2008 Volcano Hazards Team Seminar Series
Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Building 3 Main Conference Room 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, California, unless otherwise noted.- Directions to the Menlo Park Campus
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DATE |
SPEAKER (affiliation) |
TALK TITLE or TOPIC |
| January 2008 | ||
| 8 January | Judy Fierstein (USGS – Menlo Park) |
Kaguyak dome field and its Holocene caldera, Alaska Peninsula Video in wmv format |
| 15 January | Paul Renne (Berkeley Geochronology) |
The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) compared and
contrasted with other continental flood basalt provinces Video in wmv format |
| 22 January Bldg. 15, Rm 3245 |
Steve Self (Open University U.K.) |
Emplacement and volatile releases from the Deccan flood basalts |
| 29 January |
Nick Jarboe (UCSC) |
Rapid Eruptions Rates of Columbia River Flood Basalts Determined from Paleosecular Variation, Transitional Geomagnetic Field Behavior, Magnetostratigraphy, and 40Ar/39Ar Dating. Video in wmv format |
| February 2008 | ||
| FRIDAY 8 Feb |
Kathy Cashman (University of Oregon) |
Controls on Magma Ascent and Eruption - the Mount St. Helens perspective Video in wmv format |
| 13 February 10:30 - Joint with EHZ |
Dr. Barbara John and Michael Cheadle (University of Wyoming) |
Understanding slow spreading mid-ocean ridges: How do they work? Video in wmv format |
| 20 February 10:30 - Joint with EHZ |
Dave Pollard and W. Ashley Griffith (Stanford University) |
Earthquake rupture velocity and shear stress drop on exhumed faults: insights from field mapping and lab experiments Video in wmv format |
| March 2008 | ||
| 4 March |
Robert Miller (San Jose State University) |
Views of magmatic systems at different crustal levels: Insights from the
~ 5-40-km (paleodepth) Cascades crustal section Video in wmv format |
| 11 March Bldg. 15, Rm 3245 |
Josef Dufek (UC Berkeley) |
Self-organization in geophysical transport processes: Integrating multi-scale observations with macroscopic models of explosive volcanic activity |
| 18 March | Michael Hutnak (USGS – Menlo Park) |
Numerical Simulations of Hydrothermal Fluid Flow and Caldera Deformation: Effects of Multi-phase and Multi-component Dynamics. Video in wmv format |
| 25 March | Jonathan Miller (San Jose State University) |
Growth, eruption, solidification, fractionation, and rejuvenation of a large felsic magmatic system, Eldorado-Newberry Mountains, Nevada (USA) Video in wmv format |
| April 2008 | ||
| 8 April | Erik Klemetti (UC Davis) |
Unraveling the crystal heritage of silicic magmas using zircon and plagioclase geochronology from Tarawera Volcano, New Zealand Video in wmv format |
| 15 April | Jim Moore (USGS – Menlo Park) |
Meter-sized granite basins in the Southern Sierra Video in wmv format |
| FRIDAY 2 May |
Colin Wilson (University of Auckland, New Zealand) |
Insights into rhyolitic magma generation at Taupo volcano: from field geology to the ion microprobe |
| May 2008 | ||
| 6 May | Ilya Bindeman (University of Oregon) |
Isotopic signatures of surface waters in magma: evidence for shallow crustal recycling in Yellowstone |
| 21 May 10:30 - Joint with EHZ |
Richard Allen (UC Berkeley) |
Subduction, upwelling, earthquakes and tremor, all in the Pacific Northwest |
| June 2008 | ||
| 24 June | Winnie Kortemeier (Western Nevada College, University of Nevada, Reno) |
Lava-Water Interaction at Lake Tahoe |
Previous Seminar Series
Other Seminar Schedules
- USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory; Vancouver, Washington
- Earthquake Hazards Team, Menlo Park, California
- Water Resources Discipline, Menlo Park, California
- Western Earth Surface Processes Team, Menlo Park, California
- Western Region Colloquium, Menlo Park, California
