Seminars & Lectures
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SOE Pullman seminar series
Geology Seminars co-hosted by SoE and University of Idaho
| 1 | 11-Jan | CLASSES BEGIN (no seminar) | ||
| 2 | 18-Jan | NO SEMINAR | ||
| 3 | 25-Jan | WSU | Reed Lewis, IGS | |
| 4 | 1-Feb | UI | Xiaogang (Marsall) Ma, University of Idaho | Geo-Data science: Leveraging geoscience research with geoinformatics, semantics, and open data |
| 5 | 8-Feb | WSU | Peter Larson, WSU | Yellowstone Hot Springs: Thermal and Mass Fluxes in a Large Hydrothermal System |
| 6 | 15-Feb | UI | ||
| 7 | 22-Feb | WSU | David Gaylord, WSU | Geologic Stories from Sedimentary Deposits in Volcanic Terrains: with Examples from Taranaki, New Zealand and the Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho |
| 8 | 1-Mar | UI | Grant Harley, UI | Rapid decline and mortality of a Pleistocene-aged Submerged Taxodium distichum forest in the northern Gulf of Mexico |
| 9 | 8-Mar | WSU | Jessica Stanley, UI | |
| 10 | 15-Mar | SPRING BREAK (no seminar) | ||
| 11 | 22-Mar | UI | John Bush & Pamela Dunlap | Miocene evolution of the Moscow-Pullman basin |
| 12 | 29-Mar | WSU | John Wolff, WSU | |
| 13 | 5-Apr | UI | Zachary Lifton, Idaho Geological Survey | Overview of Geologic Hazards in Idaho |
| 14 | 12-Apr | WSU | Mike Bland, USGS Flagstaff | |
| 15 | 19-Apr | UI | ||
| 16 | 26-Apr | WSU | Mary Benage, CVO |
Seminar in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences
| 1 | Jan 8. Course introduction. Discussion on interdisciplinarity. Dr. Mark E. Swanson. |
| 2 | Jan 15. No session- Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday |
| 3 | Jan 22. The geophysical template and the ecological environment: discussion with Dr. Swanson. |
| 4 | Jan 29. Dr. Sarah J. Hart: The geomorphology and hydrology of a glaciated valley in the British Columbia Coast Mountains: What the forest can tell us. |
| 5 | Feb 5. Dr. Alex Fremier: Sex that moves mountains: Spawning fish can influence river profiles. |
| 6 | Feb 12. Dr. Susan Harrison (UC Davis). Geoecology of serpentine outcrops. |
| 7 | Feb 19. No session- President’s Day holiday. |
| 8 | Feb 26. Dr. Kent Keller- Hydrology connects the ecologic and geologic carbon cycles. |
| 9 | Mar 5. Dr. Megan Walsh (Central Washington Univ.)- Postglacial fire history in the Pacific Northwest: Understanding changing regimes using paleoecology, geology, and archaeology. |
| 10 | Mar 12. No session- spring vacation. |
| 11 | Mar 19. Dr. Sarah Roley (WSU School of the Environment). Restoring stream ecosystem function in working lands: can geological changes elicit ecological function? Presented from Tri-Cities. |
| 12 | Mar 26. Dr. Jenny Adam (WSU Civil & Environmental Engineering). Topic to be announced. |
| 13 | April 2. Dr. Cynthia Chang (University of Washington Bothell)- Patterns of plant succession across a disturbance gradient at Mt. St. Helens, Washington. |
| 14 | April 9. Dr. Mohamed Islam (WSU): Arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh and its ecotoxicological impacts on humans. |
| 15 | April 16. To be announced. |
| 16 | April 23. Course summary discussion and conclusion. Dr. Swanson. |
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11-Jan | CLASSES BEGIN (no seminar) | ||||||
| 18-Jan | NO SEMINAR | |||||||
| 25-Jan | WSU | Reed Lewis, IGS | ||||||
| 1-Feb | UI | Xiaogang (Marsall) Ma, University of Idaho | Geo-Data science: Leveraging geoscience research with geoinformatics, semantics, and open data | |||||
| 8-Feb | WSU | Peter Larson, WSU | Yellowstone Hot Springs: Thermal and Mass Fluxes in a Large Hydrothermal System | |||||
| 15-Feb | UI | |||||||
| 22-Feb | WSU | David Gaylord, WSU | Geologic Stories from Sedimentary Deposits in Volcanic Terrains: with Examples from Taranaki, New Zealand and the Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho | |||||
| 1-Mar | UI | Grant Harley, UI | Rapid decline and mortality of a Pleistocene-aged Submerged Taxodium distichum forest in the northern Gulf of Mexico | |||||
| 8-Mar | WSU | Jessica Stanley, UI | ||||||
| 15-Mar | SPRING BREAK (no seminar) | |||||||
| 22-Mar | UI | John Bush & Pamela Dunlap | Miocene evolution of the Moscow-Pullman basin | |||||
| 29-Mar | WSU | John Wolff, WSU | ||||||
| 5-Apr | UI | Zachary Lifton, Idaho Geological Survey | Overview of Geologic Hazards in Idaho | |||||
| 12-Apr | WSU | Mike Bland, USGS Flagstaff | ||||||
| 19-Apr | UI | |||||||
| 26-Apr | WSU | Mary Benage, CVO |
Lane Family Lecture in Environmental Science
The Lane Family Lecture in Environmental Science is endowed by a gift from L.W. “Bill” Lane and his wife Jean.
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