Spring 2005 Thursdays 3:00-4:15 PM

Room 206, Building S & T I

Office hour (By appointment and TBD)

ESGS Web Page: http://esgs.gmu.edu

Instructor: Dr. Sheryl Beach, ST I Room 207

Associate Professor of Geography and Computational Sciences

Phone: 703-993-1213

E-mail: slbeach@gmu.edu

This seminar celebrates and features research topics relating to the new PhD in Earth Systems and GeoInformation Sciences. The main emphases of this seminar are on the tracks available in the new Ph.D.: Geosciences, Remote Sensing, GIS, and Geography. It is designed to give students with limited backgrounds a thorough introduction to research and innovators in these areas. Invited speakers will include ESGS Faculty and Guests from outside of ESGS and GMU. This one credit seminar is required for the ESGS Ph. D. programs (take 3 colloquia), and counts for 1 credit of the 3 credit seminar/colloquium requirements for the M.S. in ESS program. Each student is required to pick one topic and write a short final report regarding the topic (no more than 10 pages including figures and tables).

Refreshments will be served, please join us!

Grading:

Participation 50%

Final report: 50%

Spring 2005 Speaker Schedule

27 January	Dr. Allan James, Geography, University of South Carolina
Title	Hydraulic Myopia and the Fluvial Sediment Wave: Localized River-Channel Perspectives Overlook G.K. Gilbert's 1917 Watershed Vision
3 February 2	Dr. Long Chiu, ESGS & CEOSR, George Mason University
Title	Satellite Remote Sensing of Hydrologic Processes
10 February	Dr. Randy McBride, ESP/GEOL & ESS, George Mason Univ.
Title	Geology and Paleodynamics of a Former Tidal Inlet along the Outer Banks of VA/NC: Old Currituck Inlet from pre-1585 to 1731
17 February	Dr. Kevin Pope, GeoEcoArc Research and ESGS, GMU
Title	The Chicxulub Impact Crater of Yucatan MX
24 February	Dr. Matthew Larsen, USGS Hydrologic Division
Title	Debris-flow Hazards in Latin America: Recent Examples from Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic
3 March	Dr. Allison Macfarlane, Security Studies Program, M.I.T.
Title	Nuclear Waste Disposal and Geology
10 March	Dr. Richard Gomez, ESGS & CEOSR, GMU
Title	Hyperspectral Applications in Earth Science
17 March	No Classes, GMU Spring Break
24 March	Dr. John Qu, EGSG & CEOSR, GMU
Title	TBD
31 March	Dr. Zafer Boybeyi ESGS, CAMP & CEOSR; GMU
Title	TBD
7 April	No Class; Assoc. of Amer. Geographers Annual Mtg. Denver CO
14 April	Dr. Michael Jasinski, NASA/GSFC
Title	Estimation of Vegetation Aerodynamic Roughness for Momentum Using MODIS Data Products
21 April	Earth Day with Dr. Tom Cronin, US Geological Survey
Title	The 2004 IODP Deep-Sea Coring Expedition to the Central Arctic Ocean: The Arctic and Global Climate
28 April	Dr. Phil Yang, ESGS, GMU
Title	Distributed Geographic Information Systems
5 May	Dr. Dorothy Hall, NASA/GSFC
Title	The Cryosphere and Remote Sensing: Snow and Glacier Estimation