Reminder: Apply to host a GeoPRISMS Distinguished Speaker

Posted on by

GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lectureship Program (DLP), 2014-2015

 

**Application deadline extended until Monday August 4, 2014** 

The GeoPRISMS Office is happy to announce the annual GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lectureship Program for academic year 2014-2015 with an outstanding speakers list. Distinguished scientists involved with GeoPRISMS science are available to visit US colleges and universities to present technical and public lectures on subjects related to GeoPRISMS science.

Any US college or university can apply to host a DLP speaker. Applications are due August 1, 2014 for visiting speakers in Fall 2014 and Spring 2015. Institutions that are not currently involved with GeoPRISMS research are strongly encouraged to apply, including those granting undergraduate or masters degrees, as well as those with PhD programs. Institutions may request a technical and/or public lecture. The GeoPRISMS Office will cover airfare for speakers’ travel and will coordinate travel and off-site logistics. Host institutions are responsible for local expenses for the duration of the visit.

Visit the GeoPRISMS website to apply and learn more about the speakers and talks available:
Also, please review the DLP Best Practices for making the most of your visiting speaker:

 

Please direct any questions to the GeoPRISMS Office at info@geoprisms.nineplanetsllc.com
The GeoPRISMS Office

———————————————————

2014-2015 Speakers:

Richard Allen (Berkeley University)

Lecture Titles:

Public: When Plates Collide: Imaging the Roots of Cascadia’s Volcanoes

Technical: The Cascadia Enigma: Probing the Structure of a Silent Subduction Zone

 

Rebecca Bendick (University of Montana)

Lecture Titles:

Public: How Continents Challenge the Theory of Plate Tectonics

Technical: Constraints on Lithospheric Mechanics or Tectonic Dynamics from Surface Deformation

 

Elizabeth Cottrell (Smithsonian Institution)

Lecture Titles:

Public: Volcanoes: Windows to the Deep

Technical: Oxygen Cycling Through Subduction Zones and the Generation of Continents

 

Bradley Hacker (UC, Santa Barbara)

Lecture Titles:

Public: Earth’s Tempo: The Bleeding Edge of Geochronology

Technical: Differentiation of the Continental Crust by Relamination

 

Andy Nyblade (Penn State University)

Lecture Titles:

Public: The formation of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa:  Is there a Connection with Human Origins?

Technical: Cenozoic Rifting, Plateau Uplift, and Volcanism in Eastern Africa and the African Superplume

 

Josh Roering (University of Oregon)

Lecture Titles:

Public: Are Mountains like Giant Sandpiles? How Landslides, Earthquakes, and Big Floods Shape Steep Terrain and Control Sediment Dispersal

Technical: Limits to Life’s Role in Landscape Evolution: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Drivers of Erosion along Continental Margins

 

Robert J. Stern (University of Texas at Dallas)

Lecture Titles:

Public: Geoscientific Investigations of the Southern Mariana Trench and the Challenger Deep

Technical: Subduction Zones, the Subduction Factory, and three MARGINS Mini-Lessons Designed for Undergraduates

 

Kyle Straub (Tulane University)

Lecture Titles:

Public: Stratigraphy: A Flawed Record of Earth’s History, But the Best One We Have

Technical: Process Controls on Stratigraphic Completeness and Basin Filling Sedimentation Patterns along Passive Margins