Events List 2012
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January 2012
February 2012
Volatile Recycling and Magma Generation in Young-Slab Subduction Zones: Examples from Central Mexico and the Oregon Cascades
Wednesday, 1 February 2012 at 1:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by Paul Wallace, University of Oregon
Research Seminar
Collisional Delamination in New Guinea
Friday, 3 February 2012 at 1:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by Mark Cloos, University of Texas
Research Seminar
GEOL344: Advanced Field Studies - Pounawea
Thursday 9th - Sunday 12th February
See GEOL344 page. (If you intend to take GEOL344 in 2012 please fill in this form: Geol344_Intentions_Form_2012.doc |Geol344_Intentions_Form_2012.pdf )
Field trip
GEOL344: Advanced Field Studies - Swinburn
Sunday 12th -Monday 20th February
See GEOL344 page. (If you intend to take GEOL344 in 2012 please fill in this form: Geol344_Intentions_Form_2012.doc |Geol344_Intentions_Form_2012.pdf )
Field trip
GEOL252: Introduction to field mapping - Maerewhenua
Tuesday 21st - Sunday 26th February
See GEOL252 page.
Field trip
400 Level course meeting
Tuesday 28th February at 9:00am: Quad 6, Geology Building
Meeting to discuss and explain 400 level paper options (options for 2011 for reference only)
Meeting
March 2012
GEOL263/363: Fossils, Strata and Hydrocarbon Basins - North Otago/South Canterbury
Saturday 3rd - Sunday 4th March
Field trip
Imaging the Earth’s near surface: The why and how of applied geophysics for the 21st century
Tuesday, 1 March 2012 at 1:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by Doug Oldenburg
SEG Distinguished Lecturer
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Research Seminar
Recruitment seminar: BHP Billiton
Wednesday, 7 March 2012 at 5:00pm - Quad 4, followed by drinks and pizza in Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Recruitment
Seminar
Relations between paleoearthquakes and million year fault growth
Monday, 12 March 2012 at 11:15am- Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by Vasiliki Mouslopoulou
Technical University of Crete
Research Seminar
Speleothem records of Tropical Pacific Palaeoclimate: Getting down and dirty with the ITCZ
Monday, 12 March 2012 at 1:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by Daniel Sinclair
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Research Seminar
The structure and frictional properties of earthquake faults in nature and experiment
Monday, 12 March 2012 at 1:45pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by Steven Smith
INGV, Instituto Nazionale di Geofiscica e Vulcanologia
Research Seminar
GEOL351: Structural Analysis of Deformed Rocks - Benmore Dam
Friday 16th – Sunday 18th March
See GEOL302 page.
Field trip
Famine, Revolution, Fananticism.... and some of the things I did see in Ethopia, Tunisia and Iran
Friday 23rd March 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Fluid flow by Dushan Jugum
Fluid flow
Field trip
GEOL252: Introduction to field mapping - Borland
Saturday 31st March - Thursday 5th April
See GEOL252 page.
Field trip
April 2012
Dehydration reactions under stress
Tuesday, 17th April 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by John Wheeler, Liverpool University
Research Seminar
Rapid Basin Analysis using Rocks(basement) and Sediments (basin fill)
Thursday, 19th April 2012 at 1:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by Tom Loutit,
Founder and Director, FrOG Tech Pty Ltd:
From Oil to Groundwater, Australia
Research Seminar
Field trip
Antarctica and the onset of Late Pliocene global cooling: A biogeochemical perspective from Ross Sea sediments
Thursday, 26th April 2012 at 4:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by Christina Riesselman
US Geological Survey
Eastern Geology and Paleoclimate Science Center
Research Seminar
GEOL263/363: Fossils, Strata and Hydrocarbon Basins - Arthur's Pass
Friday 27th - Sunday 29th April
Field trip
May 2012
Statistical models in modelling earthquake data
Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 1:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by Ting Wang,
Department of Maths and Stats, University of Otago
Research Seminar
Short course: Tectonomagmatic controls on porphyry and epithermal mineralisation
Monday, 7th May 2012 at 9:00am-5:00pm -GNS Science, Dunedin
Short course by Jeremy Richards, University of Alberta, the 2012 AusIMM New Zealand Branch Visiting Lecturer
Short Course
President's perspectives – a Future GSNZ, and a Carbon flux retrospective
Wednesday,9 May 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by Dr Scott Nodder (GSNZ president), NIWA
President's Seminar
Life on the ice: A tour through Antarctica
Friday 11th May 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Fluid flow by Jacob Anderson
Fluid flow
Oligocene drowning of Zealandia: how wet did it get?
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by Dr Mike Isaac, GNS Lower Hutt (Hochstetter Lecture 2012)
Research Seminar
Mission control we have a problem: New Zealand and fossil fuel use
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012 at 1:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by Dr Mike Isaac, GNS Lower Hutt
Research Seminar
Curry me away: A gastronomic, socioeconomic, and (sometimes) academic trip through Thailand & India
Friday 25th May 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Fluid flow by Jessica Hinojosa
Fluid flow
June 2012
IODP Expedition 343: Japan Trench - ocean drilling of an active fault at record depths!
Friday 1st June 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Fluid flow by Virginia Toy
Fluid flow
Seismic stratigraphy of the Reinga Basin, NW New Zealand: tectonic and petroleum implications
Friday, 8th June 2012 at 1:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by Francois Bache, Marine Geoscientist, GNS Science, Lower Hutt
Research Seminar
Ice, Iron and the Midnight Sun
Friday 8th June 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Fluid flow by Jess Hillman
Fluid flow
June/July 2012
NZ International Science Festival: "what makes us tick?"
Saturday 30th June - Sunday 8th July - Dunedin
NZ International SciFest
July 2012
University of Otago Science Expo: What Makes us Tick? Let's Tock
Sunday 1st July 12:00pm - 6:00pm & Monday 2nd July 9.00am – 3.00pm - The Link, ISB Building, Cumberland Street, opposite the Museum Reserve.
Check out the Geology stall. Science expo is part of the NZ international Science Festival
Otago Science Expo
Along-arc variation in subduction processes, related to slab seismicity, New Zealand
Tuesday, 10 July 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building. Followed by dinner at Eureka.
Seminar by Donna Eberhart-Phillips, GNS Science
Research Seminar
GEOL302 Project Talks
Friday 13th July at 2pm in the Paleo/Sed Lab and Quad 6
Talks
are
open
to
anyone
who
wants
to
come
along.
Students
considering
taking
GEOL302
in
2013
are
encouraged
to
attend.
Student talks
GNS Science Dunedin "Pecha Kucha" fluid flow
Friday, 20th July 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
"Pecha Kucha" 20 second automatic slide transition, 4 minute total, talks from staff at GNS Science Dunedin
"Pecha Kucha"
fluid flow
Short course: Integration of geophysics into exploration and regional or project mapping
Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th July 2012 at 9:00am-5:00pm Paleo-sed Lab (1s06) Geology Building, Dunedin
Short course by Bruce Craven, director and principal consultant with Southern Geoscience Consultants (SGC) in Perth, Western Australia, 2012 AusIMM New Zealand Branch Visiting Lecturer
Short Course
Magma mingling in the Halfmoon Pluton, Stewart Island
Tuesday, 24th July 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building. Drink, eat and chat with the speaker afterwards at Eureka, 116 Albany Street
Seminar by Rose Turnbull, GNS Science
Research Seminar
July/August 2012
CRL short course
Monday 30th July - Friday 3rd August 2012, HoD office (1n15), Geology Building, Dunedin
Short course by James Pope, CRL energy Ltd (for 4th-year geology students)
Short Course
August 2012
GEOL261/ 361: Geophysics of the Earth - Geophysics field school
Wednesday 1st - Sunday 5th August
Field trip
GEOL302: Independent field studies- West Coast
Wednesday 29th August - Sunday 2nd September
See GEOL302 page.
Field trip
September 2012
Micro-mechanisms active during solid state deformation of rock and their microstructural record in New Zealand's Alpine Fault zone
Monday, 3rd September 2012 at 3:00pm - Room 314, Science III Building -All Welcome
Seminar by Virginia Toy, Geology Department, University of Otago
Research Seminar
Post-Collisional Exhumation of the world's youngest ultra-high pressure (UHP) terrane in the Woodlark Rift, Papua New Guinea
Wednesday, 5th September 2012 at 1:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building -All Welcome
Seminar by Tim Little,
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences
Victoria University of Wellington
Research Seminar
Mineral dissolution as a significant permeability-generating mechanism in ocean-floor hydrothermal systems
Friday, 7th September 2012 at 11:00am - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building -All Welcome
Seminar by Dr Andrew McCaig, University of Leeds, UK
Research Seminar
Stress Switching in Subduction Fore-arcs - Implications for Overpressure Containment and Strength Cycling on Megathrusts
Thursday, 13th September 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building -All Welcome
Seminar by Emeritus Professor
Rick Sibson (Otago)
Research Seminar
200 - level Course Advising Meeting
Monday 24th September at 1:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
A meeting for those intending to take core 300-level Geology papers (344, 353) in 2013 Light refreshments provided
Course
Advising
Meeting
300 - level Course Advising Meeting
Wednesday 26th September at 1:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
A meeting for those intending to take Honours/PgDipSci/Masters in 2013. Light refreshments provided
Course
Advising
Meeting
The rise of global atmospheric oxygen in the Palaeoproterozoic: chronological constraints from the FAR-DEEP drill core, NW Russia
Thursday, 27th September 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building -All Welcome
Seminar by Adam Martin,
British Geological Survey
(Otago PhD 2009)
Research Seminar
100 - level Course Advising Meeting
Friday 28th September at 1:00pm - Stage 1 Lab geology building
A meeting for those intending to take core 200- level Geology papers (251, 252) in 2013. Light refreshments provided
Course
Advising
Meeting
October 2012
Three 15 minute seminars from Surveying staff
Wednesday, 3rd October 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building -All Welcome
Research Seminar
GNS's New Zealand Geothermal Research
Friday, 5th October 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building -All Welcome
Seminar by Dave McNamara,
Wairakei Research Centre, GNS Science
Research Seminar
Geology 4th-year research project talks
Friday, 12th October 2012 at 5:00pm-6:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Each talk will be 10 minutes with 5 minutes for questions and speaker change over -all welcome
Research Seminar
Hopi Buttes Volcanic Field Workshop: Interpreting Maar-Diatreme Volcanism using base to top exposures, syn-eruptive surface deposits and country-rock strata
Sunday 21st - Saturday 27th October, Flagstaff Arizona
Organisers: Dr James White and Nathalie Lefebvre (University of Otago) and others.
Field workshop
November 2012
Risking Tsunami: Merging Hazards, Vulnerabilities and Mitigations for Disaster Risk Reduction
Friday, 16th November 2012 at 1:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building
Seminar by Brian McAdoo (Yale – NUS College)
Research Seminar

