EES Seminars

**Fall 2006 Seminars**
Date	Speaker	Title	Venue
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006, 5-6 pm	Dr. Amin Shaban National Council for Scientific Research, Remote Sensing Center, Beirut, Lebanon	Use of satellite images and aerial photos to monitor the water flow regime to the sea: A case study from the Lebanese coast (Abstrct)	CSU Fresno, Agriculture Building - Room 107
Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006, 6-7 pm	Dr. Greg Stock, Geologist.	Determining river downcutting rates in the southern Sierra Nevada, California, using cosmogenic dating of cave sediments (Abstract)	CSU Fresno Music Room 160

Thursday, December 1st at 1 p.m.	Dr. John Wakabayashi EES Depariment, CSUF	4D Evolution of step-overs along strike-slip faults: Migration with respect to affected deposits, local versus far-field tectonic inversion and other implications (absctract)	CSU Fresno: McLane 277A
Thursday, November 17th at 1 p.m.	Dr. David Young EES Depariment, CSUF	Stopping Plate Tectonics: The Subduction, Metamorphism and Exhumation of Continental Crust (abstract)	CSU Fresno: McLane 277A
Wednesday October 12, 2005	Robert Christiansen Research Geologist Emeritus U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park, California	CSU, Fresno: Education Building, Room 140 (map)	CSU Fresno: Education Building, Room 140 (map)
		Spring 2005 Seminars
Wednesday May 4 reception at 5:00 pm; seminar: 5:15-6:15 pm	Dr. Suzanne Paulson Atmospheric Science Department, UCLA	Global Climate Change: A Science Update	CSU Fresno: University Center, Room 200 Parking restrictions will be relaxed in Lot D (Shaw and Barton Ave ) between 4:30 and 7:00 pm for seminar participants.
Thuesday April 26 reception at 5:00 pm; seminar: 5:15-6:15 pm	Dr. Dave Scholl United States Geological Survey and Stanford University	Do humongous deposits of frozen methane hydrate underlie the floor of the deep Bering Sea (?) The telling of the story of discovery and recognition of implications	CSU Fresno: University Center, Room 200 Parking restrictions will be relaxed in Lot D (Shaw and Barton Ave ) between 4:30 and 7:00 pm for seminar participants.
Wednesday March 30	David M. Bean, P.G., C.Hg. Senior Hydrogeologist, Geomatrix Consultants, Inc. Fresno, Clovis, CA	Management and Optimization of Water Bank Recharge and Recovery Using Groundwater Models (Abstract)	CSU Fresno: Smittcamp Alumni House.
Thursday, Feb 25	Jerry Degraff Geologist, Southern Sierra Province, USDA Forest Service, Clovis , CA	Fire, Earth & Rain: The Aftermath of the 2003 Southern California Wildfires (Abstract)	CSU Fresno: Smittcamp Alumni House.
		Spring 2004 Seminars
Feb 11 5:00– 6:30 P.M. (Wednesday)	Dr. Kenneth Goettel Principal, Goettel & Associates, Inc., Davis, CA.	Earthquake Risk: Should You Worry a Little or a Lot? (abstract)	CSU Fresno: Smittcamp Alumni House.
March 23 5:00– 6:30 P.M. (Tuesday)	Dr. Marlan W. Downey Chief Scientist, Sarkeys Energy Center, University of Oklahoma; Senior Fellow, Institute For Study of Earth and Man, Southern Methodist University; former President, American Assoc. of Petroleum Geologists.	Will Technology Save Our Affluent Society? (abstract)	CSU Fresno: Smittcamp Alumni House.
April 14 5:00– 6:30 P.M. (Wednesday)	Dr. Karen Casciotti U.S. Geological Survey/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.	Combing Isotopic and Molecular Biology Tools to Study Nitrous Oxide Production (abstract)	CSU Fresno: Smittcamp Alumni House.
May 4 5:00– 6:30 P.M. (Tuesday)	Prof. Stan Finney The Paleontological Society Distinguished Lecture; California State University, Long Beach.	Species diversification during a mass extinction - graptolites during the Late Ordovician (abstract).	CSU Fresno: Smittcamp Alumni House.

		Fall 2003 Seminars
Dec. 4 3:40 – 4:30 P.M. (Thursday)	Carrie-Ann Houdeshell Soil Survey Project Leader, West Central Mojave Desert	The Changing Face of Soil Surveys: the Mojave Desert and Beyond	UC Riverside: Geology Building 1408 CSU Fresno: McLane Hall 280
Nov. 20 3:40 – 4:30 P.M. (Thursday)	Bob Zasosky Professor, UC Davis	Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage from the Leviathan Mine, Alpine Co. California	UC Riverside: Geology Building 1408 CSU Fresno: McLane Hall 280
Nov. 13 3:40 – 4:30 P.M. (Thursday)	John Kabashima UC-DANR Orange County, CA	Get to know University of California Cooperative Extension (announcement)	UC Riverside: Geology Building 1408 CSU Fresno: McLane Hall 280
Nov. 6 3:40 – 4:30 P.M. (Thursday)	Richard Howitt Professor, UC Davis	Sediment Management, Economics and Entropy in Redwood Creek	UC Riverside: Geology Building 1408 CSU Fresno: McLane Hall 280
Oct. 30 3:40 – 4:30 P.M. (Thursday)	Jay Lund Professor, UC Davis	Economic Optimization Modeling of California Water Resources	UC Riverside: Geology Building 1408 CSU Fresno: McLane Hall 280
Oct. 23 3:40 – 4:30 P.M. (Thursday)	Marcel Schaap Scientist USDA-ARS	Soil Water at the Pore Scale: Trying to Make Lattice Boltzmann Simulations Fit Reality (Abstract in PDF)	UC Riverside: Geology Building 1408 CSU Fresno: McLane Hall 280
Oct. 16 3:40 – 4:30 P.M. (Thursday)	Cindy Li Santa Ana RWQCB, Riverside, CA	Get to know California Water Quality Control Boards	UC Riverside: Geology Building 1408 CSU Fresno: McLane Hall 280

		Spring 2003 Seminars
April 30, 2003 5-6:30 pm	Dr. Kenneth Coale Acting Director, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, California State University	Open Ocean Iron Enrichment: Scientific Study and Carbon Sequestration (Abstract in PDF)	CSU Fresno: Smittcamp Alumni House.
April 9, 2003 5-6:30 pm	Dr. Melissa Miller, D.V.M. Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center, California Department of Fish and Game, Santa Cruz, California	California Sea Otters: Are They Trying to Tell Us Something About Marine Ecosystem Health? (Abstract PDF)	CSU Fresno: Smittcamp Alumni House.
March 6, 2003 5-6:30 pm	Dr. Suzanne Paulson Atmospheric Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles	The Air We Breathe: Ozone, Particles, Radicals, Molecules from Trees and Molecules from People (Abstract PDF)	CSU Fresno: Smittcamp Alumni House.
February 25, 2003 5-6:30 pm	Dr. Christina Swanson The Bay Institute and University of California, Davis	Irreconcilable Differences? The Increasing Divorce of Water from Fish (Abstract PDF)	CSU Fresno: Smittcamp Alumni House.
Jan 16, 2003 5-6:30 pm	Professor Jan Feyen Director, Laboratory of Soil and Water, Department of Land Management, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium	Soil Nitrate-Nitrogen Residue: An indicator to control nitrate pollution at regional scale (Abstract PDF)	CSU Fresno: Smittcamp Alumni House.
October 9, 2002 5-6:30 pm	Dr. Robert M. Hazen Carnegie Institution of Washington and George Mason University	The Emergence of Life: Minerals and the Rise of Complexity on the Early Earth (Abstract PDF)	CSU Fresno: McLane Hall, Room 161

Date	Speaker	Title	Venue
Thurssday, March 16, 2006	Dr. Eldrige Moores Department of Geology, UC Davis	Why "Civilization Exists with geologic consent" (Abstract)	CSU Fresno: Smittcamp Alumni House.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006	Janok P. Bhattacharya University of Houston , Texas	Martian River Deltas and the Origin of Life (Abstract)	McLane Hall Room 161, CSUF, Fresno
Thursday February 21, 2006, 5-6:30 pm	Dr. Jerry D. Higgins, P.G. 2006 Richard Jahns Distinguished Lecturer in Engineering Geology, Department of Geology & Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden , CO 80401	ENGINEERING GEOLOGY OF EXPANSIVE SOIL AND BEDROCK: A CASE STUDY FROM COLORADO (Abstract)	CSU Fresno: Smittcamp Alumni House.
Thursday February 09, 2006, 5-6:30 pm	Dr. Daniel H. Doctor Isotope Tracers Group, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park , CA	Following the Flow: how to discover the origin of water using natural chemistry and isotopes. (Abstract)	CSU Fresno: Smittcamp Alumni House.

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the Environmental Seminar Series at California State University, Fresno.		There will be food and drinks at the place of venue!