2012 Gala

March 29-30, 2012

Keynote speaker: Alison Anders (ESS '05)

Committee: Michael Hutchins, Perry Spector, Jillian Schleicher

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Schedule

Abstracts can be downloaded from the 2012 Gala website.

Thursday, March 29

9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome

9:15 - 10:00 - Molecules Matter: Geochemistry

    • 9:15 Theresa M. Kayzar: Isotope geochemistry on the Edge (of Plates): Thorium Excess and Lower Crustal Assimilation
    • 9:30 Nathan A. Peters: Hot or not?: Temperature biases in pedogenic carbonate formation revealed by clumped isotope thermometry
    • 9:45 Bradley Ross Markle: 40,000 year record of paleoclimate variability from the WAIS Divide ice core

10:00 - 10:45 - Rebuilding the Past: Paleoenvironments

    • 10:00 Kimberly Smith: Vegetation reconstruction of the Middle Miocene in Southwest Montana using Phytolith Analysis
    • 10:15 Shane Schoepfer: Geographic Patterns of Nutrient Distribution and Limitation in the Permian-Triassic Oceans
    • 10:30 Erik Fredrickson: Climate Reconstruction of the Great Plains Region in the Late Oligocene and early Miocene

10:45 - 11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:45 - Slip, Rattle, and Roll: Seismology

    • 11:00 Kate Allstadt: Extracting Source Characteristics and Dynamics of the August 2010 Mount Meager Landslide using Broadband Seismograms
    • 11:15 Alicia Hotovec: A Comparison of Tremor Before, During, and After the Explosive Eruption of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska in 2009
    • 11:30 Amanda Klaus: Relation of Space-Time Variations in Tidal Stress and Cascadia Tremor Amplitude

11:45 - 1:00 - Lunch

1:00 - 1:45 - A Moving Planet: Geomorphology and Tectonics

    • 1:00 Aurora Burd: Is it a U(nnecessary) F(eature) O(f the model)? Interpretation of forward modeling results used to determine whether large-scale conductive features present in a three-dimensional inversion of magnetotelluric data are actually required
    • 1:15 Isaac J. Larsen: Landslide erosion coupled to tectonics and river incision
    • 1:30 Sarah Bergman: Multiple Fluid Sources for Diagenetic Cements Along the Moab Fault, Utah Revealed by Clumped Isotopes

1:45 - 3:00 - Posters I

    • Breana Chavez: Reassessing Differentiation Models for Mt. St. Helens' Dacites
    • Taryn Black: MELTS simulations of augite resorption in Martian and terrestrial magmas
    • Spruce Schoenemann: Ice Core Measurements and GCM Simulation of the Spatial Distribution and Glacial-Interglacial Change of 17O-excess in Antarctica
    • Bret Buskirk: Preliminary experimental data of O and C isotopes from Late Eocene freshwater bivalves from the Florissant Fossil beds National Monument, CO
    • Karl Lang: The detrital record of exhumation east of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
    • Logan Daniel Chinn: Low Temperature Thermochronometry of the Avawatz Mountains, California; Implications for the Garlock Fault Zone
    • Brian Haderlie: Stream Channel Morphology of Cascade Mountains

3:00 - 3:30 - Seminar Snacks

3:30 - 4:30 - Keynote Speaker, Alison Anders: Precipitation, Erosion, and Uplift on the Olympic Peninsula


Friday, March 30

9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome

9:15 - 10:00 - Mars Attacks!: Planetary and Astrobiology

    • 9:15 Matt Smith: Hydrated silica on Mars: Near-IR and thermal-infrared spectroscopic investigation into the diversity of martian silica
    • 9:30 Elena Amador: Elevated Bulk Silica Deposits in Nili Fossae, Mars
    • 9:45 Jonathan Bapst: Recent Ice Ages on Mars (<1 Ma)

10:00 - 10:45 - Under the Ice: Glaciology I

    • 10:00 Dan Kluskiewicz: Acoustic Velocities Measures at Depth within the West Antarctica Ice Sheet Divide
    • 10:15 Jonathan Toner: Luminescence Ages of Sediments in Taylor Valley, Antarctica
    • 10:30 Kristin Poinar: The formation and lifespan of crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet

10:45 - 11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:45 - Shifting Snow: Glaciology II

    • 11:45 Twila Moon: 21st century evolution of Greenland outlet glacier velocities
    • 12:00 David Shean: Quantifying ice-sheet dynamics and variability with meter-scale DEM and velocity data
    • 12:15 Kat Huybers: Lake Level Changes in Response to Interannual Climate Variability

11:45 - 1:00 - Lunch

1:00 - 3:00 - Posters II

    • Adam J. Campbell: Ice-shelf ripples as a record of seasonal basal melting near the grounding line of Totten Glacier
    • Regina Carns: Precipitation of hydrohalite in cold sea ice on Snowball Earth
    • Kristin Poinar: Softening of the margins of Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland: Thermal or Material?
    • Megan Smith: Atmospheric Formation of Perchlorate on Earth and Mars
    • Peter LeDoux: Biologic Effects on Dissolution of Silicate Minerals
    • Michael L. Hutchins: Relative Detection Efficiency of the World Wide Lightning Location Network
    • Derya Itir Dilmen: Tsunami Dynamics over Coral Reefs : Case Study for the September 29th, 2009 Tsunami, American Samoa
    • SeanPaul Le Selle: Submarine canyon modification of tsunami waves
    • Carrie Garrison-Laney: Unexplained Submergence in the Last 500 Years in Puget Sound
    • Jason Kuc: Cause and Effect of Weather Systems on Alpine Glaciers, a Seismic Approach.

3:00 - 4:00 - Break

4:00 - 5:00 - Award Ceremony

5:00 - 9:00 - Reception (Vista Cafe, Foege - Genome Science Building)