1/10 Dr. Ana Carmo, Center for Designing Foods to Improve Nutrition, Iowa State University
Biogeochemical processes affecting the preservation of organic matter during deposition of Cretaceous marine carbonates in Sergipe Basin, Brazil

1/16 (Wednesday)
Dr. Graham Fogg, Dept. of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California - Davis
GSA Hydrogeology Division Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture
(co-sponsored by the Kentucky Water Research Institute)
Groundwater vulnerability and the meaning of groundwater age dates

1/24 Dr. Harry Rowe, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois - Chicago
Lake Titicaca, El Niño, and tropical climate change during the Holocene

1/31 Dr. Robert Tucker, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Washington University
Department of Geological Sciences Hudnall Lecture
The "lost continent" of Madagascar: its geology and role in Neoproterozoic supercontinental assembly

2/7 Dr. Fred Andrus, Department of Geology, University of Georgia
Otolith oxygen isotope record of mid-Holocene El Niño in coastal Peru

2/14 Mr. Brandon Nuttall, Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky
Kentucky oil and gas data on the Web

2/21 Dr. Erik Melchiorre, Department of Geology and Geography, DePauw University
Bugs and rust: using stable isotope geochemistry to examine conditions of ore deposit oxidation and acid mine drainage generation

2/22 (Friday)
Departmental Undergraduate and Graduate Research Symposium, 4:30 - 7:30 PM, 201 Slone

2/28 Dr. Walter Borowski, Department of Earth Sciences, Eastern Kentucky University
Serendipity and science: discovery of a additional significant source of sulfate depletion in deep-water, methane-rich, marine sediments associated with gas hydrates

3/4 (Monday)
Dr. Janrik van den Berg, Department of Physical Geography, University of Utrecht (Netherlands)
"Hindered" erosion and breaching in fine sand: significance to dike bursts and development of quasi-steady turbidites

3/14 No seminar—Spring Break

3/21 TBA

3/28 Dr. John Rockaway, Department of Physics and Geology, Northern Kentucky University
Engineering geology of karst in Missouri (title TBA)

4/4 No seminar—North-Central/Southeastern Sections GSA Meeting, Lexington

4/11 Dr. Shelley Kenner, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky
Processes that transfer stress to seismogenic faults: perspectives from diverse temporal and spatial scales

4/15 (Monday, noon)
Dr. Perry Rahn, Department of Geology & Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Association of Engineering Geologists Jahns Lecture
Flood hazards

4/18 Dr. Rob van der Voo, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan
Department of Geological Sciences Brown-McFarlan Lecture
The assembly of Asia as the next supercontinent (title TBA)

4/25 Departmental awards ceremony

Updated February 3, 2002