Recent Geology Department News
2012-13 Geology Lecture Series
Fall Semester
Friday, September 22nd, 12:30: Middlebury Geology Majors
“What I Did Last Summer"
Monday, October 1st, 12:30: Peter Molnar, UC Boulder
“The Growth of the Tibetan Plateau and Late Miocene Environmental Changes"
Friday, October 5th, 12:30: John Grotzinger, Caltech
“The Latest News from the Curiosity Rover and the Mars Science Laboratory Mission"
Friday, October 26th, 12:30: Amy Leventer, Colgate University
"History of the Larsen Ice Shelf"
Winter Semester
January 11th, 12:30: Richard Bopp, RPI
"Dating Freshwater Sediments - It's More than Just Counting"
January 25th, 12:30 Aaron Donohoe, MIT
"Energy Flow in the Earth System"
Spring Semester
March 1st, Kevin Uno, LDEO
"Stable Isotopes in fossil teeth as recorders of environmental seasonality in ancient environments"
March 15th, Sarah Hall, College of the Atlantic,
"Active Tectonics in the Andes: A view from the Peruvian forearc"
April 12th, Jessie Thompson, UC Santa Barbara
"Tectonic Evolution of the Qilian Shan, NW China"
April 29th, 4:30 p.m. Professor Ray Coish, Inaugural Lecture, Location: MBH 220