The University at Albany and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Fall 2006 Schedule

Earth Sciences Joint Colloquium Series

Wednesdays [with exceptions noted] -- 4:00pm at RPI; 4.15pm at SUNYAlbany

Albany: Earth Science Bldg. Room 232 [map and directions] - RPI: SC 3W13 [map and directions]

Date
Location
Speaker
Title
September 20
Albany
Dr.  Pat Phillips
US Geological Survey, Troy
Personal care products, drugs and other emerging contaminants: current research on removals in wastewater, occurrence in streams and future research
October 4
Albany

Dr. Peter Groffman
Institute for Ecosystem Studies
(Millbrook, NY)
The bio-geo-socio-chemistry of urban watersheds
October 25 - 2pm
Albany Dr. Tim Dixon
University of Miami
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans: Subsidence measurements from space
October 25
RPI
Dr. Riccardo Sallet
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Fluorine and biotite as a probe for paleofluid geochemistry
November 1
Albany Dr. Kyle Nichols
Skidmore College
 Rates and dates of geomorphic processes using in situ-produced cosmogenic isotopes
November 7
TUESDAY
Albany Dr.  Jacob Lowenstern
USGS Menlo Park
AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
Intrusion, deformation and degassing at the Yellowstone Caldera
November 8
RPI Dr.  Dan Harlov
GFZ Potsdam, Germany
Fluid-mineral interaction along grain boundaries: metasomatism and the evolution of mineral and fluid phases as a function of P-T-X
November 15
Albany Dr. Eric Eslinger
College of St. Rose
Flow Unit Delineation and Reservoir Characterization Using a Probabilistic Clustering and Mineralogy-Based Forward Modeling Procedure
November 29

Albany Dr. Jacqueline Smith
College of St. Rose
Glaciers in the Andes: records of multiple ice ages in tropical South America

RPI:  Johnsson-Rowland Science Center (third floor) SC 3W13

Albany: Earth Science Bldg. Room 232 - Refreshments served immediately following each lecture.

RPI page for this colloquium series
Other local area geological seminars:
Union College
New York Center for Studies on the Origins of Life
Hudson-Mohawk Professional Geologists Association

Past series: Spring 1996 Fall  |  Spring 1997 Fall  |  Spring 1998  Fall  |  Spring 1999  Fall  |  Spring 2000  Fall  |  Spring 2001 Fall  Spring 2002  Fall  Spring 2003 Fall  |  Spring 2004  Fall |  Spring 2005 Fall  |  Spring 2006 

Albany Geological Sciences Program
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences