Seminars

School of Earth Sciences

Upcoming SEMINARS & CONFERENCES in 2009

Enquiries, please email: Seminar Committee

Prof. Rod Holcombe (School of Earth Sciences, UQ)

Mr. Jeff Chen (Faculty of Engineering, UQ)

Prof. Greg Dipple, University of British Columbia, CAN

Earth’s early atmosphere – a contrarian model and its consequences

Dr. George Shaw (Union College, NY, USA)

Engineering geology challenges of the Toowoomba Bypass

Mr. Ron Bathurst (Queensland Main Roads)

Dr Michiel Van Dongen (Monash University)

Hideshi Kaieda (Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry, Japan)

Dr Jan Veizer (Deptment of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada)

Dr Jon Stephenson (School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, James Cook University)

A national approach to securing Australia's future energy and mineral supplies

Dr Ian Lambert (Geoscience Australia)

Overview and recent advances in mass spectrometry used in geochemical analysis

Advances in understanding the geology of the Eastern Fold belt, Mount Isa region

Dr Ian Withnall (Geological Survey of Queensland)

Tibet, the Himalaya and the Development of the Asian Monsoon: A chicken and egg problem for the IODP

Prof. Peter Clift (University of Aberdeen)

New insights from U-Pb zircon geochronology in to large volume rhyolite generation at the mid-Tertiary Sierra Madre Occidental Province of Mexico - implications for crustal growth, mineralisation and margin evolution.

Dr Scott Bryan (WH Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre, Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ)

DATE	TITLE	PRESENTED BY
7 Aug	Tectonics in exploration: small scale signatures of big questions	Prof. Rod Holcombe (School of Earth Sciences, UQ)
14 Aug	Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) characterisation of Ni-bearing serpentine during reduction roasting processes	Mr. Jeff Chen (Faculty of Engineering, UQ)
21 Aug	Overview of applied research in natural resources and sustainable use: Dept. Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of British Columbia.	Prof. Greg Dipple, University of British Columbia, CAN
4 Sept	Multivariate Statistics: How it can help You!	Ms. Maria Mostert (School of Earth Sciences, UQ)
11 Sep	Earth’s early atmosphere – a contrarian model and its consequences	Dr. George Shaw (Union College, NY, USA)
25 Sep	Engineering geology challenges of the Toowoomba Bypass	Mr. Ron Bathurst (Queensland Main Roads)
16 Oct	ESSCC (UQ) presents: The Earths Heat flow: a generalized two-dimensional diffusive and convective numerical model NOTE: 11:30am in Vis. Lab 720 (level 7), Sir James Foots Building (47a)	Dr. Michael Swift (Blue Energy)
23 Oct	School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management presents: Using tephrochronology to synchronize and date records of late Quaternary environmental change in New Zealand (NZ-INTIMATE project) NOTE: 3pm in r.519, Building 35 (Chamberlain), Campbell Road, St Lucia campus	Prof. David Lowe (University of Waikato, NZ)
30 Oct	Understanding subduction zones	Prof. Brian Kennett (Director, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University)
6 Nov	SMI view of sustainability and future directions and an invitation to SoES to collaborate	Prof. Chris Moran (Director, Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ)
25 Nov	Peru´s Geological Survey-Present and Future	Walter Casquino Rey (Director, Geological Survey of Peru)

DATE	TITLE	PRESENTED BY
29 Jan	Magmatic and hydrothermal processes in the formation of the Ok Tedi giant porphyry Cu-Au deposit, Papua New Guinea	Dr Michiel Van Dongen (Monash University)
2 Mar	Field experiments of injection of CO2 dissolved in water into geothermal wells	Hideshi Kaieda (Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry, Japan)
3 Mar	Biospheric coupling of terrestrial water and carbon fluxes: implications for the climate system	Dr Jan Veizer (Deptment of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada)
17 Mar	Recollections of a UQ student - the other side of Antarctica 50 years ago.	Dr Jon Stephenson (School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, James Cook University)
20 Mar	A national approach to securing Australia's future energy and mineral supplies	Dr Ian Lambert (Geoscience Australia)
31 Mar	Overview and recent advances in mass spectrometry used in geochemical analysis	Dr Sunny Hu (UQ)
7 April	Advances in understanding the geology of the Eastern Fold belt, Mount Isa region	Dr Ian Withnall (Geological Survey of Queensland)
23 April	Tibet, the Himalaya and the Development of the Asian Monsoon: A chicken and egg problem for the IODP	Prof. Peter Clift (University of Aberdeen)
5 May	New insights from U-Pb zircon geochronology in to large volume rhyolite generation at the mid-Tertiary Sierra Madre Occidental Province of Mexico - implications for crustal growth, mineralisation and margin evolution.	Dr Scott Bryan (WH Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre, Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ)
12 May	Australia's Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions: the hypotheses, politics, and new evidence from eastern Australia	Dr Gilbert Price (Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, UQ).
19 May	The Role of the Deep Carbon Cycle and Superplumes in Generating the Geochemical Reservoirs Sampled by Kimberlite, Carbonatite and OIB Magmas.	Prof. Ken Collerson (UQ)
1 June	Timescales and chronologies of mid- to late-Holocene reef accretion along the inner-shelf of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: new insights into reef development under conditions of high turbidity and terrestrial sediment accumulation.	Prof. Chris Perry (Department of Environmental & Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University)

School of Earth Sciences
Upcoming SEMINARS & CONFERENCES in 2009
Steele 3-221		Enquiries, please email: Seminar Committee
2009	Time: 1:00 p.m.