(noon-1:00 pm on Wednesday in Benson 380)

---

We welcome suggestions for speakers such as yourself, your students, post-docs, and visitors. Send your suggested speakers to Shijie Zhong (szhong@colorado.edu).

---

Feburary 5
Tom de la Torre (CU)
Seismic Characteristics in the Upper Lithosphere Beneath the Himalaya and the Southern Tibetan Plateau.

Feburary 12
Joe Smyth (CU)
Hydrogen solubility in mantle minerals and the origin of Earth's asthenosphere

Feburary 19
Amy Barr (SWRI)
"Grain Size in Icy Satellites: Lessons from terrestrial ice cores"

Feburary 26
Estelle Mortimer (Univ of Postdam)
"Footwall drainage evolution in response to increasing and episodic fault displacement: Loreto fault, Baja California Sur, Mexico".

March 5
Craig Jones (CU)
"Exploration of a flow-based alternative for the Laramide orogeny"

March 12
Walter Szeliga (CU)
"Slow Earthquakes along the Cascadia Margin, 1997-2005"

March 19
Yingjie Yang (CU)

March 26
Spring break

April 2
Kristine Larson (CU)
"Making Good From Bad: Can GPS Multipath Provide Soil Moisture Measurements?"

April 9
TBA

April 16
TBA

April 23
TBA

April 30
TBA

Geophysics Seminar Fall 2006

---

September 6
Shad O'Neel (CU)
Columbia Glacier Experiment.

September 13
Shijie Zhong (CU)
Earth's heat budget and composition of the mantle: Insights from the dynamics of mantle plumes

September 20
Vera Schulte-Pelkum (CU)
Link geodynamics and seismology, the hard way: Mantle flow under the western US from shear wave splitting

September 27
Alan Robock (Rutgers University) and Brian Toon (CU)
"Climatic Consequences of Regional Nuclear Conflicts"

October 4
Andria Bilich (CU)
"When seismometers go bad... GPS to the rescue! (i.e., high-rate GPS as a tool for seismology)"

October 11
Seth Haines (USGS)
"Seismic shear wave reflection imaging of near-surface targets"

October 18
Feng Tian (CU)
"Plumes over the South Pole of Enceladus"

October 25
Alessandro Forte (Universite du Qubec Montreal)
"Impact of Subcontinental Mantle Flow on North American Dynamics"

November 1
Katherine Dayem (CU)
"Localized shear along a strength discontinuity: Application of thin viscous sheet calculations to the boundary between Tibet and the Tarim Basin"

November 8
Greg Houseman (University of Leeds, UK)
"Geodynamic models for the formation of the Pannonian Basin of Central Europe"

November 9 (Special Seminar)
Eh Tan (Caltech)
"Compressible thermo-chemical convection and its application to lower mantle chemical structures"

November 15
Bob Engdahl (CU)
TBA

November 22
No seminar due to Fall break

November 29
Tad Pfeffer (CU)
"A mechanism for rapid onset of outlet glacier retreat"

December 6
AGU practice talks



Geophysics Seminar Spring 2006

---


January 30
Roger Bilham (CU): "A scaling law and a recurrence interval for Himalayan earthquakes using Tibet as a reservoir of elastic energy"

February 6
Anatoli Levshin (CU): Surface Wave Tomography of the European Arctic

February 13
in CIRES auditorium by Dr. Kurt Feigl (CNRS, Toulouse, France): Reading fringes: How to calculate and interpret satellite radar interferograms for geophysical problems

February 20
George Choy (USGS, Denver): Global variability in radiated energy and apparent stress: Implications for fault maturity and seismic hazard.

February 27
Geof King (): What can we learn about rheology from geodetic measurements of post-seismic deformation in fault zones? Examples from California, Turkey, and Iceland

March 6
Steve Mojzsis (CU):

March 13
TBA

March 20
James Roberts (CU): Long wavelength structures for Mars

March 27
no seminar due to Spring Break

April 3
Bob Pappalardo (CU):

April 10
Joe Smyth (CU): "Hydrous melting and the asethenosphere"

April 17
Steve Nerem (CU): Global sealevel change

April 24
Bob Engdahl (CU): "Teleseismic relocation and assessment of seismicity (1918-2005) in the region of the 2004 Mw 9.0 Sumatra-Andaman and 2005 Mw 8.6 Nias Island great earthquakes"

May 1
Eric Hutton (CU): "Subsidence Due to Water and Sediment Loading: Analytic Approximations and the Mississippi Delta in the Light of Hurricane Katrina"

May 8
Bob Pappalardo (CU): Reorientation of Mini-Moons: Enceladus and Miranda

Geophysics Seminar Fall 2005

---

August 29
Tony Lowry (CU): "On the likely mechanism for slow slip in subduction zones"

Sept 5
No seminar due to Labor day

Sept 12
Peter Molnar (CU): "Mantle dynamics and mountain building: A case for convective instability or mantle lithosphere"

Sept 19
Joe Smyth (CU): "Earth's deep water cycle: new results on olivine hydration"

Sept 26
Doug Robertson (CU): "Survival in the First Hours of the Cenozoic"

Oct. 3
Jose Rial (UNC): "Sea-ice secular oscillations and the origin of abrupt climate change"

Oct. 10
Gaspar Monsalve (CU): TBA

Oct. 17
Archie Paulson (CU): TBA

Oct. 24
Robert Grimm (SWRI), "Quantitative Detection of Organic Soil Contamination Using Nonlinear Complex Resistivity"

Oct. 31
John Wahr (CU): TBA

Nov 7
Mike Ritzwoller (CU): Ambient Noise Seismic Tomography

Nov 14
Lang Farmer (CU): Geodynamic Applications of the North America Volcanic and Intrusive Igneous Rock database (NAVDAT)

Nov 21
Vera Schulte-Pelkum (CU):

Nov 28
Possibly for student practice talks

Dec 5
No seminar due to AGU