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2003-2004 Volcano Hazards Team Seminar Series

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Except where noted below, the seminars will be held at
12:15 p.m. on Tuesdays in Building 15, Room 3245
345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, California.
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2001-2002 seminars

2002-2003 seminars

DATE
SPEAKER (affiliation)
TALK TITLE or TOPIC
August 2003
7 August Steve Self (Open University, UK) A new look at the atmospheric effects of volcanic eruptions
September 2003
30 September Ward Sanford (USGS-Reston); Host: Steve Ingebritsen Hydrologic research at Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua
October 2003
7 October Carol Finn (USGS-Denver); Host: Tom Sisson Hunting volcanic weakness: aerogeophysical measurements of collapse-prone hydrothermally altered rocks at Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams, WA
14 October Phil Gans (U.C. Santa Barbara); Host: Andy Calvert Neogene evolution of the Costa Rica arc
21 October Jonathan Castro (Oberlin College); Host: Michelle Coombs Natural and experimental observations on ascent-driven crystallization in the Inyo Domes rhyolite
28 October Chuck Wicks (USGS-Menlo Park) A look at stress transfer and seismic hazards associated with the uplift events at Yellowstone and Three Sisters
November 2003
4 November   No seminar
11 November   No seminar
21 November (Friday) Wendy Bohrson (Central Washington U.); Host: Mike Clynne The dynamics of the historical Mt. Etna magma plumbing system
25 November Maureen Feineman (U.C. Berkeley); Host: Jake Lowenstern Is 226Ra/230Th disequilibrium really an indicator of magma transport and storage time?: A cautionary tale
December 2003
2 December David John (USGS-Menlo Park) Hydrothermal alteration on active Cascades volcanoes: applications to volcanic hazards
9 December   No seminar
16 December   No seminar
23 December   No seminar
30 December   No seminar
January 2004
6 January Bernard Chouet Volcano seismology: Insights into the conduit geometries and dynamics of the active magmatic systems of Stromboli, Popocatepetl and Kilauea
13 January Peggy Hellweg (U.C. Berkeley) A warning bell? Tornillo events at Galeras Volcano, Colombia
20 January Andy Calvert, Tom Sisson, Charlie Bacon (USGS-Menlo Park) Mount Veniaminof, a huge Alaska basalt-to-dacite volcano
27 January Jon Major (USGS-CVO) Watershed recovery following the cataclysmic 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption--are we there yet?
29 January Yishai Weinstein (Bar Ilan Univ.; Israel) Arabian basalts and lithospheric processes
February 2004
3 February Bob Miller (San Jose State U.) Ascent and Emplacement of Arc Magmas in the Mid- and Deep Crust: Insights from the North Cascades and Sierra Nevada
10 February Dave Schneider (USGS-AVO) - Cancelled, possibly to be rescheduled Satellite Observations of Explosive Volcanic Eruptions: Recent Examples from the North Pacific
17 February Keith Putirka (Cal State - Fresno) - Rescheduled to April 27 A cross section of magma plumbing system at the Springerville Volcanic field (east-central AZ): conjectures based on mineral-melt thermobarometers
24 February Jonathan Glen (USGS-Menlo Park) Rifting, magmatism, and mineralization associated with inception of the Yellowstone Hotspot
March 2004
2 March Sam Johnson (USGS–Santa Cruz) Hydrothermal and tectonic activity in northern Yellowstone Lake
9 March Julie Donnelly-Nolan (USGS-Menlo Park) What's new at Newberry Volcano, Oregon - a preliminary description of new geologic work
16 March Randy White (USGS-Menlo Park) Overview of the 2003 Anatahan Eruption and USGS plans for the Northern Mariana Islands (a US Commonwealth)
23 March Larry Mastin (USGS-CVO) Assessing the consequences of a volcanic eruption through the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository
30 March Axel Schmitt (UCLA) Intrusive history of the Geysers plutonic complex: insights from U-Pb zircon geochronology
April 2004
6 April Spring Break No seminar
13 April Frank Ramos (UC Santa Cruz) Mantle Sources and Process Generating Recent Volcanism in the Western US: Insights from Th Isotopes
20 April Dawnika Blatter (UC Berkeley) Comparison of spatial distribution and chemical characteristics of Quaternary volcanism from the Michoacan-Guanajuato Volcanic Field and the Zitacuaro-Valle de Bravo Region, Central Mexico: Evidence for a basement terrane boundary
27 April Keith Putirka (Cal State - Fresno) A cross section of magma plumbing system at the Springerville Volcanic field (east-central AZ): conjectures based on mineral-melt thermobarometers
May 2004
4 May Jim Vallance (USGS-CVO) Holocene volcanism and downstream response at Mount Rainier
13 May (Thursday, 10:30 AM) Jackie Caplan-Auerbach (USGS-AVO) Repeating long-period and coupled earthquakes at Shishaldin Volcano, Alaska
18 May Dave Schneider (USGS-AVO) Satellite observations of explosive volcanic eruptions: recent examples from the North Pacifics
25 May (10:30 AM) Roger Denlinger (USGS-CVO) Robust computation of unsteady flows of water or debris over mountainous terrain
June 2004
1 June (CANCELLED) Mike Clynne (USGS-Menlo Park) An informal review of the eruptive history of Mount St. Helens: conventional wisdom and new data

Other Seminar Schedules

Contacts for additional information

Shaul Hurwitz; shaulh@usgs.gov, (650) 329-4441
Michelle Coombs; mcoombs@usgs.gov, (650) 329-5251
Andy Calvert; acalvert@usgs.gov, (650) 329-5276

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