2008 Volcano Hazards Team Seminar Series

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
15 January Paul Renne
(Berkeley Geochronology)
The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) compared and contrasted with other continental flood basalt provinces
video
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
February 2008
FRIDAY
8 Feb
Kathy Cashman
(University of Oregon)
Controls on Magma Ascent and Eruption - the Mount St. Helens perspective
video
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
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
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
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
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
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
15 April Jim Moore
(USGS – Menlo Park)
Meter-sized granite basins in the Southern Sierra
video
May 2008
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
video
6 May Ilya Bindeman
(University of Oregon)
Isotopic signatures of surface waters in magma: evidence for shallow crustal recycling in Yellowstone
video
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
video
October 2008
7 October Graham Leonard
(GNS Science, New Zealand)
Constraining the Risk Beneath New Zealand's Largest City
video

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Contact for additional information

Nicole Lautze: nlautze at usgs dot gov, 650-329-5240