Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminars Fall 2011
All seminars will be held on Thursdays at 4 PM in 303 Slone, preceded by refreshments at 3:30, unless otherwise noted.
Aug 25 Dr. Ahmed Fekri, Université Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco - “Water resources of Morocco: Management under scarcity and hydraulic stress”
Sep 01 Bill Murphie, U.S. Department of Energy - “Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office, Yesterday & Today, Portsmouth, Ohio & Paducah, Kentucky Sites”
Sep 08 Ron Counts, Kentucky Geological Survey - “Evidence for late Holocene faulting in the lower Wabash River valley”
Sep 15 Dr. Lucy Flesch, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University - “TBA”
Sept 22 Dr. Ralph Ewers, Ewers Water Consultants, "Shallow groundwater and DNAPL movement within slightly dipping limestone, southwest Kentucky"
Sep 29 Dr. Stephen Silliman, Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame - “Darcy Lecture: Development of Reliable Hydrologic Data Sets in Difficult Environments: Case Studies from Benin, West Africa”
Oct 06 Dr. Nikki Wagner, School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand - “Like Kentucky, South Africa is dependent on coal, or more so”
Oct 13 No Seminar – Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Oct 20 Dr. Kevin Woller, Pioneer Natural Resources Company - “Geophysical technology in industry”
Oct 27 Dr. -Dr. Devon Burr, Assistant Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, University of Tennessee Knoxville - "Fluvial Geomorphology on Earth, Mars, and Titan"
Nov 03 Special Seminar 6:30 pm Dr. Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute, New Thinking for Water in the 21st Century” , UK Environmental Seminar Series and keynote speaker for the UK Sustainability Award
Nov 10 Dr. Lewis Owen, Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati - “Himalayan glaciations and tectonics”
Nov 17 Graduate Student Doubleheader and Student Author of the Year Award:
Michelle Johnston & Rachel Hatch - “Sediment dynamics and benthic community responses to hydrocarbon exposure following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill”
Ralph Bandy - “Characterization of the Cambrian Eau Claire Formation as caprockfor carbon sequestration into the Mount Simon Sandstone in Kentucky
Journal of Structural Geology Student Author of the Year Award, Presented to Dr. Matthew Massey (UK Ph.D. 2010) by Prof. William Dunne, UT-Knoxville and Editor, Journal of Structural Geology
Nov 24 No Seminar – Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec 01 Kentucky Geological Survey Mapping Symposium
Dec 08 Christopher S. Rice, Associate Director for Teaching & Technology, Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT), University of Kentucky- "Teaching and Learning in a Web 2.0 World: Building the Social University"