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UN 4000 Remote Sensing
Seminar Series

1 credit class CRN# 81944
Fall Semester 2004

Regular Time: Monday 4 pm
113 Minerals & Materials Building

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Purpose of the class:

This is a class built around an interdisciplinary seminar series on Remote Sensing topics. It is meant to give an introduction to this rapidly developing research field for our students. It is meant for students in the Minor program in Remote Sensing, which can be taken by majors in at least 9 departments. It is also of possible interest to graduate and undergraduate students interested in remote sensing and related topics.


The class grade is determined by attendance and participation. There are no exams or written assignments.

Theme of this semester: Remote Sensing of the Universe

This fall`s seminar will include remote sensing and environmental sciences lectures but will focus in particular on issues related to other planetary bodies and astronomy. You are invited to suggest speakers--contact Bill Rose (raman@mtu.edu).

Fall 2004 Schedule of Dates, Speakers and Topics:
Updated 08/27/2004: Please note that some speakers' dates may be rearranged as the schedule is finalized.


 

Date

Time

Room

Title

Author

Abstract link

30 August

 4pm

 U113

From Here to Earth's Mantle: A Geological Field Trip to Newfoundland and Labrador

 A S (Buddy) Wylie

 

6 Sept

 

 

Labor Day Holiday

 

 

13 Sept

4pm

U113

Through the "eyes" of the thermal infrared: Observations and results from the surfaces of Mars and Earth

Mike Ramsey, University of Pittsburgh

 Abstract

20 Sept

4pm

U113

Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Environment and Biota: The Earth 55 Million Years Ago

Ellen Thomas, Wesleyan University

 

27 Sept

4pm

U113

News from the Red Planet: The Always increasing complexity of Mars

James Zimbelman, National Air & Space Museum

 

4 Oct

4pm

U113

Chemical and thermal effects of degassing on the physical properties of magmas

Alan Whittington, University of Missouri

 Abstract

11 Oct

4pm

U113

 Safari to Kenya: Soda Lakes, Hot Springs and Extremophile Bacteria

 James Wood, Geology, Michigan Tech

 

18 Oct

 4pm

U113

Contemporaneous mass extinctions, continental flood basalts, and `impact signals' : are mantle plume-induced lithospheric gas explosions the causal link?

Jason Phipps Morgan, Cornell University

 

25 Oct

 4pm

 U113

 Summer Internship at USGS Cascade Volcano Observatory

 Adam Durant, Michigan Tech

 

1 Nov

4pm

U113

AMANDA/ ICE CUBE

Bob Morse, University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

8 Nov

4pm

U113

Night Sky Live project

Robert Nemiroff, Michigan Tech Physics

 

15 Nov

4pm

U113

 

 

 

29 Nov

4pm

U113

Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory

Brian Fick, Michigan Tech University, Physics

 

6 Dec

4pm

U113

 Dating of Cave Deposits and reconstruction of Karst Topography of the Moravian Karst (Czech Republic) and the Nitze Tatry Mts (Slovakia)

Jaroslav Kadlec, Institute of Geology, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic