Current Year Schedule
GSM seminars with slide show presentations are free and open to the public. They are presented by leading professionals in their fields and are aimed at learners from high school to adult. A question-and-answer session follows each seminar. The labs, also free and open to the public, allow a hands-on learning experience and demonstrate the ideas and principles of geology and earth science. Live lectures and labs require no registration; just show up a few minutes early on the evening of the lecture.
Click on date of any seminar for attendance information and other details. For a printable version of our schedule of seminars and labs, click here.
Except as noted, live lectures during fall 2024 are Mondays at 7:00 PM CT on the University of Minnesota campus, Keller Hall, Room 3-230. The address is 200 Union St. SE, Minneapolis MN. A lecture with (V) following its title is an online virtual lecture. For these, free registration is required by non-members; the instructions are supplied with the lecture description.
Our schedule is planned over 6 months in advance, so changes may occur. Always check this website shortly before each lecture for the latest seminar information.
Winter weather will come and snow might impact our lectures. The GSM will make any decision about cancelling or postponing a lecture due to inclement weather no later than 3:00 PM the day of the lecture. This information will be posted on the GSM home page (http://www.gsmn.org/). So check our home page shortly before each lecture in case there is a cancellation or a last-minute change. Also, we will e‐mail lecture postponement and cancellation information to our members.
Past seminars marked with * were recorded and the recording is available on the Geological Society of Minnesota YouTube channel. Subscribe to this channel for updates.
Seminar Details
Seminar Lab Date: September 30, 2024
Seminar Lab Subject: Plan, Core, Scan, Store: Facilitating Core Research
Seminar Lab Presenter: Kat Cantner, M.Sc., Science & Outreach Coordinator for Continental Scientific Drilling Facility at U of Minnesota
Seminar Lab Location:
In-person only at U of Minnesota, Keller Hall, Room 3-230
Lecture start time 7:00 PM CT.
Seminar Lab Detail:
Seminar Lab Details:
Summary: The Continental Scientific Drilling Facility at the University of Minnesota is funded by the National Science Foundation to provide leadership and services for the communities of scientists requiring drilling, coring, and subsurface surveys and monitoring on the Earth’s continents or in lakes. This includes topics such as the ecology of microbial life deep under Earth’s surface, past climate and ecosystems, archeology and human evolution, hydrology, volcanoes, earthquakes, and even the U.S. energy transition. The CSD Facility helps scientists collect core samples through coring and drilling to address a huge diversity of interesting questions and keeps an archive of previously collected samples so future researchers can continue to work on the cores for decades to come.
Biography: Kat Cantner is the Science and Outreach Coordinator for the Continental Scientific Drilling Facility in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Minnesota. Prior to this, she taught Physical Geology at Minneapolis Community and Technical College and was the science illustrator for the American Geosciences Institute for seven years. Kat works to build community and increase access in education and the geosciences. She has degrees in science illustration, oceanography, geology, and archaeology—all of which help her support a diverse group of scientists interested in exploring the world around them. Web site: https://cse.umn.edu/csd