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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

The Klamath Water Crisis -- an economic perspective (Speaker: Bill Jaeger, OSU)
Fall Water Resources Seminar Series: When Water Does Run Uphill: The Economics and Politics of Water in the 21st Century
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Owen Hall

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Geological Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option
Darcy Lecturer / Michael Celia
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Bill Chadwick, CIMRS/NOAA Vents Program
"Lessons learned from an erupting submarine volcano"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport
Reevaluating Oregon tsunami hazards: Summary of a new Tsunami Hazard Assessment at Cannon Beach, Oregon
Geology Seminar Series, Fall 2008
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall

Friday, October 3, 2008

Logos House Latin Class
First year Latin every Friday of Fall 2008
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm  |  Milam Hall  |  $300 or $200 per term, depending on credit

Monday, October 6, 2008

"Climate Change Adaptation: An Opportunity Not to be Missed"
Dr. Dan White, University of Alaska
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
A Fable: The Statistician and the Isotopic ratio of Respired Carbon
Lisa Ganio, Department of Forest Science, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Center for Humanities Lecture: Race and Evolution: Changing Ideas on Race-Mixing in Twentieth-Century America
Paul Farber, Guest, OSU History Dept. Reception follows.
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

CGRB Seminar Series - Soren Impey
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
"A Modeling Study of Combined Effects of Wind-Driven Upwelling and Internal Tide on the Continental Shelf"
Alexander Kurapov, COAS, OSU
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Conflict and cooperation over shared waters
Geography Seminar Series, Fall 2008
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

"Observed and Projected Changes in Climate Extremes"
Dr. David Easterling, National Climatic Data Center
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
The Water Transactions Program in the Columbia (Molly Whitney, National Fish & Wildlife Foundation)
Fall Water Resources Seminar Series: When Water Does Run Uphill: The Economics and Politics of Water in the 21st Century
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Owen Hall

Thursday, October 9, 2008

60 Years After The Berlin Airlift, Lecture
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Presentation about the "Berlin Airlift" by Consul Karsten Tietz
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
"How to Interpret Satellite Chlorophyll Observations: A Case Study about the Mozambique Channel"
Anne Willem, Dept. of Theoretical Biology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
60 Years After The Berlin Airlift, Panel Discussion
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
60 Years After The Berlin Airlift, Panel Discussion
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Forecasting coastal morphologic response to extreme storms
Geology Seminar Series, Fall 2008
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Application of tree-ring techniques across diverse taxa and ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest
Bryan Black, Assistant Professor, Hatfield Marine Sci Ctr., Dept. of Forest Ecosystems and Society
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall
"Why the Dalai Lama Matters"
Talk by Robert Thurman, Columbia University
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Milam Auditorium

Friday, October 10, 2008

OSU Libraries' Library Faculty Association Seminar Series
Peer Review 2.0: Tomorrow's Scholarship for Today's Students
10:00 am - 11:30 am  |  Valley Library  |  Free
Ecosystem Service Markets:
Carbon markets and trading
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall

Monday, October 13, 2008

Assessing the Response of Streams to Contemporary Forest Practices:
A Conference on Paired Watershed Studies
all day  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  Before September 16, 2008: Professional- $135, Student-$60. Starting September 16, Professional- $160, Student- $85
Anti-retroviral Drug Adherence in Rural Mozambique: A Sociologist's Perspective
Presentation by J. Gary Linn, Tennessee State University
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Snell Hall
What in the HAB? An Overview of Harmful Algal Blooms
Presenter - Kale Haggard, MS Candidate - Crop & Soil Science Dept., Oregon State University
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Task Tracer: Machine Learning Applied to Improve Desktop Computing
Thomas Gietterich, School of Engineering and Computer Science, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Assessing the Response of Streams to Contemporary Forest Practices:
A Conference on Paired Watershed Studies
(continued) all day  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  Before September 16, 2008: Professional- $135, Student-$60. Starting September 16, Professional- $160, Student- $85
Reading the Small Print in the 2008 Elections: Less Prominent Doesn't Mean Less Significant
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm  |  Corvallis-Benton County Public Library  |  Free
The Open Source Movement and Technology
Horticulture Seminar Series, Fall 2008
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Environmental science research at EPA: a geographer's potpourri
Geography Seminar Series, Fall 2008
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Re-thinking Water and Food Scarcity: Can Science and Technology Solve the Global Crisis?
Distinguished Lecturer in Water Resources
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Climate change, water scarcity and agriculture in Italy (Speaker: Carlo Giuponni, University of Venice Ca'Foscari)
Fall Water Resources Seminar Series: When Water Does Run Uphill: The Economics and Politics of Water in the 21st Century
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Owen Hall

Thursday, October 16, 2008

"Accounting for the effects of forest disturbance and inter-annual variation in climate on regional carbon flux"
Dave Turner, Associate Professor, Dept. of Forest Ecosystem and Society
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall
Dam removal on the Elwha River: The pending restoration of sediment to a river and its delta
Geology Seminar Series, Fall 2008
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
College of Business Dean's Distinguished Lecture
Building a Brand that Matters
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Milam Auditorium  |  Free

Friday, October 17, 2008

"Seismic CAT-Scans of Ancient Earthquakes"
Jerry Schuster, Dave Morey, Maike Buddensiek, Travis Crosby, Shengdong Liu, Geology and Geophysics Dept., University of Utah
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm  |  Burt Hall

Saturday, October 18, 2008

James Crawford, Institute for Language and Education Policy
English Only or English Plus: Which way for language policy in the US?
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free

Monday, October 20, 2008

Center for Humanities Lecture: The Suburban Crisis: The Pursuit and Defense of the American Dream
Matthew Lassiter, Center Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Michigan
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
Consistent variable selection in additive models
Dr. Lan Xue, Statistics Department, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Transitions From Full Time Research to Full Time Extension
Presenter - Tom Silberstein, Marion County Field Crops Agent
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

"What Happens if We Pass Measure 57 and/or 61?"
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  MU
Plant Phenological Responses to Climate Change
Horticulture Seminar Series, Fall 2008
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Morphodynamics of Pacific Northwest beaches
Geography Seminar Series, Fall 2008
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

CGRB Seminar Series - Arcady Mushegian
"Horizontal Gene Transfer and Evolutionary History of Bacteriophages with Double-Stranded RNA Genomes"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
League Of Women Voters - Politics and Women
How do today's politics affect women?
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Benton Annex  |  Free
Fisheries & Wildlife Seminar: Big Game in Oregon: Importance of Disease and Parasites
Speaker: Colin Gillin, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm  |  Nash Hall
Residential water pricing: economics and policy issues (Speaker: Janie Chermak, University of New Mexico)
Fall Water Resources Seminar Series: When Water Does Run Uphill: The Economics and Politics of Water in the 21st Century
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Owen Hall

Thursday, October 23, 2008

"Perturbations in the Carbon Cycle: The Meltdown of 'Snowball' Earth to the Cambrian Explosion"
Ganquing Jian, Dept. of Geoscience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
"Can Inverse Modeling Constrain Regional Scale Carbon Budgets?"
Mathias Goeckede, Forest Ecosystems and Society, OSU
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Tsunami erosion and deposition: Lessons from Sumatra
Geology Seminar Series, Fall 2008
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
"From chemistry to crime in the woods"
Jo Tynon, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forest Ecosystems and Society
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall

Monday, October 27, 2008

Stream Team: Pass Creek (vintage 1968) A 10-minutes film that changed the world of forest practices.
Speaker; Jim Hall, Fisheries & Wildlife, OSU
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Nash Hall
The Application of Association Mapping in Wheat Breeding
Presenter - Guomei Wang, PhD Student, Crops, Oregon State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Transnational Indigenism and Mapuche Epistemology
A talk by Pablo Mariman Quemenado
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
Getting Web 2.0 to Work for Us (with dashboard)
Horticulture Seminar Series, Fall 2008
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Climate change impacts snow, glaciers and water resources in the Pacific Northwest
Geography Seminar Series, Fall 2008
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

A Good Night's Sleep
Extension Study Group Program
9:30 am - 11:00 am  |  Benton County-OSU Extension  |  Free
Fisheries & Wildlife Seminar: Sustaining Women Scientists through Critical Transitions in the Acedemia: Report from a National Workshop
Speaker: Selina Heppell, OSU
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
"Oregon's Oil" (Speaker: Oregon State Senator David Nelson, Pendleton)
Fall Water Resources Seminar Series: When Water Does Run Uphill: The Economics and Politics of Water in the 21st Century
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Owen Hall
Fisheries & Wildlife Seminar: Sustaining Women Scientists through Critical Transitions in the Acedemia: Report from a National Workshop
Speaker: Selina Heppell, OSU
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
2008 James M. Craig Memorial Lecture
Grassoline -- Converting Plant Biomass to Biofuels
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free

Thursday, October 30, 2008

2008 James M. Craig Memorial Seminar
Fermentative Digestion in Herbivorous Lizards: Marine Iguanas from the Galapagos Islands
11:00 am - 12:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Can Students Change the World?
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
Promoting Synergy: The FES Collaboratory, Phase I*
Norm Johnson, Professor and Steve Strauss, Professor, Dept. of Forest Ecosystems and Society
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall
Deformation of Cascadia - a geological and geophysical view of interactions between subduction, simple shear, and rifting
Geology Seminar Series, Fall 2008
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
The Austin Entrepreneurship Program Presents
Randy Conrads, Co-Founder of RedWeek.com
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free

Friday, October 31, 2008

"Should We Consider a Role for Ocean Carbon Sequestration in Addressing Global Change?"
Margaret Leinen, Chief Science Officer of Climos, Inc.
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium
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