Upcoming EventsPast Events
May 3 4:00PM
ESB 5104-06

Colloquium

Climate-driven changes in concentrations of bioaccumulative contaminants in Arctic and Subarctic regions

Speaker: Elsie Sunderland
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Harvard
Hosted by: Miling Li and Dominique Weis
Apr 27 12:30PM
ESB 5108

Thesis Defense

Source estimation and uncertainty quantification for wave-equation-based seismic imaging and inversion

PhD Thesis Defense
Speaker: Zhilong Fang
Supervised by: Dr. Felix Herrmann
Apr 25 12:30PM
Room 200 of the Graduate Student Centre (6371 Crescent Road)

Thesis Defense

Interactions Between Climate and the Rise of Explosive Volcanic Plumes: A New Feedback in the Earth System

PhD Thesis Defense
Speaker: Thomas Jacques Aubry
Supervised by: Dr. Mark Jellinek
Apr 25 10:00AM
ESB 5104

Thesis Defense

Mapping the Carbonate Alteration Footprint of the Cortez Hills Carlin-type Gold Deposit, Nevada Using Carbon-Oxygen Stable Isotopes and Geochemistry as a Vectoring Tool

MSc Thesis Defense
Speaker: Christopher Herron
Supervised by: Dr. Greg Dipple
Apr 20 10:30AM
ESB 5104

Thesis Defense

Pattern-forming instabilities in the coupling of ice sheets and subglacial drainage systems

MSc Thesis Defense
Speaker: Arran Whiteford
Supervised by: Dr. Christian Schoof
Apr 19 10:30AM
ESB 5104

Seminar

Candidate 5 Research Seminar

Apr 17 2:45PM
ESB 5104

Seminar

Candidate 4 Research Seminar

Apr 16 10:00AM
ESB 5106

Thesis Defense

The Impact of Internal Tide Mixing Parameterizations in an Eddy-Permitting Model of the Arctic Ocean

MSc Thesis Defense
Speaker: Jacquie-Lee Epstein
Supervised by: Dr. Stephanie Waterman and Dr. Paul G. Myers
Apr 16 9:00AM
ESB 5104

Seminar

Candidate 3 Research Seminar

Apr 11 10:00AM
ESB 5104

Thesis Defense

Large-scale seismic data compression: application to full waveform inversion and extended image volume

MSc Thesis Defense
Speaker: Yiming Zhang
Supervised by: Dr. Felix Herrmann
Apr 10 10:30AM
ESB 5104

Seminar

Candidate 2 Research Seminar

Apr 5 4:00PM
ESB 5104-06

Colloquium

Impacts of volcanic eruptions on the ozone layer and surface climate

Speaker: Michael Mills
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National Center for Atmospheric Research
Hosted by: Thomas Aubry
Apr 5 12:30PM
ESB 5104

Seminar

Candidate 1 Research Seminar

Apr 4 1:00PM
ESB 5104

Thesis Defense

EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF HYDRAULIC STIMULATION AS A RISK MITIGATION TECHNIQUE FOR FAULT SLIP ROCKBURST HAZARDS IN UNDERGROUND MINING

MASc Thesis Defense
Speaker: Erika Schmidt
Supervised by: Dr. Erik Eberhardt
Mar 23 2:00PM
ESB 5104

Seminar

The structural setting and evolution of Archean (and younger) gold deposits

Speaker: Wouter Bleeker
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Geological Survey of Canada
Hosted by: Matthijs A. Smit
Mar 23 9:00AM
ESB-5104

Thesis Defense

Archean crustal evolution constrained by strontium isotopes in apatite and uranium-lead geochronology and trace element geochemistry of zircon

MSc Thesis Defense
Speaker: Robert Emo
Supervised by: Dr. Matthijs Smit
Mar 22 4:00PM
ESB 5104-06

Colloquium

Archean cratons, fragments of ancestral supercratons: Insights from paleo-continental reconstructions

Speaker: Wouter Bleeker
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Geological Survey of Canada
Hosted by: Matthijs A. Smit
Mar 15 6:30PM
ESB 1013, Earth Science Building, University of British Columbia

Seminar

Protecting Society from Landslide Hazard and Risk

Speaker: Dr. Suzanne Lacasse
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Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
Hosted by: UBC Geological Enginereing and Vancouver Geotechnical Society
Mar 15 4:00PM
ESB 5104-06

Colloquium

Magma underplating and the formation of ore deposits in subduction zone environments

Speaker: Adam Simon
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University of Michigan
Hosted by: Laura Bilenker
Mar 8 4:00PM
ESB 5104-06

Colloquium

The Role of Deep Creep in the Timing of Large Earthquakes

Speaker: Charles Sammis
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UCLA
Hosted by: Michael Bostock