Western Region Colloquium

PREVIOUS WRC SEMINARS OFFERED ON STREAMING VIDEO
2008
DATE
SPEAKER
AFFILIATION
TITLE
9/15/08 Western Region Post-docs USGS, Western Region Annual Post-doc Colloquium
Video Recording

1/14/08

Dr. Paul Winchester, MD Clinical Professor, Indiana Univ. School of Medicine and Director, Neonatal Intensive Care, St. Francis Hospital. Environmental Contaminants in our Drinking Water, Breast Milk and Our Babies: How Worried Should We Be?
Video Recording

1/14/08

Dr. Scott Tinker University of Texas, Austin Global Energy: Myths and Realities
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_14jan08.wmv
2007
DATE
SPEAKER
AFFILIATION
TITLE

11/5/07

Dr. Bob Smith University of Utah Geodynamics and seismic/geodetic imaging of the Yellowstone hotspot
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_05nov07.wmv

10/15/07

Dr. Sally Benson Stanford University Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Deep Geological Formations
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_15oct07.wmv

7/9/07

Dr. Sankar Chatterjee Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Geosciences, Texas Tech University Feathered dinosaurs from the 'Cretaceous Pompeii' of China and the origin of avian flight
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_09jul07.wmv

5/21/07

Brad Reed USGS, Flagstaff National Phenology Network
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_21may07.wmv

4/23/07

Dominique Weis Univ. of BC The structure of mantle plumes — insights from geochemical and isotopic studies in Hawaii
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_23apr07.wmv

3/19/07

Barbara Sherwood-Lollar Univ. of Toronto Life's Chemical Kitchen: Support of Deep Terrestrial Subsurface Life by Abiogenic Hydrogen and Hydrocarbons
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_19mar07.wmv

2/15/07

Brooks Hansen Science Magazine The Future of Scientific Publications
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_15feb07.wmv
2006
DATE
SPEAKER
AFFILIATION
TITLE
11/13/06 Diane Boyer USGS, Tucson, AZ In Search of Dam Sites: The USGS Expedition of 1923 in the Grand Canyon
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_13nov06.wmv
10/10/06 Jon Christensen & Richard White Stanford Univ. The Checkerspot Butterfly and Serpentine
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_10oct06.wmv
9/11/06 Fran Hostettler

USGS Menlo Park, CA

Trains, Pains, and the Legal System: Forensic Geochemistry of Two Oil Spills Affected By Methanogenic Biodegradation
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_11sep06.wmv

8/14/06 Margaret Torn Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. Climate change feedbacks and the future role of soils
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_14aug06.wmv

6/12/06

Rob Dunbar Stanford Univ. Tropical temperatures, global warming, and land use change: A view from the Coral Reef
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_12jun06.wmv
5/19/06 John Kelmelis

Senior Counselor for Earth Science, USGS/US Dept. of State

Earth Science Findings with Foreign Policy Implications
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_19may06.wmv
4/10/06 Patty Fryer Univ. of Hawaii Subduction, Seismicity, and Serpentinization: Capturing a Subduction Event
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_10apr06.wmv
2/13/06 Claire Kremen Univ. of Berkeley ESPM Managing for Ecosystem Services: Wild Bees and Crop Pollination in Northern CA
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_13feb06.wmv
3/13/06 Nina G. Jablonski CA Academy of Sciences The Evolution of Human Skin Color
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_13mar06.wmv

2005

DATE
SPEAKER
AFFILIATION
TITLE
12/12/05 Dr. Katheryn Moran Univ. of Rhode Island Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX): A North Pole Discovery
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_12dec05.wmv
11/14/05 Prof. Pamela Matson Stanford Univ. Agricultural Intensification in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico: Will it "Save Land for Nature"?
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_14nov05.wmv
10/03/05 Todd Dawson U.C. Berkeley, CA Redwood forests, fog water subsides, and the land-sea interface.
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_03oct05.wmv
09/06/05 Jake Lowenstern USGS, Menlo Park Intrusion, Deformation and Gas Discharge at the Yellowstone Caldera
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_06sep05.wmv
08/15/05 Joel E. Cohen Rockefeller Univ., & Columbia Univ.
Human Population Trends, Human Carrying Capacity and Sustainability
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_15aug05.wmv
07/11/05 Michael Alley Virginia Tech Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_11jul05.wmv
06/06/05 Adina Payton Stanford Univ. High Productivity During Cretaceous Ocean Anoxic Events
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_06jun05.wmv
04/11/05 Jeremy Jackson Scripps Institution of Oceanography
03/14/05 Elliot Sclar Columbia University You Won't Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_14mar05.wmv
02/14/05 Christina Ravelo UC Santa Cruz Global Warming: Lessons from the Pliocene Warm Period
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_14feb05.wmv
1/10/05 Robert Webb USGS, Tucson Grand Canyon Downcutting: Has it occurred in the Holocene?
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_10jan05.wmv

2004

11/05/04 Dr. Jayne Belnap USGS, Utah Soils, crusts, dusts and the role of microbiotic crusts in resource management and ecosystem recovery
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC05nov04.wmv
10/18/04 Roland Burgmann UC Berkeley, CA I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet: Crustal Deformation in the Bay Area
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_18oct04.wmv
09/13/04 Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki USGS, Menlo Park, CA Tephrochronology: The Study of Ancient Volcanic Ash Layers, and their Use in Decipering Geologic History
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_13sep04.wmv
07/19/04 Dr. Jay Lund Univ. of California, Davis Large-scale optimization for California water supply, flood control, and conflict resolution among multiple uses.
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_19jul04.wmv
06/14/04 Dr. James Deacon University of Nevada, Las Vegas Connectivity in the Desert Aquatic Ecosystems: The Devil's Hole Story
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_14jun04.wmv
05/10/04 Steven Ingebritsen USGS, NRP, Menlo Park, CA Crustal Permeability As A Dynamic Parameter
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_10may04.wmv
04/12/04 Dr. Deborah Kelley School of Oceanography, Univ. of Washington Crustal Permeability As A Dynamic Parameter
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_08mar04.wmv
03/08/04 Prof. Marion Diamond UC Berkeley Benefits of Enrichment at Any Age
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_08mar04.wmv
02/23/04 Stephanie Prejean USGS, Anchorage, AK New Insight into the Processes that Trigger Earthquakes in the Long Valley Caldera, California
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_23feb04.wmv
01/12/04 David Morrison Nasa-Ames Asteroid and comet impacts on Earth - a hazard for the future?
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_12jan04.wmv

2003

11/10/03 Jim Estes USGS, Western Ecological Research Center, Santa Cruz Field Station The recovery and subsequent collapse of kelp forest ecosystems in western Alaska
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_10nov03.wmv
08/11/03 Charlie Paull Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute New Views on the Distribution and Geologic Controls of Chemosynthetic Biologic Communities
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_11aug03.wmv
07/14/03 John Barron USGS Volcano Hazards The evolution of the climate of coastal Northern California during the past 15,000 years
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/wrc_14jul03.wmv
04/14/03 Chris Potter NASA Integrated Studies of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Surface Hydrologic Budgets for California
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/wrc_14apr03.wmv
03/10/03 Tomas Roffe USGS, Bozeman, MT Charismatic megafauna and nefarious microfauna of Yellowstone: the Brucellosis Controversy
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/wrc_10mar03.wmv

2002

11/18/02 Timothy Rood
David Howell
Eric Yurkovich
Daniel Bosch
Skip Pack
David Ramsey
Peter Dartnell
Joel Robinson
Calthorpe Assoc.
USGS
USGS
Robert Mondavi Family of Wines
Dynamic Graphics
USGS
USGS
USGS
GIS at the USGS and Beyond
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/wrc_18nov02.wmv
09/09/02 John Takekawa USGS/WERC Foraging Ecology and Contaminant Risks of Diving Ducks in San Francisco Bay Estuary
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/wrc_09sep02.wmv
07/08/02 Mark Marvin-DiPasquale USGS, Menlo Park Mercury contamination of ecosystems and the role of microbiology
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/wrc_08jul02.wmv
04/22/02 Frank Sulloway UC Berkeley Birth Order Family Dynamics and Creative Lives: From Darwinian Evolution to World History
mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/colloquium/WRC_22ap02.wmv

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