Date |
Seminar Speaker |
Topic/Title |
Feb. 8 |
Celâl Senghor
Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
How to Make Rifts with Different Recipes |
Feb. 15 |
Di Jin
Marine Policy Center, WHOI |
The Management of Coastal Natural Hazards: A Social-Economic Perspective |
Feb. 22 |
Kelin Wang
Geological Survey of Canada |
Stress and Stress Changes in Subduction Zone Earthquake Cycles |
March 1 |
Jon Snow
Geosciences Department, Univ. of Houston |
Rifting at a Non-Volcanic Margin |
March 8 |
Jeff McGuire
G&G, WHOI |
Earthquakes, Subduction, and the Relationship to Overriding Plate Structure |
March 15 |
John Mutter
The Earth Institute at Columbia University |
The Katrina Catastrophe: How Did We Allow a Poor World Disaster to Happen in a Rich Country? |
March 22 |
Steve Ward
Earth & Planetary Sciences, UC Santa Cruz |
Tsunamis, Earthquakes, and Asteroids |
March 29 |
Spring Break |
No presentation |
April 5 |
Derek Elsworth
Energy & Geo-Environmental Engineering
Penn State |
Slope Instability on Active Volcanoes: Contemporary Views, Hazards, and Consequences |
April 12 |
Porter Hoagland
Marine Policy Center, WHOI |
Economic Impacts of Shoreline Change |
April 19 |
John S Pallister
USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory |
Volcanic Hazards along the Pacific Rim – A Petrologic and Social Perspective |
April 26 |
Howard Kunreuther
University of Pennsylvania |
Providing Protection Against Natural Disasters in the 21st Century |
May 3 |
Neal Driscoll
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Geohazards along Continental Margins |
May 10 |
Miriam Kastner
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Gas Hydrates: Outstanding Questions |
May 17
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Brian F. Atwater
U.S.G.S at Dept. of Earth & Space Sciences, University of Washington |
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 |
June 10 - 16
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Study Tour – Magma Mixing and Eruption Beneath a Paleozoic Island Arc in Penobscott Bay, Maine
Dr. Mike Rhodes, U. Mass Amherst, will lead the field trip.
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