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September 15, 2025

Annual Meeting & Beautiful Ohio: Sedimentary Dreams – A Virtual Field Trip Deborah Naffziger, Geological Society of Minnesota

September 29, 2025

Feathers, Flight, & Fossils: Current Perspectives on the Evolution of Birds from Dinosaurs Peter Makovicky, Ph.D., Professor of Paleontology, University of Minnesota

October 13, 2025

The Upper Mississippi Valley: Proglacial Origins to Modern Evolution Andrew Wickert, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota

October 27, 2025

From Formations to Foundation: the Geology of Bridge Construction Jill Mickelson, B.Sc., Principal Engineer, Braun Intertec

November 10, 2025

Lake Superior and Its Gales Paul McKinney, Ph.D., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota

November 24, 2025

The Rock Elm Meteor Impact Structure, Pierce County, WI: Discovery and Basic Geology (V) Bill Cordua, Ph.D., Geology Emeritus, University of Wisconsin River Falls

December 8, 2025

Origin and Mineralogy of the Sudbury Structure (V) David Joyce, Owner & Proprietor, David K. Joyce Minerals

February 2, 2026

*The Role of Snowball Earth Events in Bedrock Weathering (V) Mark Jirsa, M.Sc., Minnesota Geological Survey (retired)

February 9, 2026

*Hematite Ore Formation in the Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park, Northeastern Minnesota (V) Zsuzsanna Allerton, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota

February 14, 2026

Rocks and the Minerals that Define Them – an Exploration of Minerals that Make Up Common Rocks Jeff Thole, M.Sc., Geology Laboratory Supervisor and Instructor at Macalester College

February 23, 2026

Integrating GIS & Geoscience: A Capstone Project on Geology of the Ice Age Trail (V) Lisa Siewert, M.Sc., Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point

March 9, 2026

Geologic Hydrogen, Abiotic Methane, and Volume Changes Associated with Aqueous Alteration of Mantle Rocks in Submarine Environments (V) Frieder Klein, Ph.D., Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

March 23, 2026

How the Midcontinent Rift nearly split ancient North America apart 1.1 billion years ago—and why it stopped Nick Swanson-Hysell, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota

April 6, 2026

(title TBA) George Hudak, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota

April 20, 2026

My Adventures in Glacier Bay Kent Syverson, Ph.D., Professor, Geology and Environmental Science Department, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire

May 4, 2026

Spring Banquet (title TBA) TBA
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  • Welcome Page
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  • Members
    • Seminars and Labs
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