T. Mylan Stout Lecture Series
Spring 2012
Lectures begin at 3:30 pm, in 117 Bessey Hall, except where notedRefreshments served at 3:15 pm
Friday, January 20
Priyank Jaiswal, Oklahoma State University
“Seismic Imaging of Complex Geology”
Friday, February 10
Peter Swart, University of Miami
“A Story of Carbon Isotope Intrigue: from the Modern to the Neoproterozoic and Back”
Friday, February 17
David Moecher, University of Kentucky
“Earthquake Cold Case: A Petrologist's Examination of the Deep Seismogenic Zone...Long After the Crime was Committed”
Thursday, February 23, 7:30 pm
David Archer, University of Chicago
“The Long Thaw”
Friday, February 24
David Archer, University of Chicago
“Methane Hydrates and the Ocean Sedimentary Carbon Cycle”
Friday, March 2
Ping Yang, Texas A&M
“Light Scattering and radiative transfer: fundamentals, applications and reminiscences”
Friday, March 9
Steven Semken, Arizona State University
“The Function of Sense of Place in Place-Based Earth Science Education”
Friday, March 30
Brent Newman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
“Understanding Evaporation in the Subsurface: Insights from Environmental Tracer Studies”
Friday, April 6
Brian Huber, Smithsonian Institution
“Ice-sheets in a Cretaceous Hothouse?”
Friday, April 13
Les Lemon, University of Oklahoma
“Tornado Detection Research from a Personal Perspective: Past, Present, and Future”
Friday, April 20
Ed Sudicky, University of Waterloo
“A Physically-Based Approach to Assess the Impact of Climate Change on Canadian Water Resources”
Friday, April 27
Jeremy Fein, University of Notre Dame
“Thermodynamics of Metal and Radionuclide Adsorption onto Bacteria in Geologic Systems”
