Recent Geology Department News
Cameron Mercer '11 was selected as winner of the Stephen E, Dwornik Planetary Geoscience Student Paper Award for his poster, "Principal components analysis of reflectance spectra returned by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity."
2011-12 Geology Lecture Series
Friday, September 16th: Darren Gravley, University of Canterbury
“Living on a Plate Boundary: Earthquakes, Eruptions, and Frontiers Abroad"
Wednesday, September 21st: John Grotzinger, Caltech/JPL
“Mars Science Laboratory: The Search for Habitable Environments”
Friday, October 7th: Middlebury Student Summer Research Snapshots
“What I did last summer”
Friday, November 11th: Bruce Watson, R.P.I.
"Zircon as a window into Earth's early history?"
Tuesday, January 24th 12:30: Scott Burns, Portland State University "Urban Landslides - Challenges to Forensic Engineering Geologists"
Tuesday, January 24th 7:30: Scott Burns, Portland State University "The Mystery of Terroir - the Relationship of Geology, Soils, and Climate to Wine" (off campus lecture at Lincoln Peak Winery)
Friday, March 2nd: David Jones, Amherst College CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER
“Sulfur isotopes and the end-Ordovician glaciation on Anticosti Island”
Friday, April 6th: Barbara Tewksbury "Dome and basin structures in the Remote Western Desert of Egypt"
Friday, April 13th: Taylor Perron, M.I.T.
"Reading rock type, climate, and life from patterns in landscapes"
Friday, May 4th: Mea Cook, Williams College
“Tracing ocean circulation and climate using radiocarbon”