For more information, contact Dr. Alan Fryar
phone (859) 257-4392; e-mail: afryar1@uky.edu

Jan. 12  Jennifer Wies, University of Kentucky Women's Place
"Women's Safety Training"

Jan. 19  Marty Parris, Kentucky Geological Survey
"Deformation and the Timing of Gas Generation and Migration in the Eastern Brooks Range Foothills, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska"

Jan. 26  Wally Borowski, Eastern Kentucky University
“Does Methane Consumption Occurring Within Methane Gas Hydrate Localities Result in Focused Authigenic Sulfide Mineral Formation? Evidence and Implications”

Feb. 2  Ricardo Astini, University Nacional de Cordoba
"Recent Advances on Early Paleozoic Paleogeography of (Argentina) Western Gondwana and an Update on the Laurentian Derived Precordillera Terrane"

Feb. 9  Mary Reid, Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University
“Crystal-Scale Records of Silicic Magma Storage and Evolution”

Feb. 16  Bill Thomas, University of Kentucky, Department of Earth and Environmenatal Sciences, McFarlan Lecture
"Tectonic Inheritance at a Continental Margin"

Feb. 23 UK Department of Earth and Environmenatal Sciences Gradaute Student Double-header
Brian Cook
"Preliminary studies in strain symmetry and vorticity of flow at the base of the Moine nappe, northwest Scotland"
Abhijit Mukherjee
"Hydrogeologic characterization of the arsenic-affected western Bengal basin"

Mar.  2  Isabel Montanez, Department of Geology, University of California-Davis
Global biogeochemical cycling/paleooceanography/basin analysis (title TBA)

Mar. 9  Linda Kah, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univeristy of Tennessee
“Carbon, Sulfur, Oxygen, and the Evolution of the Proterozoic Biosphere”

Mar. 16  Spring Break, No Seminar

Mar. 23  Southeast GSA, No Seminar

Mar. 30  David McConnell/David Steer, Department of Geology, University of Akron
"The Tourist, the Gunslinger, and the Gardener: Rethinking Metaphors of Teaching and Learning to Enhance Student Reasoning"

Apr. 6  Jeff Moersch, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee
"Composition of the Martian Surface from Orbital Infrared Remote Sensing"

Apr. 13  Claudia Mora, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee
"Seasonally-Resolved Tree-Ring Isotope Proxies of Hurricanes and Climate"

Apr. 18  David Kennedy, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)
"The coastal landforms of New Zealand: Evolution and process on a plate boundary in the southernmost Pacific"

Apr. 27  Matt Saltzman,  Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio State University
"Evolution of the Paleozoic Carbon Cycle"