Spring 2016 Seminars
This is an archive. To view current seminar schedule visit the Friday Seminars Page.
The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston offers its seminars on most Friday afternoons during the fall and spring semesters. For more information regarding seminars please visit the seminars resource page.
Time: Most seminars are held at 11:00 am. A change of times will be noted under the date of the seminar.
Assistance with speaker setup: An EAS TA is assigned the task of: providing lapel microphone and making a sound check, providing remote slide changer with built in laser pointer, and loading the speaker’s slides. For the spring 2016, semester this person is: Vanessa Caicedo ( vacaicedo@uh.edu ).
| Date | Speaker | Presentation | Host |
| 01/22/16 | Barry Katz Chevron |
Lacustrine basin unconventional resource plays: Key differences | Bissada |
| 01/29/16 | Chris Harig Princeton University |
Measuring Ice Mass Loss from Melting Ice Sheets and Arctic Glaciers | Jadamec |
| 02/05/16 | Anirban Roy UH postdoc |
Frontier area in air quality model development input | Choi |
| 02/12/16 | Harm van Avendonk UT Austin |
Structure and early evolution of the northern Gulf of Mexico: New constraints from marine seismic refraction data | Mann |
| 02/19/16 | Nick Hayman UT Austin |
Mid-Cayman spreading center | Mann |
| 02/26/16 | Robert Stewart UH EAS |
Drones, DAS, and 3D printing: Will they revolutionize geoscience? | Saylor |
| 03/04/16 | Laurent Montesi University of Maryland |
Formation of shear zones and rifts on Earth and other planets | Jadamec |
| 03/11/16 | Jingqiang Tan UH (postdoc) |
Integrated geological characterization of the Lower Paleozoic marine shale formations in the Upper Yangtze Platform: China's most promising shale gas plays | Bissada |
| 03/18/16 | Spring Break | ||
| 03/25/16 | Tao Sun UH-EAS Research Associate |
Lost Deserts in Antarctica | Bissada |
| 04/01/16 | Elizabeth Griffith UT Arlington |
Stable metal isotopes in barite - applications in marine and continental settings | Silva-Tamayo |
| 04/08/16 | Thorne Lay UC Santa Cruz |
Surge of Great Earthquakes since 2004 | Zheng |
| 04/15/16 | Bumseok Chun TSU (Houston) |
Spatial Statistical Analysis and Simulation of the Urban Heat Island | Wang/Khan |
| 04/22/16 | Paul Wessel University of Hawaii |
Hot-, Pole-, and Ridge-Spotting: Geometric Games of Plate Tectonics with Application to Absolute Plate Motion Modeling | Wang |