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Graduate Student Seminar
Fall 2009
Wednesday at Noon
328 Woodward Hall
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 9/9 |
Introductory Meeting |
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| 9/16 |
David Fastovsky |
Mongolian Geo-Tourism |
| 9/23 |
Canidate Introduction |
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| 9/30 |
Paper Reading |
Wade et al. (2008) |
| 10/7 |
Dr. Jennifer Wade |
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| 10/14 |
Dr. Dartevelle |
Weaver Audioroium (TBA) |
| 10/21 |
GSA Annual Meeting (Portland, Oregon) |
No Seminar |
| 10/28 |
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No Seminar |
| 11/4 |
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No Seminar |
| 11/11 |
Veteren's Day |
No Seminar |
| 11/18 |
Chris Troskosky |
Prehistoric land use and landscape associations of archaeological sites in southern RI |
| 11/25 |
Thanksgiving |
No Seminar |
| 12/2 |
Katie Loughney
Rachel Grandpre |
aphonomy in blue paleosols and its implications for the biostratigraphy of vertebrate taxa in the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
TBA |
| 12/9 |
Erika Lentz
Pamela Cady |
Assessing the Impacts of Anthropogenic Modifications and Extreme Storms on an East Coast Barrier Island: Geomorphologic Change at Fire Island, New York from 1998 - 2008
Experimental Riverbank Filtration in South India
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Previous Semesters
- Spring 2009
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 1/21 |
Introductory Meeting |
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| 1/28 |
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| 2/3 Tuesday |
J.W. Hagadorn (Amherst College) |
Inside the First Animals |
| 2/11 |
Karen Kortz |
Students' perceptions of rocks and their formation |
| 2/18 |
No Seminar |
Monday Classes Meet |
| 2/25 |
Patricia Gagnon |
Improving Drinking Water Quality by Better Understanding Ground-water/Surface-water Interaction |
| 3/4 |
Katherine Kelley (GSO) |
Water and mantle melting at subduction zones |
| 3/11 |
Ashlee Kirkwood |
Microstructural Analysis of a Drill Core from Somerset, MA: Upper 750 Ft |
| 3/18 |
No Seminar |
Spring Break |
| 3/25 |
GSA |
No Seminar |
| 4/1 |
Bosiljka Glumac (Smith College) |
Greetings from a Croatian Jurassic Park: Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of Carbonate Strata with Dinosaur Footprints from Croatia |
| 4/8 |
Jeff Pelczar |
Influence of Groundwater Pumping on the Hydroperiod of Vernal Pools |
| 4/15 |
Dan Murray |
RITES: Rhode Island Technology Enhanced Science Program |
| 4/22 |
Bryan Oakley |
Glacial Geology of Narragansett Bay |
| 4/29 |
Terri Smith |
A modern conceptual model of the deglaciation of Southern Rhode Island |
- Fall 2008
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 9/3 |
Introductory Meeting |
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| 9/10 |
Van Training |
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| 9/17 |
Mike Sutherland |
Gulf Stream Variability and Rapid Climate Change |
| 9/24 |
Rachel Grandpre |
What if the effects of a Mass Extinction are so pervasive that they can be recognized in the depositional environments? |
| 10/1 |
Katie Loughney |
Taphonomy in Blue Paleosols and its Implications for the Biostratigraphy of Vertebrate Taxa in the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA
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| 10/8 |
No Semninar |
Geological Society of America Meeting |
| 10/15 |
Tom Boving |
Fostering Entrepreneurship Centered on Clean Water, Appropriate Technologies, and Sustainable Agribusiness in western Kenya |
| 10/22 |
Rebecca Robinson (GSO) |
Enhanced nutrient consumption at the ice edge in the glacial Southern Ocean |
| 10/29 |
Jon Boothroyd |
Coarse-Grained Sediment Transport in Sounds, Bays, Estuaries and Lagoons |
| 11/5 |
Chris Troskosky |
Location and timing of Archaeological sites in southern New England |
| 11/12 |
No Seminar |
Tuesday Classes Meet on Wednesday |
| 11/19 |
Erika Lentz |
Analyzing Volumetric Change Patterns in the Dune/Beach System: Fire Island, New York |
| 11/26 |
No Seminar |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
| 12/3 |
Shannon Mark |
Prudence Island Groundwater |
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Department of Geosciences
317 Woodward Hall
9 East Alumni Avenue
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881-2019
Tel: 401.874.2265
Fax: 401.874.2190
E-Mail: veeger@uri.edu
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