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2007 - 2008 Academic Year

• Monday, April 28, at 4:10 p.m. in Skaggs 114, Leonard Sklar, San Francisco State University, Geosciences, will give a talk at entitled "How Pebbles Shape mountains:  The Role of Sediment in River Incision into Bedrock."  Refreshments will be served.

• Monday, April 21, at 4:10 p.m. in Skaggs 114, Benjamin Crosby, Idaho State University, Geosciences, will give a talk entitled "Reading Rivers: How do we interpret the origin and evolution of transient signals in channel networks?

• Monday, April 14, at 4:10 p.m. in Skaggs 114, Tanya Atwater, UC Santa Barbara Earth Science, will give a talk entitled "Plate Tectonics and Ice Ages in Western North America"

• Monday, April 14, at 4:10 p.m. in Skaggs 114, James Kennett , UC Santa Barbara Earth Science, will give a talk entitled "Younger Dryas Impact at 13ka: A bad day for mammoths, humans and climate in North America "

• Monday, March 17, at 4:10 p.m. in Skaggs 114, Grant Kier , Five Vallies Land Trust, will give a talk entitled "Protecting landscapes on geologic timescale's "

• Monday, March 10, at 4:10 p.m. in Skaggs 114, Jesse Johnson , University of Montana Computer Science, will give a talk entitled "The scientific basis of ice sheet modeling; assumptions, predictions, and caveats "

• Tuesday, March 4, 4:00pm, Old Journalism 306, Dr. Brian Tucker of GeoHazards International will give a talk entitled, "Large Earthquakes in Developing Countries: Estimating and Reducing their Consequences." 

• Monday, March 3, at 4:10 p.m. in Skaggs 114, Paul Knauth , Arizona State University School of Earth & Space Exploration, will give a talk entitled "The Late Precambrian Greening of the Earth "

• Monday, February 25, at 4:10 p.m. in Skaggs 114, Kevin Ryan , USDA Forest Service Fire Sciences Lab, will give a talk entitled "LANDFIRE - Geospatial Data Describing U.S. Vegetation and Wildfire Potential "

• Tuesday February 19, at 4:10 p.m. in Journalism 204, Jill Scott, Chemistry Department, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, will give a talk. "Meeting the Challenges for Detecting Bio/organic Signatures Associated with Minerals using Laser Desorption Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry"

• Monday, February 11, at 4:10 p.m. in Skaggs 114, Donna Whitney, University of Minnesota Geology and Geophysics will give a talk entitled "Gneiss domes and crustal flow"

• Monday, February 4, at 4:10 p.m. in Skaggs 114 -Jim Sears, The University of Montana, Department of Geosciences, will give a talk entitled "A new look at the old west:  Middle Miocene Mega-caldera."

• CANCELLED - Monday, February 4, at 4:10 p.m. in Skaggs 114, Simon Kattenhorn, University of Idaho Geological Sciences, will give a talk on entitled "Tectono-Magmatic Cyclicity Associated with Oblique Spreading in SW Iceland."

• Monday, January 28, at 4:10 p.m. in Skaggs 114, Michael DeGrandpre, University of Montana Chemistry, will give a talk entitled "Studies of aquatic biogeochemistry using autonomous sensors"

• Friday December 7, 12:10 PM, CHCB 304, New Graduate Student Research - A Mini Conference, session 2:
• 12:10 - Lewis Kogan, "Plate Kinematics and Rift mechanisms in the Main Ethiopian and Afar Rifts"
• 12:21 - Megan Rosenblatt, "Analysis of reef diversity along the T/J boundary: Interpretation of a mass extinction event, Wallowa Terrain, Oregon"
• 12:32 - Chelsea Feeney, "Cenozoic Sedimentary Basin Evolution and Hydrostratigraphic Assessment of the Gold Creek Basin, Western Montana: Mapping the Rock Creek Lake 7.5’ USGS Quadrangle"
• 12:43 - Rya Hawks, " Geomorphic Effects Associated with Removal of a Low Head Dam on the Clark Fork River in Milltown, Montana"
• 12:54 - Warren Roe, "Sixmile Creek Formation of Southwest Montana - a complete record of the Yellowstone hotspot?"
  

  
  

• Friday November 30, 12:10 PM, CHCB 304, New Graduate Student Research – A Mini Conference, sesssion 1:
  • 12:10 – David Schuler, “The Fate of Meltwater in Snow and Firn on the Greenland Ice Sheet”
  • 12:21 – Shah Khan, “Seismic Hazard, Tectonics and Geodesy in Pakistan”
  • 12:32 – Tabetha Lynch, “Pharmaceuticals in the Environment”
  • 12:43 – Paul Skudder, “Constraining the glaciolacustrine history and structural framework of the Flathead and Swan Valleys: Mapping selected portions of six USGS 7.5' quadrangles in northwestern Montana "

     

• Friday, November 16, at noon in CHCB 304, Michael C. Stickney, Director of the Earthquake Studies Office and Senior Research Geologist Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, will give a presentation entitled "Recent Seismicity along the Lewis and Clark Zone ."

• Tuesday, October 23, at noon in CHCB 304, Mark Lorang, Flathead Lake Biological Station, will give a presentation entitled "Spectral Signature Hypothesis:  Self-Organization and the Hydro-Geomorphic Complex of Alluvial Rivers."

• Friday, October 19, at noon in CHCB 307, Jeff Kuhn, Lust/Brownfields Program, Department of Environmental Quality, will give a presentation entitled "Electrical Resistance Heating (ERH) in a Glacial Aquifer, Ronan, Montana."

• Tuesday, October 9, at noon in CHCB 304, George Stanley, Geosciences Professor and Director of the UM Paleontology Center, will give a presentation entitled "Commercial Fossil Collecting and Professional Paleontology Ethics."

• Tuesday, October 2, at noon in CHCB 304, Dr. Robert Lankston, Geoscience Integrations, Missoula, will give a presentation entitled "Rescue of Electronic Data from the 1970 Flathead Lake Seismic Survey."

• Tuesday, September 25, at noon - CHCB 304 - Tetsuji Onoue, Visiting UM Geosciences Assistant Professor Kagoshima University, Japan, will give a talk entitled "Evolution of the pelagic realm: Triassic pelagic carbonate sedimentation in the Panthalassa Ocean"

• Tuesday, September 9, at 4:00pm - CHCB 333 - David McGee, ConocoPhillips Exploration, will give a talk today at 4:00 p.m. entitled "Deep Water Exploration--A Billion Dollar Question." 

• Thursday, September 6, at noon - CHCB 304 - Robert W. Lankston, Ph.D., Geosciences, Integrations, Missoula,  (retired from ConocoPhillips), will give a presentation entitled "Considerations in Gas Hydrate Exploration."  

• Thursday, August 23, at noon - CHCB 304 - Dr. James J. Butler, Jr., Senior Scientist, Kansas Geological Survey, 2007 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer, will give a presentation entitled "Getting the Information Ground Water Modelers Need:  A report from the Field."

2006 - 2007 Academic Year

• Wednesday , May 9, at noon - CHCB 304 - Emily Geraghty Ward, will give her dissertation presentation entiled: "Development of the Rocky Mountain foreland basin: Combined structural, mineralogical, and geochemical analysis of basin evolution Rocky Mountain thrust front, Northwest Montana."

• Monday, April 23, at 10:00am - CHCB 333 - Herry Heasler, will give a presentation entitled: "Geologic Hazards of the Yellowstone Region:  A Perspective from the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory."

• Friday, April 20, at noon - CHCB 304 - Kevin Chamberlain, Research Professor, University of Wyoming, will give a presentation entitled: "From Epidote to Orogeny and Mega-Shear: 1.6 Ga Deformation in SE Wyoming"

• Thursday, April 19, at 4:00pm - CHCB 304 - Jim Zaslaw, Comanche Exploration. Please come and meet with a UM Geology Alumnus who is visiting to meet with students regarding careers in the energy industry and his experiences in that industry.

• Thursday, April 19, at noon - CHCB 304 - Johnny MacLean will give his dissertation presentation entitled: "New Insights on the SE Siberia - SW Laurentia Rodinia reconstruction from detrital zircon analysis"

• Wednesday, April 18, at noon - CHCB 304 - Stephen Parman, Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer, Dapartment of Earth Sciences, University of Durham, will give a presentation entiltle: "The Punctuated Evolution Of The Earth: Isotopic Evidence For Catastrophic Melting Events"

• Friday, March 2, at 2:00pm - CHCB 304 - Steve Van DeLinder, Director of Exploration at Ballard Petroleum
  Holdings LLC. will give a presentation entitled: "A Buried Sevier-Age Thrust Belt In South-Central Montana"
  

• Wednesday, February 28, at 4:00pm - CHCB 304 - Dan Fornari, R2k Distinguished Lecturer, Geology and Geophysics Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: "High Resolution Imaging and Mapping of the Mid-Ocean Ridge Crest: Correlating Spatial and Temporal Processes at Hydrothermal Vents"
  

• Wednesday, February 28, at Noon - CHCB 304 - Dan Fornari, R2k Distinguished Lecturer, Geology and Geophysics Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: "Revealing the Deep: The 21st Century Revolution in Ocean Science and Technology"

• Tuesday, February 27, at noon in CHCB 304 - Andrew Wilcox, will give a presentation entitled: "Floods, Flora, and Sediment Dynamics: Ecogeomorphic Processes in Sand-bed Rivers "

• Monday, February 26, at noon in CHCB 304 - Andrew Wilcox, will give a presentation entitled: " Step-pool Morphology, Woody Debris, and the Black Box of Flow Resistance in Steep Streams"

• Friday, February 16, 4:00pm.,CHCB 304 - Peter Molnar, University of Colorado. "Uplift of Mountains, Climate Change, and Human Evolution: Choosing the Red Herring among Chickens and Eggs (Or how climate change fools us)

• Tuesday, December 5, 2:00 p.m. - Jill Scott, Idaho National Laboratory "SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE OF ORGANIC/BIOSIGNATURE COMPOUNDS IN HETEROGENEOUS GEOMATRICES"

• Tuesday, December 5, Noon, CHCB 304 - Ulrich Kamp, "Mapping Alpine Geomorphology and Glaciers with Geographic Information Technologies"
  

• Thursday, November 2, Noon, CHCB 304 - Linda Noson, "Case Study Disaster Risk Management, Ratnapura, Srilanka: Application to 2004 Tsunamis"
  

• Tuesday October 31, Noon CHCB 304 - George Stanley, Professor, Geosciences, will give a talk entitled:  "The New Paleo Center:  Fort Peck and Beyond."

• Friday October 27 , Noon CHCB 304 - Thomas Pierson, Research Hydrologist, USGS, Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA will give a talk entitled "What's Cooking at Mount St. Helens?"

• Tuesday October 17, Noon, CHCB 304, Pat Meere, University College Cork, Ireland - Hidden Strain in Clastic Sedimentary Rocks - Examples from the Devonian of Southern Ireland and the Cretaceous of the Rocky Mountain Front, Western Montana

• Monday October 16, Noon, CHCB 304, Johnny MacLean, Ph.D. Candidate in Geosciences, UM, will give a talk entitled "Detrital Zircon Geochronologic Tests of the SE Siberia-SW Laurentia Paleocontinental Connection "

• Wednesday, October 11, at noon in CHCB 304, Randy Gould (US Forest Service, UM Alum) will give a talk entitled "Effect of Storm Events Following Large Fires in Southern California."
  

• Tuesday, October 10, noon, CHCB 304, Michael Smith, visiting Professor at UM Geosciences, Eocene Paleogeography of the Laramide Rocky Mountains: The Lacustrine Perspective

• Wednesday, October 4, noon, CHCB 304, Peter Dea, recently Chief Executive Officer and President Western Gas Resources, Inc., Perfecting the Search for Unconventional Gas Resource Plays. At 2:30, Peter will also be giving a talk in the School of Busniess Administration and would like to chat with geology students following the noon talk.

• September 28-29, at the 2006 River Center Conference:
  •  Peter R. Wilcock, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Sediment Transport and Stream Renaturalization Success
  •  Emily Bernhardt, Assistant Professor, Duke University, Ecological Systems and Renaturalization Success
  •  Jeffrey L. Kershner, Center Director, USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, Fisheries and Stream Renaturalization Success
  •  Tyler Allred, Lead Designer, Allred Restoration Inc., Planning and Executing a Successful Renaturalization Project
    
• 7:00 pm, CHCB 304 (aka Science Complex 304), Dave McGee, Conoco-Phillips (and UM alum), Career Potential with Conoco-Phillips. Dave will be recruitiing for geophysicists and geologists.

• Wednesday, September 20, 7:00 pm, CHCB 304 (aka Science Complex 304), Dave McGee, Conoco-Phillips (and UM alum), Career Potential with Conoco-Phillips. Dave will be recruitiing for geophysicists and geologists.

• Wednesday, September 13, at noon, CHCB 304 (aka Science Complex 304), Ray Troll, Artist, Ketchikan, Alaska,  An Artist's View on the History of Life.

• Tuesday, September 12, at noon, Science Complex 304, Asis Khan, Director, National Centre of Excellence in Geology, Peshawar, Pakistan, will give a talk entitled "Himalayan Tectonics and Kashmir Earthquake (7.6m) 2005"

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• Tuesday, April 18, at noon, Science Complex 304, Paul Grams, Dept. of Aquatic, Watershed & Earth Resources, Utah State University, From the Field to the Flume: Sand Entrainment in Coarse-Bedded Channels.

• Monday, April 17, at noon, Science Complex 304, Paul Grams, Dept. of Aquatic, Watershed & Earth Resources, Utah State University, Geomorphic Organization, Streamflow Regulation, and Sediment Mass Balance: Channel Adjustment and Fine Sediment Management in Aggrading and Degrading River Segments.

• Wednesday, April 12, at noon, Science Complex 304, Nathan Sheldon, Dept. of Geology, Royal Holloway University of London, Pangean Paleoclimate and the Permian-Triassic Extinction.

• Tuesday, April 11, at noon, Science Complex 304, Nathan Sheldon, Dept. of Geology, Royal Holloway University of London, Global Change and the Emergence of Grasslands in the Cenozoic.

• Tuesday, April 4, at noon, Science Complex 304, Andrea Dutton, Australian National University, Paleoclimate Reconstruction in Continental Environments: Interpreting Meteoric Delta-180 Signals.

• Monday, April 3, at noon, Science Complex 304, Andrea Dutton, Australian National University, Interplay Between Climate and Ocean Circulation in the Eocene Greenhouse.

• Tuesday, February 21, atnoon, Science Complex 304, David Blowes, University of Waterloo, presents the Geological
  Society of America 2006 Birdsall Dreiss Lecture "Predicting, Preventing and Remediating Acidic Drainage from Sulfide
  Bearing Mines and Mine Wastes"

• Thursday, February 9, at 4:00. SC 304, Richard Gibson, Gibson Consulting and AAPG Speaker, Satellite-Derived Gravity: A tool for interpreting tectonics and depositional history of continental margins

• Thursday, February 9, at noon. SC 304, Richard Gibson, Gibson Consulting and AAPG Speaker, Geologic Site Characterization at the Pantex Plant, Texas, for Environmental Restoration Planning

• Wednesday, December 13, at 4:00 SC 304, Christopher Murray, Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington (UM Geo-alum), Mapping the Erodibility of Contaminated Sediment on the Palos Verdes Shelf, Offshore Southern California.

• Wednesday, December 7, at noon in SC 304 Scott Payne, KirK Environmental, LLC, TMDL Planning, Water Quality Targets, and Chemical, Physical, and Biological Findings, Beaverhead Watershed, Southwest Montana

• Wednesday, October 5, Joe Watson, Geological Services manager, Pason Systems USA, Internship and Employment Opportunities at Pason Systems.

• Thursday, September 22 & Friday the 23rd: UM Department of Geology's annual River Center Conference - Floodplains and Rivers: Connections and Reconnections - speakers from across the country.

• Thursday, September 1, at noon in SC 304, Bridget Lynne, Department of Geology, University of Auckland, Diagenesis of siliceous sinter at Roosevelt Hot Spring, Utah. A 3D perspective of opal-A to quartz

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2004 - 2005 Academic Year

• Thursday, May 5, 4:00, SC 304, Joel Harper, UM Geology, Rapid Glacier Motion: A Movie and Results from a Heavily Instrumented Alaskan Glacier

• Monday, May 2, noon, SC 304, Kevin C. Harvey, Soil and Water Consultant, The Environmental Consulting Industry: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
  • 2:00-4:00 p.m., SC 348. Part 1: The Soil And Water Chemistry Associated With Coal Bed Natural Gas Development In The Powder River Basin Of Wyoming And Montana
  • Part 2: Managed Irrigation Systems For The Beneficial Use Of Coal Bed Natural Gas Produced Water

• Thursday, April 28, noon, SC 304, Donald L. Rasmussen, Ph.D., Plateau Exploration, Inc., Denver, Colorado (Geology Alum), Pennsylvanian And Permian Tectonics And Cyclothems In The Four Corners Region Of The Ancestral Rocky Mountains.

• Thursday, April 27, noon, SC 304, James Madison, Montana Tech, Historic Milling And Smelting Operations Along Upper Silver Bow Creek And The Results Of Recent Hydrologic Investigations

• Thursday, April 21, 4:00, SC 348, Scott Woods, UM College of Forestry and Conservation, Effect of Alternative Silvicultural Treatments on Snow Accumulation in Lodgepole Pine Stands, Montana, U.S.A.

• Wednesday, April 20, noon, SC 304, Stillwater Mining, presentation and discussion on job opportunities (and PIZZA!).

• Tuesday, April 19, noon, SC 304, Matt Zunker, UM Ph.D. Candidate, A Word Or Two About Ripples

• Tuesday, April 13, noon, SC 304, Jim Zaslaw, UM alum and Chief Geologist, Comanche Exploartion Co., Current Status of the Petroleum Industry as Viewed from an Independent Producer

• Tuesday, March 29, 4:00, SC 131, Tanya Atwater, UC Santa Barbara, Plate Tectonic Evolution of Western North America - updated and
  animated.

• Monday, March 28, noon, SC 304, Tanya Atwater, UC Santa Barbara, The Cenozoic Deformation Budget of Western North America or, Plate Tectonics Gets Even Better!

• Thursday, March 17, 4:00, SC 348, Tom DeLuca, UM College of Forestry and Conservation, Climate Change, Wildfires, and Nitrogen in the Boreal Forest

• Thursday, March 10, noon, SC 304, Kevin C. Harvey, Soil and Water Consultant, KC Harvey, LLC, The Environmental Consulting Industry: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

• Thursday, March 10, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., SC 348, Kevin C. Harvey, Soil and Water Consultant, KC Harvey, LLC,
  

  Part 1: The Soil and Water Chemistry Associated with Coal Bed Natural Gas Development in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana

Part 2: Managed Irrigation Systems for the Beneficial Use of Coal Bed Natural Gas Produced Water

• Tuesday, March 8, noon, SC 304, Ray Murray, UM Geology Professor Emeritus, Evidence From the Earth - Forensic Geology

• Thursday, January 27th, 4:00, SC 304, Jesse Johnson, UM Computer Science, A granular material model for catastrophic breakup of the floating ice in Jakobshavn's Isbrea, West Central Greenland

• Tuesday, December 7, noon, SC 304, Kevin Vranes, Visiting Assistant Professor, UM Geology, Where the facts go to die: a scientist's year in constituent politics.
• Monday, December 6, noon, SC 304, Anna Klene, Department of Geography, Climate and Urbanization in Barrow, Alaska

• Tuesday, November 30, noon, SC 304, James Constanz, USGS, Modeling Field Scale Surface Ground Water Exchange

• Tuesday, November 16, noon, SC 304, Andrei Khudoley, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
  Siberia-North American Connections: The View From Russia

• Monday, November 15, noon, SC 304, Doug Martin, Environmental Impact Specialist for Montana's Natural Resource Damage Program, Stream Restoration Plans at Milltown

• Tuesday, November, 9, noon, SC 304, Neil Pederson, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University, Evidence of Accelerated Growth of Old Trees in Temperate Forests.

• Tuesday, October 19, 3:00, SC 304, Arthur R. Green, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, retired Chief Geoscientist from ExxonMobil
  Exploration Company, Houston, Texas, Dynamics of the Sun/Earth Climate System.

• Monday, October 11, nooon, SC 304, Peter Dea, UM Geology Alum, President & CEO of Western Gas Resources, Giant Gas Discoveries of the Rockies

• Friday, October 1, nooon, SC 304, Erick Burns, Oregon Sate University, The Effects of Salt on Flow of Fluids in Variably Saturated Porous Media

• September 28, at noon in SC 304, Jim Sears, Department of Geology, UM, The Siberian Connection

• Friday, September 17, nooon, SC 304, David McConchie, Professor of Geochemical Engineering, Director and Chief Scientist for Virotec International, Applications Of Bauxsolt Technology In The Management Of Sulfidic Sediment, Waste Rock And Tailings, And In The Treatment Of Ard And Other Acidic Metal Contaminated Waters

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2003 - 2004 Guest Speakers:

• Thursday, May 13, 12:20 PM, SC 304, Ian Magruder, UM Geology Graduate Program, Route Finding Through Complex Terrain Using GIS and the Other Side of the Nyack Province (aka: Skiing from the Blackfoot to Waterton, Canada)
• Tuesday, April 27, 1:00 PM, SC 348, Seth Makepeace, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes & UM Alum, Restoring the Jocko River.
• Tuesday, April 20, 1:00 PM, SC 348, Paul Callahan, Land and Water Consulting, A ruleset for determining the appropriateness of bank stabilization
• Tuesday, April 20, noon, SC 348, Julia Baldwin, University of Maryland, Monazite, microstructures, and metamorphism
• Monday, April 19, noon, SC 348, Julia Baldwin, University of Maryland, The Snowbird Tectonic Zone: A window into the deep crust
• Tuesday, April 13, 1:00 PM, SC 348, Jeff Mount, University of California, Davis, Passive-aggressive techniques for restoring floodplain connectivity
• Tuesday, April 13, noon, SC 348, Helge Gonnermann, Magma fragmentation: Necessary but not sufficient for explosive volcanism
• Monday, April 12, noon, SC 348, Helge Gonnermann, How old is Earth's inner core?
• Tuesday, April 6, 1:00 PM, SC 348, Ron Pierce, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Geomorphic aspects and land management and biological considerations of restoring Blackfoot River basin streams.
• Thursday, April 8, noon SC 304, Rebecca Bendick, University of Cambridge, Continuous Deformation of theTibetan Plateau
• Wednesday, April 7, noon SC 304, Rebecca Bendick, University of Cambridge, Using Scaling Rules to Decipher Landscape
• Tuesday, April 6, noon SC 304, JoAnn Holloway, USGS Denver, Bedrock Weathering: A Biogeochemical Perspective
• Monday, April 5, noon SC 304, JoAnn Holloway, USGS Denver, Mineralogy and Petrology of Nitrogen
• March 24, noon SC 304, Greg Balco, University of Washington, The History of Rock Surfaces in West Antarctica
• March 25, noon SC 304, Greg Balco, University of Washington, Neotectonics and Paleoclimate from Cosmogenic-Nuclide Geochronology of
  Plio-Pleistocene Sediments
• March 18, noon SC 304, Joel Harper, University of Wyoming, Modeling Mountain Glaciers And Climate: Challenges To Understanding The Present And Forecasting The Future
• March 17, noon SC 304, Joel Harper, University of Wyoming, In Search of the Link Between Hyrdology and Glacier Motion
• March 12, 2:30 PM, LA 138, Gail Ashley, Director of the Quaternary Studies Program, Rutgers University, Balancing Career and Family: Tough Choices
• March 11, 4:00 CE 203, Gail Ashley, Director of the Quaternary Studies Program, Rutgers University, Harsh Environments of Early Hominids: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
• March 11, 2004, noon SC 304, Judith Zachariasen, Coral Records Of Sumatran Paleoearthquakes.
• March 10, 2004, noon SC 304, Judith Zachariasen, Late Holocene Rupture History Of The Wairau Fault, Marlborough, New Zealand.
• Tuesday, March 2, at 1:00 PM, SC 348, Jack Schmidt, Aquatic, Watershed, & Earth Resources, Utah State University, Water Withdrawal, Dams, and the Rio Grande.
• Thursday, February 26, at 7:00 PM, North Underground Lecture Hall, Scheytt Traugott, Institute of Applied Geoscience, Hydrogeology Group, Technical Institute of Berlin, Germany, A new environmental threat or a technological overkill? The presence of pharmaceuticals in surface water and groundwater, lessons from Germany and the United States
• Thursday, February 26, at noon in SC 304, Scheytt Traugott, Institute of Applied Geoscience, Hydrogeology Group, Technical Institute of Berlin, Germany, Pharmaceuticals in Groundwater: Contaminants and Tracers
• Monday, November 17, at noon in SC 304, Marc Hendrix, UM Geology, Late Pleistocene and Holocene sedimentation in the Flathead Lake basin, northwest Montana: a dynamic record of tectonics and paleoclimate
• Wednesday, October 29, at 8:00 PM in SC 304, Stan Riggs, East Carolina University (UM Geology Alum), The Carolina Outer Banks: Their Evolution through Quaternary Sea Level Changes, and their Collision with Human Activity
• Thursday, October 16, at noon in SC 304, Larry Smith, Ground-Water Characterization Program, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Late Pleistocene Deglaciation and Subglacial Processes of the Flathead Lobe, Flathead Valley, Montana. (read the Abstract)
• September 29, at noon in SC 113, Chuck Calavan, ExxonMobil, Career paths at ExxonMobil and Development of a West African Field.
• September 16, at noon in SC 304, Jim Sears, Department of Geology, UM, The Siberian Connection and The Cambrian Explosion.
• September 11, at noon in SC 348, Dr. Paul Williamson, Dean, UM College of Technology: Montana's Hydrogen Future
• September 4, at noon in SC 304, Richelle Allen-King, National Groundwater Association Darcy Lecturer, Department of Geology, University of Buffalo (SUNY),Buffalo, N.Y., Ground and Surface Water Contributions to Chemical Mass Discharge: Considering the Problem at Field and Basin Scales.
• 2:10, SC 348, Richelle Allen-King, A Hyrdochemist's Perspective on Organic Contaminant Transport in Groundwater.

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2002 - 2003 Guest Speakers:

• May 6, at noon in SC 304, Jean Bahr, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Groundwater as an Ecosystem Resource.
• April 29, at noon in SC 304, Mickey Gunter, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Idaho, Health effects of inhaled dusts: Idaho farmers, Libby miners, and New York firefighters
• April 15, at noon in SC 304, Derek Sjostrom, UM Department of Geology, Arsenic in the Bedrock of New Hampshire: Turbidites, Henry David Thoreau, and Drinking Water
• April 11, at noon in SC 304, Manny Gabet, Department of Geology, UC Santa Barbara, A Bug's-Eye View of Sediment Transport on Semi-Arid Hillslopes
• April 10, at noon in SC 304, Manny Gabet, Department of Geology, UC Santa Barbara, Sediment and Nutrient Loading to Rivers in a Semi-Arid Landscape
• April 4, at noon in SC 304, Simon Brocklehurst, CIRES & Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Digital Elevation Models in Geomorphology
• April 3, at noon in SC 304, Simon Brocklehurst, CIRES & Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Rivers and Glaciers, Tectonics, and the Heights of Mountains
• Tuesday March 18th, at noon, SC 304, Noah Snyder, USGS Pacific Science Center, UC Santa Cruz, Linking Erosion and Deposition with Flood Events: Case Studies from New York, Alaska and California.
• Monday March 17th, at noon, SC 304, Noah Snyder, USGS Pacific Science Center, UC Santa Cruz, Bedrock Channel Response to Tectonic, Climatic and Eustatic Forcings.
• Wednesday March 12th, at noon, SC 304, Chris McRoberts, UM alum & Professor at SUNY Cortland, Triassic Bivalves and the Mesozoic Marine Revolution: A Role for Predators?
• Tuesday March 11th, at noon, SC 304, Derek Sjostrom, Visiting Assistant Professor, UM Geology, Cenozoic Rocky Mountain High: Evidence from Oxygen Isotopes of Authigenic Smectite.
• Thursday December 5th, at noon, in SC 348, George Stanley, UM Geology, The Chengjiang Biota of Yunnan, China Soft-bodied fossils from 530 million years ago; presented for Sigma Xi.
• Tuesday November 26, 1:00 in SC 304, William Frangos, Department of Geology and Environmental Science, James Madison University, Shocking Garbage, Application of Near-Surface Geophysical Methods
• Tuesday November 26, noon in SC 304, Mike Eagle, Paleontologist, Auckland Museum and Auckland University, New Zealand, Prehistoric New Zealand
• Monday, November 25, noon in SC 304, Bill Lund, Senior Scientist, Utah Geological Survey - Paleoseismic investigation of the Hurricane fault - details of a three-year study of the most active normal fault in southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona.
• November 19, at noon in SC304, Michael Sperazza, Geology Ph.D. student, Methodology for Lacustrine Sediment Grain Size Analysis by Laser Diffraction A High Resolution Application
• October 22, noon in SC 304, Lynne Dickman (UM Alum) & Jim Essman, USFS - Bitterroot National Forest, Geologic Points of Interest on the Bitterroot National Forest.
• October 15, at noon, SC304, David Rudolph, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, Hydrodynamics of a large oil sand tailings impoundment and related environmental implications: field investigations and numerical analysis.
• Tuesday, October 8, at noon, A meeting for Juniors and Seniors - Prospects and Processes for post-graduation; work or study? Bill Woessner, Steve Sheriff, Marc Hendrix.
• September 24th, at noon, SC304, Chuck Calavan & Bob Stewart, Exxon Mobil's Recruiting Team, ExxonMobil, The Best People and Technology Make the Difference. Lunch will be provided during the presentation.
• Friday, September 13, in Science Complex 304, Dr. David Hyndman, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Michigan State University, Efficient Large-Scale Bioremediation in a Heterogeneous Aquifer The Schoolcraft Bioaugmentation Experiment at noon on . A reception for Dr. Hyndman will be held at 400 p.m. in SC333.
  

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2001-2002 Academic Year

• May 10, Noon, in SC 304, Muhammad Farooqui, University of Baluchistan, Pakistan & Geology Alum, Geology Of The Makran Province.
• April 8, at 4:00 in SC304, Dan Levish, US Bureau of Reclamation, The Stratigraphic Record of Glacial Lake Missoula in the Mission Valley, Montana
• April 4, at noon in SC304, Dr. Jerry R. Miller, Blanton J. Whitmire Professor of Environmental Sciences at Western Carolina University, Application Of Lead Isotopes To The Analysis Of Heavy Metal Transport And Storage With The Rio Pilcomayo Basin, Bolivia.
  • 4:00 P.M. - Science Complex 304 -Dr. Jerry R. Miller, Blanton J. Whitmire Professor of Environmental Sciences at Western Carolina University, Influence Of Late Holocene Hillslope Processes And Landforms On Modern Channel Dynamics, Watershed Management, And Stream Restoration In Upland Watersheds Of Central Nevada.
• April 2, at noon in SC304, Erik Katvala, UM Department of Geology, Paleontology, Stratigraphy, and Fun in the Triassic; Keku Strait, Southeast Alaska.
• March 26, at 10:00 in SC304, Dr. Richard Hauer, Flathead Lake Biological Station, Environmental Assessment of River and Wetland Ecosystems Integration of Biotic and Functional Approaches
• March 5, at noon in SC304, Michael Sperazza, UM Department of Geology Ph.D. Candidate, The Response of a Regional Lake System to Variations in Climate and Wildfire Histories Late Pleistocene through Holocene Sedimentation Record in Flathead Lake, Montana.
• February 27, at 400 P.M, SC 304, Dr. Gordon Grant, Research Hydrologist, USDA Forest Service, Adjunct Professor, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University, Out, Out, Dam Spot! Geomorphic Response of Rivers to Dam Removal.
• February 25, 4:00, SC 304, Dr. Perry Rahn, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Ground Water Transmissivity Anisotropy.
• February 25, 12:00, SC 304, Dr. Perry Rahn, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Flood Hazards.
• February 21, 12:00, SC 348, Marc Hendrix, UM Geology, Sedimentary Record of the Transition from Contractile to Extensional Tectonics.
• December 4, 4:00, Skaggs 117, Bruce Pugesek, USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, Bozeman, MT, Testing Hypotheses on Complex Systems with Structural Equation Modeling.
• November 29, noon, SC 348, Johnnie Moore, UM Geology, Arsenic in Waters of Western Montana - naturally elevated and human elevated arsenic in rivers and ground water from the Yellowstone to the Clark Fork.
• November 15, 4:00, SC 304, Mark Lorang, UM Geo Alum, 1984, Flathead Lake Biological Station, Linking Fluvial Geomorphology to River Ecology and the Restoration of Flood Plain Habitat.
• October 30, noon in SC304, Mark Cunnane, UM Geo Alum, Western Groundwater Services, will give a presentation on two case studies:
  1. Effects of Wells on Stream Flow
  2. Using Electrical Resistivity to Characterize Groundwater Properties
• October 23, at noon in SC304, Elizabeth McKenzie, University of Auckland, Biological Sciences Library, Trace Metal Geochemistry And Microorganisms In Active Terrestrial Geothermal Sinters, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand.
• October 12, 2001, noon in SC304, Dougal McCarty, Texaco - Houston (UM Alum), Quantitative Mineral Analysis Part II.
• October 11, 2001, noon in SC304, Dougal McCarty, Texaco - Houston (UM Alum), Quantitative Mineral Analysis by X-ray Diffraction.
• October 10, at 300 P.M. in SC348, Joe M. Leimkuhler, Manager, Subsea Development, Gulf of Mexico, Shell Oil Company and Um Geology Alum, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico - Exploring and Developing World Class Oil and Gas Reservoirs.
• October 9, 2001, noon in SC304, Kenn Wells, BP Egypt Oil Business Unit- Middlesex, Great Britain (UM Alum), An Integrated Reservoir Study of the Nezzazat Formation, July Field, Central Gulf of Suez, Egypt.
• Oct. 1, 5:00, SC304, Phillips Petroleum Recruiting Team will give a presentation on Phillips.
• Oct. 1, at noon, SC304, Exxon Mobil Recruiting Team, ExxonMobil, The Best People and Technology Make the Difference. Lunch will be provided during the presentation.
• September 18, noon in SC304, James Sears, UM Geology; Greg St. George, UM Math; and Chris Winne, UM WRU-GIS, Icosahedral Hotspots: Geology, Geometry, and GIS.

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2000-2001 Academic Year

• April 25, 4:00 in SC 304, John Wheaton, MT Bureau of Mines and Geology (UM Alum), Coal Bed Methane Development.
• April 24, noon in SC 304, Tom Osborne, Hydro Solutions, Billings, MT, Zortman Landusky: Environmental Aftermath.
• April 10, noon in SC 304, Doug Parker, ASARCO, Couer d' Alene Basin Superfund Site.
• April 5, 2:00 in SC 304, Chris Gammons, Department of Geological Engineering, Montana Tech, Water-rock interaction, subaqueous pyrite oxidation, and sulphur and oxygen isotopes of mine waters on Butte Hill.
• March 13, noon in SC 304, Walter Mulica, Global Technologies, The Role of the International Environmental Consultant in Characterizing and Remediating Complex Hydrogeologic Issues.
• March 8, 4:00 in SC 304, Dan Hall, Historical Archeologist, and President - Western Cultural Consulting, Missoula, Montana, UM Alum: Geophysical Investigation and Cultural Resource Management.
• March 1, noon in SC 304, Jeff Kuhn, Montana Department of Environmental Quality, UM Alum: MTBE: Opening Pandora's Box - State and national Issues Fuel Oxygenates in Groundwater.
• February, 22, 4:00 in SC 304, Pat Kennelly, MT Bureau of Mines and Geology, Geographic Information Systems: Data Input, Analysis and Display.
• February 7, noon in SC 304, Allen Hatheway, Emeritus Professor, University of Missouri - Rolla, Site Characterization.
• February 7, 2001, noon in SC 304, David Nimick, UM Alum: USGS - Water Resources Division, Helena MT, (UM Alum) Characterizing the Historical Mining Impacts to Watersheds.
• December 5, noon in SC 304, F. Jerry Lucia, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer from the Bureau of Economic Geology and the University of Texas at Austin, Origin and Petrophysics of Carbonate Rock Fabrics.
• November 28, noon in SC 304, Lynne Dickman, USFS - Bitterroot National Forest and UM Alum, The Relationship of Fire to Geology.
• November 17, noon in SC 304, Dr. Anthony Hallam, University of Birmingham, Great Britain, Mass Extinctions and Sea level Changes.
• November 9, noon in SC 304, Noah Hughes, UM Graduate Student, The Upper Proterozoic - Lower Cambrian Succession of the Pericratonic Eagle Bay Assemblage of South-Central British Columbia: A Constraint for the Timing of the Rifting of Western Laurentia.
• November 3, noon in SC 304, Dr. Jack Schmidt, Director of the Watershed Science Unit at Utah State University, Geomorphology and Adaptive Management of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.
• Oct. 26, at 3:00 p.m. in SC304, David Dolberg, Mobil - Exxon, UM Alum: Predicting Porosity in Giant Oilfields - A seismic Approach
  and, on Friday, October 27, at 9:00 a.m. in SC333.David Dolberg, Mobil - Exxon will host an informal chat "regarding seismic reflection lines."
• October 5, noon, SC 348, Dr. Matthias Rillig, Division of Biological Sciences, UM: Global change and soils: tales of dirt, scum, and fungus
• October 3, 2000, 12:00 in SC 304, Jim Sears, Department of Geology, UM, Soccer Ball Earth: New Tectonic Framework for the Belt Basin.
• September 21, 2000, 12:00 in SC 348, Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director, National Center for Science Education, How NOT to Teach Evolution, and
• April 25, 4:10 P.M, Science Complex 304, Len Schombel, local geophysicist, TheArsenic Plume at Milltown: Some Observations."
• March 28, 2000, 12:00 in SC 304, Jim Sears, Department of Geology, UM, The Law of the Sea: Eustasy and Cambrian Tectonics.
• March 15, 2000, 12:00 in HS 207, DBS presents: Dr. H. Greg McDonald, Paleontologist, Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Idaho, Mass Mortality of Horses at Hagerman Fossil Beds: A Case Study from the Equis Files.
• March 14, 2000, 12:00 in SC 304, Ed Flood, Precious Metals Investment Analyst for Haywood Securities Inc. (UM Alum), On the Relationship of the "Market" and the Mining Industry: The Wheel of Fortune
• March 7, 2000, noon in SC 304, Dr. Robert Blodgett, Oregon State University, Paleontologic Evidence for the Siberian Origin of Many of Alaska's Accreted Terranes.
• March 7, 2000, 3:00 in SC 304, James Madison, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, The Berkely Pit-Lake System and the Biosulphide Process: Metal Recovery and Water Treatment.
• March 3, 2000, 4:00 in SC 304, Bradley Ritts, Utah State Geology, Mesozoic Petroleum Systems of Central Asia: Geology and Molecular Organic Geochemistry of Source Rocks and Oils in the Qaidam and Southern Tarim basins, NW China.
• March 2, 2000, 4:00 in SC 304, Bradley Ritts, Utah State Geology, Tectonic History of the Altyn Tagh Fault, NW China: Evidence from Sedimentary Basins.
• March 1, 2000, 12:00 in SC 304, Richard Gibson, Gibson Consulting, Cardwell Montana, Magnetic Exploration and Hydrocarbons in the Former Soviet Union. Sponsored by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG).
• February 29, 2000, 12:00 in SC 304, Richard Gibson, Gibson Consulting, Cardwell Montana, Basement Tectonics of the Williston Basin. Sponsored by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG).
• February 17, 2000, 4:00 in SC 304, Daphne Fautin, Biological Sciences, University of Kansas, Ephemeral Calcification: What do you call a naked coral?
• February 3, 2000, 4:00 in SC 304, Jeff Gee, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Magnetization of the Oceanic Crust: Applications to Crustal Formation and Earth's Magnetic Field.
• November 18, 1999, 12:00 in SC 348, Marc Hendrix, Department of Geology, UM, Assembling Asia: The Sedimentary Record of Extreme Continental Growth.
• November 16, 1999, 12:00 in SC 304, John Mahoney, Professor of Geochemistry, University of Hawaii, The Indian Ocean Mantle Mega-Domain.
• November 3, 1999, 12:00 in SC 348, Pamela Hollock Muller, Department of Marine Science, University of South Florida, Global Change: Implications for Coral Reefs.
• October 19, 1999, 12:00 in SC 348, Matt O'Brien, Department of Geology, UM, Miocene Sands of Southeastern Louisiana: Synopsis of a Summer Internship at Burlington Resources.
• October 5, 1999, 12:00 in SC 304, Jim Sears, Department of Geology, UM, Great Rebounding Ramps.
• September 9, 1999, SC 304, 9:10; David Hyndman, Michigan State University, Successful In situ Remediation of a Contaminated Aquifer; The Role of Aqufier Characterization and Transport Modeling in Bioremediation Design.

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1998 - 1999 Academic Year

• May 6, 1999, 4:30 in SC 304, Professor Stephan Graham, Department of Geology, Stanford University, Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonic evolution and sedimentary basin development of California
• April 27th, noon, in SC 304, Frankie Jackson, Museum of the ROckies, Montana Stae University, Dinosaur Eggs, Embryo and Skin from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia.
• April 22, noon in SC 304, Bill Woessner, UM Geology, Changing Scales, Stream-groundwater Interaction: Thoughts from a Hydrogeologist.
• April 20th, noon in SC 304, Dennis Eberl, USGS - Boulder, Crystal Growth and Emergent Equations.
• April 9, at 4:00 p.m. in SC 304, Dr. Janet Hering, California Institute of Technology, Redox Cycling of Arsenic in Hot Creek and Lake Crowley: Implications for Water Quality in the Los Angeles Aqueduct.
• March 30, 4:30 at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway, MAGMA, the Missoula Area Geologists and Mineralogists Asociation presents George Furniss, UM Ph.D. student, Ferricrete: Relics From Rusting Ore Bodies.
• March 26, 1999, noon in SC 348, Professor Mary MacLaughlin, Geological Engineering, Montana Tech, Numerical Modeling of Stability Problems in Geological Materials: From Landslides to Ground Control
• March 25, 1999, noon in SC 348, Richard Hauer, UM Bio-Station, Streams and Groundwater.
• March 23, 1999, noon in SC 348, Greg Kennett, Ecosystem Research Group, Wetland Delineation Methodology and Groundwater Surface Water Interactions in Wetlands.
• March 12, 1999, noon in SC 304, Professor Judith Totman-Parrish, Department of Geology, University of Arizona, Climates of the supercontinent Pangea.
• March 11, 1999, 4:30 in SC 304, Professor Judith Totman-Parrish, Department of Geology, University of Arizona, How we know that climate has changed--interpreting climate from the geologic record
• March 9, 1999, 12:00 in SC 304, Jim Sears, Department of Geology, UM, A New Look at the Siberian Connection.
• February 26 1999, noon in SC 304, Professor Alan Carrol, Department of Geology, University of Wisconsin, Permian Lacustrine Basin Evolution in Central Asia.
• February 25 1999, 4:30 in SC 304, Professor Alan Carrol, Department of Geology, University of Wisconsin, Stratigraphic classification of ancient lakes: balancing tectonics and climatic controls.
• February 9, 1999, noon in SC 304, Professor Don Morton, Computer Science, University of Montana, Scientific Computing Activities in the Geosciences.
• December 2, 1998, noon in SC 304, Dr. Fiona Davies-McConchie, Southern Cross University, East Lismore, N.S.W., Australia, Cadmium in Molluscs from Near-pristine Environments in Northern Australia: A note of caution on the use of molluscs to monitor heavy metal pollution.
• December 2, 1998, noon in SC 304, Dr. Peter Mitchell, Newmont Gold, will give a talk during Ian Lange's Environmental Ore Deposits class on Wednesday, December 2, from 2:00-3:00 in SC333, entitled "Tonalite Porphyry Intrusion and Wall-Rock Alteration Batu Hijau, Indonesia" (this is a huge Cu-Au deposit in development with fascinating geology and alteration that will produce more than 12 million ounces of gold and 11 billion pounds of Cu). Everyone is welcome to attend the session.
• December 1, 1998, noon in SC 304, Dr David McConchie, Southern Cross University, East Lismore, N.S.W., Australia, The use of seawater-neutralized red mud from bauxite refineries to control acid mine drainages and heavy Metal leachates.
• November 24, 1998, noon in SC 304, Dr David McConchie, Southern Cross University, East Lismore, N.S.W., Australia, Periodic high energy events and the deposition of banded-iron formation sediments.
• November, 19, noon, in SC 304, Sarah Gabbott, Department of Geology, University of Leicester, UK, Fossils from the Ordivician Soom Shale, South Africa: How geochemistry affects preservation.
• November, 10, 1998, noon, in SC 304, Eric Edlund, Department of Geography, UM, Regional Paleoecology and Global Climate Change: Results from Ongoing Research in the Sierra Nevada, California.
• October, 27, 1998, noon, in SC 304, Scott Payne, Payne Consulting, Sheridan MT, Fast Tracking Environmental Actions and Decision Making.
• October, 14, 1998, 6:00 PM, in SC 304, David Hlebichuk, Burlington Resources, Structure of Burlington Resources; summer/career Opportunities for Geology Students.
• September, 17, 1998, noon, in Chem Pharm 204, Dave Alt, Department of Geology, UM, Glacial Lake Missoula.
• September, 16, 1998, 2:00, SC 348, noon, Dave Gaeuman, Department of Geology, UM; GIS Demo; Watershed and Mine Wastes.
• September, 9, 1998, noon, Galen Halverson, Harvard University; The Snowball Earth.

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1997 - 1998 Academic Year

• May, 5th, 1998, 1:00 - SC 304, Reed Lewis, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology; Geology of the Greater Missoula Area: Compilation and Remaining Problems.
• April, 28th, 1998, noon, John Metesh, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology; Re-Activation of Supergene Enrichment in the Butte Mining District.
• April, 27th, 1998, 4:00, Chris Maples, National Science Foundation; Late Devonian Extinction Rebound and the Beginning of the Age of Echinoderms: Some Clues From Northwest China.
• April, 27th, 1998, noon, Chris Maples, National Science Foundation; The NSF Process, Funding in the Earth Sciences, and Successful Proposal Preparation.
• Tuesday, April 21, Noon, SC304, Dennis Eberl, U.S. Geological Survey, Boulder, Colorado, Crystal Growth Mechanisms for Minerals. Dr. Eberl will also give lectures in the Clays and Clay Petrology class on Monday, April 20, and Wednesday , April 22, at 11:00-1:00 in SC333 and to the Metamorphic Petrology class on Monday, April 20, at 3:00 in SC344.
• April 10, 1998, SC 304, 12:00, Don Hyndman, Department of Geology, UM, The Recent Landslide on the Blackfoot River.
• April 3, SC 304, 3:00, Skip Cunningham, U.S.G.S., Gold and Silver in the Volcanic Domes in the Andes of South America.
• March 25th, SC 304, 12:00, Paul Link, Idaho State University, A Summer in Siberia: And you thought you were going to do some geology?
• March 24th, 1998, SC 304, 4:00, Paul Link, Idaho State University, The transpressive? Antler orogen in Idaho.
• March 10th, SC 304, 12:00, Tony Van der Poel, UM Alum and Exploration Geologist, Lode Platinum Exploration, Goodnews Bay, Alaska.
• February 19th, 1998, Press Box, 835 E. Broadway, 4:30 P.M., Jed Thomas, Hecla Mining Company, speaking for MAGMA (Missoula Area Geologists and Mineralogists Association), La Choya Gold Deposit, Sonora, Mexico.
• February 6th, 1998, SC 304, 3:00, Derald Smith, University of Calgary, Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar to Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic problems.
• December 9th, 1997, SC 304, 12:00, Steve Sheriff, Department of Geology, UM, Search for Sutures: The Free Air Anomaly and Lithospheric Strength.
• November 18th, 1997, SC 304, 12:00, Jim Sears, Department of Geology, UM, The Rocky Mountain Machine.
• November 7th, 1997, SC 304, 3:00, John Grotzinger (UM Alum), MIT, Anomalous Carbonate Precipitates: Precambrian analogs for Paleozoic cementstones.
• November 7th, 1997, SC 304, noon, John Grotzinger (UM Alum), MIT, The Terminal Proterozoic Time Scale: Constraints on Global Correlations and Rates of Early Animal Evolution.
• September, 30, 1997, noon, Todd Feely, MSU Earth Sciences; Volcan Ollague, Central Andes: A Model System for Magmatism Associated with Thick Continental Crust.
• September, 18, 1997, noon, Kirk Nordstrom, USGS (Denver); Negative pH, ultra acidic mine waters and the challenge of environmental restoration at the Iron Mountain Superfund Site.
• September, 1997, 17, Kirk Nordstrom, USGS (Denver); Sulfur redox geochemistry in the hot thermal waters of Yellowstone National Park and the origin of thiosulfate.

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1996 - 1997 Academic Year

• May, 5, 1997, noon, John Metesh, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology; Groundwater Modeling and Contamination Transport, Butte, MT.
• April 22, 1997, noon, Gary Glatzmaier, Los Alamos National Lab; 3D numerical simulations of convection and magnetic field generation in Earth's core .
• April 10, 1997, noon, Susan Kidwell, University of Chicago; Phanerozoic trends in the Nature of the fossil record.
• April 8, 1997, noon, Susanne Janecke, Utah State University; Structure and stratigraphy of the Muddy Creek supradetachment basin, SW Montana.
• April 3, 1997, noon, Nancy Hinman, Department of Geology, UM; Preservation potential in thermal spring. The dangers of hot-tubbing on Mars.
• April 2, 1997, noon, Wanda Taylor, Department of Geology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Fault Segmentation Along an Active Fault: An Example from Southern Utah.
• March 13, 1997, noon, Charles Paull, University of North Carolina; Natural gas hydrates and ODP Leg 164: Sampling an ephemeral phase.
• March 7, 1997, noon, Connie Soja, Colgate University, N.Y.; Stromatolites and microbial contributions to reef development through geologic time.
• March 4th, 1997, noon, Chris Gammons, Department of Geological Engineering, Montana Tech; The hydrothermal geochemistry of gold: experiments, theory, and field studies.
• February 19, 1997, 4:00, Don Winston, Department of Geology, UM; will present a talk/discussion entitled The Yellowjacket is not the Prichard Formation at MAGMA (Missoula Area Geologists and Mineralogists Association) meeting on Wednesday, February 19, at the Press Box, 835 East Broadway. Cocktails start at 4:00 p.m. and the talk/discussion begins at approximately 4:45 p.m. All are welcome to come and harass Don!
• February 18, 1997, noon, Marc Hendrix, Department of Geology, UM; The details of Marc's recent stratigraphy and sedimentology research in Mongolia.
• February 11, 1997, noon, Marc Hendrix, Department of Geology, UM; General meeting of the Geology Student Association and an overview of Marc's recent work in Mongolia.
• November 20th, 1996, 7:00 pm, Steve Sheriff, Department of Geology, University of Montana; Friends of the Mansfield Library Lecture Series, Electronic Teaching Initiatives in the Sciences.
• November 12, noon, Robert Dundas, Department of Anthropology, UM; Fairmead landfill, Madera County, CA: A Pleistocene fauna, the National Enquirer, and mitigation of paleontologic resources on public lands.
• October 22, noon, Ewa Roniewicz, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland; Skeletal microstructure as a tool in reconstruction of 240 year history of Scleractinian corals.
• October 21, Monday, at 4:10 pm, CP 204. Bill Holben, the Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana; Monitoring in situ transport of 13C-enriched bacteria in a coastal plain aquifer.
• October 15th, at noon, Jim Sears, University of Montana, Geology Department; I What I learned in the Bitterroot; stratigraphy, structure, and groundwater transport.
• October 3rd, at 4:00 - Math Bldg, Steve Sheriff, University of Montana, Geology Department; UM Mathematical Sciences Colloquium, Gravity, topography, lithospheric strength, or, I think I have a statistics question.
• October 3rd, at noon, Peter Southgate, Australian Geological Survey Organization, Canberra, ACT, Insights into Palaeoproterozoic Stratigraphic architecture; implications for Pb-Zn mineralization.
• September 27th, 1996, Meghan Miller, Central Washington University, Secular strain versus earthquake-related deformation in the eastern California shear zone; GPS results 1991-1994.

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1995 - 1996 Academic Year

• May 14th, 1996, Fred Cook, University of Calgary, Three dimensional crustal structure and tectonic development of the Purcell Anticlinorium.
• May 3rd, 1996, Richard Blakely, USGS at Menlo Park, CA, Tectonic setting and earthquake hazards of the central Cascadia forearc based on new, high-resolution aeromagnetic and seismic-reflection data and,
• May 4rd, 1996, Richard Blakely, USGS at Menlo Park, CA., Size and geothermal implications of magma chambers beneath the Cascade volcanic arc based on gravity anomalies and ideal-body theory
• May 1st, Ted Doughty (UM Alum), Queens University, Shoup revisited - structure, geochron and isotopes.
• April 23-26, 1996, Dr. Shunxin Zhang from the Department of Geology and Mineral Resources at China University of Geosciences, Beijing will be in the Department consulting with Professor Stanley. She is a conodont specialist with interest in Permian and early Mesozoic correlations.
• April 16th, 1996, Robert Butler, Professor of Geophysics at the University of Arizona, Paleozoic paleogeography of the Alexander Terrane of southeast Alaska: Constraints from Paleomagnetic and Detrital Zircon Studies.
• March 26, 1996, Ian Lange, UM Geology, There's more to the Ninemile placer deposits than gold.
• March 12, 1996, Jeff Moe, (UM Alum) Exploration Geologist, Modern Mining in an old district, Sunshine Mine, Kellog, Idaho.
• February 27, 1996, Arthur Bilichenko, Visiting Scientist, Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlosk, Kamchatka, Russia, Volcanic Features of Kamchatka.
• February 20th, 1996, Roy Hyndman, Senior Scientist, Pacific Geoscience Center, Victoria, B.C. and President of the Canadian Geophysical Union, Subduction and Destruction: Giant earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest. The widespread methane-ice layer just below the ocean floor and its relationship to subduction of Pacific ocean floor in the Pacific Northwest.
• December 15th, 1995, Lynne Dickman, (UM Alum), USDA Forest Service, Evaluation of Hazardous Waste Sites on National Forest Land; The Monarch Mine Example.
• November 30, Chris Scotese, University of Texas at Arlington, Late Proterozoic Supercontinent Formation: Rodinia to Panotia and,Demonstration of Computer Modelling of Continental Configurations in Geologic Time.
• October 16th, Ted Doughty (UM Alum), Queens University, Tectonic Evolution of the Priest River Complex, Idaho.
• October 19th, Marty Williams (UM Alum), Amoco, History of Front Range Exploration in the Rocky Mountains. Marty gave the talk while he and Maria Henry were here interviewing candidates for summer internships with Amoco.
• October 24th, John Grotzinger (UM Alum), MIT, Interacting Proterozoic Foredeeps Flanking a Small Archean Continent, Canada.

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