Schedule of Events
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| Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 | |
| 8:00 | Refreshments |
| 8:15 | Welcoming Remarks |
| Session I: Geophysics and Geodesy | |
| 8:30 | Eastern Extent of Pacific-North America Plate Boundary Deformation in the Southwestern U.S. Observed by GPS |
| A. Holland & R. Bennett | |
| 8:45 | Seismic Interpretation and Structural Analysis Along a Transect from the Baboquivari Mountains to the Transition Zone of the Colorado Plateau |
| M.S. Arca | |
| 9:00 | Detecting the Limit of Slab Break-Off in Central Turkey: New High-Resolution Pn Tomography Results |
| C.R. Gans, S.L. Beck, G. Zandt, C.B. Biryol, & A.A. Ozacar | |
| 9:15 | Seismic Evidence for Foundering Lithosphere Beneath the Central Sierra Nevada |
| A. Frassetto, H. Gilbert, G. Zandt, T. Owens, & C. Jones | |
| 9:30 | Parabolic Dune Reactivation and Migration at Napeague, NY, U.S.A.: Insights from Aerial and GPR Imagery |
| J.D. Girardi | |
| 9:45 | Modeling Surface Displacement Caused by Sub-Crustal Loading |
K. Gressett & R. Bennett |
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| 10:00 | BREAK |
| Session II: Planetary Geology | |
| 10:15 | Modeling of Titan’s Surface Processes Constrained by Shoreline Fractal Analysis |
| P. Sharma & S. Byrne | |
| 10:30 | 14C Terrestrial Ages of Meteorites from the Atacama Desert, Chile |
| M. Leclerc, E.M. Valezuela, & A.T. Jull | |
| 10:45 | Volatile Element Composition of Minerals in Meteorites |
| K. Jackson, Y. Goreva, D. Lauretta | |
| 11:00 | BREAK |
| Session III: Mineralogy | |
| 11:15 | Raman Spectra Analysis of Gem Minerals |
| R. Jasinevicius & R. Downs | |
| 11:30 | Determining Chemical Composition of the Silicate Garnets Using Raman Spectroscopy |
| R.R. Henderson, R. Downs, G. Costin, R. Dembowski, C. Eichler, & RRUFF Project Team Members | |
| 11:45 | Adsorption of Aspartic Acid onto Rutile: Implications for Biochirality |
| C.F. Estrada, C.M. Jonsson, C.L. Jonsson, D.A. Sverjensky, & R.M. Hazen | |
| 12:00 | ANNOUNCEMENTS |
| 12:15 | LUNCH |
| Session IV (Poster Session I): Environmental Science, Surface Processes and Geoscience Education Posters | |
| 1:15-2:30 | For a list of abstracts associated with this poster session, please see the Abstracts page |
| Session V: Paleoclimate | |
| 2:30 | Temperature Estimate for an Early Pliocene Polar Forest, Ellesmere Island, Canada, from d18O Ratios of Freshwater Mollusks and Aquatic Moss |
| A.Z. Csank | |
| 2:45 | Vegetation and Climate of Lake Malawi, Southeast Africa During the Last Deglaciation |
| S. Ivory, A. Cohen, & A. Lézine | |
| 3:00 | Fingerprinting Southwestern Climate Dynamics During Medieval Time |
| C. Routson, J. Overpeck, & C. Woodhouse | |
| 3:15 | Coral Mn/Ca Data from Tarawa Atoll Suggest a Strengthening of the Tropical Pacific Zonal Winds over the 20th Century |
| D. Thompson, T. Ault, & J. Cole | |
| 3:30 | BREAK |
| Session VI: Economic Geology | |
| 3:45 | Jurassic Igneous-Related Metallogeny in the Cordillera of Southwestern North America: Implications for Iron Oxide Deposits |
| J.D. Girardi | |
| 4:00 | Hydrothermal Alteration and Mineralization Zoning in Iron-Oxide(-Cu-Au) (IOCG) Vein Deposits near Copiapó, Chile |
| D.C. Kreiner & M.D. Barton | |
| 4:15 | Mineralization Controls at Chailhauagon-Perol Porphyry (Au±Cu) Systems – Minas Conga District – Cajamarca Province, Peru |
| N. Mendoza Inca | |
| 4:30 | Characterization and Reconstruction of the North Butte Dike Swarm and Tea Cup Porphyry System, Pinal County, Arizona |
| P. Nickerson, M. Barton, & E. Seedorff | |
| 4:45 | Mining Stability and Earthquake Precursor Detection |
| K.B. Jones II & M. Momaye | |
| 5:00 | Closing Remarks |
| Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists Student Night | |
| University of Arizona Student Union Memorial Center, Catalina and Tucson Meeting Rooms | |
| 5:30–7:00 | Career Fair and Mingling |
| 7:00-7:45 | Dinner |
| 7:45-8:45 | Student Presentations |
| 8:45-9:00 | Award Presentations |
| Friday, April 3rd, 2009 | |
| 8:00 | Refreshments |
| 8:15 | Welcome and Announcements |
| Session VII: Climate | |
| 8:30 | Regionalization of Tibetan Plateau Precipitation |
| J.L. Conroy & J.T. Overpeck | |
| 8:45 | Mountain Simulation and Winter Precipitation Errors in IPCC AR4 Models |
| S.A. McAfee & J.L. Russell | |
| 9:00 | A Continuum of Drought: Linking Late Holocene Megadroughts to 20th Century Variability |
| T.R. Ault & J.E. Cole | |
| 9:15 | Seasonal Effects of Warming Temperatures During Drought in the Southwestern U.S.A. |
| J.L. Weiss, C.L. Castro, & J.T. Overpeck | |
| 9:30 | BREAK |
| Session VIII: Environmental Science | |
| 9:45 | Alpine Shrub-Chronology: A Tool for High-Elevation Ecological Monitoring |
| R.S. Franklin | |
| 10:00 | Quantifying the Effect of Hydrologic Variability on Sediment Transport in Alluvial Rivers |
| T. Engelder & J. Pelletier | |
| 10:15 | The Progression of Precipitation: A Model of Oxygen Isotope Variability in Caves of the Southwest |
| S.A. Truebe, T.R. Ault, & J.E. Cole | |
| 10:30 | BREAK |
| Session IX: Geochronology | |
| 10:45 | Using Detrital Zircon Geochronology to Constrain the Ages of Hominid Fossils from Gona, Ethiopia |
| L. Molofsky, J. Quade, & G. Gehrels | |
| 11:00 | U-Pb LAM-ICP-MS Zircon Geochronology from Permo-Triassic S-Type Plutons and High-Grade Metamorphic Rocks of the Northern Columbian Andes: Collisional vs. Accretionary Orogenesis in the Proto-Andean Margin |
| M. Ibanez-Mejia, V. Valencia, J. Ruiz, & A. Cardona | |
| 11:15 | Determining the Origin of Enigmatic Bedrock Structures Using (U-Th)/He Thermochronology: Alabama and Poverty Hills, Owens Valley, California |
| G. Ali, P. Reiners, & M. Ducea | |
| 11:30 | Cenozoic Exhumation of the Western Antarctic Peninsula: Thermochronologic Results from Northern and Southern Graham Land |
| W.R. Guenthner, P.W. Reiners, S.N. Thompson, & D.L. Barbeau | |
| 11:45 | LUNCH |
| Session X (Poster Session II): Geochemistry, Geochronology, Geophysics, Structure and Tectonics Posters | |
| 12:45-2:00 | For a list of abstracts associated with this poster session, please see the Abstracts page |
| Session XI: Geochemistry and Volcanology | |
| 2:00 | Tracing Turquoise from Site to Source Using Radiogenic Isotopes |
| A.M. Thibodeau, J. Ruiz, J.T. Chesley, & D.J. Killick | |
| 2:15 | Recent Transition in Regional Mantle Chemistry Beneath the Western Canadian Cordillera |
| C.D. Manthei, J.D. Girardi, M.N. Ducea, P.J. Patchett, & G.E. Gehrels | |
| 2:30 | 129I and Sr Isotopes as Tracers of Large-Scale Fluid Migration in the Northern Appalacian Basin |
| S.G. Osborn & J.C. McIntosh | |
| 2:45 | GIS Applied to Flow Direction and Source Area of the 22.0 Ma Harmony Hills Tuff, Southwestern Utah, Southeastern Nevada |
| A.M. Hudson & M.R. Hudson | |
| 3:00 | BREAK |
| Keynote Address | |
| 3:15 | From controversy to consensus: Making the case for recent climatic change in the Arctic using lake sediments |
| Dr. John Smol, Professor in Dept. of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change | |
| 4:15 | Awards |
| 4:45 | Slideshow |
| 5:00 | Closing Remarks |
| 7:00 | Evening party in the Reception Garden at the Tucson Botanical Gardens |
| Saturday, April 4th, 2009 | |
| 8:00-4:30 | Geomorphology of the Tucson Basin and Santa Catalina Forerange |
| A field trip lead by Dr. Jon Pelletier, U. Arizona, Geosciences. For more details, please see the Field Trip page. | |
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