Geology Department, Spring 2007

Colloquium Speakers Series

Talks at 5 PM in Founders Room 25 unless otherwise indicated.

Date

Speaker

Topic

Monday, Jan 29

 

 

Lori Dengler, HSU Geology Department

 

 

The November 15, 2006 Tsunami: Progress and Problems with US Tsunami Warning System

Friday, Feb 2 *

* note: Friday Lecture FH 25

 

Dr. Peter Birkland , Emeritus Professor, University of Colorado

 

Integrating Soils and Geomorphology in Mountains-an example from the Front Range in Colorado

 

Monday, Feb 5

 

Troy Nicolini, Warning Coordination Meterologist, Eureka Weather Service

 

 

Modeling Ocean Wave Hazards in the Entrance to Humboldt Bay

Thursday, Feb 22 *

* note: Thursday Lecture FH 163

 

 

Russell Shapiro, Dept. of Geology and Environmental Studies, CSU Chico

The Complexities of Methane Seep Limestone: A Tale in Three Acts

 

Friday, Feb 23 *

* Note: Friday FH 118

 

 

AAPG Distinguished Lecturer Timothy H. Dixon

Crustal Deformation Near the San Andreas Fault: Estimating Elastic Parameters of the Upper Crust With Space Geodesy

Monday, March 5

 

 

 

Tom Lisle, Redwood Science Lab

Sedimentation of the Coastal Plain of Chiapas, Mexico, Resulting from Hurricane Stan: Mitigating a Source-to-Sink Problem

Monday, March 19 *

Note: FH 118

Frans Lowman, Hydrologist for SHN, Eureka

Environmental Geology of the Balloon Track Property, Eureka

Monday, March 26

 

 

Charles Narwold, Sr. Engineering Geologist- Cal Trans Eureka

Examples of Landslide and Rockfall Mitigation by the California Department of Transportation in Humboldt and Mendocino Counties

 

Monday, Apr 9

 

 

Gary Simpson, SHN Consulting

 

Preliminary Results of Fault Rupture Hazard Evaluations on

Humboldt Hill

Monday, Apr 23

FH 118

Dr. Doug Toomey, Ridge

NSF Lecturer

 

Under the Volcano