Current Year Lecture

Seminar Lab Date Seminar Lab Subject Seminar Lab presenter
2024-12-09 TBD Stephan DeLong, Ph.D., Supervisory Research Geologist, Earthquake Science Center, USGS
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
2024-09-16 Fall Banquet - Geology of the Mississippi River Gorge Randy Strobel, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Natural Sciences, Metropolitan State U.
2024-05-06 Spring Banquet - Digging into the Stories of Sands Kate Clover
2024-04-29 From Formations to Foundations: The Geology of Bridge Construction Jill Mickelson, Principal Engineer, Braun Intertec
2024-04-22 CANCELLED: PFAS: Contaminant hydrogeology of the East Metro
2024-04-15 Important Events In Precambrian Earth History As Seen Through Minnesota's Bedrock Eric Nowariak, Precambrian Geologist, Minnesota Geological Survey
2024-03-11 Tales Told by Trilobites (V) Thomas Hegna, Ph.D., Associate Professor, SUNY Fredonia, Research Associate at the Buffalo Museum of Natural History
2024-02-26 Tennessee’s Natural Resources & Geology-Related Tourism (V) Ron Clendening, B.Sc., Geologist, Tennessee Dept. of Environment & Conservation
2024-02-17 Paleo Lab: Fossils Through Time: Fossil Diversity and the 'Big Five' Mass Extinctions Jeff Thole, M.Sc., Geology Laboratory Supervisor & Instructor, Macalester College
2024-02-12 Charting Pathways to a More Sustainable Future in the Ogallala Aquifer of Western Kansas (V) James Butler, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Geohydrology Section, Kansas Geological Survey