Seminar Schedule
This is an archive. To view current seminar schedule visit the Friday Seminars Page.
The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston offers its seminars on most Friday afternoons during the fall and spring semesters. For more information regarding seminars please visit the seminars resource page.
Time: Seminars are held on most Fridays during the fall semester from 3:30 to 4:30 PM. A change of times will be noted under the date of the seminar.
Location: Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held in the Science & Research 1 Building, Room 116. The department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences is located in the Science & Research 1 building. A campus map - http://www.uh.edu/maps/buildings/?short_name=SR
Assistance with Speaker Setup: An EAS TA is assigned the task of: providing lapel microphone and making a sound check, providing remote slide changer with built in laser pointer, and loading the speaker’s slides. For the fall, 2018, semester this person is: Ola Osibanjo ( bosipoosibanjo@gmail.com )
Responsibilities of EAS faculty host listed:
- Send and confirm with the speaker this schedule;
- Explain to the speaker that their talk should not exceed 45 minutes in length;
- Arrange with EAS admin the speaker's travel if required and insure that the speaker signs any needed paperwork with the EAS admin;
- Send out note to all EAS faculty on the Monday of that week a sign up sheet for meeting or meals with the speaker based on his or her available time in EAS; Coordinate any special needs of the speaker including transportation and arranging group meals;
- Arrange a meeting with the speaker and student TA at least 30 mins before the talk in room 116 to insure that the talk is set up;
- If for any reason the host is absent, he or she would need to arrange an alternative EAS faculty member to act as host and perform the above duties.
Fall 2018 Seminar Schedule
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation | Host |
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31-Aug | Dr. Will Sager | University of Houston | New Geophysical Insights on Tamu Massif - the World’s Largest Volcano | Dr.Hall |
7-Sep | Dr. Rebecca Sheesley | Baylor University | Urban air quality in Texas | Dr. Flynn |
14-Sep | Dr. Yun Qian | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Measurement and Modeling of Light-Absorbing Particles in Snow and Ice and Their Climatic and Hydrological Impact | Dr. Y. Wang |
21-Sep | Dr. Xiaodong Song | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | How was the roof of the world built? Lithosphere structure and deformation of the Tibetan Plateau. |
Dr. Zhou |
28-Sep | Dr. Mrinal Sen | UT Austin | Transdimensional full waveform inversion | SEG Wavelets/Sun |
5-Oct | Dr. Jay Pulliam | Baylor University | Lithospheric structure of the NE Caribbean | Dr. B. Wang |
12-Oct | Dr. Jonny Wu | University of Houston | Unfolding Pacific Ocean basin history since the Mesozoic from tomographic plate tectonics | Dr. Saylor |
19-Oct | Tyson Smith | UH | Dr. Hauptvogel | |
26-Oct | Dr. Liz Catlos | UT Austin | New insights into the uplift of the Himalayas through advances in metamorphic petrology | Dr. Copeland |
2-Nov | Dr. Alexandros Savvaidis | UT Austin, BEG | Added value to Texas Seismology through TexNet and CISR integrated programs | Dr. Li |
9-Nov | Dr. Gene Humphreys | University of Oregon | Recent growth of the Wyoming Craton by under-accretion of the Shatsky conjugate ocean plateau | Dr. Suppe Dr. Wu |
16-Nov | Dr. Jonathan Delph | Rice | Imaging the terminal stages of subduction: The neotectonic evolution of Anatolia | Dr. Zheng Dr. Wu |