Rockfest Schedule
The 2019-20 Rockfest Schedule will be posted in mid to late September as speakers are signed up.
Interested in signing up to give a Rockfest Talk? Check back here for information about how to sign up!
Rockfest Schedule 2018-19
Fridays 3-4 pm, ES2093 (Seminar Room)
Check back for updates
| FALL SCHEDULE | ||
| DATE | SPEAKER 1 | SPEAKER 2 |
| October 12 | CANCELLED | CANCELLED |
| October 19 | Don Davis – Hydrogeologic effects of the Alleghanian orogeny on southern Ontario from U-Pb dating of carbonates | Marissa Davies – A multi-proxy approach to understanding Holocene paleoenvironmental change in Ontario’s Far North peatlands |
| October 26 | Simen Johnsen – The effect of salinity on calcite production in the algal group coccolithophores | Sam Athey – Impacts of a sorbed pollutant on the trophic transfer of microplastics in an estuarine model |
| November 2 | Thomas Kosciuch – Sedimentological and micropaleontological characteristics of the 2015 Hurricane Joaquin deposit and their implications for long-term records of storms and tsunamis impacting the Caribbean | Meghan Zulian – Reconstruction of Arctic Ocean pH using coralline algae |
| November 9 | READING WEEK (NO ROCKFEST) | READING WEEK (NO ROCKFEST) |
| November 16 | ROCK WALK
(led by Fried Schwerdtner & Pierre-Yves Robin) |
Back up speakers (in case of bad weather): Prof. Xu Chu |
| November 23 | ESS1101 Seminar Course Proposal Talks | ESS1101 Seminar Course Proposal Talks |
| November 30
(2pm-4pm) |
ESS1101 Seminar Course Proposal Talks | ESS1101 Seminar Course Proposal Talks |
| December 7
(10:00am-11:00am) |
ESS1101 Seminar Course Proposal Talks | ESS1101 Seminar Course Proposal Talks |
| WINTER SCHEDULE | ||
| DATE | SPEAKER 1 | SPEAKER 2 |
| January 11 | Tasca Santimano – Controls of the Lower crust on lithospheric deformation in an intraplate setting: Insights from scaled physical analogue models | Jacob Kvasnicka – Comparative assessment of human health benefits and risks of contaminated sediment remediation |
| January 18 | Johnathan Sorrentino – Solar Sails: Saving Humanity one Mass Coronal Ejection at a Time | Walfried Schwerdtner-Windows and klippen in the Ottawan thrust-sheet stack, Grenville Province of central and eastern Ontario |
| January 25 | Sara Zeidan – Radionuclide transport from Fukushima, Japan across the Pacific Ocean to Canada | Daniel Gregory – Nano-inclusions verses lattice-bound trace elements in pyrite: Implications on formation history and paleo-ocean chemistry |
| February 1 |
Laflamme Lab – Invertebrate Paleontology |
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| February 8 | Man-Yin Alice Tsang – The Sulfate & Sulfide in Deep Hot Sediments of the Nankai Trough | Xu Chu – Pseudotachylyte recording coseismic fracturing during UHP slab exhumation |
| February 15 | OPEN | Michael Milner – Gold Fever: Systemic Infections and Topical Treatment |
| February 22 | READING WEEK (NO ROCKFEST) | READING WEEK (NO ROCKFEST) |
| March 1 | Diamond Lab – Environmental Chemistry | |
| March 15 | Vasa Lukich – Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Archaeological Localities at Kathu Pan, Northern Cape Province, South Africa | Sara Rhodes – The Paleoecology of the Ach Valley, Southwestern Germany, at the time of the last Neanderthals |
| March 22 | Junxing Chen – Zinc isotope precise measurement in organism | Ghassem Kamal – Role of Clay minerals and Shales in Drilling Wells-New Challenges |
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March 29 (2:00pm-3:00pm) |
Rockfest at the ROM – Tait Lab (Applied Planetary Mineralogy) Location: Royal Ontario Museum, classroom 3B13 Limited to 50 attendees. Please sign up here (first come, first serve) |
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| April 5 | Simen Johnsen – Marine biogenic calcification – a brief overview | Natalie Szponar – Tracking Atmospheric Mercury Sources by Isotopic Fingerprinting |
| April 19 | EASTER (NO ROCKFEST) | EASTER (NO ROCKFEST) |