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| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
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| ***** 2012 ***** | ||||
| 22 October | Jim Estes | UC Santa Cruz | Apex predators and the tapestry of nature | Watch Video Download Video |
| 18 Sept | Various Speakers | USGS | Annual Postdoctoral/New Researcher Colloquium | Watch Video 1 Download Video 1 Watch Video 2 Download Video 2 Watch Video 3 Download Video 3 |
| 13 Aug | Christopher Wilmers | UCSC | Large predators responses to human activity from grizzly bears in Alaska to mountain lions in the Bay Area | Watch Video Download Video |
| 9 July | Ron Oremland | USGS | Arsenic and the meaning of life | Watch Video Download Video |
| 14 May | Guido Grosse | University of Alaska Fairbanks | Deep soil organic carbon in pan-arctic permafrost regions and vulnerability to disturbance | Watch Video Download Video |
| 9 Apr | Diane McKnight | University of Colorado at Boulder | Climate change and surface water quality: The challenges of too much summer | Watch Video Download Video |
| 12 Mar | Dorothy Merritts and Robert Walter |
Franklin and Marshall University | Stream restoration in the Eastern USA: The legacy of water-powered mills | Watch Video Download Video |
| 13 Feb | Steve Bohlen | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Modeling the Anthropocene | Watch Video Download Video |
| ***** 2011 ***** | ||||
| 12 Dec 2011 | Kurt Cuffey | UC Berkeley | Ice, sea level, and contemporary climate change | Watch Video Download Video |
| 14 Nov 2011 | Bill Dietrich | UC Berkeley | The soil is not enough: The importance of runoff and rock moisture in near-surface weathered bedrock to vegetation communities, climate, and landscape evolution | Not available at the request of the speaker |
| 3 Oct 2011 | Elizabeth Hadly | Stanford University | Mammalian response to climatic change | Watch Video Download Video |
| 12 Sep 2011 | Andy Fisher | UC Santa Cruz | Massive flows of fluid, heat, and solutes through most of the ocean crust | Watch Video Download Video |
| 23 Aug 2011 | Various speakers | USGS | Annual Postdoctoral/New Researcher Colloquium | Watch Video Download Video |
| 8 Aug 2011 | Robert Hazen | Carnegie Institute of Washington and George Mason Univ. | The co-evolution of the geo- and biosphere | Watch Video Download Video |
| 11 Jul 2011 | Anthony Colaprete | NASA | Water on the Moon: Recent discoveries | Watch Video Download Video |
| 6 Jun 2011 | Steve Perakis | USGS | Biogeochemical cycles of Pacific Northwest forests | Watch Video Download Video |
| 9 May 2011 | Dennis Baldocchi | UC Berkeley | Methane Emissions from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta | Watch Video Download Video |
| 4 Apr 2011 | Ripudaman Malhotra | SRI International | A cubic mile of oil | Watch Video Download Video |
| 7 Mar 2011 | Lorraine and Alan Flint | USGS | A general model for estimating groundwater recharge and runoff potential | Watch Video Download Video |
| ***** 2010 ***** | ||||
| Nov 08 2010 | Jill Baron | USGS Fort Collins Science Center Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory Colorado State University |
Interactions of climate change and atmospheric nitrogen deposition | Watch Video Download Video |
| Oct 13 2010 | Postdoctoral Associates | USGS Western Region | Postdoctoral Presentations | Panel Discussion Presentations Download Panel Discussion |
| Oct 04 2010 | Frank Chapelle | USGS South Carolina Water Science Center | Healing springs, groundwater geochemistry, and the history of bottled water | Watch Video Download Video |
| Aug 09 2010 | Ken Miller | Rutgers | 100 million years of sea-level change: Should I sell my beach house? | Download Video |
| Jul 12 2010 | Jean Bahr | University of Wisconsin | Geoscientists in an emerging green economy | Download Video |
| Jun 07 2010 | Maggi Kelly | University of California, Berkeley | Modeling forest structure with LiDAR for fire management in the Sierras | Download Video |
| May 10 2010 | Chuck Meertens | UNAVCO | Hydrological effects on GPS ground deformation observed in the EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory | Download Video |
| Apr 12 2010 | Susan Petty | AltaRock Energy | Current status of enhanced geothermal system (EGS) technology development | Download Video |
| Mar 08 2010 | Michael Manga | UC Berkeley | Earthquakes and water (and why the LUSI mud volcano eruption was not triggered by an earthquake) | Download Video |
| Feb 08 2010 | David Schimel | National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) | The design of NEON and the future of ecological forecasting | Download Video |
| ***** 2009 ***** | ||||
| Dec 07 2009 | Steve Gorelick | Stanford University | Oil panic and the global crisis: Predictions and myths | Download Video |
| Nov 23 2009 | David Rogers | College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia | The art-science of earthquakes | Download Video |
| Nov 09 2009 | David Montgomery | University of Washington | Dirt - The erosion of civilizations | Download Video |
| Sep 21 2009 | Western Region post-docs and new researchers | USGS | Western Region Postdoctoral/New Researcher Colloquium | Download Video |
| Jul 13 2009 | James Workman | DamBroker, San Francisco, CA | Heart of Dryness: How the last bushmen can help us endure the coming age of permanent drought | Download Video Download Interview |
| Jun 15 2009 | Carol Kendall | USGS, Menlo Park, CA | Drive-by extinctions: The role of vehicle exhaust in urban runoff and ecosystem degradatio | Download Video |
| May 11 2009 | Elisabeth Holland | National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO | Changing climate, carbon and nitrogen cycles | Download Video |
| Apr 13 2009 | John Slack | USGS | Probing the redox state of Proterozoic seawater: Geochemical, biological, and economic implications | Not available at this time |
| Mar 09 2009 | Philip Mote | WA State Climatologist, University of Washington | Climate change: Past, present, and future in the next 50-100 years in the West | Download Video |
| Feb 09 2009 | Mary Lou Zoback | RMS | Risk management: A perspective from the private sector | Download Video |
| Jan 12 2009 | Robert Glennon | University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law | Unquenchable: America's water crisis and what to do about it | Watch Video Download Video |
| ***** 2008 ***** | ||||
| Dec 2 2008 | Margaret Leinen | Climos, Chief Scientist | Mitigating climate change: Will direct removal of CO2 be necessary? | Watch Video Download Video |
| Sep 15 2008 | Western Region Post-docs | USGS, Western Region | Annual Post-doc Colloquium | Watch Video Download Video |
| Aug 25 2008 | 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? | Watch Video Download Video |
| Jan 14 2008 | Scott W. Tinker | Director, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas, Austin | Global Energy: Myths and Realities | Watch Video Download Video |
| ***** 2007 ***** | ||||
| Dec 03 2007 | Lisa Lucas | USGS, Menlo Park | The Wiggles Matter: Significance of high-frequency processes to surface water quality | Watch Video Download Video |
| Nov 5 2007 | Bob Smith | University of Utah | Geodynamics and seismic/geodetic imaging of the Yellowstone hotspot | Watch Video Download Video |
| Oct 15 2007 | Sally Benson | Stanford University | Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Deep Geological Formations | Watch Video Download Video |
| Jul 9 2007 | 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 | Watch Video Download Video |
| May 21 2007 | Brad Reed | USGS, Flagstaff | National Phenology Network | Watch Video Download Video |
| Apr 23 2007 | Dominique Weis | Univ. of BC | The structure of mantle plumes -- insights from geochemical and isotopic studies in Hawaii | Watch Video Download Video |
| Mar 19 2007 | Barbara Sherwood-Lollar | Univ. of Toronto | Life's Chemical Kitchen: Support of Deep Terrestrial Subsurface Life by Abiogenic Hydrogen and Hydrocarbons | Watch Video Download Video |
| Feb 15 2007 | Brooks Hansen | Science Magazine | The Future of Scientific Publications | Watch Video Download Video |
| ***** 2006 ***** | ||||
| Nov 13 2006 | Diane Boyer | USGS, Tucson, AZ | In Search of Dam Sites: The USGS Expedition of 1923 in the Grand Canyon | Watch Video Download Video |
| Oct 10 2006 | Jon Christensen & Richard White | Stanford Univ. | The Checkerspot Butterfly and Serpentine | Watch Video Download Video |
| Sep 11 2006 | Fran Hostettler | USGS Menlo Park, CA | Trains, Pains, and the Legal System: Forensic Geochemistry of Two Oil Spills Affected By Methanogenic Biodegradation | Watch Video Download Video |
| Aug 14 2006 | Margaret Torn | Lawrence Berkeley National Labs | Climate change feedbacks and the future role of soils | Watch Video Download Video |
| Jun 12 2006 | Rob Dunbar | Stanford Univ. | Tropical temperatures, global warming, and land use change: A view from the Coral Reef | Watch Video Download Video |
| May 19 2006 | John Kelmelis | Senior Counselor for Earth Science, USGS/US Dept. of State | Earth Science Findings with Foreign Policy Implications | Watch Video Download Video |
| Apr 10 2006 | Patty Fryer | Univ. of Hawaii | Subduction, Seismicity, and Serpentinization: Capturing a Subduction Event | Watch Video Download Video |
| Mar 13 2006 | Nina G. Jablonski | CA Academy of Sciences | The Evolution of Human Skin Color | Watch Video Download Video |
| Feb 13 2006 | Claire Kremen | Univ. of Berkeley ESPM | Managing for Ecosystem Services: Wild Bees and Crop Pollination in Northern CA | Watch Video Download Video |
| ***** 2005 ***** | ||||
| Dec 12 2005 | Dr. Katheryn Moran | Univ. of Rhode Island | Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX): A North Pole Discovery | Watch Video Download Video |
| Nov 14 2005 | Prof. Pamela Matson | Stanford Univ. | Agricultural Intensification in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico: Will it "Save Land for Nature"? | Watch Video Download Video |
| Oct 03 2005 | Todd Dawson | U.C. Berkeley, CA | Redwood forests, fog water subsides, and the land-sea interface. | Watch Video Download Video |
| Sep 06 2005 | Jake Lowenstern | USGS, Menlo Park | Intrusion, Deformation and Gas Discharge at the Yellowstone Caldera | Watch Video Download Video |
| Aug 15 2005 | Joel E. Cohen | Rockefeller Univ., & Columbia Univ. | Human Population Trends, Human Carrying Capacity and Sustainability | Watch Video Download Video |
| Jul 11 2005 | Michael Alley | Virginia Tech | Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides | Watch Video Download Video |
| Jun 06 2005 | Adina Payton | Stanford Univ. | High Productivity During Cretaceous Ocean Anoxic Events | Watch Video Download Video |
| Apr 11 2005 | Jeremy Jackson | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Brave New Ocean | Watch Video Download Video |
| Mar 14 2005 | Elliot Sclar | Columbia University | You Won't Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization | Watch Video Download Video |
| Feb 14 2005 | Christina Ravelo | UC Santa Cruz | Global Warming: Lessons from the Pliocene Warm Period | Watch Video Download Video |
| Jan 10 2005 | Robert Webb | USGS, Tucson | Grand Canyon Downcutting: Has it occurred in the Holocene? | Watch Video Download Video |
| ***** 2004 ***** | ||||
| Nov 15 2004 | Dr. Jayne Belnap | USGS, Utah | Soils, crusts, dusts and the role of microbiotic crusts in resource management and ecosystem recovery | Watch Video Download Video |
| Oct 18 2004 | Roland Burgmann | UC Berkeley, CA | I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet: Crustal Deformation in the Bay Area | Watch Video Download Video |
| Sep 13 2004 | Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki | USGS, Menlo Park, CA | Tephrochronology: The Study of Ancient Volcanic Ash Layers, and their Use in Decipering Geologic History | Watch Video Download Video |
| Jul 19 2004 | Dr. Jay Lund | Univ. of California, Davis | Large-scale optimization for California water supply, flood control, and conflict resolution among multiple uses. | Watch Video Download Video |
| Jun 14 2004 | Dr. James Deacon | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Connectivity in the Desert Aquatic Ecosystems: The Devil's Hole Story | Watch Video Download Video |
| May 10 2004 | Steven Ingebritsen | USGS, NRP, Menlo Park, CA | Crustal Permeability As A Dynamic Parameter | Watch Video Download Video |
| Apr 12 2004 | Dr. Deborah Kelley | School of Oceanography, Univ. of Washington | Atlantis Massif 30 N The Lost City Hydrothermal Field: A New Submarine Ecosystem | Watch Video Download Video Download Video |
| Mar 08 2004 | Prof. Marion Diamond | UC Berkeley | Benefits of Enrichment at Any Age | Watch Video Download Video |
| Feb 23 2004 | Stephanie Prejean | USGS, Anchorage, AK | New Insight into the Processes that Trigger Earthquakes in the Long Valley Caldera, California | Watch Video Download Video |
| Jan 12 2004 | David Morrison | Nasa-Ames | Asteroid and comet impacts on Earth - a hazard for the future? | Watch Video Download Video |
| ***** 2003 ***** | ||||
| Nov 10 2003 | Jim Estes | USGS, Western Ecological Research Center, Santa Cruz Field Station | The recovery and subsequent collapse of kelp forest ecosystems in western Alaska | Watch Video Download Video |
| Aug 11 2003 | Charlie Paull | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute | New Views on the Distribution and Geologic Controls of Chemosynthetic Biologic Communities | Watch Video Download Video |
| Jul 14 2003 | John Barron | USGS Volcano Hazards | The evolution of the climate of coastal Northern California during the past 15,000 years | Watch Video Download Video |
| Apr 14 2003 | Chris Potter | NASA | Integrated Studies of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Surface Hydrologic Budgets for California | Watch Video Download Video |
| Mar 10 2003 | Tomas Roffe | USGS, Bozeman, MT | Charismatic megafauna and nefarious microfauna of Yellowstone: the Brucellosis Controversy | Watch Video Download Video |
| ***** 2002 ***** | ||||
| Nov 18 2002 | Timothy Rood, Calthorpe Assoc.; David Howell, USGS; Eric Yurkovich, USGS; Daniel Bosch, Robert Mondavi Family of Wines; Skip Pack, Dynamic Graphics; David Ramsey, USGS; Peter Dartnell, USGS; Joel Robinson, USGS | GIS at the USGS and Beyond | Watch Video Download Video |
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| Sep 09 2002 | John Takekawa | USGS/WERC | Foraging Ecology and Contaminant Risks of Diving Ducks in San Francisco Bay Estuary | Watch Video Download Video |
| Jul 08 2002 | Mark Marvin-DiPasquale | USGS, Menlo Park | Mercury contamination of ecosystems and the role of microbiology | Watch Video Download Video |
| Apr 22 2002 | Frank Sulloway | UC Berkeley | Birth Order Family Dynamics and Creative Lives: From Darwinian Evolution to World History | Watch Video Download Video |
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