Jan. 18: Professor Molly Miller, Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences: “Highly Productive Polar Forests: Permian, Antarctica.”

Jan. 25: Professor Andrew Scott, Royal Holloway, University of London, Department of Geology: “The Burning Issue: Fire-Shaping our Past and Future World.”

*Jan. 31 Wednesday*: Dr. Michael Hudic, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecturer: “Evolution of Suprasalt Minibasins in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico.”

Feb. 8: Professor James Coogan, University of Western Colorado, Department of Natural and Environmental Science: “Geometric and kinematic evolution of the type Sevier fold-thrust belt of central Utah with implications for the Sevier Desert Detachment controversy and remaining hydrocarbon potential.”

Feb. 15: Matthew Surles, University of Kentucky, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences:
"Effects of Basement Structures and Ouachita Thrust Belt Structures on the Appalachian Thrust Belt in Mississippi."
and
Matthew Massey, University of Kentucky, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences:
"Oblique Convergence, Indentation, and Extrusion: the Alternative Alpine Analog for Alleghanian Orogenesis in Southern New England."

Feb. 22: Professor Allen Dennis, University of South Carolina-Aiken, Department of Biology and Geology: “Wenlock-Ludlow Post-Accretionary Terrane Dispersal in the Central Appalachians.”

March 1: No seminar

March 8: Professor John Rakovan, Miami University, Department of Geology:
“Environmental Mineralogy of Apatite: Crystal Chemistry of Uranium and Thorium in the Apatite Structure.”

March 15: Spring Break (no seminar)

March 22: John Allen, University of Kentucky, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences:
“Structure and Kinematics of the Gold Hill fault zone; Waxhaw, North Carolina.”
and
James Ward, University of Kentucky, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences:
“Determining Transport Properties of Solute and Particle Tracers under Various Flow Conditions in a Karst Groundwater Basin.”

March 29: Southeastern Section Meeting of Geological Society of America (no seminar)

April 5: Professor Elizabeth McLellan, University of Tennessee – Martin, Department of Geology, Geography, and Physics:
"From Whence the Mountains? Petrological Evidence for the Origin of Suspect and Exotic Terranes in the Central Scandinavian Caledonides"

April 12: Professor Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati, Department of Geology:
“The Study of Phanerozoic Diversity Trends: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges”.

April 19: Professor Chuck Kluth, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering:
"A New Look at Old Friends: A Revision of the Interpretation of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains, Colorado."

April 26 : Professor Kurt Panter, Bowling Green State University, Department of Geology:
“Volcanoes on a Frozen Continent: A Geochemical View of the Origin of Late Cenozoic Volcanoes in Antarctica”