UMD Geology: Seminar Schedule

Home >> Undergrad Students >> Seminar Schedule

Spring 2009 Seminar Schedule
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES
University of Minnesota, Duluth
LSci 175 3:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Refreshments following seminar

Thurs, 01/23/09	No seminar
Thurs, 01/29/09	Dr. Howard Mooers, Department Head and Professor of Geological Sciences UMD; "Eldur og Is; Fire and Ice A Circle Tour of Iceland"
Thurs, 02/05/09	No seminar
Thurs, 02/12/09	Dr. Brian Barnes, Director and Professor of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks; "Strategies for Overwintering in Arctic Animals"
Thurs, 02/19/09	Dr. Will Gosnold, Chair and Professor of Geology and Geolgical Engineering, University of North Dakota; "Heat Flow and Geolthermal Energy"
Thurs, 02/26/09	Dr. Steven Petsch, Associate Professor of Geosciences and Adjunct Professor in Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; "The Not-so-deep Biosphere of Active Methanogenesis in Ancient Black Shales"
Thurs, 03/05/09	No seminar
Thurs, 03/12/09	Dr. Carrie E. Jennings, Minnesota Geological Survey, St. Paul, Minnesota; "Turbidity-impaired streams; What's Glacial Geology got to do with it?"
Thurs, 03/19/09	No seminar - Spring Break
Thurs, 03/26/09	Dr. Qing Zhang, Professor Geological Sciences Department, UMD;"Oblique Collision between North and South China recorded in Zhangbaling and Fucha Shan (Dabie-Sulu transfer zone)"
Thurs, 04/02/09	No seminar
Thurs, 04/09/09	Dr. Ken Lepper, Assistant Professor of Geology, Adjunct Professor of Physics, North Dakota State University;"Optical Dating; A remote in-situ dating method for paleoclimatic and Geomorphological research on Mars"
Thurs, 04/16/09	No Seminar
Thurs, 04/23/09	Dr. Howard Hobbs, Senior Scientist, Minnesota Geological Survey, St. Paul, Minnesota; "Recessional phases of the Superior Lobe in western Lake Superior Basin"
Thurs, 04/30/09	No seminar
Thurs, 05/07/09	No seminar
Thurs, 05/14/09	No Seminar - Final Exams