University of Kentucky 
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Spring 2009 Rast-Holbrook Seminar Series

Seminars are held at 4pm on Thursdays in 303 Slone Research Building (unless otherwise noted), with refreshments starting at 3:30 PM.

Map: http://ukcc.uky.edu/cgi-bin/dynamo?maps.391+campus+0053

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

Jan. 15

Dr. Micah Jessup, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville

“Tectonic Evolution of the Mount Everest and Ana Drime Massifs, Tibet-Nepal”

Jan. 22

Dr. Doug Alsdorf, School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University

“The Flux and Volume of Amazon Floodplain Waters and the Role of Future Satellite Measurements, Globally”

Jan. 29

No lecture

Feb. 5

Dr. James Fox, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky

“Nitrogen Stable Isotope Temporal and Spatial Variability for Fine Sediment Transported from a Lowland Watershed”

Feb. 12

Dr. Rodney Metcalf, Dept. of Geoscience, University of Nevada–Las Vegas

"Paleozoic Magmatic and Tectonic Evolution  of the Eastern Klamath Mountains, California"

Feb. 19

Dr. Craig Dietsch, Dept. of Geology, University of Cincinnati

"A Connecticut Geologist in King Gampo's Court: Exploring  Links between Tectonics and Surface Processes in the Himalaya and the New England Appalachians"

Feb. 26

Dr. Tanya Atwater, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of California–Santa Barbara

National Association of Geoscience Teachers Distinguished Speaker

“How the West Was Made: Using the Last Half Billion Years to Illuminate Continental Plate Tectonics”

Mar. 5

David Clark, CSIRO Exploration and Mining

“Magnetic Exploration Models for Porphyry and IOCG Deposits”

Mar. 12

No lecture (Geological Society of America Southeastern Section meeting)

Mar. 19

No lecture (spring break)

Mar. 26

Dr. Donna Shillington, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

NSF MARGINS Distinguished Lecturer

“An Abrupt Along-Strike Transition from Magma-Poor to Magma-Rich Rifting in the Eastern Black Sea”

Apr. 2

Dr. Dexter Perkins, Dept. of Geology and Geological Engineering, University of North Dakota
"Teaching to Enhance Learning: a New Imperative for the College Classroom"

Apr. 9 (Graduate Student Doubleheader)

Estifanos Haile, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky

Ground Water Residence Time and Hydrochemical Evolution in the Wilcox
Aquifer of the Northern Mississippi Embayment

Matt Massey, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky

Significance of Mid-Crustal Structures and Fabrics in the New England Appalachians:

Transpression, Strain Partitioning, and Extrusion

Apr. 16

Dr. Chunmiao Zheng, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama

Geological Society of America Hydrogeology Division Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer (co-sponsored by Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute)

“Will China Run Out of Water?”

Apr. 23

Dr. Jafar Hadizadeh, Dept. of Geography and Geosciences, University of Louisville

"Microstructural Deformation in Gouge from Actively Creeping Fault Zone Encountered in the SAFOD Drill Hole"

Apr. 30

Dr. Peter Cook, CSIRO Land and Water

National Ground Water Association Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer (co-sponsored by Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute)

“Environmental Tracers in Modern Hydrogeology: Reducing Uncertainty in Ground Water Flow Estimation”