Seminar Series - Fall 2009 - Environmental Science & Engineering Division
Environmental Science & Engineering Division (ESE) seminars are held each Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in Coolbaugh Hall room 219, unless noted otherwise. Please enjoy light refreshments and each other’s company at starting at 12:15 p.m. Coolbaugh Hall is on the corner of Illinois and 14th Street. A printable map of the Mines campus buildings and parking arrangements can be found here.
Fall ESE Seminar Schedule
- 8/27/2009
Introductory Seminar with ESE Faculty overviews
- 9/3/2009
Tim Sweitzer (Environmental Health and Safety, Colorado School of Mines)
Annual Hazardous Materials Training -mandatory for all ESE graduate students, faculty & staff working in labs
- 9/10/2009
Dr. Cathy Lozupone (University of Colorado Boulder)
“The global distribution of bacterial diversity”
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- 9/17/2009
Dr. Andre Revil (Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines)
“Non-intrusive electrical sensors for probing of contaminants in porous media”
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- 9/24/2009
Dr. Harihar Rajaram (University of Colorado Boulder)
"Fracture alteration by precipitation and dissolution resulting from thermal gradients: computational results, stochastic analysis and upscaling" Topic Abstract (pdf)
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- 10/1/2009
Mr. Andy Miller (Environmental Science and Engineering Department, CSM)
“Go big or go home: Uranium transport experiments at the intermediate scale”
- 10/8/2009
Dr. Marty Goldhaber (U.S. Geological Survey)
“The Impact of Humans on the Geochemical Landscape” Topic Abstract (pdf)
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- 10/15/2009
Dr. Mike Thurman (University of Colorado Boulder)
“Finding classic papers in environmental science with a Hirsch Index”
- 10/22/2009
Dr. Everett Salas (Rice University, Houston, Texas)
“Seeing the forest and the trees: new optical techniques for investigating microbe-mineral-solution interactions across multiple spatial scales” Topic Abstract (pdf)
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- 10/29/2009
Dr. Jonathan Sharp (Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Colorado School of Mines)
“Unwrapping the mysteries of heavy metal immobilization in the subsurface”
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- 11/5/2009
Dr. Katie Walton-Day (U.S. Geological Survey Denver)
“Understanding stream water quality: sources of solutes to streams, and processes;
controlling solute transport” Topic Abstract (pdf)
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- 11/12/2009
Mr. Nathan Hancock (PhD student, Environmental Science and Engineering Division, CSM)
“Engineered osmosis: paradigm shift or frivolous science?”
- 11/19/2009
Mr. Kevin Barnhart (PhD student Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Colorado School of Mines)
“Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP): Where experimentation and modeling meet”
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- 11/26/2009
Thanksgiving break – no seminar scheduled
- 12/3/2009
Dr. Anuradha (Anu) Ramaswami (University of Colorado Denver)
Topic TBD
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For additional information please contact any of the following ESE Seminar Series Committee:
Megan Smith………….… msmith@mines.edu
Assaf Wunsch…….…….. awunsch@mines.edu
Chuck Pepe-Ranney……. cpepera@mines.edu
Christiane Hoppe-Jones… choppe@mines.edu
Kate Smits……………… ksmits@mines.edu
Emily Lesher…………… elesher@mines.edu