The Speaker Series is the Geology Club's weekly event. Held every Monday from 12:30pm to 1:20pm in Duncan Hall 306, the Speaker Series gives students and faculty the opportunity to hear geology-related talks from guest professionals and educators on a wide variety of geologic subjects.

Speaker Series, Spring 2008

DateSpeakerTitle
2/06Julia Sankey
-Paleontology Guest Speaker-
"Dinosaurs and Global Climate Change in the Late Cretaceous"
2/13Frances Malamud-Roam
-Paleontology Guest Speaker-
"A 3,000-Year History of Climate and Environmental Change in California: San Francisco Bay and Beyond"
2/18Nancy Grumet Prouty
-Paleontology Guest Speaker-
"Corals and the 3 P's: Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, and Paleoecology"
2/25Alberto Perez-Huerta
-Paleontology Guest Speaker-
"Studying Calcite Biominerals: An Integrated Approach"
3/03Karen Grove
-Professor of Geology and Oceanography, San Francisco State University-
"Geology of the Andes in Chile and Argentina"
3/10Peter K. Van de Water
-Assistant Professor of Geology, CSU Fresno-
"What Has Recent Global Change Taught Us About the Last Ice Age? New Insights on Ice Age Plant Growth and Distribution"
3/12Erin Shea
-SJSU Graduate Student-
"Orogen-Parallel Flow in the Southern Skagit Gneiss Complex, North Cascades, Washington"
Cal Stevens
-SJSU Professor Emeritus of Paleontology-
"Faunal Response to Emplacement of the Early Permian Last Chance Allochthon, East-Central California"
3/17Bob Miller
-SJSU Professor of Structural Geology-
"Walking on Oceanic Mantle and Crust in the Desert of Oman"
4/02Jon Hendricks
-Paleontology Guest Speaker-
"Sinister Seashells! Paleobiology of an Extinct, Venomous, Left-Handed Snail "
4/07Shangyan Wang
-Professor of Paleontology, China University of Geosciences and Guizhou University-
"Triassic Geological Traces in Guizhou of China"
4/14Elizabeth Miller
-Professor of Structural Geology and Tectonics, Stanford University-
"Who Owns the Arctic and Why Plate Tectonics Matters"
4/21Julie Moore
-Geologist/Account Representative, SPL, Inc.-
"Laboratory QA/QC, Reviewing Lab Data, Units and Basic Conversions for Air, Soil and Water"
5/05Zachary Michels
-Thesis Defense-
"Structures in the Central Skagit Gneiss Complex, North Cascades, Washington"
Erin Shea
-Thesis Defense-
"Structural Geology of the Southern Skagit Gneiss Complex, North Cascades, Washington"
Brigid Doran
-Thesis Defense-
"Structure and Tectonics of the Swauk Basin and Teanaway Dike Swarm, Central Cascades, Washington"



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