All Speakers start at 3:30 PM, finish by 4:15 PM . You are free to leave then or may stay for questions. Food and drinks provided @ 3 PM.

August

21st: Classes Begin

25th: Orientation - All Faculty and Students

September

1st: Dr. Doug Gouzie - Missouri State University - "Investigations of the Springfield Plateau Karst Region, Missouri"

8th: Dr. Alan Whittengham - University of Missouri - "Viscosity, Volatiles and Volcanoes: Magma Physics, Chemistry and Rheology"

15th: Sonja Hausmann - U of A - "Paleolimnological Techniques for Reconstructing Past Environmental Conditions"

22nd: Dr. Richard Levy - University of Nebraska - "Developing a Field-Based Teaching Model to Enhance K-12 Earth Science Education"

29th: Dr. Eric Sandvol - University of Missouri - "Eastern Turkey Seismic Experience: The Study of a Young Continent-Continent Collision"

October

6th: Dr. Georges Sabo - U of A "Rock Shelters, Rock Art, and Late Prehistoric Cultural Landscapes in the Ozarks."

13th: Brian Katz - USGS-Florida - "Using chemical and biological tracers to assess impacts on water quality in the Floridian aquifer from the land application of treated wastewater"

20th: GSA Annual Meeting (Oct. 22nd - 25th) - Student Presentations

27th: Dr. Jay Banner - University of Texas - Carbonate and Groundwater Geochemistry

November

3rd: Dr. Ethan Grossman - Texas A&M - "Tertiary Climate Change: Evidence from oxygen isotopic and trace-metal analyses of mollusc shells"

10th Brian Haggard - University of Arkansas - "Phosphorus Concentrations, Loads and Sources at the Illinois River Basin, Arkansas and Oklahoma"

17th: Dr. Michael Ledbetter - UALR - "The Arctic is Warming, the Arctic is Warming--Global Warming in the Arctic"

22 - 25th: Thanksgiving/Fall Break - No Colloquium

December

1st: Dr. Eladio Cornejo Oveido - Tennessee "Forest Conservation and Sustainable Management in Mexico"

5th: Last day of classes