Current Seminars-Spring 2013

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at Northwestern University are pleased to announce a four part seminar series on Tight Shale Gas – Hydraulic Fracturing. For more information, please visit the CEE seminar series website, or read a news story about the series here.

All other seminars are held in the L.L. Sloss Room (Tech F285), Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, Illinois  60208, Friday at 3:30 p.m. (except as noted*)

April 4* - Robert Langan, Chevron Energy Technology Company at 4:30pm in Tech LR5
Short History of Shale Gas Phenomenon

April 5* - Robert Langan, Chevron Energy Technology Company at 12:00pm in Tech F285
Uncertainty in Micro Seismic Event locations with Fracture in Tight Sand

April 5 - Chris Holmden, University of Saskatchewan
Tightly coupled records of C and Ca changes during the Hirnantian Glaciation

April 11* - Arthur Rose, Pennsylvania State University at 4:30pm in Tech LR5
Fracking the Marcellus in Pennsylvania

April 12* - Arthur Rose, Pennsylvania State University at 10:00am in Tech A230
Flow-back Water of Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania

April 12 - Christopher Andronicos, Purdue University
Redefining the History of the Oldest Rocks in the Southern Rocky Mountains

April 17* - Anthony Ingraffea, Cornell University at 7:30pm in Tech LR5
Industrialization of the Shale Gas Operation

April 18* - Anthony Ingraffea, Cornell University at 10:00am in Tech A230
Shale Gas Development: Leaks & Vents

April 19 - Carey Lisse, John Hopkins University
Prospects for Life & Human Habitability Around Nearby Stars: Many Possible Homes for Our Elder(?) Race, But the Neighbors Are Likely Bacteria

April 26 - Przemyslaw Dera, Argonne National Laboratory
Metastable transformations of pyroxenes and cold subducting slabs

April 30* - Sidney Green, Schlumberger and Michael Ratner, Congressional Research Service at 4:30pm in Tech LR5
Where are we Today: Resevoir and Completion Quality and How can we Greatly Improve Hydraulic Fracturing Efficiency

May 1* - Sidney Green, Schlumberger and Michael Ratner, Congressional Research Service at 12:00pm in Tech M345
Current Economic and Policy Impacts and Future Economic and Policy Expectations

May 3 - Margarete Jadamec, Brown University
Three-dimensional Numerical Models of Mantle Flow Through the Cocos-Nazca Slab Gap

May 10 - Jack Williams, University of Wisconsin
Hindcasting Species and Community Responses to No-Analog Climates

May 17 - Mark Peters, Argonne National Laboratory
How Can Earth Scientists Help Solve the Nuclear Waste Management Challenge?

May 24 - Dorothée Husson
Building an Astronomical Timescale of the Maastrichtian (late Cretaceous)

May 31* - Matthew Huber, Purdue University, Hosted by Physics and Astronomy at 4:00pm in Tech L211