Rockfest Schedule
The 2020-21 Rockfest Schedule will be posted in mid to late September as speakers are signed up. The format may be changed due to COVID-19 restrictions.
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Rockfest Schedule 2019-20
Fridays 3-4 pm, ES2093 (Seminar Room)
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| FALL SCHEDULE | ||
| DATE | SPEAKER 1 | SPEAKER 2 |
| October 11 |
Jean Louis Vigneresse – Granites: melting, magma ascent and emplacement |
Jean Louis Vigneresse – Granites: melting, magma ascent and emplacement (continued) |
| October 18 | ROCK WALK
(led by Fried Schwerdtner & Pierre-Yves Robin) |
Colin Roth – Glaciation |
| October 25 | Sam Athey – From Your Laundry to the Lake: Blue jeans as a source of microfibers to the aquatic environment | Kai Wang – Full wave ambient noise tomography of the southern California plate boundary region |
| November 1 | Megan Swing – Sm-Nd Isotope Mapping of the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben within the Grenville Province | Tim Rogers – DHA Declines due to Warming Waters |
| November 8 | READING WEEK (NO ROCKFEST) | READING WEEK (NO ROCKFEST) |
| November 15 | Erin Seagren – Lies, damned lies, and statistics: Misuses of means and the importance of spatial variability in erosional controls | Nivea Magalhaes – Fingerprinting crustal contamination in magmatic systems using multiple sulfur isotopes: a case study of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa |
| November 22 | Tanya Kizovski | Marissa Davies |
| November 29
(2pm-4pm) |
ESS1101 Seminar Course Proposal Talks ( PhD Students) |
ESS1101 Seminar Course Proposal Talks ( PhD Students) |
| December 6
(10:00am-11:00am) |
ESS1101 Seminar Course Proposal Talks ( MSc Students) |
ESS1101 Seminar Course Proposal Talks ( MSc Students) |
| WINTER SCHEDULE | ||
| DATE | SPEAKER 1 | SPEAKER 2 |
| January 10 | Liz Phillips – Investigating Sources of Uncertainty in Dual-Isotope Plots |
Fried Schwerdtner –Straight orthogneisses of the Grenville Province: Geological attractions and popular decorative stones in Ontario (Wawa to Niagara Falls) featuring: Sofia Panasiuk |
| January 17 | Jacob Kvasnicka – Human Activities Influence Exposure to Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds: A Multimedia Modeling Experiment | Sofia Panasiuk – Bathymetry Data |
| January 24 | Fried Schwerdtner – The sad story of ‘straight gneiss’: Why it is important to make a thorough literature search when starting a scientific project. | Michael Milner – Field parties in the Iron Ranges of Merry Mountain area near the Grenville front, northern Quebec |
| January 31 | Natalie Szponar ***RESCHEDULED**** | ***RESCHEDULED****Michael Milner – Placer Gold mining in the Amazonian Jungles of Peru, Bolivia and Brazil |
| February 7 | Julia Andersen | OPEN |
| February 14 | Natalie Szponar | Michael Milner – Placer Gold mining in the Amazonian Jungles of Peru, Bolivia and Brazil |
| February 21 | READING WEEK (NO ROCKFEST) | READING WEEK (NO ROCKFEST) |
| February 28 | Samuel Duckworth Battye | OPEN |
| March 6 | OPEN | OPEN |
| March 13 | Saif Al-Silwadi | OPEN |
| March 20 | ROCKFEST TRIVIA | ROCKFEST TRIVIA |
| March 27 | Dan Gregory – How to Apply for Academic Interviews | Dan Gregory – How to Apply for Academic Interviews (Part 2) |
| April 3 | Erkan Gun | OPEN |