Hawaii Focus Group

U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Conference Room #2126, Building 2
Fridays, 10 am

A series of structured group discussions about Hawaii and related issues, including the latest results, with the objective of broadening our knowledge of the subject and sharing ideas.

Want to attend? Want to contribute? email: gfoulger@usgs.gov

2003: Main Tholeiitic Stage HFG
Feb 21st	Dave Scholl (Menlo Park)	Hotspot stability and mobility
March 7th	Fred Klein (Menlo Park)	Earthquakes near Kilauea's deep magma conduit
March 14th	Tom Sisson (Menlo Park)	Temperatures and depths of origin of magmas fueling the Hawaiian volcanic chain
March 21st	David Clague (MBARI)	New ages from the Hawaiian-Emperor chain and relations to other Pacific linear chains
April 11th	Jeroen Ritsema (Caltech)	Seismic tomography: What does it tell us about Hawaii?
April 18th	Michelle Coombs (Menlo Park)	The usefulness of isotopes in differentiating mantle sources for Hawaiian magmas
April 25th	Joann Stock (Caltech)	Plate reconstructions and the question of relative hotspot fixity
May 16th	Anders Meibom (Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris)	Global 3He/4He isotopic systematics in oceanic basalts and implications of their origin for Hawaii
May 23rd	Barry Eakins (Menlo Park)	Volume & rate calculations for the young end of the Hawaiian chain
June 6th	Jim Dieterich (Menlo Park)	Factors controlling the growth and structure of Hawaiian volcanoes
June 13th	Carol A. Stein (Univ. Illinois)	Heat flow and hot spots: How hot are the spots?
2004: Post-Erosional Rejuvenated HFG
January 30th	Don DePaolo (UC Berkeley)	The sizes, temperatures, and geochemical structures of the Hawaiian mantle plume
February 6th	David Clague (MBARI)	Rejuvenated stage lavas on and around Hawaii
February 13th	Dean Presnall (Carnegie Institution & University of Texas at Dallas)	Potential temperatures at Hawaii, Iceland, and oceanic ridges
February 20th	Pete Lipman (Menlo Park)	Spreading flanks of Hawaiian volcanoes: Alternative structural interpretations
February 27th	John Tarduno (Univ. Rochester)	Formation of the Emperor Seamount Lineament by Southward Motion of the Hawaiian Hotspot
March 5th	Norman Sleep (Standford Univ.)	An overview of the Emperor chain & lateral flow of plume material with the Euterpe chain. The lateral flow of plume material in the northern Pacific