Colloquium Schedule Spring 2010
Jan. 20 Jeff
Amato (NMSU): How to Survive
Grad School
Jan. 27 Frank
Ramos (NMSU): The Secret to the Columbia River Basalts
Feb. 3 Rick
Colwell (Oregon State University) Ocean Leadership Distinguished Speaker: Biogeochemical
Exhalations: Microbial Methane in Marine Sediments
Feb. 10 Travis
Avant (NMSU): The Mysterious Origins of a Gypsum-cored Fold
Belt in Lincoln County, New Mexico
Feb. 17 Jim
Witcher (Witcher and Associates, Las Cruces, NM): Thoughts on a Geothermal Resource Classification
System
Feb. 24 Joseph
Andrie (NMSU): Halokinetic Sequence Stratigraphy and Structural
Geometry of the Fluvial, Eocene Carroza Formation, La
Popa Basin, Mexico
March 3 Aaron Velasco (UTEP): — IRIS/SSA Distinguished Speaker: Can a Large
Earthquake in Another Country Cause One in Your Backyard?
March
10 Rachelle Kernen (NMSU): Characteristics of a Tapered Composite Halokinetic Sequence Adjacent to the Ramping Patawarta Salt Sheet, Central Flinders Ranges, South
Australia
March 17 Steve Henry
(Innovative Exploration Services): A New Model for the opening of the South Atlantic
based on Tectono-Stratigraphic Interpretation
March 24 Spring Break – No Colloquium
March 31 Libby Anthony
(UTEP): Magma evolution of Suswa volcano: East
Africa rift.
April 7 Guy
Plint (University of Western Ontario) AAPG
Distinguished Lecturer: Evolving Flexural Depocentres in the Middle Cretaceous of the Western Canada
Foreland Basin
April 14 AAPG Meeting in New Orleans - No colloquium
April 21 Jasper
Konter (UTEP): Thoughts
on intraplate volcanism
April 28
Barry Kues
(UNM): The Top 10 Most Important
Paleontological Deposits in New Mexico
May 5 Final Exam Week - No Colloquium