PNACP 2006 Spring Meeting Information

Welcome to the

Pacific Northwest Association for College Physics

(PNACP) web site for the Spring 2006 Meeting

Geophysics

Pacific Lutheran University

March 24 & 25, 2006

Below is a tentative schedule for the meeting. This will be added to (and likely changed) with time. To email a speaker, click on the link which is their name. The link for abstracts is here. Links below in the Title area are either to talks (PowerPoint) or to sites with similar information.

Friday, March 24, 2006

Leraas Lecture Hall
Rieke Science Center

Time	Title	Speaker	Affiliation
8:00	Welcome	James L. Pence	Pacific Luthern University
8:10	Stacking your physics courses: a good idea or a tragedy waiting to happen? -- Talk	Grant Eastland	Blue Mountain Community College
8:30	A Short Primer in Geophysics	Steve Hoffmaster	Gonzaga University
9:00	Using Isotopic Models to tell Geologic Time -- Talk	José Miguel Hurtado, Jr.	UTEP
10:00	Break
10:20	The James Gerhart Lecture: Rocks, Fossils, and Meteorites from the Inside out: Geological Applications of High Resolution X-ray computed tomography -- CTLab Digimorph	Bill Carlson	University of Texas
11:20	Visceral Physics -- Using motorcycles to teach mechanics, thermodynamics, and Acoustics	Martin Hackworth	Idaho State University
11:40	Exploring time and velocity dependent forces on rockets in the upper division lab	John Larkin	Whitworth College
12:00	Lunch
2:00	Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunami -- The case for prediction, early warning, and rapid notification	Steve Malone	University of Washington
3:00	Viscous drag of Upper Mantle on the Lithosphere -- Presentation	David Terrell	Warner Pacific College
3:20	Hubbert's Peak in a toy model of Oil Extraction -- Presentation	Richard Wiener	Pacific University
3:40	Break
4:00	Intraslab earthquakes in the Cascadia Subduction Zone	Ken Creager	University of Washington

Banquet
Chris Knutzen Hall
University Center

6:00

The 2004-06 Eruption of Mt. St. Helens: Style of eruption, methods of monitoring, and lessons about cascade volcano hazards

Robert Butler

University of Portland

Saturday, March 25, 2006
Leraas Lecture Hall
Rieke Science Center

Time	Title	Speaker	Affiliation
8:10	The night sky: how dark, how clear, how stable?	Robert Ruotsalainen	Eastern Washington University
8:30	Examinations of shallow subduction zone processes in central Costa Rica using large earthquakes and microseismicity	Susan Bilek	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
9:35	Break
9:55	Geophysics in a complex world -- Talk	Stephen Moysey	Clemson University
11:00	How Green is my monitor? -- Talk	David McKinstry	Eastern Washington University
11:20	Election/Business	Steve Hoffmaster and Sharon Rosell	Gonzaga University Central Washginton University
11:40	Angels in images?	Allan Greer	Gonzaga University

There is one slot remaining for a contributed paper. It need not relate to Geophysics, and will be scheduled for 20 minutes. If you are interested in presenting a contributed paper, please contact Steven Hoffmaster (see link below). We will need a title and abstract fairly soon.

On Saturday afternoon (March 25) we will tour the Museum of Glass in Tacoma.

Hotel Information

We have contacted the Shilo Inn in Tacoma. Room rate is $79. You need to use the ID number 032306GP so that you will be included with the PNACP group. The rooms will be held until February 23, 2006.

Parking at the Meeting

We have been told that parking passes will not be needed for the meeting. We have been cleared to park in the Olson Lot, which is the lot closest to the Science Center (please do not park in any restricted spaces such as handicap spots).

Please contact me if you have any comments/concerns about the meeting.

Steve Hoffmaster
Executive Officer, PNACP
(509) 323-6755

AJG 6/13/06