Western Region Colloquium Home

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Video Link
*** 2009 ***
09/11/09	David Montgomery	University of Washington	Dirt - The Erosion of Civilizations	Watch Video
09/21/09	Western Region post-docs and new researchers	USGS	Western Region Postdoctoral/New Researcher Colloquium	Watch Video
07/13/09	James Workman	DamBroker, San Francisco, CA	Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought	Watch Video Additional Interview
06/15/09	Carol Kendall	USGS, Menlo Park, CA	Drive-by Extinctions: The Role of Vehicle Exhaust in Urban Runoff and Ecosystem Degradatio	Watch Video
05/11/09	Elisabeth Holland	National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO	Changing Climate, Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles	Watch Video
04/13/09	John Slack	USGS	Probing the Redox State of Proterozoic Seawater: Geochemical, Biological, and Economic Implications	Not available at this time
03/09/09	Philip Mote	WA State Climatologist, University of Washington	Climate change: Past, present, and future in the next 50-100 years in the West	Watch Video
02/09/09	Mary Lou Zoback	RMS	Risk Management: A Perspective from the Private Sector	Watch Video
1/12/09	Robert Glennon	University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law	Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do about it	Watch Video
*** 2008 ***
12/2/08	Margaret Leinen	Climos, Chief Scientist	Mitigating climate change: Will direct removal of CO2 be necessary?	Watch Video
9/15/08	Western Region Post-docs	USGS, Western Region	Annual Post-doc Colloquium	Watch Video
8/25/08	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?	Watch Video
1/14/08	Scott W. Tinker	Director, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas, Austin	Global Energy: Myths and Realities	Watch Video
*** 2007 ***
12/03/07	Lisa Lucas	USGS, Menlo Park	The Wiggles Matter: Significance of high-frequency processes to surface water quality	Watch Video
11/5/07	Bob Smith	University of Utah	Geodynamics and seismic/geodetic imaging of the Yellowstone hotspot	Watch Video
10/15/07	Sally Benson	Stanford University	Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Deep Geological Formations	Watch Video
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	Watch Video
5/21/07	Brad Reed	USGS, Flagstaff	National Phenology Network	Watch Video
4/23/07	Dominique Weis	Univ. of BC	The structure of mantle plumes -- insights from geochemical and isotopic studies in Hawaii	Watch Video
3/19/07	Barbara Sherwood-Lollar	Univ. of Toronto	Life's Chemical Kitchen: Support of Deep Terrestrial Subsurface Life by Abiogenic Hydrogen and Hydrocarbons	Watch Video
2/15/07	Brooks Hansen	Science Magazine	The Future of Scientific Publications	Watch Video
*** 2006 ***
11/13/06	Diane Boyer	USGS, Tucson, AZ	In Search of Dam Sites: The USGS Expedition of 1923 in the Grand Canyon	Watch Video
10/10/06	Jon Christensen & Richard White	Stanford Univ.	The Checkerspot Butterfly and Serpentine	Watch Video
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	Watch Video
8/14/06	Margaret Torn	Lawrence Berkeley National Labs	Climate change feedbacks and the future role of soils	Watch Video
6/12/06	Rob Dunbar	Stanford Univ.	Tropical temperatures, global warming, and land use change: A view from the Coral Reef	Watch Video
5/19/06	John Kelmelis	Senior Counselor for Earth Science, USGS/US Dept. of State	Earth Science Findings with Foreign Policy Implications	Watch Video
4/10/06	Patty Fryer	Univ. of Hawaii	Subduction, Seismicity, and Serpentinization: Capturing a Subduction Event	Watch Video
3/13/06	Nina G. Jablonski	CA Academy of Sciences	The Evolution of Human Skin Color	Watch Video
2/13/06	Claire Kremen	Univ. of Berkeley ESPM	Managing for Ecosystem Services: Wild Bees and Crop Pollination in Northern CA	Watch Video
*** 2005 ***
12/12/05	Dr. Katheryn Moran	Univ. of Rhode Island	Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX): A North Pole Discovery	Watch Video
11/14/05	Prof. Pamela Matson	Stanford Univ.	Agricultural Intensification in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico: Will it "Save Land for Nature"?	Watch Video
10/03/05	Todd Dawson	U.C. Berkeley, CA	Redwood forests, fog water subsides, and the land-sea interface.	Watch Video
9/06/05	Jake Lowenstern	USGS, Menlo Park	Intrusion, Deformation and Gas Discharge at the Yellowstone Caldera	Watch Video
08/15/05	Joel E. Cohen	Rockefeller Univ., & Columbia Univ.	Human Population Trends, Human Carrying Capacity and Sustainability	Watch Video
07/11/05	Michael Alley	Virginia Tech	Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides	Watch Video
06/06/05	Adina Payton	Stanford Univ.	High Productivity During Cretaceous Ocean Anoxic Events	Watch Video
04/11/05	Jeremy Jackson	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Brave New Ocean	Watch Video
03/14/05	Elliot Sclar	Columbia University	You Won't Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization	Watch Video
02/14/05	Christina Ravelo	UC Santa Cruz	Global Warming: Lessons from the Pliocene Warm Period	Watch Video
01/10/05	Robert Webb	USGS, Tucson	Grand Canyon Downcutting: Has it occurred in the Holocene?	Watch Video
*** 2004 ***
11/15/04	Dr. Jayne Belnap	USGS, Utah	Soils, crusts, dusts and the role of microbiotic crusts in resource management and ecosystem recovery	Watch Video
10/18/04	Roland Burgmann	UC Berkeley, CA	I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet: Crustal Deformation in the Bay Area	Watch Video
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	Watch Video
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.	Watch Video
06/14/04	Dr. James Deacon	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	Connectivity in the Desert Aquatic Ecosystems: The Devil's Hole Story	Watch Video
05/10/04	Steven Ingebritsen	USGS, NRP, Menlo Park, CA	Crustal Permeability As A Dynamic Parameter	Watch Video
04/12/04	Dr. Deborah Kelley	School of Oceanography, Univ. of Washington	Atlantis Massif 30 N The Lost City Hydrothermal Field: A New Submarine Ecosystem	Watch Video
03/08/04	Prof. Marion Diamond	UC Berkeley	Benefits of Enrichment at Any Age	Watch Video
02/23/04	Stephanie Prejean	USGS, Anchorage, AK	New Insight into the Processes that Trigger Earthquakes in the Long Valley Caldera, California	Watch Video
01/12/04	David Morrison	Nasa-Ames	Asteroid and comet impacts on Earth - a hazard for the future?	Watch Video
*** 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	Watch Video
08/11/03	Charlie Paull	Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute	New Views on the Distribution and Geologic Controls of Chemosynthetic Biologic Communities	Watch Video
07/14/03	John Barron	USGS Volcano Hazards	The evolution of the climate of coastal Northern California during the past 15,000 years	Watch Video
04/14/03	Chris Potter	NASA	Integrated Studies of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Surface Hydrologic Budgets for California	Watch Video
03/10/03	Tomas Roffe	USGS, Bozeman, MT	Charismatic megafauna and nefarious microfauna of Yellowstone: the Brucellosis Controversy	Watch Video
*** 2002 ***
11/18/02	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
09/09/02	John Takekawa	USGS/WERC	Foraging Ecology and Contaminant Risks of Diving Ducks in San Francisco Bay Estuary	Watch Video
07/08/02	Mark Marvin-DiPasquale	USGS, Menlo Park	Mercury contamination of ecosystems and the role of microbiology	Watch Video
04/22/02	Frank Sulloway	UC Berkeley	Birth Order Family Dynamics and Creative Lives: From Darwinian Evolution to World History	Watch Video

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