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All seminars will be held at 4pm in 1118 Rood Hall unless otherwise noted.

Date	Speaker	Title
Sept 14	Dr. Patricia Holton, Director Environmental Safety & Emergency Management WMU Public Safety Announcement	Right to Know Meeting Mandatory for new Graduate students
Sept 16 Wednesday, 4pm Putney Auditorium, Fetzer Center	Dr. Nicholas Steneck Emeritus Professor of History University of Michigan Sponsored by: The Graduate College, The College of Arts and Sciences, The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, The College of Health and Human Services, the Medieval Institute, The Departments of: Chemistry, English, Foreign Languages, Geosciences, and History Location: Fetzer Center, Putney Auditorium Announcement	How Governments Have Addressed Ethics in Research
Sept 21	Dr. Dan Cassidy Department of Geosciences Western Michigan University Announcement	In Situ Chemical Oxidation (ISCO) Treatment of a Former MGP Site: Evidence of Surfactant Production
Sept 28	Graduate Students Tony Clark (Proposal Defense) Farshid Keshavarz Announcement	Modeling of Supercritical CO2 Flow in the Sylvania Sandstone A Stratigraphic and petrologic analysis of the Middle Devonian Sylvania, Bois Blanc, and Amherstburg Formations in the Michigan Basin; Implications for geological storage of CO2
Oct 5	Alumni Dave Huey Exploration Geologist Kennecott Eagle Minerals Rio Tinto Abstract Announcement	The Eagle Nickel-Copper Deposit and Mid-Continent Exploration, Marquette County, Michigan
Oct 12	Ms. Joyce Lew, Director Office of Student Conduct Division of Student Affairs Western Michigan University & Dr. Carla Koretsky Department of Geosciences Western Michigan University Announcement	Academic Misconduct Presentation PowerPoint Presentation
Oct 19	No Seminar - GSA week
Oct 20 Tuesday 11am, 1120 Rood Hall	Thesis Defense Graduate Student Melanie Haveman Announcement	Influence of Vegetation on Seasonal Pore Water Chemistry in a Michigan Peatland
Oct 21 Wednesday 3pm, 1120 Rood Hall	Proposal Defense Graduate Student John Thornton Announcement	Prediction of Petrophysical Properties of Trenton-Black River (Ordovician) Reservoirs by Comparing Pore Architecture and Permeability to Sonic Velocity, Michigan Basin, USA
Oct 23 Friday 3pm, 1118 Rood Hall	Alumni Award Winner! Eliot Atekwana Oklahoma State University Announcement	Effects of Acidification on Dissolved Inorganic Carbon and Stable Carbon Isotopes in Receiving Streams
Oct 26	Proposal Defense Graduate Student Travis Hayden Announcement	Tectonics, Ice and Backstripping in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
Nov 2	No Seminar
Nov 9	Robert Stern Department of Geosciences University of Texas at Dallas Abstract Publication Announcement	When Did Plate Tectonics Start? An Exploration.
Nov 16	No Seminar
Nov 19 Thursday 1pm, 1118 Rood Hall	Dr. Edward Kohut Geological Science University of Delaware Announcement	Using Petrology as a Window Into a Subduction Zone, from Arc to Back-arc
Nov 23	John Esch Minerals and Mapping Unit Office of Geological Survey Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) Announcement	Ongoing statewide mapping projects, and a background of the Office of Geological Survey
Nov 24 Tuesday 11am, 1120 Rood Hall	Proposal Defense Graduate Student Joy Gryzenia Announcement	Characterizing surfactants produced by the chemical oxidation of PAH contaminated soil
Nov 24 Tuesday 3pm, 1122 Rood Hall	Proposal Defense Graduate Student Meghan Good Announcement	Evaluation and Troubleshooting of Nitrogen Removal in a Constructed Wetland for Wastewater Treatment
Nov 30	Co-sponsored with the Mallinson Institute for Science Education Dr. Scott Clark Department of Geological Studies Michigan State University
Dec 7	Robert K. Garrison EOG Resources, Inc.
Dec 14	Final Exam Week

SPRING 2010 Speakers (Schedule is subject to change)

Jan 11	Dr. Erik Klemetti Denison University
Jan 18	MLK Day - no seminar
Jan 25	Dr. Heather Petcovic Department of Geosciences Western Michigan University
Feb 1
Feb 8	Dr. Phanikumar S. Mantha Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering Michigan State University
Feb 15	Thesis Defense Graduate Student Emily Hartwick	Fluid-Flow Architecture of Sandstone Reservoirs in the Covenant Field, Sevier County, Utah
Feb 22
March 1	Spring Break Week - no seminar
March 8
March 15	Thure Cerling University of Utah
March 22
March 29
April 5	Dr. Andrew Jacobson Northwestern University
April 12
April 19
April 26	Final Exam Week - no seminar

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