Friday Seminar Speakers

3:30PM
ROOM 201 NATURAL SCIENCES FACILITY

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
9/05			No Seminar
9/12	Joern Thiede	Chapman Chair Lecture Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany	Transition from the Greenhouse to the Ice-House Arctic Ocean
9/19	Jeff Freymueller	Professor, Geolophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks	Spatial Variations in Plate Coupling, Seismic Slip, and Slow Slip in the Alaska-Aleutian Subduction Zone
9/26	Donald Atwood	Manager, Remote Sensing Support Center, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks	Spaceborne Tools for Measuring Mass Balance In Alaskan Glaciers
10/03	Ronni Grapenthin Jason Amundson Taryn Lopez	Geophysics and Chemistry & Biochemistry PhD Students University of Alaska Fairbanks	Erupting Volcanoes and Rolling Icebergs: Impressions From this Summer's Field Work
10/10	Birgit Hagedorn	Research Professional IV and Lab Manager University of Alaska Anchorage	Chemical Erosion in the Two Opposed Environments: Greenland and the Himalayas
10/17	Pavel Izbekov	Research Associate, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks	Twelve Years of a Continuous Eruptive Activity at Karymsky Volcano, Kamchatka: What drives it?
10/24	Wesley Wallace	Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics University of Alaska Fairbanks	The Yakatago Fold-And-Thrust Belt: Implications for Mountain Building and the Pacific-North America Plate Boundary.
10/31	Matthew Sturm	Reseach Physical Scientist, CRREL-Alaska	Repeated Patterns in Tundra Snow: Data and Potential Uses in Modeling
11/07	Jessica Larsen	Research Associate Professor Department of Geology & Geophysics University of Alaska Fairbanks	The July-August 2008 Eruption of Okmok Volcano, Alaska
11/14	Dave Montgomery	Professor, Dept. of Earch and Space Science, University of Washington	Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
11/21	Erin Petitt	Research Associate Professor, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Alaska Fairbanks	Underwater Acoustics of Tidewater Glaciers and Girls on Ice: Using "Immersion" to Teach Fluency" in Science
11/28			No Seminar -- Thanksgiving Break
12/05	Jerome Johnson	Research Professor Institute of Northern Engineering University of Alaska Fairbanks	The Art And Science of Determining Soil Properties on Mars and Its Importance for Science and Engineering
12/12	Mark Fahnestock	Professor, University of New Hampshire, Durham	Rapid Outlet Glacier Change in Greeland Glacier Surface Mass Balance Modeling on Greenland

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Last modified November 13, 2008 by geology@uaf.edu

Background Image is a dinosaur track found by 2006 Geology Field Camp students Susi Tomsich and Jeremiah Drewel. Photo compliments of Jeremiah Drewel.