The Pegrum Lecture Series was established to honor Reginald H. Pegrum, founder of UB's Geology Department. This series is funded in part by the Maurice Crook and Orrin Foster Lecture funds.

Unless otherwise indicated below, Spring 2012 Pegrum Lectures are on Thursdays in room 228 Natural Sciences Complex.  Refreshments at 3:30 with lectures beginning at 3:45.

 

SPRING 2012

January 26, 2012   

     Graduate Student Presentation: Patrick Whelley, UB Geology

           "Using Ignimbrite Morphology to Assess Emplacement and Post-Emplacement Processes"

February 2, 2012

     Graduate Student Presentation: Rachel Mellas, EEB Graduate Program, UB

            "Fitness Effects and Symbiont Type in Cassiopea xamachana"

February 9, 2012

     John Pallister, USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory

             “Merapi’s “100-Year” Eruption - Forecasting and Eruption Trigger”

     

February 16, 2012

     Dr. Beata Csatho, University at Buffalo, Department of Geology

           “All You Wanted To Know About Satellite Laser Altimetry: NASA’s Icesat Missions to Monitor

             Cryospheric and Biomass Changes”

February 23, 2012

      Dr. Sasha Carter, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ of California at San Diego

           "Lifeblood for an Undiscovered Landscape: Antarctica’s Subglacial Waters - Discovery,

            Evolution, Visions"

     

March 1, 2012

       Graduate Student Presentation: Lauren Fortson, UB Geology

             "A Spatial Investigation of Metal and Mineral Associations in the Marcellus Shale"

      

March 8, 2012

      Dr. Christopher Lowry, University at Buffalo, Department of Geology

March 15, 2012

       Spring Break

March 22, 2012

       To Be Announced

March 29, 2012 

       IEEE-GRSS Distinguished Lecture Series

       Dr. Robert Bindschadler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

April 5, 2012

       Graduate Student Presentation: Mike LaGamba, UB Geology

              "Fracture Patterns in Marcellus Black Shale Across the Appalachian Basin of New York State"

April 12, 2012

       Dr. Charles Mitchell, University at Buffalo, Department of Geology

April 19, 2012

       To Be Announced

April 26, 2012

      Awards Ceremony

 

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