guest – Department of Geosciences http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:55:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.16 New Graduate Student Talks http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/2017/11/27/new-graduate-student-talks/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:04:07 +0000 http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/?p=746 Please mark your calendars for our annual mini-conference showcasing the research of new graduate students. Eight students will give a 9 minute talk, and will have 3 minutes to field questions. Please come out and show support for our new group of students.

Monday December 4, 12-12:50 PM, Room 304

1. Andrew Keene
2. Jordan Gilbert
3. Reid Trippe
4. Nick Thiros

Wednesday December 6, 12-12:50 PM, Room 304

1. Luke Fisher
2. Ellen Smith
3. Brian Stampe
4. Rosie Leone

]]> Geosciences Colloquium – Dr. Nick Sutfin http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/2017/09/18/geosciences-colloquium-dr-nick-sutfin/ Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:48:22 +0000 http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/?p=736 On Friday, September 22, at noon in CHCB 304, Dr. Nick Sutfin will give a talk entitled “Using remotely-sensed imagery, lidar, and field surveys to quantify erosion and examine hydrogeomorphic controls along floodplains of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.”   Dr. Sutfin is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Los Alamos National Lab, in the Earth and Environmental Science Division.  He completed a Ph.D. at Colorado State University.

]]> Geosciences Colloquium – Emily Brodsky http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/2017/09/15/geosciences-colloquium-emily-brodsky/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 21:46:23 +0000 http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/?p=732 On Monday, September 25, at noon in CHCB 304, Emily Brodsky, University of California, Santa Cruz (Ocean Discovery Lecture Series), will give a talk entitled “THE JFAST EXPEDITION: GETTING INSIDE A GIANT FAULT.

Abstract:

The 2011 Tohoku, Japan earthquake (Mw9.0) produced huge slip (30 to 50 meters) on the shallow portion of the fault close to the toe of the megathrust. The large displacement on this portion of the subduction zone was unexpected by seismologists and caused the devastating tsunami that took over 23,000 lives and inflicted massive damage along the northeast coast of Honshu. The JFAST project endeavored to understand the physical mechanisms of largeslip during earthquakes. By drilling into the fault just over a year after the earthquake, we learned that this fault was unusually weak. Even though the fault slipped about 50 m at this spot, temperature measurements indicate that it dissipated little energy. The data show that faults may be very weak when they slip in earthquakes. Faults may have a few strong spots govern the energy available for earthquakes while most of the fault poses little resistance to motion.

Emily Brodsky is an earthquake physicist who experienced the power of ocean drilling for the first time at the JFAST expedition (IODP Exp. 343) that drilled into the fault that generated the M9.0 2011 Tohoku earthquake.

]]> Geosciences Colloquium – Ted Goldstein http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/2017/09/05/geosciences-colloquium-ted-goldstein/ Tue, 05 Sep 2017 21:04:27 +0000 http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/?p=729 On Thursday, September 7, at 4:00 p.m. in CHCB 304, Ted Goldstein, Mobil Oil, Retired, and Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University, will give a talk entitled “GEO CATALYSTS, TIME, AND TEMPERATURE IN PETROLEUM FORMATION AND MATURATION.”

]]> Thesis Presentation – Shane Fussell http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/2017/05/05/thesis-presentation-shane-fussell/ Fri, 05 May 2017 16:46:43 +0000 http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/?p=717 On Friday, May 12, at 9:00 a.m. in CHCB 304, Shane Fussell will give his thesis presentation entitled “Structural Culmination of a Triangle Zone Culmination, Comb Rock, Lewis and Clark County, Montana”

]]> Thesis Presentation – Ben Hills http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/2017/05/01/thesis-presentation-ben-hills/ Mon, 01 May 2017 18:49:23 +0000 http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/?p=715 On Wednesday, May 10, at noon in CHCB 304, Ben Hills will give his thesis presentation entitled “In situ measurements and modeling used to constrain heat transfer in the western Greenland Ice Sheet.”

]]> Guest Speaker – Toby Meierbachtol http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/2017/04/17/guest-speaker-toby-meierbachtol/ Mon, 17 Apr 2017 15:04:55 +0000 http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/?p=709 Toby Meierbachtol, Ph.D., University or Montana Geosciences will give a talk on Monday, April 24, Noon in CHCB 304 “Insights into the Relationship between Ice Sheet Geometry and Surface Speed in Western Greenland from a Balance of Forces”

]]> Guest Speaker – Caitlyn Florentine http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/2017/04/17/guest-speaker-caitlyn-florentine/ Mon, 17 Apr 2017 15:01:28 +0000 http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/?p=706 Caitlyn Florentine, Ph.D. Candidate, Geosciences, will give a talk at noon April 24 in CHCB 304 entitled “Testing Recent Observations of the Greenland Ice Sheet against Radar-derived Steady State.”

]]> Guest Speaker – Michael Stickney http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/2017/03/29/guest-speaker-michael-stickney/ Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:37:12 +0000 http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/?p=693 On Monday, April 3, 2017, at noon in CHCB 304, Michael Stickney, Senior Research Geologist, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, will give a talk entitled “Insights and Questions from 35 Years of Seismic Monitoring in Western Montana.”

]]> Guest Speaker – Dr. William Dietrich http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/2017/03/08/guest-speaker-dr-william-dietrich/ Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:13:41 +0000 http://www.spatial.umt.edu/blog/?p=676 On Monday, April 10, 2017 at 12:00 noon in CHCB 304, Dr. William Dietrich, Professor Department of Earth and Planetary Science University of California, Berkeley will give a talk entitled “Four years on Mars with the Curiosity Rover: The discovery of habitable environments and the question of paleoclimatic conditions.”

Dr. Dietrich’s research projects share a common theme: they seek mechanistic, quantitative understanding of the form and evolution of landscapes, linkages between ecological and geomorphic processes, and building tools to tackle pressing environmental problems. Dr. Dietrich has served as a co-investigator for NASA’s Curiosity rover mission, is Director of the Eel River Critical Zone Observatory, and is President of the American Geophysical Union’s Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Group. He is a Fellow of numerous international scientific societies (American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, AGU, Geological Society of America), the recipient of numerous awards (AGU G. K. Gilbert Award and Robert E. Horton Medal, European Geosciences Union  Arthur Holmes Union Medal, Wiley Gordon Warwick Award), and has over 200 peer-reviewed publications.

 

 

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