Geology Department Seminars

Spring 2008

DATE

NAME

AFFILIATION

TITLE

1/29

Geology Faculty

Dickinson College

Majors Meeting (Kaufman 179)

2/5

Alexis Navarre-Sitchler

Penn State University

Weathering rind formation on basalt clasts: a key intermediate weathering scale

2/12

Duane Braun

Bloomsburg University

The glaciation of NE PA: What we have learned from mapping the glacial deposits over an area of 25,000 km2 during the past 30 years

2/19

Bob Gallagher & Michael R Helfrich

West/Rhode Riverkeeper & Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper

The Waterkeeper approach to protecting and preserving our waters

2/26

Amelia Brunskil

LIS

Refworks Workshop to be held in Kaufman 159

3/4

Bill Bragonier

PA DCNR

Coal in Pennsylvania

3/18

 

 

 

3/25

 

 

 

4/1

Jeremy Jackson*

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Ecology of mass extinction and faunal turnover in the tropical Western Atlantic

4/3
Todd Grote Allegehny College A glimpse of the Appalachian landscape as seen through soils

4/8

Karl W. Wegmann

Lehigh University

Great earthquakes, rock uplift and seismic coupling above the Hellenic Subduction Zone Crete, Greece

4/9
Lara Storm Colby College Adirondack Origins: Clues from the Rocks
4/15
     
4/22
Meg Thompson Wellesley College Assembling the Appalachians: A cast study from southeastern New England
4/29
Jenn Wade Boston University From Mexico to Persia to Washington, DC: using geochemistry to study the collections of the Library of Congress
5/2
    Departmental Picnic

*We have Dr. Jackson scheduled to give the following two talks:

- Geology Dept. weekly luncheon seminar: 12:00-1:00 p.m., Tuesday, 1 April 2008 in Kaufman room 179 (followed by pizza lunch to meet majors), title: Ecology of Mass Extinction and Faunal Turnover in the Tropical Western Atlantic

- 4th Annual Potter Lecture: 7:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday 2 April 2008 in Althouse room 108 (preceded by dinner with geology faculty), title: Biodiversity and Extinction in the Brave New Ocean

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