Seminar Schedule Spring 2020
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 11-12 PM. Before the seminar, a coffee time will be held from 10:30 to 11 AM in SR1 223.
Location: SR1 634 . A campus map - http://www.uh.edu/maps/buildings/?short_name=SR
Spring 2020 Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation |
Host
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17-Jan | Lindsay Worthington | University of New Mexico | Buried Alive? How sediments shut down faults in the Gulf of Alaska - USSSP-IODP Ocean Discovery Lecture Series | Hauptvogel, Sisson |
| 24-Jan | held for faculty search | |||
| 31-Jan | held for faculty search | |||
| 7-Feb | held for faculty search | |||
| 14-Feb | Meenakshi Wadhwa | Arizona State University | Insights into the origin and evolution of the Solar System from short-lived radionuclides in meteorites | Lapen |
| 21-Feb | Lawrence Lawver | UT Austin | How the South Georgia microcontinent is becoming part of the South American plate | Colli |
| 28-Feb | CANCELLED DUE TO UH CLOSURE | |||
| 6-Mar | Jory Pacht | Altair Resources | Energy 101 | Castagna |
| 13-Mar | SPRING BREAK | |||
| 20-Mar | Rodolfo Ostilla Monico | UH Mechanical Engineering | Large scale structures in turbulent convection: from the Mantle to the Atmosphere - TO BE RE-SCHEDULED | Rappenglueck |
| 27-Mar | Shimon Wdowinski | Florida International University | Space-based detection of fast and slow subsidence: Implications for subsidence hazard in urban and suburban areas- TO BE RE-SCHEDULED | G. Wang |
| 3-Apr | John Shaw | Harvard University | Induced seismicity from reservoir operations: Insights into fault strength and stress in the Earth’s crust- TO BE RE-SCHEDULED | Suppe |
| 10-Apr | Chang Li | Chevron | Hydraulic fracture microseismic monitoring: event location and anisotropic velocity joint inversion- TO BE RE-SCHEDULED | Zheng |
| 17-Apr | Ellen Xiaoxia Xu | Chevron | Meet West Africa Deep Exploration Challenges with Geomorphology and Inversion -- TO BE RE-SCHEDULED | Sun |
| 24-Apr | STUDENT RESEARCH DAY |
* special seminar (not on Friday)