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 spring, 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.
Spring 2018 Seminar Schedule
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation | Host |
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19-Jan | Dr. Ana Krueger | University of Houston | Brazilian margin architecture and the opening of the South Atlantic | Murphy |
26-Jan | Dr. Shuhei Ono | MIT | On the significance of microbial disproportionation in geochemical cycles | Fu |
2-Feb | Dr. Lorenzo Colli | University of Houston | Rapid plate motion variations and continental uplift: a window on the history of asthenospheric flow | Wu |
9-Feb | Dr. Yunsoo Choi | University of Houston | Effects of Wildfire Emissions on Air Quality and Human Health over the Continental USA | Hauptvogel |
16-Feb | Scheduled break - no talk this week | |||
23-Feb | Dr. An Yin | UCLA | A physics-based scaling model for giant (>10's of km) polygons in the solar system | Murphy/Suppe |
2-Mar | Dr. Weichang Li | Aramco Research Center, Houston | Data analytics and machine learning in geoscience applications | Sun |
9-Mar | Dr. Jerry Lin | Lamar University | Chasing Quicksilver: the Role of Terrestrial Forest Ecosystems in Global Cycling of Mercury | Y.Wang |
16-Mar | SPRING BREAK | |||
23-Mar | Dr. Chuck Langston | University of Memphis | From Hugo Benioff to aLIGO: Strains, Rotations, and Other New Developments in Seismology | Zheng |
30-Mar | Dr. Robert Allen | UC Riverside | An Increase in Aerosol Burden in a Warmer World | Talbot |
6-Apr | Dr. Melodie French | Rice University | The role of fluids in the mechanics of fault slip | Robinson |
13-Apr | Dr. Terry Wilson | Ohio State University | Investigating Ice Sheet – Solid Earth Feedbacks in West Antarctica: Results from the POLENET-ANET Project | Wellner |
20-Apr | Dr. Jeremy Boyce | NASA | Everything they taught me about the Moon was wrong | Robinson |
27-Apr | STUDENT RESEARCH DAY |