The Potter Lectureship Series in Geology

 

The Noel Potter, Jr. Geology Lectureship was started by alumni of the geology department to honor Emeritus Professor Noel Potter on the occasion of his retirement in 2004.  George Lee from the class of 1971 led the charge to raise a generous endowment from fellow geology alumni to fund this annual lecture in honor of Noel's 36 years of service at the college.  During that time, Noel taught 3,178 students in Physical Geology and 233 majors in Field and Structural Geology.  The following are the invited speakers to date:

 

 

 

YEAR	DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TITLE
1	3/24/05	Richard Alley	Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University , University Park , PA	Global Warming and Abrupt Climate Change: How to Make Money by Cleaning up after Ourselves
2	4/13/06	Bruce Marsh	Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , MD	In the Boiler Room of Volcanoes: A View from Antarctica
3	4/4/07	Rob Thieler	Coastal and Marine Geology Program , U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA	Changing Climate, Changing Coasts : Where we've been and where we may be headed
4	4/2/08	Jeremy Jackson	Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego	Biodiversity and Extinction in the Brave New Ocean