Seminar Series & Thesis Defense Schedule

Seminar Series & Thesis Defense Schedule

Seminar Series & Thesis Defense Schedule

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**Unless otherwise noted, seminar will take place in room 1118 Rood Hall at 4:00 p.m.

SPRING 2012

Date Speaker Title

Jan.
2

 

Semester Break
No Seminar

 

Jan.
9

 

   
Jan. 16

MLK DAY
No Seminar

 
Jan. 20

Stephanie Ewald
Thesis Proposal
3:00 p.m.
1122 Rood Hall

"A Stratigraphic Framework for the Saginaw Lobe, Barry and Calhoun Counties, Michigan"
Jan. 23

Stephen Pekar
IODP Distinguished Lecturer

"Past Climate Changes in Antarctica: Looking Back on Our Future"

Jan.
27

Peter J. Feutz
Thesis Defense
10:00 a.m.
1192 Rood Hall

"Evaluating the Effects of Lithofacies and Thin Shales on the Lateral Distribution of Hydrothermal Dolomite Reservoirs in the Michigan Basin"
Jan. 30 Alan E. Fryar "Recharge and Hydrochemical Evolution in Regional Sedimentary Aquifers"

Feb.
6

Dr. Johnson Haas
Associate Professor
WMU

"Seven Hundred Worlds and Counting: The Myriad Opportunities for Life in the Known Universe"
Feb. 8

Seth J. Workman
Proposal Defense
10:00 a.m.
1192 Rood Hall

"A Detailed Diagenetic Characterization of the Cretaceous Eagle Ford Reservoir, South Texas"
Feb. 13

Dr. Essam Heggy
Research Scientist
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech

 

"Exploring Mars and Earth Subsurfaces Using Low Frequency Sounding Radars: Deserts Unseen Geology"
Feb. 20

Jean-Francois Gaillard

Northwestern University

"Metals in the Environment"
Feb. 21

Shawn McCloskey
Thesis Defense
10:00 a.m.
1192 Rood Hall

"3-D Reservoir Characterization of the South Buckeye Field, Dundee Formation (Devonian), Michigan Basin, USA"
Feb. 24

Andrew K. Macleod
Proposal Defense
3:00 p.m.
1192 Rood Hall

"Adsorption of Cr (VI) on Hydrous Manganese Oxide"
Feb 27 TBA  
Mar. 1

TBA

 

Mar.
5

SPRING BREAK
No Seminar

 
Mar. 12

Greg Druschel
Indiana University
Purdue University at Indianapolis

 
Mar. 19 TBA  
Mar. 26 TBA  

Apr.
2

D'Arcy Meyer-Dombard

University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Apr.
9

TBA  
Apr. 16 TBA  
Apr. 23

FINAL EXAM WEEK
No Seminar

 
 

Department of Geosciences
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Western Michigan University
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