Geosciences Department Seminar Series


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2008 Fall Seminar Series

Geography Series
Tuesdays, 4:oo pm, 108 Wilkinson Hall**Unless otherwise noted

Date	Speaker	Title
September 30	Julia Jones Oregon State University Dept. of Geosciences	The landscape ecology of water in the Pacific Northwest
October 7	Aaron Wolf Oregon State University Dept. of Geosciences	Conflict and cooperation over shared waters
October 14	Denis White US EPA Courtesy Faculty Oregon State University Dept. of Geosciences	Environmental science research at EPA: a geographer's potpourri
October 21	Peter Ruggiero Oregon State University Dept. of Geosciences	Morphodynamics of Pacific Northwest beaches
October 28	Anne Nolin Oregon State University Dept. of Geosciences	Climate change impacts snow, glaciers and water resources in the Pacific Northwest
November 4	Gordon Grant PNW Research Station US Forest Service	Of rivers, wine and song: some interesting problems in fluvial geomorphology
November 11	Larry Becker Oregon State University Dept. of Geosciences	The political ecology of rice in West Africa
November 18	Cub Kahn Oregon State University Dept. of Geosciences	Field photo techniques: SW China and beyond
November 25	Jon Kimerling Oregon State University Dept. of Geosciences	Dotting the dot map--revisited
December 2	Hannah Gosnell Oregon State University Dept. of Geosciences	Exploring the geographies of agricultural landscape change in the American west

Geology Series
Thursdays, 4:oo pm, 108 Wilkinson Hall**Unless otherwise noted

Date	Speaker	Title
October 2	Robert C. Witter Oregon Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries Coastal Field Office Newport, Oregon	Reevaluating Oregon tsunami hazards: Summary of a new Tsunami Hazard Assessment at Cannon Beach, Oregon
October 9	Hilary F. Stockdon US Geological Survey Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies St. Petersburg, Florida	Forecasting coastal morphologic response to extreme storms
October 16	Jonathan A. Warrick US Geological Survey Pacific Science Center Santa Cruz, California	Dam removal on the Elwha River: The pending restoration of sediment to a river and its delta
October 23	Guy Gelfenbaum US Geological Survey Menlo Park, California	Tsunami erosion and deposition: Lessons from Sumatra
October 30	Ray E. Wells US Geological Survey Menlo Park, California	Deformation of Cascadia - a geological and geophysical view of interactions between subduction, simple shear, and rifting
November 6	Curt D. Peterson Portland State University Department of Geology	Net littoral drift, West Coast, USA
November 13	George Kaminsky Washington Dept. of Ecology Director of the Coastal Monitoring and Analysis Program	The role of the shoreface in coastal evolution: Observations from the Columbia River littoral cell
November 20	Chris Goldfinger Oregon State University College of Oceanis and Atmospheric Sciences	Cascadia great earthquakes: Riddle of the sands
November 27	Thanksgiving Holiday	NO SEMINAR
December 4	Peter Ruggiero Oregon State University Department of Geosciences	Is the intensifying wave climate of the US Pacific Northwest of more concern than sea level rise?
GEORGE MOORE LECTURE
December 11	Dr. Stephen Sparks NERC Research Professor and Director of the Centre for Environmental and Geophysical Flows Department of Earth Sciences University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom	The dynamics of kimberlite eruptions

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