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2009 FALL

Unless otherwise noted meet at 3:30 pm in Ozark Hall room 25. All meetings are subject to change.

August 28 Introductions
September 4 No Colloquium
September 11 NABGG lectures - Water on Mars
Wed, September 16 John Sharp - Chesapeake - The Haynesville Play
September 18 Dan Kennefick - UA Physics Department - Gravity Bending Light:  The original test of Einstein's theory and current work on black holes
September 25

Rebecca Mistarz - UA Geography Department - Santa Ana Wind Events:  An Historical Reconstruction for Southern California from 1895 to the Present

Rose Feinstein - UA Geology Department - Geologic Map of the Nez Perce Drainage Basin

October 2 Matt Covington - NSF postdoc at University of Minnesota - Using Dimensionless Numbers to Characterize the Hydraulic and Thermal Responses of Karst Aquifers - Implications and Applcations
October 9

Chris Cerny - UA Geography Department - Historical Ecology of an Old-Growth Shortleaf Pine Outlier in the Cross Timbers of Eastern Oklahoma.

Kathy Knierim - UA ENDY - Using stable carbon isotopes to characterize carbon and nutrient dynamics in a northwestern Arkansas cave

October 16 Lawrence R Handley - USGS Rolla Missouri - Re-Engaging Geographic Science to Meet the Needs of a Changing "Climate" toward Science
October 23 Maurice Storm - Crow Creek Energy, Tulsa - A Geologist in Energy - Beyond the Science
Monday, October 26 David J. Cowen -National Geospatial Advisory Committee, National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, Distingshed Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina -The Changing Geospatial Landscape
October 30 Steve Luoni - Community Design Center - Visioning Rail Transit in Northwest Arkansas:  Lifestyles and Ecologies
November 6 Henry McLeish - Scottish Labour politician, author and academic.
November 13 TBA
November 20 TBA

November 27

No Colloquium - Thanksgiving
December 4 TBA