4:00 Thursdays, unless stated otherwise below
Location: 103 Talbot Laboratory
104 South Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Pre-talk reception 3:30 to 4:00, 169 Computing Applications Building (CAB)
25 August: No colloquium (first week of classes)
1 September: "A Hot Big Bang Theory: Magnetic Fields and the Origin of the Moon"
Charles Gammie, UIUC Department of Astronomy
8 September: R. James Kirkpatrick Lecture
CANCELLED
"Remote Sensing of Ground Deformation: An Indispensable Tool for Resources and Hazards Management"
Estelle Chaussard, SUNY Buffalo
15 September: "Resolving Carbon's Rainbow from Uplands to the Deep Sea - or - What happens to Eroded Soil C?"
Neal Blair, Northwestern University
22 September: Update on the department and the Natural History Building project
Tom Johnson, Department Head
29 September: Richard L. Hay Lecture
"The ultimate question of bubbles, the universe and everything..."
Christian Huber, Brown University
6 October: 3rd Annual Phillips Lecture (Joint Geology/Plant Biology Colloquium)
Time: 3:30PM; Location: 1000 Lincoln Hall
"The Evolutionary-Developmental Origins of Multicellularity"
Karl Niklas, Cornell University
13 October: Ralph E. Grim Lecture
"Implications of river channel self-organization for modeling the impact of climate on mountain landscape evolution"
Colin Phillips, Northwestern University
20 October:
"Multiscale compositional heterogeneity in Earth’s mantle and its implications for hot spot volcanism and chemistry"
Allen McNamara, Michigan State University
27 October:
"Seconds after Impact: Insights from Tektites and Experiments"
Catherine Macris, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Special Friday Colloquium 4:00 PM
Location: 1002 Lincoln Hall
28 October: College of Liberal Arts and Science Alumni Achievement Award Recipient
"The changing world of geoscience: Research, Education and the Workforce"
Sharon Mosher (Illinois Geology Ph.D. 1978), Dean, Jackson School of Geoscience, UT Austin
3 November Department of Geology Alumni Achievement Award Presentation
"The Geologic Record of Late Heavy Bombardment."
Don Lowe, Stanford University
Special Friday Colloquium 3:00 PM
Location: 1000 Lincoln Hall
4 November: Joint GGIS-Geology-Atmospheric Science Colloquium
"Supraglacial Rivers on the Greenland Ice Sheet"
Larry Smith, UCLA (Remote Sensing)
10 November: Student Lightning Talks!
Ireland Field Course 2016 Recap
17 November: Ralph E. Grim Lecture
"Deciphering the rock record of nano- to microseismicity from exhumed fault textures and thermochronometry"
Alexis Ault, Utah State University
24 November: No Colloquium (Thanksgiving Break)
1 December: "Are ophiolites pieces of ocean crust?"
Steve Hurst, UIUC Department of Geology