USGS Portland Seminar Series Schedule

Winter 2008 Seminar Series Schedule

We've Moved! We are now located on the Portland State University Campus (directions and map below).

Seminars are usually held on Tuesdays from noon to 1 pm. The seminars are informal and are open to the public. Bring your lunch. The USGS Oregon Water Science Center office is located in Portland at 2130 SW 5th Ave. Directions to the USGS office are posted here.

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Note: The following schedule is subject to change. Please check this page or call 503-251-3200 prior to attending a seminar.

WINTER 2008 USGS SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Tuesday 15 January 2008 Noon to 1 pm	Holocene Volcanism at Mount Rainier and Implications for Hazards Jim Vallance USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory link to website
Tuesday 22 January 2008 Noon to 1 pm	Removal of Marmot Dam on the Sandy River: First Musings and Measurements Jim O'Connor Geomorphologist USGS Oregon Water Science Center
Tuesday 29 January 2008 Noon to 1 pm	Four-Dimensional Snow Volume Measurements Using Ground-Based Tripod LiDAR Gerald Bawden Research Geophysicist USGS California Water Science Center and Snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada: a Basin-scale Perspective of a Changing Climate Lorri Flint Research Hydrologist USGS California Water Science Center
Tuesday 05 February 2008 Noon to 1 pm	Grounding Line Forensics: West Antarctica Understanding Discharge Variability in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Christina Hulbe Associate Professor of Geology Portland State University link to website [abstract]
Tuesday 12 February 2008 Noon to 1 pm	13,000-Year History of Columbia River Salmon Virginia Butler Professor of Anthropology Portland State University link to webpage
Tuesday 19 February 2008 Noon to 1 pm	Using Models to Assess the Effects of Point-Source Heat Trades under the Willamette River Temperature TMDL Stewart Rounds Hydrologist US Geological Survey link to webpage Note: The seminar originally scheduled for February 19th, by Tiffany Gregg, has been postponed. New date TBA.
Tuesday 26 February 2008 Noon to 1 pm	Contaminants in the Lower Columbia River: What Have We Found and Where Are We Headed Jennifer Morace Hydrologist USGS Oregon Water Science Center
Tuesday 04 March 2008 Noon to 1 pm	The National Map A Collaborative Effort to Improve and Deliver Topographic Information to the Nation. Sheri Schneider Oregon Geospatial Liason Western Region GIO - NSDI Partnership Office and Updating Geographic Names Information System in Oregon Caroline Rouwalk Geographer Oregon NSDI Partnership Office
Tuesday 11 March 2008 Noon to 1 pm	* CANCELLED * CANCELLED * CANCELLED * Pesticide Occurrence and Distribution in the Lower Clackamas River Basin Implications for Aquatic Life and Human Health Kurt Carpenter Hydrologist US Geological Survey
Tuesday 18 March 2008 Noon to 1 pm	* CANCELLED * CANCELLED * CANCELLED * Allocation, growth, and photosynthetic response of the invasive aquatic plant Egeria densa from two populations in California and Oregon Toni Pennington Portland State University / CH2MHill

WINTER 2008 USGS SEMINAR SCHEDULE

Tuesday
15 January 2008
Noon to 1 pm

Holocene Volcanism at Mount Rainier and Implications for Hazards

Jim Vallance

USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory
link to website

Tuesday
22 January 2008
Noon to 1 pm

Removal of Marmot Dam on the Sandy River:
First Musings and Measurements

Jim O'Connor

Geomorphologist
USGS Oregon Water Science Center

Tuesday
29 January 2008
Noon to 1 pm

Four-Dimensional Snow Volume Measurements Using Ground-Based Tripod LiDAR

Gerald Bawden

Research Geophysicist
USGS California Water Science Center

and

Snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada: a Basin-scale Perspective of a Changing Climate

Lorri Flint

Research Hydrologist
USGS California Water Science Center

Tuesday
05 February 2008
Noon to 1 pm

Grounding Line Forensics: West Antarctica
Understanding Discharge Variability in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Christina Hulbe

Associate Professor of Geology
Portland State University
link to website
[abstract]

Tuesday
12 February 2008
Noon to 1 pm

13,000-Year History of Columbia River Salmon

Virginia Butler

Professor of Anthropology
Portland State University
link to webpage

Tuesday
19 February 2008
Noon to 1 pm

Using Models to Assess the Effects of Point-Source Heat Trades under the Willamette River Temperature TMDL

Stewart Rounds

Hydrologist
US Geological Survey
link to webpage

Note: The seminar originally scheduled for February 19th, by Tiffany Gregg, has been postponed. New date TBA.

Tuesday
26 February 2008
Noon to 1 pm

Contaminants in the Lower Columbia River:
What Have We Found and Where Are We Headed

Jennifer Morace

Hydrologist
USGS Oregon Water Science Center

Tuesday
04 March 2008
Noon to 1 pm

The National Map
A Collaborative Effort to Improve and Deliver Topographic Information to the Nation.

Sheri Schneider

Oregon Geospatial Liason
Western Region GIO - NSDI Partnership Office

and

Updating Geographic Names Information System in Oregon

Caroline Rouwalk

Geographer
Oregon NSDI Partnership Office

Tuesday
11 March 2008
Noon to 1 pm

*** CANCELLED *** CANCELLED *** CANCELLED ***

Pesticide Occurrence and Distribution in the Lower Clackamas River Basin
Implications for Aquatic Life and Human Health

Kurt Carpenter

Hydrologist
US Geological Survey

Tuesday
18 March 2008
Noon to 1 pm

*** CANCELLED *** CANCELLED *** CANCELLED ***

Allocation, growth, and photosynthetic response of the invasive aquatic plant Egeria densa from two populations in California and Oregon

Toni Pennington

Portland State University / CH2MHill

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