Current Year Lecture

Seminar Lab Date Seminar Lab Subject Seminar Lab presenter
2025-05-05 Spring Banquet - Distribution of Ancient Carbon in Groundwater and Soil Gas from Degradation of Petroleum near the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Jared Trost, M.Sc., hydrologist with Upper Midwest Water Science Center, USGS
2025-04-21 Stromatolite Morphology and Diversity - How did (mostly) brainless pond scum build large, complex structures? Julie K. Bartley, Ph.D., Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College
2025-04-07 Current and Future Mapping at the Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS) Bob Tipping, Ph.D., Director, Minnesota Geological Survey
2025-03-24 Earthquake Hazards Stephen Delong, Ph.D., USGS Earthquake Science Center and Visiting Professor, U. of Minnesota
2025-03-10 Iron-ore in Minnesota: Geology and the Industry (V) Joyashish Thakurta, Ph.D., Research Manager, Natural Resources Research Institute, U. of Minnesota Duluth
2025-02-24 Greatest Mass Extinctions in Earth's History (V) Rachel Phillips, Ph.D., (GEO GIRL), Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor, U. of South Carolina
2025-02-15 Saturday Lab: The Crystallography of Common Rock Forming Minerals Jeff Thole, Geology Laboratory Supervisor and Instructor at Macalester College.
2025-02-10 Soils: The Most Undervalued and Overlooked Geologic Resource Holly Dolliver, Ph.D., Department Chair of Plant and Earth Science, U. of Wisconsin, River Falls.
2025-01-27 Origin of olivine phenocrysts in oceanites at Piton de la Fournaise volcano (Reunion hotspot) Benoît Welsch, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar in Geology, Macalester College
2024-12-09 The Great Courses: Wonders of the National Parks: A Geology of North America Ford Cochran
2024-11-25 Shale in a Nutshell: An Overview of Shale Oil and Gas in the U.S. and Texas (V) Tim McMahon, Ph.D., Project Manager & Principal Investigator for Tight Oil Resource Assessment (TORA) consortium
2024-11-11 Geological Mapping Harvey Thorleifson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, U of MN
2024-10-28 *Groundwater Governance in the Great Lakes States—from Well-Cobbled to Equitable and Sustainable? Carrie Jennings, Ph.D., Research and Policy Director, Freshwater Society
2024-10-14 Damaging earthquakes continue in Oklahoma nearly a decade after peak wastewater injection (V) Jacob Walter, Ph.D., State Seismologist, Oklahoma Geological Survey
2024-09-30 Plan, Core, Scan, Store: Facilitating Core Research Kat Cantner, M.Sc., Science & Outreach Coordinator for Continental Scientific Drilling Facility at U of Minnesota