Salida Colorado Calendar for September 2012

2012 Events are still being scheduled - please come back soon.

1 ~ Labor Day Wine Festival – For more information contact the Salida Chamber of Commerce

13 ~ Thursday, Dr. Mark D. Zoback - Collegiate Peaks Forum Series Distinguished Lecture Five “Producing Natural Gas from Shale: Opportunities and Challenges of a Major New Energy Source.” 7:00 p.m., National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum, 120 West 10th Street, Leadville
Dr. Zoback is the Benjamin M. Page Professor of Geophysics at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1984. He conducts research on in situ stress, fault mechanics and reservoir geomechanics, and he is the author of a popular text book that is a practical reference for geoscientists and engineers in petroleum and geothermal, as well as research scientists in stress measurements and their application to faulting and fluid flow in the crust. “Natural gas represents the perfect bridge fuel on the way to achieving a less carbon-dependent economy because it emits less carbon dioxide, less mercury, less nitrogen oxide, less sulfur oxide than any other viable hydrocarbon energy source.” He believes the production techniques have been identified and demonstrated to be economically viable without bringing harm to the public health or the environment.
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14 ~ Friday, Dr. Mary Lou Zoback - Collegiate Peaks Forum Series Distinguished Lecture Six
“Reducing Risk and Increasing Resilience in Highly Urbanized Centers.” 7:00 p.m., National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum, 120 West 10th Street, Leadville
Dr. Mary Lou Zoback is a geophysicist with major areas of interest in active tectonics, emphasizing the relationshp of in situ tectonic stess field to earthquake deformation. Her studies have focused on the San Andreas fault system. She lead the World Stress Map Project of the Internatonal Lithosphere Program from 1986 to 1992, a project that compiled and interpreted geologic and geophysical data on present day tectonic stresses. She is vice president, Earthquake Risk Applications, with Risk Management Solutions company in Newark, CA, as well as a consulting professor in Environmental Earth System Science Department at Stanford University. At RMS she leads initiatives on the significance of risk quantification for expanding the societal role of earthquake insurance, disaster management and risk reduction activities worldwide.
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