PROGRAM
Time
7:30-8:15
Event
Registration
Topic
8:15-8:20
First Morning Session
Kathy Troost,
President, NWGS
Lars Gilmour, Chair
Welcome and Introduction of Dean of
the College of the Environment
(COE) and Symposium Chairman
8:20-8:25
Bruce Nelson
Dean of the College of the
Environment (COE), UW
Welcoming Remarks
Composition and Mission of the COE
8:25-8:30
Lars Gilmour,
Chairman of the NWGS 2nd
Symposium Organizing
Committee
Nature of the Symposium
8:30-9:05
Eric Cheney,
Earth and Space Sciences,
UW
Current revolutions in public concepts
of mineral and fuel resources and
paths ahead
9:05-9:40
John R. Shively,
Pebble Limited Partnership,
Alaska
Pebble – the challenge of developing
the world’s largest copper prospect
9:40-10:15
Deborah S. Kelley,
School of Oceanography, UW
Underwater eruptions and subsurface
life on the largest active volcano off
the Washington coast: Axial
Seamount
10:15-10:45
Coffee break
10:45-11:20
Second Morning Session
Steven D. Vance,
Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech
Tom Bush, Chair
Constraints of the habitability of
Europa and Ganymede through time
from chemistry and ocean dynamics
11:20-11:55
Brittany D. Brand,
Geosciences, Boise State U.
Pyroclastic density currents from the
May 18th, 1980 eruption of Mt. St.
Helens – the story retold
11:55-12:30
Katharine R. Huntington,
Earth and Space Sciences,
UW
Reconstructing paleotemperature
using clumped isotopes in soil
carbonate from the Andes and the
Pacific Northwest
Time
12:30-1:30
Event
Topic
Lunch
First Afternoon Session
Murray M. Journeay,
Earth Sciences Sector,
Natural Resources Canada,
B.C.
Grace Winer, Chair
A community-based approach to
disaster resilience planning
2:05-2:40
Brian F. Atwater,
U.S. Geol. Survey UW
Paleoseismic estimates of subduction
earthquake size
2:40-3:15
Ralph A. Haugerud,
U.S. Geol. Survey at UW
Stories from shapes
3:15-3:50
Coffee break
3:50-4:25
Second Afternoon Session
Brian Sherrod,
U.S. Geol. Survey UW
Kathleen Goodman, Chair
Prehistoric Earthquakes in central
and western Washington
4:25-5:00
David Montgomery,
Earth and Space Sciences,
UW
A mega-slide on Mars, the largest
landslide in the solar system?
TBA
David H. McCormack
(alternate speaker),
Aspect Consulting, Seattle
Boring in Seattle – insights from deep
tunnel projects on Seattle basin
stratigraphy, glacial processes,
landform development, and tectonics
5:00-
Awards Ceremony
Kathy Troost, President, NWGS
1:30-2:05
After awards Concluding Remarks
5:30-7:30
Reception
Lars Gilmour, Chairman of NWGS 2nd
Symposium Organizing Committee