Geosciences Colloquium Series

Join the Department of Geosciences this Spring 2021. Lectures are always on Friday from 2:00 pm-3:20 pm in room SE 417.

January 15	Orientation for Colloquium Courses GEO 4920/6920 - moderator
January 22	Faculty Meeting - No colloquium
January 29	Dr. Lindano Benedet, Principal for Coastal Protection Engineering (CPE), “Evolution of the Delray Beach Nourishment Program: From 1978 to the present”
February 5	Dr. Tom Douglas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, Fort Wainwright, AK 99703 "Permafrost studies in interior Alaska”
February 12	Faculty Meeting - No colloquium
February 19	Ms. Ruth Metzel and Ms. Sandra Vasquez, Fundacion Pro Eco Azuero “From Panama to the world: Tropical Restoration Objectives and Rural Community Perspectives”
February 26	Dr. Eric Prokocki, Department of Geosciences, FAU “Understanding turbidity-currents and their deposits: the snow avalanches of the deep sea!”
March 5	Dr. Neil Terry, USGS "Drone-deployed ground penetrating radar (GPR): past, present, and future"
March 12	Faculty Meeting - No colloquium
March 19	Dr. Vanda Claudio Sales, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil “Geomorphology of Brazil: an overview”
March 26	Ms. Emily Toner, Soil geographer, and 2018-2019 Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow. “The Power of Peatlands: Carbon and Culture in Irish Bogs”
April 2	Dr. Deepak Mishra, Professor & Associate Head Director, Small Satellite Research Lab, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, TBA
April 9	Dr. Navid Jafari, Coastal Studies Institute, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, LSU “A Comprehensive Review of Marsh Platform Shear Strength: Implications to Coastal Restoration”
April 16	Faculty Meeting - No colloquium
April 23	Class meeting in lieu of final exam - moderator

M.L. King Day (1/16) does not affect this class. Spring Break may be changed, but this is what the current posted schedule says.

Moderator:
D. Warburton

Committee:
Xavier Comas
Maria Fadiman
Anton Oleinik
Caiyun Zhang

For questions or inquiries please contact:
Dr. David Warbuton
Assistant Chair & Asso. Professor
Office: SE 466
E-mail: warburto@fau.edu