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Earth & Environmental Sciences Colloquium
Fall Quarter 2007

The colloquia will be held in 124 Allyn Hall on Thursdays at 4:10 PM, except Darcy Distinguished Lecture to be held in Apollo Room in Student Union) on September 27. The special lecture by Professor Paul Hoffman of Harvard University is scheduled on October 8, Monday in 218 Fawcett Hall, Wright State University Campus.  Visitor parking is available newby (WSU parking lot 9): See Campus Map link.


September 6 Dr. Chad Hammerschmidt
"Environmental Cycling of Mercury"
September 13 Dr. Songlin Cheng, “Carbon isotope geochemistry of a eutrophic lake”
Dr. Rebecca Teed, “Keys to the Past”
September 20 Ms. Jennifer Wolters, Hess Corporation

1. “Overview of Hess as a company and geoscience careers at Hess”

2. "Parameterization of Mudrock Properties for Pre-drill Pressure Prediction via Burial History Models".

September 27

Dr. James J. Butler Jr., Kansas Geological Survey
Darcy Distinguished Lecture: “Getting the Information Ground Water Modelers Need: A Report from the Field”

*Please note, the lecture is at Student Union, Apollo Rm.

October 4 Dr. Abinash Agrawal
"Treatment of Contaminated Groundwater in a Constructed Wetland in Ohio: Results during 2001-2006"
October 8

Dr. Paul Hoffman, Harvard University
Special Lecture to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of WSU.
“Ice Age to Snowball Earth: How geology drove our understanding of present and future climate”

On: Monday, October 8, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.
At: 218 Fawcett Hall, Wright State University Campus
October 11 Dr. Allen Hunt
"Can Percolation Theory be Applied to Realistic Models of Geologic Media?"
October 18 Dr. Robert Ritzi
"Ground Water Flow and Transport as Influenced by Sedimentary Architecture"
October 25 Dr. Ernest Hauser
“Geophysics; title to be announced”
November 1
Dr. Doyle Watts
"Evaporation Transpiration along the Colorado River and Palo Verde Irrigation District"

November 8

Dr. Chris Barton
“Average Travel Time for Precipitation to Reach the Weirs for Watersheds 1-9 at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest”