Geological Society of Minnesota, Lecture Schedule for 2012 and 2013
Fall 2012
Seminars start at 7:30 PM on Mondays.
Sept 17 Fall Banquet: Status of Minnesota Geological Survey Investigations
Harvey Thorleifson, Ph.D., Director, Minnesota Geological Survey,
at Grand City Buffet, St. Louis Park. Map to lecture
Oct 1 Plate Tectonics, When a well known theory is not so well known
Scott Clark, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Room 3-210, University of Minnesota
East bank campus, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Building now called Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Mpls, 55455
Oct 15 Geology of Copper and Nickel Deposits of the Duluth Complex
Dean Peterson, Ph.D., Duluth Metals Corp
Room 3-210, University of Minnesota
East bank campus, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Building now called Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Mpls, 55455
Oct 29 Geology and Late Pleistocene History of Glacier National Park, Montana
Kelly MacGregor, Ph.D., Macalester College
Room 3-210, University of Minnesota
East bank campus, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Building now called Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Mpls, 55455
Nov 12 Fracking Sands of Minnesota and Wisconsin
Anthony (Tony) Runkel, Ph.D., Minnesota Geological Survey
Room 3-210, University of Minnesota
East bank campus, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Building now called Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Mpls, 55455
Nov 26 Seeing through Mud: Using sediment cores to reconstruct history of urban lakes in the Twin Cities
Amy Myrbo, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Limnological Research Center
Room 3-210, University of Minnesota
East bank campus, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Building now called Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Mpls, 55455
Spring 2013: Happy 75th Anniversary, GSM
Seminars start at 7:30 PM on Mondays.
Jan 28 The past 75 years of the Minnesota Environment
John Linc Stine, B.S., Commissioner, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Room 3-210, University of Minnesota
East bank campus, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Building now called Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Mpls, 55455
Feb 11 Aggregate Resources of Minnesota
Heather Arends, M.S., Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Room 3-210, University of Minnesota
East bank campus, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Building now called Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Mpls, 55455
Feb 25 The Rock Cycle and the Many Possible and ever-changing Manifestations of Matter
Karl Wirth, Ph.D., Macalester College
Room 3-210, University of Minnesota
East bank campus, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Building now called Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Mpls, 55455
Mar 2 Lab: Rock cycle Lab Jeff Thole, Macalester College
Meet in the basment of the of the Olin Rice Science center at Macalaster Collage
at 10:00 AM. Lab will last until Noon.
Mar 11 Reinventing the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant, an MPCA perspective
Amy Harding, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Room 3-210, University of Minnesota
East bank campus, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Building now called Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Mpls, 55455
Mar 25 Geobiology
Jake Bailey, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Room 3-210, University of Minnesota
East bank campus, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Building now called Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Mpls, 55455
April 8 Planetary Geology
Jennifer Anderson, Ph.D., Winona State University
Room 3-210, University of Minnesota
East bank campus, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Building now called Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Mpls, 55455
April 22 Geology of the Lakes of the East African Rift Zone
Thomas Johnson, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Duluth
Room 3-210, University of Minnesota
East bank campus, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Building now called Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Mpls, 55455
May 4 Spring Banquet and Silent Auction. Link to detail information
Link to Poster
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