Seminar Lab Date Seminar Lab Subject Seminar Lab Presenter

FALL BANQUET – GEOLOGY OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER GORGE RANDY STROBEL, PH.D., PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF NATURAL SCIENCES, METROPOLITAN STATE U.

Plan, Core, Scan, Store: Facilitating Core Research Kat Cantner, M.Sc., Science & Outreach Coordinator for Continental Scientific Drilling Facility at U of Minnesota

DAMAGING EARTHQUAKES CONTINUE IN OKLAHOMA NEARLY A DECADE AFTER PEAK WASTEWATER INJECTION (V) JACOB WALTER, PH.D., STATE SEISMOLOGIST, OKLAHOMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Groundwater Governance in the Great Lakes States—from Well-Cobbled to Equitable and Sustainable? Carrie Jennings, Ph.D., Research and Policy Director, Freshwater Society

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING HARVEY THORLEIFSON, PH.D., PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, U OF MN

SHALE IN A NUTSHELL: AN OVERVIEW OF SHALE OIL AND GAS IN THE U.S. AND TEX-AS (V) TIM MCMAHON, PH.D., PROJECT MANAGER & PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR TIGHT OIL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT (TORA) CONSORTIUM

BEAUTIFUL OHIO: SEDIMENTARY DREAMS DEBORAH NAFFZIGER, GSM

ORIGIN OF OLIVINE PHENOCRYSTS IN OCEANITES AT PITON DE LA FOURNAISE VOLCANO (REUNION HOTSPOT) BENOÎT WELSCH, PH.D., VISITING SCHOLAR IN GEOLOGY, MACALESTER COLLEGE

SOILS: THE MOST UNDERVALUED AND OVERLOOKED GEOLOGIC RESOURCE HOLLY DOLLIVER, PH.D., DEPARTMENT CHAIR OF PLANT AND EARTH SCIENCE, U. OF WISCONSIN, RIVER FALLS.

SATURDAY LAB: THE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY OF COMMON ROCK FORMING MINERALS JEFF THOLE, GEOLOGY LABORATORY SUPERVISOR AND INSTRUCTOR AT MACALESTER COLLEGE.

GREATEST MASS EXTINCTIONS IN EARTH’S HISTORY (V) RACHEL PHILLIPS, PH.D., (GEO GIRL), POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER AND INSTRUCTOR, U. OF SOUTH CAROLINA

MINING (V) JOYASHISH THAKURTA, PH.D., RESEARCH MANAGER, NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE, U. OF MINNESOTA DULUTH

EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS STEPHAN DELONG, PH.D., USGS EARTHQUAKE SCIENCE CENTER AND VISITING PROFESSOR, U. OF MINNESOTA

ANCIENT SEAS, MODERN THRILLS! JOURNEY THROUGH MINNESOTA’S PALEOZOIC GEOLOGY ANDREW RETZLER, M.SC., SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGIST, MINNESOTA GEOLOGICAL SURVE

STROMATOLITE MORPHOLOGY AND DIVERSITY – HOW DID (MOSTLY) BRAINLESS POND SCUM BUILD LARGE, COMPLEX STRUCTURES? JULIE K. BARTLEY, PH.D., PROFESSOR, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE

SPRING BANQUET – BEMIDJI AND BEMIDJI WEST (PEARL HARBOR). JARED TROST, M.SC., HYDROLOGIST WITH UPPER MIDWEST WATER SCIENCE CENTER, USGS
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