Events List 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

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

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 )

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 )

GEOL252: Introduction to field mapping - Maerewhenua

Tuesday 21st - Sunday 26th February

See GEOL252 page.

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)

GEOL263/363: Fossils, Strata and Hydrocarbon Basins - North Otago/South Canterbury

Saturday 3rd - Sunday 4th March

See GEOL 263/363 pages.

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

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

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

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

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

GEOL351: Structural Analysis of Deformed Rocks - Benmore Dam

Friday 16th – Sunday 18th March

See GEOL302 page.

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

EAOS111: Earth and Ocean Science- North Otago

Saturday 24th or Sunday 25th March

See EAOS111 page.

GEOL252: Introduction to field mapping - Borland

Saturday 31st March - Thursday 5th April

See GEOL252 page.

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

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

EAOS111: Earth and Ocean Science- Taieri

Saturday 21st or Sunday 22nd April

See EAOS111 page.

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

GEOL263/363: Fossils, Strata and Hydrocarbon Basins - Arthur's Pass

Friday 27th - Sunday 29th April

See GEOL 263/363 pages.

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

NZ International Science Festival: "what makes us tick?"

Saturday 30th June - Sunday 8th July - Dunedin

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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)

GEOL261/ 361: Geophysics of the Earth - Geophysics field school

Wednesday 1st - Sunday 5th August

See GEOL 261/361 pages.

GEOL302: Independent field studies- West Coast

Wednesday 29th August - Sunday 2nd September

See GEOL302 page.

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

Three 15 minute seminars from Surveying staff

Wednesday, 3rd October 2012 at 5:00pm - Benson Common Room Gn9, Ground Floor Geology Building -All Welcome

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

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

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.

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)