Florida International University
Earth Sciences Department
Seminar Series 2004-2005

 
 


Spring 2005

Seminar Date
(Usually Fridays,
3:30 pm,
PC-432.
Refreshments follow.)

Title Speaker and Affiliation
14-Jan-05 From Icehouse to Supergreenhouse: Cretaceous Climate Change on Long and Short Time Scales
Dr. Brian T. Huber, Department of Paleobiology,
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
 
21-Jan-05
Special Place!
Wertheim Conservatory
2005 Darcy lecture: Inert Gas Tracers in Ground Water
Dr. Kip Solomon Professor and Director of the Noble gas Laboratory,
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
 
28-Jan-05 Word for large documents Mike Sukop/ FIU Earth Sciences
4-Feb-05 Noninvasive Imaging of Preferential Flow Pathways in the Miami Oolitic Limestones(abstract, movie)
Dr. Mark P. Grasmueck
University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
 
11-Feb-05
Spatial Characterization of Multiphase Structures in 3D by Computed Tomography
C-L. Lin, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering
University of Utah
 
18-Feb-05 Travel and Geology of the Darien, Panama
Laurel S. Collins
Associate Professor, Earth Sciences Department
Florida International University
 
Special Time/Special Place!
Tuesday! 1-Mar-05 1:30 pm
Wertheim Conservatory

2005 Birdsall-Dreiss Lecture: Examining the Exchange of Groundwater with the Stream/Floodplain System: Physical, Thermal and Geochemical Approaches with Ties to Stream Renaturalization

Professor William Woessner/University of Montanna
 
18-March-05 Geodetic GPS measurements in South Iceland: Strain accumulation and partitioning in a propagating ridge system
Peter LaFemina, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
 
01-April-05 Hurricane Induced Shoreline change to Florida barrier islands determined from LiDAR data
Quin Robertson, Doctoral Candidate/International Hurricane Research Center
 
8-April-05 1: Fracture Flow simulations based on geometrical characteristics using LBM

2: Using Geochemical Archives in Lake Deposits as Indicators for Paleolimnological Change

3: Clay Mineral Assemblages in Shallow Marine Platforms: A Comparison between the Mexican and the Provencal Platform

4: A New Onscreen Technique Involving Measurement  of Grain Dimensions in Microscopic Scale Using GIS

 

Student Presentations
1: Carmen Serpa
2: Bryan Carrol
3: Camilo Ponton
4: Palov Pal

  

15-April-05 1: Composition of Plagioclase and Pyroxene Hosted Melt Inclusions from Basaltic Andesites of the Current Eruption at Arenal Volcano

2: Analysis of Geologically Fractured Terrain Using Remote Sensing and GIS : Establishing a Correlation between Fracture Intensity and Vegetation Growth

3: Andesite Forming Processes Within Calbuco Volcano, Southern Chile

4: Interannual variability in stable isotopic signatures of particulate organic matter from Florida Bay and the Florida Reef Tract


Student Presentations
1: Susan Wacaster
2: Sumanjit Aich
3: Tiffany McKelvey
4: Samantha Evans  

 

Fall 2004

Seminar Date
(Usually Fridays,
3:30 pm, Special time, 2:30 pm - PC-432.
Refreshments follow.)

Title Speaker and Affiliation
3-Sep-04 Cancelled due to Hurricane Frances
10-Sep-04 Cancelled due to Hurricane Ivan
17-Sep-04 Bacteria-formed minerals: From Earth to Mars?
Dr. Hexiong Yang, Associate Professor in Mechanical
Engineering/Center for the Study of Matter under Extreme Conditions, Florida International University
 
24-Sep-04 High-resolution cyclostratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian interval: Paleoceanographic implications, a comparison between DSDP Site 386 and ODP Site 1261A 
Peter Horst, Ph.D. candidate, FIU
 
1-Oct-04 Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Patterns in Modern and Geologic Records from South Florida Coastal Ecosystems
Samantha Evans, Ph.D. candidate, FIU
 
8-Oct-04
Special Location:
Wertheim Conservatory
South Florida Water Management District's vision for the future
Nicolás Gutiérrez Jr. Esq., Chair, South Florida Water
Management District
Governing Board.
 
15-Oct-04 Capturing Surface-Level Winds during Hurricane Landfall Forest Masters, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/International Hurricane Research Center, Florida International University
22-Oct-04 Brief History, Mission & Ongoing Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project Aquifer Storage and Recovery Work

and

A Planning Decision Framework for Brackish Water ASR Projects


Chris Brown, Senior Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Jacksonville, FL.

 
29-Oct-04 The IHRC Response to Hurricane Charley

and

Fracture Flow Simulations Based on Geometrical Characteristics Using Lattice Boltzmann Method

and

Trace element diffusion in Deccan Giant Plagioclase feldspars

and

Geochemistry of a deep well injection site, Miami-Dade County, Florida: initial observations

and

Equation of State for Multiphase Simulations Using Lattice Boltzmann Methods: A review of existing theories
Quin Robertson
Carmen Serpa
Melroy Borges
Virginia Walsh
Pedro Alvarez 
5-Nov-04
Changes in Paleoproductivity caused by the Neogene closing of the Central American Seaway
(CAS): Inferences from Columbia Basin sediments

 

Sreepat Jain, Ph.D. candidate, FIU
 
12-Nov-04 Theory and Applications of SEM/FIB DualBeam Instrumentation Lucille Giannuzzi/FEI Company
 
19-Nov-04
Emergence of the Isthmus of Panama: Paleoceanographic implications in the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans


and

Variation of Aptian facies and their relationships with local physiographic influences on the paleoceanographic global factors: An example from the Mexican and Provencal platforms

and

Stable Isotope (15N, 13C) Paleolimnological Investigation of Recent Sediments in Lake Monroe, FL, USA

and

Analysis of Geologically Fractured Terrain Using Remote Sensing & GIS

and

Diatom – Based Quantitative Reconstructions of Salinity Fluctuations in Florida Bay (Florida, USA) in the last 3000 yrs

and

Usage of sea grass-associated foraminifera to reconstruct sea grass history of Florida Bay
 

Lizette Leon-Rodriguez
Camilo Ponton
Bryan P. Carroll
Sumanjit Aich
Ania Wachnicka
Jie Cheng
23-Nov-04
Seismic and Gravity Investigation of Sediment Depth, Bedrock Topography, and
Faulting in the Tertiary Flint Creek Basin, Western Montana


and

Spatial Moment analysis of Reactive contaminant transport in open channel with porous bed
 
Jeremy Stalker
Shadab Anwar
 
3-Dec-04
Special time, 2:30 pm
Cutting the Devil's Toenails: Evo-Devo in Jurassic Oysters
Doug Jones, Director and Professor, Florida Museum of
Natural History
, University of Florida