February 20, 2025
Dr. Jesse R. Reimink will deliver the 21st Annual Potter Lecture entitled "How Does Earth Get Distilled? The Reawakening Of Geosciences In Society."
Dr. Reimink is an Assistant Professor and the Rudy L. Slingerland Early Career Professor in the Geosciences Department at Penn State University. He is also the director of the new "Energy Transition" Entrepreneurship and Innovation Cluster within the College Earth and Mineral Sciences. Dr. Reimink co-directs the LionChron geochemistry and geochronology facility where his research focuses on the formation and evolution of continents, understanding magmatic and hydrothermal systems at a variety of scales, and developing new geochronological and geochemical tools to refine our understanding of outstanding petrological problems. Dr. Reimink also co-hosts the successful geoscience podcast, The PlanetGeo Podcast, and is the Founder of a company focused on developing geological visual audiobook series. Dr. Reimink graduated from Hope College with a Bachelor's of Science in Geology with a minor in Biology. He attended the University of Alberta for his PhD work, after which he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (now the Earth and Planets Laboratory). He has been at Penn State since 2019.
Further information
- Location: Stern Great Room
- Time: 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
- Cost: $0.00