Schedule of Events

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

7:30 am (room) Continental Breakfast (sponsor)

8:30 am (room) Welcoming Remarks, Mike Mansfield

Technical Session

9:00 am Jesus M. V. Beltran The origin of trachytes and

pantellerites at the Eburru volcanic complex, Kenya, Africa

9: 15 am Claudia H. Flores The Shallow Seismicity of Cook Inlet

9:30 am Ben R. Diaz Microbial Survival Rates in Soil under

Sub-Zero, Low-Pressure and UV conditions

9:45 am Rob L. Dean Spatially restricted deformation

around the 1.4 Ga Eolus Granite, Needle Mountains, Colorado: Constraints on regional deformation fields at 1.4 Ga

10:00 am Leañdro Treviño Laramide age basins of central

Colorado: An Integrated Geophysical Study

10:15-10:30 am BREAK

10:30 am Oscar Dena Determination of the lithospheric

structure of Lake Baikal, Russia

10:45 am Julie Hamblock Lithology, alteration, and

mineralization in the Eastern Mexican Alkaline Province

11:00 am Hugo A. Gutierrez Jurado Groundwater exploration in central

Chihuahua, Mexico using ASTER and Landsat Imagery and GIS

11:15 am Mike Mansfield

11:30 am Joel Reyes Results from the Bromide Tracer test

at Rio Bosque

11:45 am Leañdro Treviño A Study of the 1995 Waitangi Day

Outer Rise Seismic Sequence,

North Island, New Zealand

12:00-12:15 pm (room) Judge Meeting for Oral Presentation

12:15- 1:45 pm Lunch in the Geology Courtyard sponsored by SEG/SGE

Poster Presentation

1:45- 2:45 pm Poster session I- viewing and judging (geology reading

Room)

2:45-3:00 pm BREAK

3:00- 4:00 pm Poster session II- viewing and judging (geology reading

room)

4:00-4:15 pm (room) Judges Meeting for Poster Sessions

4:15-5:00 pm Slide Show and Awards Ceremony

5:00 pm Post-colloquium party at the haunted house

Poster Presentations

Jack A. Arias Phytoremediation as an Alternative for the

Remediation of Lead (Pb) Soil Contamination in El Paso, Texas

Wesley A. Brown The Use of Gravity Models to Constrain Regional Velocity Models for the Libya Area

Marita Bw’Obuya Conceptual Model of Olkaria

Geolthermal Field, Kenya: A Re-Interpretation of Geophysics Data

Lynnette Crocker Controls on Morphology of the Parabolic Dunes in White Sands National Monument, New Mexico

Julie Hamblock Lithospheric heterogeneity beneath the

East African Rift System interpreted from major and trace element analyses of mafic rocks

Dan Hernandez Exploring Himalaya Seismicity in the

Kingdom of Bhutan Utilizing a Temporary Seismic Network

Eric J. Kappus Characterization of the Continental

Mantle in an Active Rift Zone: Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico

Eric J. Kappus Dinosaur Footprints from the Lower

Cretaceous Anapra Sandstone at Cerro de Cristo Rey, Dona Ana County, New Mexico

Selma Khatun Gravity Studies to Detect Faults

Controlling Groundwater Movement within the Lower Mesilla Basin, West Texas

Tanya J. Lehner Filtration of Pathogenic Parasites using

Laterites and Surfactant-Modified Zeolites

Conor McDonough Deciphering the Nature of the Seri-Tauhe

Terrane Boundary, Northwestern Mexico

Roene Neu Erosion and transport potential of

sediment obstructing the flow of the Rio Grande into the Gulf of Mexico

Alfredo Ruiz Kinematic Analysis of low angle normal faulting during basin development in the southern Rio Grande rift

Cara Schiek Enhancing Structural Features through

Satellite Imagery

Andrea Silva Contact Metamorphism around the 1.4 Ga

Eolus Granite, Needle Mountains, Southwest Colorado

Tom F. VanDeMark Regional Discrimination between Earthquakes and Explosions from the Nevada Test Site

Katy Wiest Source Processes of Western Washington

Intraslab Earthquakes (1939-1965)

Iskra Zamarron Statistical Geochemistry of Stream Sediments of the Sierra de Pena Blanca