Current Year Lecture

Seminar Lab Date Seminar Lab Subject Seminar Lab presenter
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
2024-01-29 Sediment Records of Extreme Earthquakes Chris Paola, Ph.D., CSE Distinguished Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of MN
2023-12-11 T. rex, Triceratops, and MOR: The Dynamic Dinosaurs of Museum of the Rockies (V) Ashley Hall, Outreach Program Manager, Museum of the Rockies
2023-11-27 CANCELLED: Tennessee’s Mining Industry and Geology-Related Tourism (V) Ronald Zurawski, State Geologist, Tennessee Dept. of Environment & Conservation
2023-11-13 Deciphering the Details of Dinosaur Worlds: Insights From 35 Years in the Cretaceous Rocks of Montana Ray Rogers, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Geology Dept., Macalester College
2023-10-30 The Great Lisbon Earthquake in 18th-Century Philosophy and Seismology Anna Graber, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History of Science and Technology, U of MN
2023-10-16 Urban Micrometeorites and Everything You Need to Know about Them Scott Peterson, micrometeorite hunter
2023-10-02 Making magmas: Experimental insights on magma depth and temperature beneath Emily First, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Geology, Macalester