Understanding Variability in Ice Dynamics at the Margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet" Archived Broadcast
07 Sep 10:30 AM	UTIG Fellowship Holders: Lauren Andrews, Marie Cavitte, William Lester, Robert Reece, Dustin Schroeder	Gail Christeson, UTIG	Fellowship Talks Archived Broadcast
14 Sep 10:30 AM	Mark L. Skidmore, Montana State University *Rescheduled:10/12/12 2:00 PM (Same link)*	Britney Schmidt, UTIG	"The (Sub)Glacial Biosphere, Microbial Activity at Zero Degrees Celsius and below: Implications for Elemental Cycling in Terrestrial Systems and Extraterrestrial Exploration" Archived Broadcast
21 Sep 10:30 AM	John Haines, GNS Science	Laura Wallace, UTIG	"The Darfield Mw 7.1 Earthquake of September 4, 2010 and the Christchurch Mw 6.3 Aftershock of February 22, 2011" Archived Broadcast
28 Sep 10:30 AM	Mladen Nedimovic, Columbia University	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"Juan de Fuca Plate from Accretion to Subduction" Archived Broadcast
05 Oct 10:30 AM	Edwin Kite, Caltech Institute	Jack Holt, UTIG	"Sedimentary Record of Ancient Climates on Mars" Archived Broadcast
12 Oct 10:30 AM	John Kessler, University of Rochester	Peter Flemings, UTIG	"Challenges when Assessing Hydrocarbon Degradation via Isotopic Fractionation" Archived Broadcast
19 Oct 10:30 AM	Rodey Batiza, National Science Foundation Jill Karsten, National Science Foundation	Kathy Ellins, UTIG	"Geoscience Education and Diversity Programs at NSF: Recent Changes and New Opportunities" Archived Broadcast
26 Oct 10:30 AM	Gavin Schmidt, NASA	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Can We Make Paleo-Climate More Useful for Future Projections?" Archived Broadcast
02 Nov 10:30 AM	Gwenn Flowers, Simon Fraser University	Ginny Catania, UTIG	“Evolution of Glacier Thermal Structure and Dynamics in a Subarctic Environment” Archived Broadcast
08 Nov 12:00 AM	John Sclater, University of California San Diego	Larry Lawver, UTIG	"The Heat Flow Anomaly across the Ocean Continent Transition"
09 Nov 10:30 AM	Jud Partin, UTIG	Nick Hayman, UTIG	"Reconstructing Rainfall Variability in the Tropical Pacific using Stalagmites" Archived Broadcast
13 Nov 10:30 AM	Shiguo Wu, Institute for Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences	Craig Fulthorpe/Jamie Austin, UTIG	"Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the South China Sea Basin: Advances and Questions"
16 Nov 10:30 AM	Josef Dufek, Georgia Institute of Technology	Nick Hayman, UTIG	"Multiphase Magmatism: From Crustal Construction to Eruptive Dynamics" Archived Link
23 Nov 10:30 AM	No Seminar		Thanksgiving
27 Nov 10:30 AM	Nicolas Waldmann, Haifa University	Jamie Austin, UTIG	"Tales of a Lake: Glacial Evolution and Sedimentary Processes in Western Norway" Archived Link
30 Nov 10:30 AM	Michael Gurnis, Caltech	Sean Gulick/Nick Hayman, UTIG	"Trench Rollback: From the Birth of Subduction to Global Plate Motions" Archived Link
07 Dec 10:30 AM	No Seminar		AGU Fall Meeting

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2012
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
20 Jan 10:30 AM	Deborah Eason, University of Hawaii	Nick Hayman, UTIG	"Iceland’s Melting Experiment: Deglaciation and Volcanism in the Western Volcanic Zone" Click for Archived Broadcast
27 Jan 10:30 AM	Rodrigo Fernandez-Vasquez, UTIG	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Spatial and Timescale Variability of Glacial Erosion Rates from Patagonia and Antarctic Peninsula Tidewater Glaciers (46°-65° S)" Click for Archived Broadcast
03 Feb 10:30 AM	Joanne Tudge, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Kylara Martin/Sean Gulick, UTIG	"Velocity-Porosity Relationships of the Nankai Trough, Japan: Dependence on Stress Path and Tectonic History" Click for Archived Broadcast
10 Feb 10:30 AM	Dwight Coleman, Rhode Island School of Oceanography	Jamie Austin, UTIG	"Telepresence and the URI Inner Space Center – A New Paradigm for Ocean Exploration" Click for Archived Broadcast
16 Feb 3:00 PM	Dr. David Faraggi, Rector, University of Haifa	Jamie Austin, UTIG	"The University of Haifa, Towards Globalization and the Creation of a Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences" Click for Archived Broadcast
17 Feb 10:30 AM	Katrina Edwards, University of Southern California	Nick Hayman, UTIG	"The Deep Biosphere in Igneous Ocean Crust" Click for Archived Broadcast
24 Feb 10:30 AM	Seth Stein, Northwestern University	Sean Gulick, UTIG	"What New Madrid Shows about Intracontinental Earthquakes" Click for Archived Broadcast
02 Mar 10:30 AM	Eric Larour, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA	Ginny Catania, UTIG	"Data Assimilation of Ice Flow Models in Antarctica and Greenland"
09 Mar 10:30 AM	Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna, Colorado School of Mines	Jack Holt, UTIG	"Valles Marineris: The Making of Mars’ Giant Canyon System" Click for Archived Broadcast
16 Mar 10:30 AM	No Seminar		Spring Break
23 Mar 10:30 AM	Michael Bevis, Ohio State University	Fred Taylor, UTIG	"Weighing the Greenland Ice Sheet Using GPS" Click for Archived Broadcast
30 Mar 10:30 AM	Elizabeth Cassel, Jackson School of Geosciences	Brian Horton, UTIG	"Cenozoic Landscape Evolution of the Northern Sierra Nevada and Western Basin and Range: Implications for Tectonics and Topography" Click for Archived Broadcast
06 Apr 10:30 AM	Lowell Stott, University of Southern California	Deborah Khider, UTIG	"The Fingerprint of Geologic Carbon on Glacial/Interglacial Atmospheric CO₂" Click for Archived Broadcast
13 Apr 10:30 AM	Karen McNeal, Mississippi State University	Kathy Ellins, UTIG	"Climate Literacy: Affective and Cognitive Challenges and Solutions for Formal and Informal Audiences in the SEUS" Click for Archived Broadcast
20 Apr 10:30 AM	Suzanne Carbotte, Columbia University	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Magma Reservoir Beneath a Recently Erupting Region of the Fast Spreading East Pacific Rise" Click for Archived Broadcast
27 Apr 10:30 AM	Anthony Broccoli, Rutgers University	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Revisiting The Mid-Holocene Climate Of The Tropical Pacific Ocean" Click for Archived Link
04 May 10:30 AM	UTIG Fellowship Holders: Charles Brothers, Dan Eakin, Michael Ramirez, Yao You	Gail Christeson, UTIG	Fellowship Talks Click for Archived Link
11 May 10:30 AM	Erik Scott & Richard Denne, Marathon Oil Corporation	John Snedden, UTIG	"The Impact of Chicxulub on the Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico"

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2011
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
02 Sep 10:30 AM	Maria Nikolinakou, Bureau of Economic Geology	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Modeling advancing salt sheets – with analogies to ice sheets – over poroelastic sediments" Click for Archived Broadcast
09 Sep 10:30 AM	Sarah Zedler, UT Institute for Geophysics	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Estimation of the drag coefficient from the ocean's response to a hurricane: A data assimilation approach" Click for Archived Broadcast
16 Sep 10:30 AM	Ian Dalziel, UTIG, and Staci Loewy, JSG	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Antarctexas: the Coats Land block of East Antarctica as a 'tectonic tracer' for Laurentia in pre-Pangea Earth" Click for Archived Broadcast
23 Sep 10:30 AM	Ken Edgett, Malin Space Science Systems	Jack Holt, UTIG	"Curiosity’s Field Site and the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) Investigation" Click for Archived Broadcast
30 Sep 10:30 AM	Deborah Khider, UT Institute for Geophysics	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Evidence for a Bipolar Seesaw During the Holocene" Click for Archived Broadcast
07 Oct 10:30 AM	Ryan Walker, Pennsylvania State University	Ginny Catania, UTIG	"Coupled Ice Shelf-Ocean Modeling and the Stability of Thwaites Glacier" Click for Archived Broadcast
14 Oct 10:30 AM	Justin Brown, Stanford University	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"Tectonic Tremor Activity and Megathrust Earthquakes in Subduction Zones: Are They Correlated?" Click for Archived Broadcast
21 Oct 10:30 AM	William Curry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Jamie Austin, UTIG	"The RV Knorr Long Coring System and Some Early Scientific Results" Click for Archived Broadcast
28 Oct 10:30 AM	Matthew Schmidt, Texas A&M University	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Reconstructing the Timing of Large-Scale Ocean and Atmospheric Circulation Change across the Younger Dryas" Click for Archived Broadcast
04 Nov 10:30 AM	Julien Emile-Geay, University of Southern California	Judson Partin, UTIG	"Paleoclimate constraints on tropical Pacific dynamics" Click for Archived Broadcast
11 Nov 10:30 AM	Kylara Martin & Julia Schneider, UTIG	Gail Christeson, UTIG	Kylara: "The West Andaman Fault as Strike-Slip, Strain-Partitioning Feature at the Edge of the Aceh Basin" Julia: "Experimentally derived geomechanical behavior of mudstones entering the Nankai Subduction Zone" Click for Archived Broadcast
18 Nov 10:30 AM	Adam Soule, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Nick Hayman, UTIG	"Dynamics of Mid-Ocean Ridge Eruptions from Syn-Emplacement CO₂ Degassing" Click for Archived Link
25 Nov 10:30 AM			headers="title"Thanksgiving holiday
02 Dec 10:30 AM	Andrew Smith and Shannon Cavanaugh, UTIG	Charles Jackson, UTIG	Andrew: "Observations and Models of Heat and Salt Generation at a Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Vent" Shannon: "Bottom-Simulating Reflector Variability at the Costa Rican Subduction Zone and Corresponding Heat Flow Model" Click for Archived Link
09 Dec 10:30 AM			AGU meeting
16 Dec 10:30 AM	John Anderson, Rice University	Lawrence Lawver, UTIG	"Accelerated Sea-Level Rise and the Future of the Texas Coast" Click for Archived Link

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2011
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
21 Jan 10:30 AM	Jesse McNinch, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center	Sean Gulick, UTIG	"Chasing Storms: Unraveling the physics behind coastal vulnerabilities" Click for Archived Broadcast
28 Jan 10:30 AM	Sonja Spasojevic, California Institute of Technology	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"Implication for long-term sea level and vertical motion of continents from dynamic earth model" Click for Archived Broadcast
04 Feb 2:00 PM	Gabriel Vecchi, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Past and Future Changes of Atlantic Hurricane Actvity" Click for Archived Broadcast
11 Feb 10:30 AM	Thomas Ewing, Yegua Energy Associates	Mead Allison, UTIG	"Middle and Late Eocene Strata in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico: Sequence Stratigraphy, Structure and Hydrocarbons" Click for Archived Broadcast
18 Feb 10:30 AM	David Macdonald, Aberdeen University	Lawrence Lawver, UTIG	"Forced sea-level changes in a forearc basin related to subduction of a spreading ridge: The Fossil Bluff Group (Jurassic-Cretaceous), Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula" Click for Archived Broadcast
25 Feb 10:30 AM	John Snedden, ExxonMobil	Mead Allison, UTIG	"Chronostratigraphy of Phanerozoic Depositional Sequences" Click for Archived Broadcast
04 Mar 10:30 AM	Christopher Wolfe, Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"The Adiabatic Pole-To-Pole Overturning Circulation and the Formation of Deep Stratification" Click for Archived Broadcast
11 Mar 10:30 AM
18 Mar 10:30 AM
25 Mar 10:30 AM	Laura Wallace, GNS Science	Nathan Bangs, UTIG	"Slow slip events, interseismic locking, and rapid forearc rotation at the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand" Click for Archived Broadcast
01 Apr 10:30 AM	William Sager, Texas A&M University	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"What are Hotspots? (I Thought I Once Knew): New Perspectives on Oceanic Volcanism" Click for Archived Broadcast
08 Apr 10:30 AM	Yuko Okumura, National Center for Atmospheric Research	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Low-frequency Climate Variability over Antarctica and Linkages to the Tropics: Analysis of Instrumental Data, Ice Core and Coral Records for the Past Two Centuries" Click for Archived Broadcast
15 Apr 10:30 AM	Jason Amundson, University of Chicago	Ginny Catania, UTIG	"Iceberg calving 2.0: An energy source for ocean waves, seismic waves, and turbulence" Click for Archived Broadcast
22 Apr 10:30 AM	Wonsuck Kim, Jackson School of Geosciences	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Decoupling allogenic forcing from autogenic processes: Experimental geomorphology and stratigraphy" Click for Archived Broadcast
29 Apr 10:30 AM	UTIG Master's Students: Corey Joy, Erica Powell, Anthony Rodriguez, Benjamin Siks, Phan Son	Jack Holt, UTIG	Master's Students Talks Click for Archived Broadcast
06 May 10:30 AM to 12:00	UTIG Fellowship Holders: Tricia Alvarez, Veronica Anderson, Cassie Browne, Justin Fitch, Meaghan Gorman, Ryan Lester, Annie Miller	Gail Christeson, UTIG	Fellowship Talks Click for Archived Broadcast
13 May 10:30 AM

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2010
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
20 Aug 10:30 AM	Alexa Griesel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California at San Diego	Sean Gulick, UTIG	"Southern Ocean eddies and their parameterization: Lessons from subsurface floats deployed in an eddying model" Click for Archived Broadcast
27 Aug 10:30 AM	Jim Head, Brown University	Jack Holt, UTIG	Mars: History of Climate Change and Evolution of the Water Cycle" Click for Archived Broadcast
03 Sep 10:30 AM	UTIG Fellowship Holders: Jennifer Glidewell, Mike Ramirez, Chris Maupin, Carla Sanchez	Gail Christeson, UTIG	Jennifer Glidewell: "The M 4.0 April 2010 Alice, TX, earthquake: An example of induced seismicity?" Chris Maupin: "Climate Change and Variability in the West Pacific Warm Pool over the Past Three Centuries" Mike Ramirez: "Suspended Sediment Characterization and Transport in the Lower Mississippi River" Carla Sanchez: "Miocene Shelf-edge Deltas and their Impact on Margin Growth and Morphology, Northwest Shelf of Australia" Click for Archived Broadcast
10 Sep 10:30 AM	Aixue Hu, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Sensitivity of ice age climate to northern oceanic pathway between Pacific and Atlantic" Click for Archived Broadcast
17 Sep 10:30 AM	Mark Zoback, Stanford University	Peter Flemings, UTIG	"Scientific drilling into the San Andreas Fault: SAFOD's first five years" Click for Archived Broadcast
24 Sep 10:30 AM	Yonggang Liu, University of South Florida	Jack Holt, UTIG	"Trajectory Forecasts Based on Numerical Ocean Circulation Models and Satellite Observations: A Rapid Response to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill" Click for Archived Broadcast
27 Sep, Monday 11:00 AM	Mike Howard, BHP Billiton	Sean Gulick, UTIG	"Full azimuth tilted transverse isotropic imaging of sub salt structure: A BHP Billiton Gulf of Mexico case study"
01 Oct 10:30 AM	Patrick Fulton, UT Institute for Geophysics	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"The Strength of the San Andreas Fault from a Hydrogeologic Perspective" Click for Archived Broadcast
08 Oct 10:30 AM	Steven Kidder, California Institute of Technology	Harm Van Avendonk, UTIG	"Deciphering the Stress History of Middle Crustal Rocks" Click for Archived Broadcast
15 Oct 10:30 AM	Britney Schmidt, UT Institute for Geophysics	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Seeing Into Europa: Tectonic Playground, Ocean Moon, Habitable World?" Click for Archived Broadcast
22 Oct 10:30 AM	Pascal Audet, University of California Berkeley	Sean Gulick, UTIG	"Fluids in the fore arc of Cascadia: Evidence from seismic imaging" Click for Archived Broadcast
29 Oct 10:30 AM	Daniel Nunes, California Institute of Technology	Jack Holt, UTIG	"The Hunt for Martian Water: Gullies and Pedestals" Click for Archived Broadcast
05 Nov 10:30 AM	Fabian Walter, Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California at San Diego	Ginny Catania, UTIG	"Regional Broadband Seismology of a Greenland Calving Event" Click for Archived Broadcast
12 Nov 10:30 AM	Ben Sanderson, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Beating the mean: Using models and observations together to improve our confidence in climate model output" Click for Archived Broadcast
19 Nov 10:30 AM	Nicholas Hayman, UT Institute for Geophysics	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"The Earth is Granular: Examples from tectonic boundaries and laboratory experiments" Click for Archived Broadcast
03 Dec 10:30 AM	Joel Johnson Dept. of Geol. Sciences, JSG	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Quantifying climatic controls on landscape evolution: Examples from Hawaii and Arizona" Click for Archived Broadcast
10 Dec 10:30 AM	Julie Elliott, University of Alaska Fairbanks	Sean Gulick, UTIG	"The Mobile Margin of Far North America: GPS Constraints on Active Deformation in Alaska and Canada and the Role of the Yakutat Block" Click for Archived Broadcast

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2010
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
15 Jan 10:30 AM	Dr. Mike Gurnis, CALTECH	Nathan Bangs, UTIG	"The Dynamics of Plate Tectonics and Mantle Flow: From Local to Global Scales"
22 Jan 10:30 AM	Dr. Deborah Kelley, Associate Professor, University of Washington	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"Bringing High Power and Bandwidth Into the Oceans: The Ocean Observatories Initiative" LIVE BROADCAST
29 Jan 10:30 AM	Dr. Michelle Koutnik, Earth & Space Sciences, University of Washington	Jack Holt, UTIG	"Using ice-surface topography and internal layers to infer past ice-flow rates and past mass balance on Mars" LIVE BROADCAST
5 Feb 10:30 AM	Dr. Claudia Benitez-Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"Understanding the Toxin Express: A Historical Record of Rapid Downward Transport of Somoic Acid in Coastal Waters" LIVE BROADCAST
12 Feb 10:30 AM	Dr. Caroline "Carrie" S. Whitehill, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin	Sean Gulick, UTIG	"Quantifying the kinematics of crustal deformation: Examples from northwestern Basin & Range Province and northern California, USA, and Maracaibo block, Colombia-Venezuela" LIVE BROADCAST
19 Feb 10:30 AM	Dr. Joseph Levy, Portland State University	Jack Holt, UTIG	"Walking to Mars: What Antarctic Permafrost Suggests About Martian Climate, Geology, & Habitability" LIVE BROADCAST
19 Feb 3:30 PM	Dr. Robert N. Harris College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University	Lawrence Lawver, UTIG	"Thermal Structure of the Costa Rica Margin along the Middle America Trench"
26 Feb 10:30 AM	Dr. Rick Bennett, Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona	Luc Lavier, UTIG	"Active tectonics of Adria and the modern geodynamic setting of the Eurasia-Nubia plate boundary zone"
5 Mar 10:30 AM	Dr. Meg Tivey, Senior Scientist and Department Chair, MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Jamie Austin, UTIG	"An update on the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI): Final network design, and how to get involved" LIVE BROADCAST
12 Mar 10:30 AM	Spring Break-No Seminar Today
19 Mar 10:30 AM	Spring Break-No Seminar Today
26 Mar 10:30 AM *BEG Conf Room	Joe MacGregor, UTIG	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"The dynamics of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, and their relationship to its ongoing acceleration" LIVE BROADCAST
2 Apr 10:30 AM	Nicholas Swanson-Hysell, Graduate Student-Geosciences, Princeton University	Larry Lawver, UTIG Sean Gulick, UTIG	"Failed rifting and fast drifting: North America�s dash to the equator at the end of the Mesoproterozoic" LIVE BROADCAST
5 Apr 10:30 AM UTIG 2.201	Patrick Timko, Florida State University	Cliff Frohlich, UTIG	"The Effect of Statistical Abyssal Hill Roughness on the Generation of Internal Waves"
9 Apr 10:30 AM	Danny Brothers, Postdoc, USGS	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"Paleoearthquake and Hydroclimatic Records from Lake Tahoe and the Salton Sea, CA" LIVE BROADCAST:
16 Apr 10:30 AM	Christopher Little, Graduate Student, Princeton University	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Oceanographic constraints on ice shelf basal melting, and some speculations on the coupled response" LIVE BROADCAST
23 Apr 10:30 AM	Dr. Patrick Heimbach, Principal Research Scientist, MIT	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Dynamically consistent decadal state estimates of the ocean: The ECCO project" LIVE BROADCAST
30 Apr 10:30 AM	Dr. Abhijit Ghosh, PhD candidate & Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, University of Washington	Brian Horton, UTIG	"Non-volcanic tremor and slow slip: a new window into fault motion" LIVE BROADCAST
7 May 10:30 AM	Second Year Masters Students: Rebecca Comeaux and Stefan Punnette UTIG Fellowship Recipient: Katie Delbecq	Gail Christeson, UTIG	Rebecca Comeaux- "Black Mangrove (Avicennia sp.) Colony Expansion in the Gulf of Mexico with Climate Change: Wetland Health and Resistance to Rising Sea Levels" Stefan Punnette- "Tectonic and eustatic controls on the origin of shelf sands, offshore northern Trinidad and Tobago, northeastern South America" Katie Delbecq- "Geohazard risk of seismically triggered submarine landslides in Kingston, Jamaica" LIVE BROADCAST
14 May 10:30 AM	UTIG Fellowship Recipients: Liz Logan, Lindsay Lowe Worthington, Lauren Andrews, Thomas Brothers, Yao You	Sean Gulick, UTIG	Liz Logan - "A two-dimensional model for ductile shear initiated by shear fracture: Application to slow slip events" Lindsay Lowe Worthington- "Crustal Structure of the Yakutat Microplate: New Geophysical Parameters for Understanding the Evolution of the St. Elias Orogen, Southern Alaska" Lauren Andrews - "Using a physical model as an analogue for ice sheet dynamics" Thomas Brothers- "Investigating geomorphology of the Basal Unit of Planum Boreum, Mars using SHARAD" Yao You -"Pore pressure evolution during breaching in sand" LIVE BROADCAST

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2009
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
11 Sept 10:30 AM	Dr. Tip Meckel, Research Associate, Gulf Coast Carbon Center, Bureau of Economic Geology	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Monitoring of Carbon Sequestration"
18 Sept 10:30 AM *BEG Conf. Room	Dr. Laurence Padman, Senior Scientist, Earth & Space Research	Jack Holt, UTIG	"Ice-shelf/ocean Interactions Measured From Space"
25 Sept 10:30 AM	No Seminar Today
02 Oct 10:30 AM	No Seminar Today
09 Oct 10:30 AM	No Seminar Today
16 Oct 10:30 AM	Dr. Kurt L. Frankel, Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology	Jack Holt, UTIG	"Rates of Deformation and the Distribution of Strain Along an Evolving Segment of the Pacific-North America Plate Boundary"
23 Oct 10:30 AM *BEG Conf. Room	Dr. Omar Ghattas, Department of Geological Sciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, University of Texas at Austin	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Towards uncertainty quantification with high fidelity ice sheet models" You are invited to watch this live broadcast!
30 Oct 10:30 AM	Dr. Matt Hornbach, Research Associate, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG)	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Hunting the Source of the 1692 Port Royal Tsunami: New Insights into Jamaican Tectonics and Geohazards" You are invited to watch this live broadcast!
05 Nov Thursday 10:30 AM *BEG Conf. Room	Dr. Gary L. Pavlis, Professor of Geological Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"Three-dimensional, Converted Wave Imaging of the Mantle: Applications to the Earthscope Transportable Array" You are invited to watch this LIVE BROADCAST
13 Nov 10:30 AM *BEG Conf. Room	Dr. Ian Eisenman, Postdoctoral Scholar in Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech, and NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Is Arctic sea ice approaching a tipping point?" You are invited to watch this LIVE BROADCAST
20 Nov 10:30 AM	UTIG Fellowship Recipient: Jason Stephens	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"Tectonic and depositional evolution of an active forearc basin based on 2-D multi-channel seismic reflection data, Sandino Basin, offshore Nicaragua" You are invited to watch this LIVE BROADCAST
27 Nov 10:30 AM	Thanksgiving Holiday
04 Dec 10:30 AM	Dr. Andria Bilich, NOAA	Sean Gulick, UTIG	"Beyond Geodesy: GPS Applications to Seismology and Climate Studies" You are invited to watch this LIVE BROADCAST
11 Dec 10:30 AM	Dr. Oliver Elison Timm, Postdoc, University of Hawaii	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"African Humid Periods during the last 130,000 years" You are invited to watch this LIVE BROADCAST

UTIG Seminars - Summer 2009
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
19 June 10:30 AM	Francisco (Paco) José Lobo Sánchez visiting scientist from CSIC-Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra	John Goff, UTIG	"Evolutionary patterns and recent sedimentation processes in continental shelves around Spain: some examples"

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2009
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
16 Jan. 10:30AM	Mead Allison, Sr. Research Scientist UTIG	Sean Gulick, UTIG	"The Politics of Mississippi River Diversions for Delta Renewal: Bringing New Science to Bear"
23 Jan. 10:30AM	Nick Hayman, Research Associate, UTIG	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"The structure of crustal faults exposed in the Pito Deep Rift: Conduits for hydrothermal fluids on the Southeast Pacific Rise"
30 Jan. 10:30AM	Fellowship Recipients from Fall 2008 with Isaac Smith, Derek Sawyer, and Bobby Reese	Gail Christeson, UTIG	Fellowship Talks
06 Feb. 10:30AM	Peter Huybers, Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"Feedback between deglaciation and volcanic emissions of CO2"
13 Feb. 10:30AM *BEG Conf. Room	Jeremy Bassis, The Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"All quiet on the seaward front?"
20 Feb. 10:30AM *BEG Conf. Room	Edward Evenson, Lehigh University	Sean Gulick, UTIG	"Charles Darwin, Geologist and The Origin of Darwin�s Boulders - Tierra del Fuego"
27 Feb. 10:30AM *BEG Conf. Room	Don Chambers, Center for Space Research, The University of Texas at Austin	Terry Quinn, UTIG	"Measuring and Understanding Long-Term Sea Level Change"
06 Mar. 10:30AM	Catherine Rychert, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego	Harm Van Avendonk, UTIG	"A Global Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary�
13 Mar. 10:30AM	William R. Dickinson, University of Arizona	Larry Lawver, UTIG	"Cordilleran Geotectonic Evolution"
20 Mar. 10:30AM	Spring Break
27 Mar. 10:30AM *BEG Conf. Room	Jeff Freymueller, Associate Professor of Geophysics, Geophysical Institute and Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks	Sean Gulick, UTIG	"Spatial Variations in Plate Coupling, Seismic Slip, and Slow Slip in the Alaska-Aleutian Subduction Zone"
03 Apr. 10:30AM	Jake Gebbie, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University	Charles Jackson, UTIG	"The imprint of climate change over the last millennium in modern-day ocean tracer distributions"
10 Apr. 10:30AM	Nathan Downey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UTIG	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"The Instantaneous Dynamics of the Cratonic Congo basin"
17 Apr. 10:30AM	Charles Webb, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UT Institute for Geophysics and Center for Space Research	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"Monitoring Change in the Cryosphere from Space: ICESat and Beyond"
24 Apr. 10:30AM	Dr. Philip Benson, Energy Theme Candidate	Peter Flemings, UTIG	Fluid induced seismicity in the laboratory: from volcano-tectonics to hydrofracture
27 Apr. (Mon.) 10:30AM	John Suppe, Distinguished Chair Research Professor, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University	Sean Gulick, UTIG	"Roles of Pore-Fluid Pressures in the Mechanics of Thrust Belts and Accretionary Wedges"
01 May 10:30AM	Jud Partin, JSG Postdoc	Charles Jackson, UTIG	Reconstructing Paleo-Rainfall in the Western Tropical Pacific: Speleothem Proxies
08 May 10:30AM	Fellowship Recipients from Spring 2009 Julia Schneider, Bobby Reece, Kylara Martin, and Manasij Santra	Gail Christeson, UTIG	Fellowship Talks
15 May 10:30AM *BEG Conf. Room	MS Thesis Presentations Elizabeth Dunn Stanley Stackhouse Hilary Strong	Gail Christeson, UTIG	MS Thesis Talks

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2008
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
19 Sept. 10:30AM	Paul Mann, UTIG	John Goff	"BOLIVAR NSF Continental Dynamics study of northern South America (2001-2008): What have we learned?"
26 Sept. 10:30AM	Brian Arbic, UTIG	Charles Jackson
10 Oct. 10:30AM	Bruce Campbell, Smithsonian, MARSIS/SHARAD Member	Jack Holt	"Using Radar to Look Below the Moon's Surface"
05 Nov. 12:00PM	G. Randy Keller, Prof. and McCollough Chair, University of Oklahoma	Gail Christeson	"A Geophysical View of the East African Rift from Ethiopia Southward"
14 Nov. 10:30AM	David Hidgon, Group Leader Statistical Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory	Charles Jackson	"Inference from Combining Detailed Computer Simulations and Experimental Data"
05 Dec. 10:30AM	Larry Lawver, Sr. Res. Scientist, UTIG		"Plates and Gates, an IPY Project: Central Scotia Sea Cruise or Why We Should Care When Drake Passage Opened"
19 Dec.			Fall AGU Meeting

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2008
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Title of Talk
18 Jan. 10:30AM	Dr. Boris Kiefer, Asst Prof, New Mexico State University	"From Elements to Evolution-Transition Metals in Earth's Interior" (BEG Main)
25 Jan. 10:30AM	Marc A. Hesse, PhD Candidate, Stanford University	"Length & Time Scales of Trapping Processes in Saline Aquifer Storage fo CO2" (BEG Main)
01 Feb. 10:30AM	Dr. Zhengyu Liu, Prof/Director, Center for Climatic Research, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison	"Towards the Understanding of North Pacific Decadal Variability"
08 Feb. 10:30AM	Dr. Joel P. Johnson, Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Geological Survey	"Bedrock River Incision in the Field, Lab and Mat Lab"
29 Feb. 10:30AM	Dr. Wonsuck Kim, Posdoctoral Research Associate, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	TBA
07 Mar. 10:30AM	Dr. Eric A Hetland,Posdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology	TBA
14 Mar. 10:30AM	NO Talk	Spring Break
21 Mar. 10:30AM	Dr. Matthew A. Wolinsky, Postdoctoral Associate, National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics	"Clinoforms: A Unifying Framework for Marine Stratigraphy?"
28 Mar. 10:30AM	Benjamin Lintner, Res Scientist, UCLA Dept of Atmospheric Sciences	"Soil Moisture Impacts on Convective Margins"
31Mar 10:30AM	Chris Forest, Res Scientist, MIT	"Quantifying Uncertainty in Climate Predictions"
02 Apr. 10:30AM	Leslie Hayden	"Rutile and Sphene: New Tools for Characterizing Silicic Magma Systems"
11 Apr. 10:30AM	Olga Sergienko, Postdoctoral Researcher	"Modeling Ice Sheets and Their Parts: Concepts, Approaches, Problems"
18 Apr. 10:30AM	Cameron Wobus, Ph.D MIT	"Fluvial Erosion and Landscape Dynamics"
25 Apr. 10:30AM	Jason Box, Asst Prof, Ohio State University	"Greenland Outlet Glacier Dynamics from Time-Lapse Cameras"
07May 10:30AM	Daniel O. Breecker, Res. Assist, University of New Mexico	"Calibrating Pedogenic Carbonate as a Paleoenvironmental Indicator"
09 May 10:30AM	Thorsten Becker, Asst. Prof., USC	"Plates, Slabs, and Keels: Deciphering Earth's Convective History from Seismology, Mineral Physics and Geodynamics"
12May 10:30AM	Teh-Ru "Alex" Song, Caltech	"Slab Melting and Serpentinization: A Seismological Perspective"

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2007
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
21 Sept. 10:30 AM	Sabine Wulf, UTIG	Paul Mann	"Extracting paleoenvironmental changes and natural disaster history from lake sediments"
28 Sept. 10:30 AM	Christina Holland, UTIG	Rob Scott	"Global Warming in a Coral Context"
01 Oct. 02:00 PM	Juergen Oberst, Technical Univ. and German Aerospace Center (Germany)	Yosio Nakamura	"Results from the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on Mars Express through the Nominal Mission"
05 Oct. 11:00 AM	Joe Ebeniro, University of Harcourt (Nigeria)	Patty Ganey-Curry	Geophysical Research at the University of Port Harcourt (Nigeria); Where we are and Where we are Going"
19 Oct. 10:30 AM	Enrique Vivoni, Assistant Professor of Hydrology, Research Hydrologist Dept of Earth & Environmental Science, New Mexico Tech University	John Goff	"Ecohydrology of Seasonally-Green Desert Landscapes"
23 Oct. 3:00 PM	Kerry Cook, Professor, Cornell University (BEG Main Seminar Rm)	Charles Jackson	"Atmospheric Jets and Precipitation Variations: Great Plains Hydrology and the West African Monsoon Jump"
26 Oct. 10:30 AM	Jung-Fu Lin, Livermore Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	John Lassiter	"Mineral Physics of Iron and Light Elements in Earth's Core"
02 Nov. 10:30 AM	Nir Krakauer, Univ. of California at Berkeley	Charles Jackson	"Carbon-14 as a Tracer of Contemporary Carbon Flows"
02 Nov. 2:30 PM	Kurt Stuwe, University of Graz (Austria)	Brian Horton	"Mechanical and Landscape evolution Models for the European Alps"
05Nov. 1:30PM	Ayon Sen, Westwood High School	Brian Arbic	"Dissipation of Geostrophic Oceanic Flows by Quadratic Bottom Boundary Layer Drag"
07 Nov. 12:00 PM	Rosemarie Came, Postdoctoral Scholar in Geochemistry, California Institute of Technology	Brian Arbic	"The Link Between Abrupt Climate Change and Intermediate Depth Ocean Circulation"
09 Nov. 10:30 AM	Timothy Shanahan, Postdoctural Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Terry Quinn	"Asynchronous Paleoenvironmental Changes in the Tropics -A Biomarker Perspective"
16 Nov. 1:00 PM	Fenglin Niu, Asst Professor, Rice University	Steve Grand	"Depth of Cratonic Lithosphere and Seismic Monitoring of Stress/Strain Transients"
19Nov 10:30AM	Yang "Eric" Hong, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	David Mohrig	"Global Precipitation Measurements and its Applications to Hydrologic Disaster Study"
23 Nov. 10:30 AM	Thanksgiving	No seminar
30 Nov. 10:30 AM	Farzam Javadpour, Alberta Research Council	Ian Duncan	"Unconventional Studies of Shale Gas Sediments"
05 Dec. 10:30 AM	Jon Pelletier, University of Arizona	David Mohrig	TBA
14 Dec. 10:30 AM	AGU	No Seminar

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2007
	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
11 Jan 11AM	Nicholas W. Hayman, Res. Associate Earth and Ocean Sciences Div, Duke University	Nathan Bangs	"Fault Controls on the Mid-Ocean Ridge Hydrothermal System"
12 Jan 10:30AM	Douglas, Wiens, Prof., Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science,Washington University	Jay Pulliam	"Broadband Seismology in Antarctica: New Insights on Mountain Building and Glacial Processes"
19 Jan 10:30AM	Geoffrey Abers, Prof. CAS Earth Sciences, Boston University	Jay Pulliam	"Imaging the Arc Source Region in Central America: The TUCAN Broadband Seismic Experiment"
25Jan 10:30AM	Roger Pielke Sr, Senior Research Scientist, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Senior Research Associate, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC), University of Colorado at Boulder, Emeritus Professor of the Department of Atmospheric Science Colorado State University	Fred Taylor	"Prediction as a Technology"
26 Jan 10:30AM	Bayani Cardenas, Assist. Prof. and William T. Stokes Centennial Teaching Fellowship, UT Austin	Fred Taylor	"Complex Interactions Along the Surface Water-Ground Water Interface Revealed"
02 Feb 10:30AM	Charles Groat Prof. and John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Energy and Mineral Resources; Director, Energy and Mineral Resources Graduate Program; Director, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy	Jay Pulliam	"CIEEP and EER: New Jackson School Acronyms"
09 Feb 10:30AM	Alex Orsi, Research Scientist, Physical Section, Texas A&M University Dept of Oceanography	Charles Jackson	"Characteristics of the Antarctic Slope Current and Front in the Ross Sea"
16 Feb 10:30AM	John Castagna, Prof. Geophysics, University of Houston	Sanjay Sood	"Spectral Decomposition and Inversion"
23 Feb 10:30AM	Peter Flemings, Prof of Geosciences, Penn State University	Paul Stoffa	"Gas Venting and 3 Phase Stability and Gas Hydrate Reservoirs"
02 Mar 10:30AM	John Jaeger, Assistant Prof, Dept of Geological Sciences, University of Florida	Sean Gulick	"Signal Transfer in a Glacial Source-to-Sink Sedimentary System"
09 Mar 10:30AM	Amir Khan, Assist. Prof. Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark	Yosio Nakamura	"Constraining the Bulk Major Element Composition and Thermal State of the Earth's Mantle from Inversion of Geophysical Data"
16 Mar 10:30AM	Spring Break		No seminar
23 Mar 10:30AM	Ting Yang, Post-Doc Research Fellow, DGS	Harm van Avendonk	"Seismic Constraints on Hotspot and Mid-Ocean Ridge Interaction"
30 Mar 10:30AM	Peggy Vermeesch, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIG	Sean Gulick	"Broad Zone of Structural Uplift Beneath the Chicxulub Impact Structure"
06 Apr 10:30AM	NO SEMINAR
13 Apr 10:30AM	Gabriele Hegerl, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School for the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University	Charles Jackson	"Understanding and Attributing Climate Change: Using the Past as a Guide to the Future"
20 Apr 10:30AM	Samuel Mukasa, Prof. Dept of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan	Ian Dalziel	"Earth's Controversial LIPs: Perspectives from the Ferrar Magmatic Province, Antarctica"
24Apr 10:30AM	Noel James, Prof. Queens University at Kingston, Ontario	Fred Taylor/Tip Meckel	"Early dolomitization in the Southern Australian Cenozoic"
02 May 10:30AM	Mike Steckler, Doherty Sr. Res. Scientist, Marine Geology and Geophysics, LDEO	Luc Lavier	TALK TO BE RESCHEDULED
04May 10:30AM	STUDENT TALKS		TBA
11May 10:30AM	Robert Dickinson, Prof. and Endowed Chair, Georgia Power/Georgia Res. Alliance	Terry Quinn	"Analyzing the 3-D Scattering from a Spherical Bush for Climate Modeling"
11May 3:00PM	Hamed El-Mowafy, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIG	Paul Mann	"An Overview of the Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Aruba-Bonaire Basin, Offshore Venezuela"
15May 1:30PM (2.201)	Jnana R. Kayal, Geological Survey of India, Indian School of Mines	Mrinal Sen	"Recent Large Earthquakes in India with Special Reference to the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake"
18May 10:30AM	Nathan Daczko, Sr. Lecturer, Macquarie University, Australia	Paul Mann	"Fragmentation Processes, Depositional Mechanisms and Lithification of Glassy Fragmental Rocks, Macquarie Island"

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2006
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
15Sept 11AM	Sabine Wulf, Research Fellow- UTIG	Harm van Avendonk	"Tephrochronology - A Powerful Tool in Paleoclimate Research"
22 Sep 11AM	Gail Christeson, Research Scientist - UTIG	Harm van Avendonk	"Correlation of Seismic and Geologic Boundaries in Upper Oceanic Crust"
29 Sep 11AM	Chris Jenkins, Fellow: Environmental Computing - University of Colorado at Boulder	John Goff	"A Global Data Base of Seabed Substrate Character (dbSEABED)"
06 Oct 11AM	Tip Meckel, Research Associate - BEG	Paul Mann	"Southern Louisiana's subsidence problem: geologic contributions and post-Katrina geophysical research opportunities"
13 Oct 11AM	David Mohrig, Associate Professor - DOGS	Sean Gulick	"How Evolution of Submarine Landscapes Differs from the Terrestrial System: The Role of Channelized and Unconfined Currents in Building the Continental Slope"
19 Oct 11 AM (Thurs)	Seth Stein, Professor Dept of Geological Sciences - Northwestern University	Jay Pulliam	"Ultralong Period Seismic Study of the December 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Implications for Tsunami Hazards"
20 Oct 11AM	Brian Horton - UTIG	Sean Gulick	"Sedimentary record of initial growth of the Tibetan plateau during the India-Asia Collision"
27 Oct 11AM	Samar Khatiwala, Associate Research Scientist - LDEO	Brian Arbic	"Anthropogenic Carbon Uptake by the Ocean Estimated Using Transit-Time Distributions"
03 Nov 11AM	Dave Wilson, Postdoctoral Fellow - DOGS	Jay Pulliam	"Seismic Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle in the Southwestern United States"
10 Nov 11AM	Gary Mitchum, Physical Oceanography Professor - University of South Florida	Brian Arbic/ Christina Holland	"Sea Level Rise: What Do We Know and What Do We Need To Know?"
16 Nov 11AM	Mead Allison, Associate Professor, Tulane University	Nathan Bangs	"Source-to-Sink Sediment Dynamics and Terrestrial Carbon Burial on River-Dominated Continental Margins: Insights from the Mississippi-Atchafalaya Dispersal System"
17 Nov 11AM	Don Fisher, Professor Earth and Mineral Sciences, Penn State University	Sean Gulick	"Structural and Thermal evolution of the active Taiwan Arc-Continent Collision"
17Nov 3 PM	Philip J. Bart, Associate Professor Louisiana State University	Paul Stoffa	"Direct Constraints on the Neogene Grounding History of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet via Correlations with ODP Leg 178 sites"
24 Nov 11AM	NO SEMINAR		Thanksgiving Holiday
01Dec 10AM	Gwenn Peron-Pinvidic, Postdoc Woods Hole	Jay Pulliam/ Fred Taylor/ Cliff Frohlich	"Morphotectonic Evolution of the Iberia Ocean-Continent Transition"
01 Dec 11AM	Doug Wiens, Professor Earth and Planetary Sciences - Washington University in St. Louis	Jay Pulliam/ Fred Taylor/ Cliff Frohlich	"Broadband Seismology in Antarctica: New Insights on Mountain Building and Glacial Processes"
01 Dec 04PM	Fellowship Talks	Sean Gulick	Speakers/Titles
08 Dec 11AM	Chip Groat, Chair, Jackson School Energy and Mineral Resources	Jay Pulliam	"CIEEP and EER: New Jackson School Acronyms"
15 Dec 11AM	AGU Meeting

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2006
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
06Jan 4PM	No Talk Scheduled
13Jan 4PM	No Talk Scheduled
20Jan 4PM	Adrian Lenardic, Rice University	Harm van Avendonk	"40-60 and the Earths Heat Loss"
27Jan 4PM	Philip Fontana, Veritas Marine Acquisition	Nathan Bangs	"Marine 3D Seismic Surveys - Towed Streamer Survey Design and Data Acquisition"
02Feb 4PM	Byron Parizek, Res. Associate, G Comer Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, PSU	Don Blankenship	"Simulating Ice Sheets: The Good, The Bad, and The UTIG"
03Feb 4PM	Joe Cartwright, Professor, School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Cardiff University	Nathan Bangs	"Transport of Mafic Magma through the Crust via Sill Complexes: Evidence from 3D Seismic Data"
7Feb 4PM	Tom Neumann, Research Associate, Univ. of Vermont	Don Blankenship	"Accumulation Rate from Internal Layers: An Inverse Approach"
10Feb 4PM	Uri ten Brink, Adjunct Scientist, The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Field Center	Paul Mann	"Collapse of the Puerto Rico Trench, Uplift of Puerto Rico, and Implications to Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards"
14Feb 4PM	Benjamin Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Charles Jackson	"Causes of Sea Surface Temperature Change in Atlantic and Pacific Hurricane Formation Regions"
16Feb 4PM	DelWayne Bohnenstiehl, LDEO	Nathan Bangs	"Passive Underwater Acoustics: Methods and Applications in Marine Seismotectonics"
21Feb 4PM	Donna Shillington, School of Earth and Ocean Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton	Nathan Bangs	"Evolution of the Newfoundland Nonvolcanic Rifted Margin: New insights from Drilling and Geophysical Data"
23Feb 4PM	Mladen Nedimovic, Doherty Associate Research Scientist, LDEO	Nathan Bangs	"3D Structure from 2D Seismic Reflection Surveys"
24Feb 4PM	Susan Hovorka, Research Scientist, BEG	Harm van Avendonk	"Testing the Permanence of Geologic Storage of CO₂: the Frio Brine Pilot Experiment, Texas"
27Feb 4PM	Matt Hornbach, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIG	Nathan Bangs	TBA
03Mar 4PM	Mike Hudec, Research Scientist, BEG	Paul Mann	"Far-Traveled Minibasins and the Great Plio-Pleistocene Salt Surge, Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico"
09Mar 4PM	Henrietta Edmonds, Associate Prof., UT -Department of Marine Science Port Aransas, Texas	Ian Dalziel	"Styles of venting on the Gakkel Ridge, Artic Ocean"
17Mar 4PM	SPRING BREAK No seminar
24Mar 4PM	Jay Pulliam, Research Scientist, UTIG	Nathan Bangs	"Seismic Studies of the Northeast Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone"
31Mar 4PM	Mike Murphy, Assistant Professor, University of Houston	Kirk McIntosh	"Syncollisional Extension and Basin Development in the High Himalaya"
07Apr 4PM	Janok Bhattacharya, Professor, University of Houston	Paul Mann	"Applying Deltaic and Shallow Marine Outcrop Analogs to the Subsurface"
20Apr 11AM	Albena Mateeva, Shell	Yosio Nakamura	"Passive Seismic Imaging with Virtual Sources"
21Apr 4PM	Robbie Toggweiler, Princeton University	Rob Scott	"Origin of the 100,000-yr Cycle in Atmospheric CO2"
28Apr 4PM	David Holland Co-Director, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science Assoc. Prof. of Mathematics, Atmosphere-Ocean Science, NYU	Rob Scott	"Numerical Modeling of Ocean Circulation Over the Continental Shelf and Beneath the Ice Shelves in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica"
05May 3:45PM	Student Talks	Jamie Austin	Titles

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2005
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Host	Title of Talk
26Aug 4PM	David Lea, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara	Charles Jackson	"A Tropical Greenhouse Forcing Hypothesis for Ice Age Climate Change"
22Aug 11AM	Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Res. Asst., Seismotectonics Lab, Univ of South Carolina	Mrinal Sen	"Seismogenesis of Intraplate Earthquakes � Insights from Numerical Modeling"
02 Sept 4PM	Brandon Dugan, Asst. Prof., Rice University	Nathan Bangs	"Hydrogeology of the Ursa Region, Northern Gulf of Mexico, IODP Expedition 308 Sites U1322 and U1324"
09 Sept 4PM	No seminar
16 Sept 4PM	Robert Dull, Asst Prof, Dept of Geography, UT	Rob Scott	"Terrestrial Records of Holocene Climate Variability from Central American Lake Sediments"
23 Sept 4PM	Christina Holland, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ph.D., UTIG	Rob Scott & Charles Jackson	"Propagating Decadal Sea Surface Temperature Signal Identified in Modern Proxy Records of the Tropical Pacific"
30 Sept 4PM	Terri Quinn, JSG Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Professor, College of Marine Science University of South Florida	Fred Taylor	"A Coral-based Perspective on Post-glacial Climate Variability in the Western Pacific Warm Pool"
07 Oct 4PM	Ron Steel, Morgan J. Davis Centennial Chair in Petroleum Geology and Fred M. Bullard Fellow in Geological Sciences, PHD, UT-DOGS	Harm van Avendonk	"Deltas and Sea-Level Change"
14 Oct 4PM	Roger Buck, Doherty Sr. Research Scientist, LDEO	Luc Lavier	"The Role of Dike Intrusions at Rifts and Ridges"
21 Oct 4PM	Matt Hornbach, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTIG	Harm van Avendonk	"3D Evidence for Episodic Flux and Divergent Flow Beneath A Seep"
25 Oct 4PM	Olivier Marchal, Asst. Scientist, Geology and Geophysics, WHOI	Charles Jackson	"What Can Thorium-230 Tell Us About the Abyssal Ocean Circulation"
27 Oct 4PM	NO SEMINAR SCHEDULED
04 Nov 11AM	Miguel Bosch, Assoc. Prof., Universidad Central de Venezuela	Paul Stoffa	"Geostatistical Inversion as a Tool to Integrate Geoscientific Information"
04 Nov 4PM	Tony Fiorillo, Prof. of Geological Sciences, Curator of Paleontology, Dallas Museum of Natural History, SMU	Larry Lawver	"Cretaceous Dinosaurs of Alaska: Impact on the Origin of Beringia"
11 Nov 1:30PM	Emil Blias, Research Scientist, Revolution Geosciences, Inc.	Mrinal Sen	"Traveltime Inversion Problems in Layered Medium with Lateral Velocity Changes"
11 Nov 4PM	Bill Merryfield, Research Scientist, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis	Rob Scott	"Variability of Upper Pacific Ocean Overturning and Heat Transport in a Coupled Climate Model"
18 Nov 4PM	(Fiorillo: moved to 4nov)
25 Nov 4PM	Thanksgiving break		No seminar
02 Dec 4PM	Fellowship Talks	Jamie Austin	Titles
09 Dec 4PM	TBA		TBA
16 Dec 4PM	Donna J. Shillington, School of Earth and Ocean Science National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton	Harm van Avendonk	Integrated Seismic and Subsidence Analysis of Extension in the Eastern Black Sea

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2005
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Title of Talk
21 Jan 4PM	Mladen Nedimovic, LDEO	Structure, Evolution and Seismicity of the Oceanic Juan de Fuca Plate from Accretion to Subduction
28 Jan 4PM	Martin Jackson, UT-BEG	An Allochthonous Salt Canopy on Axel Heiberg Island,Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada
04 Feb 4PM	Paul Sava, UT-BEG	Riemannian Wavefield Extrapolation
11 Feb 4PM	Bob Hardage, UT-BEG	Multicomponent Seismic Assessment of Fluid-Gas Expulsion Geology and Gas-Hydrate Systems: Gulf of Mexico
18 Feb 4PM	Dennis Nielson, DOSECC	Recent Advances in Scientific Drilling
25 Feb 4PM	Gordon Wells, UT-CSR	Real-Time Satellite Remote Sensing with the MAGIC Direct Broadcast Receiving Station at the University of Texas at Austin
02 Mar 4PM	Gene Humphreys, University of Oregon	North America Dynamics and the Tectonics of the Western United States
03 Mar 11:00AM	Ralph Phillip Bording, Memorial University of Newfoundland	Research and the Offshore Newfoundland Hydrocarbons
03 Mar 1:30PM	Chao-Shing Lee, National Taiwan Ocean University	Tsunamis-How Can People Living in the Ring of Fire Deal with Them?
04 Mar 4PM	Dave Sparks, TAMU	Deep-mantle Melting and the Origin of Komatiites
08 Mar 12PM	Sharon Mosher, DGS	The Debut of GeoScienceWorld - Geoscience Information at Your Fingertips
10 Mar 11AM	Graham Kent, Scripps	California in 10 Million Years: Shoreline Property in the High Sierra
11 Mar 4PM	Graham Kent, Scripps	Magmatic Systems in 3-D
18 Mar 4PM	Spring Break
25 Mar 4PM	Scott King, Purdue	Mobile Plates and Mantle Convection: Theory, Models, and Outright Speculation
01 Apr 4PM	Jeroen Ritsema, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris/USGS	Global Seismology and Thermo-Chemical Structure of the Deep Mantle
08 Apr 2PM	Lisa McNeill, Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK	The 2004 Mw9.3 East Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami: Initial Results from the First Multibeam Survey over the Southern Rupture Zone
08 Apr 4PM	John Hopper, TAMU	Seismic Reflection and Refraction Data from Flemish Cap, Newfoundland: Implications for Mantle Processes During non-volcanic Margin Formation
15 Apr 4PM	Jerry Dickens, Rice	Current Challenges in Understanding Marine Gas Hydrate Systems
22 Apr 4PM	Brian Arbic, Princeton	Ocean Tides and Heinrich Events
29 Apr 4PM	Art Grantz, USGS	TBA
06 May 3:30 PM	Fellowship Talks	Speakers
27 May 4PM	Laura Wallace, GNS New Zealand	Subduction Zone Coupling and Tectonic Block Rotation at Some Western Pacific Convergent Margins using GPS

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2004
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Title of Talk
27 Aug/4PM	Aaron Velasco The University of Texas at El Paso	The Bhutan Himalayas: Insights into Himalayan Formation from Seismic Data
03 Sep/4PM
10 Sep/4PM	Dhananjay Kumar Ph.D. student, DGS UT Austin	Multi-component Data Analysis from Hydrate Ridge, Offshore Oregon
17 Sep/4PM	Sergey Fomel Bureau of Economic Geology UT Austin	Shaping Regularization in Geophysical Estimation Problems
24 Sep/4PM	Faqi Liu ConocoPhillips	Optimal Aplication of Source Plane Wave Migration
01 Oct/4PM	Michael Marder Prof. Ph.D. Dept of Physics, UT Austin	Friction and Fracture
*27 Oct/ 1:30PM	R. Saravanan National Center for Atmospheric Research	Tropical Teleconnections and their Implications for Modern and Past Climates
*29 Oct/4PM	John Anderson, Prof. Ph.D.Rice University	Shaldrill: An Examination of Antarctica Peninsula Neogene Climate and Cryosphere Evolution
*05 Nov 4PM	Frederick Taylor, UTIG	Tectonic Effects of Impinging Seamounts and Ridges at the Central New Hebrides and Western Solomons Arcs
*12 Nov 4PM	John Lassiter, Asst. Prof, DOGS	The Role of Recycled Oceanic Crust on the Potassium and Argon Budget of the Earth and Geochemical Constraints on Mantle Layering
*19 Nov 4PM	Robert Ferguson, Asst Prof, DOGS	Estimating the Elastic Parameters of Anisotropic Media Using a Joint Inversion of P-wave and SV-wave Traveltime Error
26 Nov/4PM	No seminar	Thanksgiving
02 Dec/TBA	Undergraduate Research talks	List of talks
03 Dec 3:30PM	Fellowship-holders talks	List of talks

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2004
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Title of Talk
30 Jan/4PM	Gianreto Manatschal, Univ of Strasbourg	"The role of detachment faulting at the transition from rifting to seafloor spreading"
06 Feb/4PM	Jamie Austin, Sylvia Nordfjord, Sean Gulick and John Goff, UTIG	"Geoclutter - Progress and Prospects"
20 Feb/4PM	Craig Fulthorpe, UTIG	"Seismic Sequence Boundary Morphologies as Indicators of Depositional Processes on the Middle Late Miocene New Jersey Continental Margin"
27 Feb/4PM	Harry Swinney, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Physics Dept at UT	"Scaling in Planetary-Type Flows in the Laboratory"
05 Mar/4PM	Jim Gardner, DGS	"Small Caldera-Forming Volcanic Eruptions and What They May Tell Us About the Big Ones"
08 Mar/1PM	Dr. Murthy Guddati, North Carolina State University	"Arbitrarily Wide-Angle Wave Equations and Their Applications in Geophysical Prospecting"
23 Mar/10AM	Amy Barr, University of Colorado at Boulder	"Convective Instability in Ice I: Application to Ganymede and Callisto"
26 Mar/4PM	Clark Wilson, DGS	"Gravity and Groundwater"
02 Apr/4PM	Jeroen Tromp, Cal Tech	"Simulations of Global and Regional Seismic Wave Propagation"
16 Apr/4PM	Jamie Austin, UTIG	"The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program: A Year 1 Progress Report and Report Card"
20 Apr/10AM	Carolyn Rupple, Program Officer, Ocean Sciences Division, NSF	"NSF ODP Update and Briefing for Current/Future Seismic PIs"
23 Apr/4PM	Barbara Bekins, Univ of CA Santa Cruz & USGS
30 Apr/TBA	Young UTIG Researchers	Talks by undergraduate students on their UTIG research
07 May/TBA	Student Fellowship Talks	Talks by graduate fellows on their UTIG research
14 May/4PM	Rigobert Tibi, Washington University, St. Louis	"Seismological Constraints on Mechanisms of Intermediate-Depth and Deep-Focus Earthquakes"

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2003
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Title of Talk
05Sept/4PM	Kathy Ellins, UTIG	"UTIG Education and Outreach Programs-Activities, Achievements and Future Plans"
12Sept/4PM	Youlong Xia, UTIG	"Optimal Parameter and Uncertainty Estimates of a Land Surface Model with Bayesian Stochastic Inversion (BSI)"
19Sept/4PM	Rob Scott, UTIG	"Upper Ocean Kinetic Energy Flux Between Length Scales Estimated with Remote Sensing Data"
26Sept/4PM	Nathan Bangs, UTIG	Evolution of the Nankai Trough Plate-Boundary Thrust from the Trench into the Seismogenic Zone
03Oct/4PM	Jeff Karson, Duke University	"The Greatest Extensional Tectonics Show on Earth: Seafloor Spreading From Core Complexes to Continuously Collapsing Calderas"
10Oct/4PM	Rob Ferguson, DOGS	Model Independent AVO
17Oct/4PM	Don Chambers, Center for Space Research, UT	Global Mean Sea Level Rise: A Review of What We Know (and Do Not Know)
24Oct/4PM	Terry Pavlis, Univ of New Orleans	"Tectonics in the Extreme Environments: Interactions Between Erosion and Tectonics in the St. Elias Orogen, Southern Alaska"
30Oct/4PM	Stephen Ackley, Clarkson University	"Climate Interactions with the Polar Sea Ice Covers:� The Antarctic Sea Ice Paradox"
07Nov/4PM	Harm Van Avendonk, UTIG	"Structure and Composition of the Central Aleutian Arc from a Sparse Wide-Angle Seismic Data Set"
14Nov/4PM	Jerry North, Texas A&M Univ.	"Analysis of the Simplest Climate Models"
18Nov/2PM	Jonathan Snow, Max Planck Institute	"Petrology of the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge System"
21Nov03	Fellowship Talks	Talks by Students

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2003
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Title of Talk
24Jan/4PM	Mark Simons, California Institute of Technology	"New Perspectives on Large Earthquakes from Geodesy"
31Jan/4PM	Moritz Fluegel, Texas A&M University	"The Role of Stochastic Forcing in Modulating ENSO Predictability"
7Feb/4PM	Andre Droxler, Rice University	"Miocene Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy Pattern and Oxygen Isotope Records as Sea Level Proxy: A Happy Reconciliation "
14Feb/4PM	Yosio Nakamura, UTIG	"Searching for Deep Moonquakes in the Backside of the Moon"
21Feb/4PM	Randy Keller, UTEP	"Continental Rifts: Some New Geophysical Data and Interpretations"
28Feb/4PM	Gail Christeson, UTIG	"Correlation of Seismic and Geologic Structure at Hess Deep and the Blanco Fracture Zone"
7March/ 9:00-4:30 at BEG	Dietrich Roeder, Murnau Geodynamics Inc.	"Fold-Thrust Belts: Petroleum Potential, Global Setting, Geodynamics" shortcourse"
21March/4PM	Jay Pulliam, UTIG	"The State of the Art of Ocean Bottom Seismology: Toward a Strategic Plan for UTIG's OBS Program"
28March/4PM	Cindy Evans, NASA	"Human activities and coastal dynamics in Asia: regional change documented from space"
31March/11AM	Evelyn Price, University of Alaska, Fairbanks	"Watching the Ground Go Up and Down: Measurements of Crustal Deformation by Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry"
4April/4PM	Lopamudra Roy and Ranjit Shaw, UTIG	"Inversion and Uncertainty analysis of Gravity data: An application over Lake Vostok, East Antarctica" and "Linearized Reflection Coefficients for Weakly Anisotropic Media for AVO / AVOA Analysis"
7April/11AM	Prof. K. K. Roy, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India	"Magnetotellurics and its application in mapping crust and upper mantle along the Eastern Ghat Mobile Belt, Eastern India"
11April/4PM	Mike Ritzwoller, University of Colorado at Boulder	"Thermal Evolution of the Pacific Lithosphere"
25April	Celebration!	Dedication of the Jackson School of Geosciences Building and 50th Anniversary of the Geology Foundation
1May/4:00PM	Young UTIG Researchers	Talks by undergraduates and a high school student on their UTIG research
2May/2:30PM	Student Fellowship Talks	Titles

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2002
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Title of Talk
9/6/2002 4:00 PM	Sergey Fomel, Bureau of Economic Geology	"Fast multiple-arrival traveltime computation for seismic imaging"
9/12/2002 11:00 AM	Harold Tobin, New Mexico Tech	"Getting Inside Active Faults: Multi-Scale Investigations of Fault Zone Physical Properties, Structure, and Mechanics"
9/13/2002 4:00 PM	Jacqueline Floyd, LDEO	"A Tale of Two Rifts: Woodlark Basin and Hess Deep"
9/19/2002 11:00 AM	Wenyue Xu, Georgia Institute for Technology	"Dynamic Marine Gas Hydrate System"
9/20/2002 4:00 PM	Stefan Boettcher, ExxonMobil	"Lithospheric Structure and Supracrustal Hydrocarbon Systems, Offshore Eastern Trinidad"
9/27/2002 4:00 PM	Isabella Velicogna, University of Colorado	"Potential applications of time-variable gravity from GRACE"
10/04/2002 4:00 PM	Mirko van der Baan, The University of Leeds (UK)	"The tau-p transform and wave propagation in anisotropic media"
10/11/2002 4:00 PM	Mark Tamisiea, JILA, University of Colorado	"Past and Present Sea-Level Change: Fingerprinting the Source"
10/14/2002 11:00 AM	Susan Bilek, University of Michigan	"Views from the seismogenic zone: Earthquake rupture properties from circum-Pacific subduction zones"
10/18/2002 3:00 PM	Sharon Mosher, UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	"The future of geoscience society publications--a role for the Jackson School?"
10/18/2002 4:00 PM	Nathan Dazcko, Institute for Geophysics	"Nature of the Australian-Pacific oceanic transform plate boundary near Macquarie Island"
10/25/2002 4:00 PM	Patricia Montoya, UT Dept of Geological Sciences	"Characterization of a Sandstone Fractured Reservoir: From Core to 3D Seismic Analysis"
10/28/2002 11:00 AM	Glen Spinelli, University of Michigan	"Fluid and heat flow through seafloor sediments: global impact and local variability"
10/30/2002 11:00 AM	Luc Lavier, California Institute for Technology	"Processes controlling the style of deformation at rifts and strike-slip boundaries"
11/01/2002 4:00 PM	Charles Jackson, Institute for Geophysics	"The Science and Practicalities of Uncertainty Estimation for Climate Model Predictions"
11/04/2002 11:00 AM	Vera Schulte-Pelkum, University of Colorado	"Lithospheric dynamics from a synthesis of seismic P and S anisotropy"
11/08/2002 4:00 PM	Ricardo Combellas, Institute for Geophysics	"Depositional History and Genetic Sequence Stratigraphic Framework of the Middle East-Central Gulf of Mexico"
11/15/2002 4:00 PM	Ken Matson, BP Houston	"Applications of Inverse Scattering theory to seismic data processing: free-surface and internal multiple attenuation"
11/22/2002 3:30 PM	Fellowship Holders	Talks by Fellowship Holders

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2002
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Title of Talk
1/3/2002 11:00:00	Dr. Zhaomin Wang, McGill University Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, Quebec CANADA	"The McGill Paleoclimate Model and its Recent Applications"
1/18/2002 16:00:00	Charlie Kerans, University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX USA	Outcrop and Subsurface Seismic Expression of Slope and Basin-Floor Carbonates
1/25/2002 16:00:00	Robert D. Rogers, UT Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX	Neogene tectonic controls on the western (subduction) and northern (strike-slip) margins of the Chortis block (northern Central America)
2/1/2002 16:00:00	Donna Cathro and Graham Moss, UT Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX	Clinoform Progradation Along A Submerged Oligocene-Miocene Cool-Subtropical Carbonate Shelf, Northern Carnarvon Basin, Australia: Implications for Sensitivity
2/07/2002 16:00:00	Robert Scott, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ	The Ocean's Role in Seasonal to Interdecadal Climate Anomalies
2/08/2002 16:00:00	James Berryman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA	Estimating Rock Porosity and Fluid Saturation Using Only Seismic Velocities
2/15/2002 16:00:00	Dr. Julie Morris, Washington University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO	Geochemical Imaging of Subduction Zone Processes
2/22/2002 16:00:00	Prof. Thomas W. Gardner, Trinity University, Department of Geosciences, San Antonio, TX	Isostasy, flexure and Cenozoic landscape evolution of the US Atlantic margin
3/1/2002 16:00:00	Indrajit Roy, UT Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX	Estimating Rock Properties from Post-and Pre-stack Seismic Data
3/8/2002 11:00:00	J�rgen Oberst, DLR Institute of Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Exploration, Berlin, Germany	A Search for Deep Moonquake Nests in Lunar Seismograms
3/8/2002 16:00:00	Dr. Gerald North, Texas A&M University, Dept of Oceanography, College Station, TX	Detecting Climate Signals Using Space-Time EOFs
3/22/2002 16:00:00	Dr. Douglas Foster, Phillips Petroleum, Bartlesville, OK	Offset Plane Wave Migration
3/27/2002 16:00:00	Robert Nowack, Purdue University, Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, West Lafayette, IN	Inversion of Seismic Attributes from 2-D and 3-D Wide angle Refraction Experiments
4/05/2002 16:00:00	Niall C Slowey, Texas A&M University, Department of Oceanography, College Station, TX	Evidence from U-Th dating of Marine Sediments for the Mechanisms that Drive Glacial-Interglacial Climate Change
4/12/2002 16:00:00	Dr. Terry J. Wilson, Ohio State University, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Columbus, OH	Kinematics and Dynamics of the Transantarctic Mountains Front, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica
4/19/2002 16:00:00	Robert Burger, UT Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX	Mid-Pleistocene to Present Stratigraphic Responses in a Tectonically-driven depositional setting
4/26/2002 16:00:00	Dr. Robert Ferguson, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX	Dept Imaging of Seismic Data in Heterogeneous Anisotropic Media
5/3/2002 15:00 -Special Seminars by UT Fellowship Recipients	Ahmed, Imtiaz (Phillips Fellowship) 3:00PM Burger, Bob (Ewing-Worzel Fellowship)3:25 Gudapati, Kris (Gale White Fellowship) 3:50 Kumar, Dhananjay (Ewing-Worzel Fellowship) 4:15 Lu, Hongbo (Ewing-Worzel Fellowship) 4:40
5/10/2002 15:00 -Special Seminars by UT Fellowship Recipients	Meckel, Tip (Gale White Fellowship) 3:00PM Nordfjord, Sylvia (BP Fellowship) 3:25 Xun, Hao (Gale White Fellowship) 3:50	There will be an award ceremony for the best presentation selected by the UTIG Fellowship Committee on the basis of content and delivery at 4:40PM on Friday, May 10.

UTIG Seminars - Fall 2001
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Title of Talk
9/7/2001 16:00:00	Dr. Robert Tatham, University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Geological Sciences,	Breaking Down Barriers to Effective Use of Multi-component Seismic Data
9/14/2001 16:00:00	Dr. Klaus Holliger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland	Estimation of Sea Floor Properties for Wavefield Decomposition
9/17/2001 16:00:00	Dr. Daniel H.N. Barker, UT Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX	Insights into the Tectonic Evolution of Back-Arc Basins: Bransfield Strait, Antarctica
9/21/2001 16:00:00	Dr. Anahita Tikku, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY	Mass exchange and tectonic setting of subglacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica
9/24/2001 16:00:00	Dr. Daniel A. Scheirer, Brown University, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Providence, RI	How Mid-Ocean Ridges and Hotspots Interact: Insights from Amsterdam/St. Paul, and the Southeast Indian Ridge
9/28/2001 16:00:00	Dr. David L. Morse, UT Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX	Ice Cores, Ice Divides and Ice Streams: Ongoing Research in West Antarctica
10/3/2001 10:00:00	Dr. Harm van Avendonk, University of Wyoming, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY	Evolution of the Australian-Pacific Plate Boundary, South Island, New Zealand, from Long- and Short-Wavelength Seismic Structure
10/5/2001 16:00:00	Dr. Peter Clift, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA	The Origin and Significance of the Indus Fan in Understanding Solid Earth-Climate Interactions in South Asia
10/8/2001 16:00:00	Dr. Sean S. Gulick, UT Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX	Transitional Influences on Convergent Margin Tectonics: Southern Cascadia Subduction Zone and the Western Nankai Trough
10/12/2001 16:00:00	Dr. Richard E. Hanson, Texas Christian University, Department of Geology, Fort Worth, TX	1.1 Ga large igneous province in southern Africa: implications for Mesoproterozoic supercontinent configurations and mantle dynamics.
10/19/2001 16:00:00	Dr. Dale S. Sawyer, Rice University, Department of Earth Science, Houston, TX	Rifting Processes: Examples from the Iberia Atlantic Margin and the Mid_Atlantic Ridge
11/2/2001 16:00:00	Dr. Pradeep Talwani, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC	Characteristic Properties of Seismogenic Crust , Inferred From a Study of Induced Seismicity:, Introducing Seismogenic Permeability
11/9/2001 16:00:00	Dr. Steven J. Cardimona, University of Missouri at Rolla, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Rolla, MO	GROUND PENETRATING RADAR FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION CHARACTERIZATION OF PAVEMENTS AND BRIDGE-DECKS
11/15/2001 11:00:00	Dr. Ronald J. Steel, University of Wyoming, Institute for Energy Research, Laramie, WY	Eocene shelf-slope clinoforms in large outcrops, Spitsbergen: sand, prediction model based on shelf-edge trajectory and regime
11/21/2001 10:00:00	Timothy A. Meckel, UT Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX	TECTONIC MORPHOLOGY OF THE HJORT TRENCH: Implications for Evolution of the Macquarie Ridge Complex
11/30/2001 16:00:00	Dr Stephen E. Laubach, The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX
12/7/2001		AGU Practice
12/14/2001		AGU Week

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2001
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Title of Talk
Jan. 26	Ken Gray, UT Dept. of Petroleum Engineering	To be announced
Feb. 02	Mark Cloos, UT DOGS	Collisional delaminaton in New Guinea
Feb. 09	Bob Stern, UT Dallas	Izu-Bonin-Mariana subduction factory
Feb. 16	Matt Huber, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz	Modelling Eocene Climate: From the Bottom of the Ocean to the Top of the Atmosphere
Feb. 23	Gail Christeson UTIG	Three-dimensional structure of the Chicxulub impact crater
Mar. 02	Doug Wiens Washington, Univ. St. Louis, MO	Upper mantle structure of the Tonga-Lau backarc system
Mar. 09	Warren Wood,NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS	High Resolution Seismic Investigations of Fluid Flux in Marines Sediments
Mar. 16	Spring Break
Mar. 23	Paul Mann, UTIG	Neotectonics of the northeastern Caribbean
Mar. 30	Jay Pulliam, UTIG	Seismic anisotropy in the core-mantle transition zone: Implications for chemical heterogeneity and mantle convection
Apr. 06	Chuck DeMets Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison	Slip kinematics and dynamics during and after the 9 October 1995 Mw=8.0 Colima-Jalisco earthquake, Mexico, from GPS geodetic constraints
Apr. 13	No seminar scheduled
Apr. 20	Darryl Willis, BP, Houston	Infield Gas Redevelopment at Eugene Island 273: The Significance of Rock Properties at AVO
Apr. 27	Kurt Cuffey UC Berkeley	Extracting New Views of Environmental Change from Ice Sheet Archives
May 04	Karah Wertz, UTIG	The geology & wildlife of Macquarie Island, Southern Ocean (from a structural geologist's perspective)

UTIG Seminars - Spring 2000
Date/Time	Speaker, Affiliation	Title of Talk
Sept. 8	William Hyde, Dept. of Oceanography Texas A&M	Carboniferous and Precambrian Ice Ages: Was there a Snowball Earth?
Sept. 15	Dan Barker, Nathan Bangs, Kirk Mcintosh UTIG	Nathan Bangs-Three Dimensional Seismic Imaging of an Active Gas Hydrate System Offshore; Dan Barker-Ocean Bottom Seismograph Profiling for Crustal Structure in Bransfield Strait, West Antarctica; Kirk McIntosh-Preliminary Results of a Nicragua/Costa Rica MCS/OBH Seismic Survey
Sept. 22	Troy Holcombe Texas A&M	Lakefloor geology as perceived from new bathymetry of the Laurentian Great Lakes
Sept. 29	Sean Gulick UTIG	Influence of the northward migrating Mendocino Triple Junction on the Gorda Microplate and the Offshore Eel River Forearc Basin, Northern California
Oct. 6	Larry Benson USGS, Boulder, CO	Droughts and Megadroughts in the Western United States: A 7500 Year Record from Pyramid Lake, Nevada
Oct. 13	None scheduled
Oct. 20	William Balsam, UT Arlington	Paleoclimatic Interpretation of the Chinese Loess Sequence: Evidence from Iron Oxides
Oct. 23 Monday, 11 a.m.	Neville Exon, Australian Geol. Surv. Org.	Australian-Antarctic Separation and Cenozoic Climate Change: ODP Leg 189
Oct. 27	Dr. Henrietta Edmonds, Port Aransas Marine Laboratory	Geochemical studies of hydrothermal plumes on mid-ocean ridges:recent results and future directions
Nov. 3	Jay Banner, UT DOGS	Temporal Evolution of Ground Water: An isotropic perspective
Nov. 10	Dan Schrag, Harvard	A Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth
Nov. 17	Larry Lawver, UTIG	Tectonics of the Arctic based on new NRL Aerogeophysical data
Nov. 24	Happy Thanksgiving!	No Seminar
Dec. 1	Scott Tinker, Director of BEG	Research at BEG: Future Directions
Dec. 8	Practice for AGU
Dec. 15	FALL AGU Begins	No Seminar

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