Spring 2016 Earth Sciences Lunch and Learn Seminar Series

Date Time PM Location Speaker Affiliation Title

2/16/16 12:05 Social Hall John International Sea Level West Englander Sea Level Rise “72 Institute

2/16/16 7:00 Stern Great John International The New Room Englander Sea Level Reality ‘72 Institute

2/22/16 12:05 Social Hall David Earth Student West Betram’16 Sciences Research and Julia Majors Presentations Redden’16

3/7/16 7:00 Althouse Lonnie Ohio State The Potter 106 Thompson University Lecture

3/8/16 12:05 Kaufman Lonnie Ohio State In Search of 186 Thompson University the Oldest Ice on Earth on the Third Pole

3/22/16 12:05 Social Hall Rachael George On the West Jonassen Washington Prediction of ‘71 University Time

3/31/16 12:05 Kaufman Martin PA Council Job 186 Helmke of Prospects in Professional the Geologists Geosciences

3/31/16 7:00 Stern Great Yair Teller Founder of The Business Room HomeBiogas of Peace through Green Energy

4/12/16 12:05 Social Hall Will Earth 30 yrs of Ice West Kochtitzky Sciences on Nevado Coropune, ‘16 Major Peru

4/19/16 12:05 Side Rooms Pedro Brynn Mawr Sulfur 201-202 Marenco College Isotopes & Mass Extinctions

4/28/16 7:00 Althouse David Founder of Carbon 106 Bernard Global CO2 Capture Initiative

4/26/16 12:05 Social Hall Megan Earth Senior West Layman ’16, Sciences Research Katie Majors Presentations Mattern ’16, & Liz Plascencia ‘16 Fall 2015 Earth Sciences Lunch and Learn Seminar Series

Date Time PM Location Speaker Affiliation Title 9/1/16 12:05 Social Hall Annual Earth West Welcome Back Sciences Luncheon Department 9/9/16 7:00 Anita Tuvin Rush Holt CEO of the “Advancing Science” Schlechter American Auditorium Association for the Advancement of Sciences 9/10/16 7:00 Stern Great Gillen D’Arcy University of “Tambora: The Room Wood Illinois Eruption that Changed the World” 9/15/16 12:05 Social Hall Ben Edwards & Department Fieldwork in Peru West William of Earth Kochtitzky Sciences 9/16/16 7:00 Anita Tuvin Anthony Cornell Shale Gas and Oil Schlechter Ingraffea University Development Auditorium 9/22/16 12:05 Hub Social Patrick Slippery Evaluation of Hall West Burkhart Rock geomorphic forcing by University Medieval Climate Anomaly upon pediments and dues across the White River 10/13/16 12:05 Hub Social Alyson Department Dickinson Field Trip Hall West Thibodeau & of Earth to Gates to the Arctic Ben Edwards Sciences National Park 10/13/16 5:00 Denny 317 Egbert Leigh Smithsonian The Last Evolutionary Tropical Transition: “The Research Evolution of Institute, Conceptual Thought” Panama 11/10/16 12:05 Hub Social Joel Moore Towson How does Hall University Urbanization affect Stream Chemistry? 11/17/16 12:05 Hub Social Claudia Latham & The Politics of Change Hall O’Brien Watkins LLP 12/10/16 12:05 Kaufman Department Annual Holiday of Earth Luncheon Sciences

Spring 2015 Earth Sciences Lunch and Learn Seminar Series

Date Time (PM) Location Speaker(s) Affiliation Title

1/20/15 12:05 Social Hall John R. Haley & “The Life of a Professional West Kastrinos Aldrich, Inc. Hydrogeologist” “83 2/16/15 9:30 a.m. Kaufman Kristin Dept. of “The Evolution, Biology, 152 Strock Environmental and Ecology of Diatoms” Studies, Dickinson College 2/17/15 7:00 Stern Center Kristen Massachusetts “Curiosity on Mars” Great Room Miller ‘06 Institute of Technology 3/17/15 12:05 Social Hall Ben Dept. of Earth “Lessons on East Edwards Sciences at glaciovolcanism” Dickinson College 3/25/15 9:30 a.m. Kaufman Brian Sell Syracuse “Telling Time in the 152 University Cambrian & Ordovician” 3/31/15 12:05 Social Hall Jeff Niemitz Dept. of Earth “Climate Change in Peru” East & Will Sciences at Kochtitzky Dickinson College 4/7/15 7:00 Stern Center Paul University of “The Limits of Climate Great Room Mayewski Maine Change”

4/14/15 12:05 HUB Side Pete Sak, Dept. of Earth “Costa Rica Trip January Rooms 202- Ben Sciences at 2015” 203 Edwards & Dickinson ERSC College Students 4/21&28/15 12:05 Hub Social ERSC Dept. of Earth “Senior Research Hall West Seniors Sciences at Presentations” Dickinson College

FALL 2014 Earth Sciences Lunch and Learn Seminar Series

TIME DATE LOCATION SPEAKER(S) AFFILIATION TITLE (PM) Dept. of Earth Ben Sciences & Discussion of the Carlisle Edwards/Will Center for movie Chasing Ice 9/20/14 7:30 Theatre, 44 Kochtitzky & Sustainability following free W High St. Neil Leary Education, community Dickinson screening College The 2014 Anita Tuvin Dickinson The art and science 9/23/14 7:00 Schlechter James Balog College Rose- of Chasing Ice Auditorium Walters Prize Winner Lock Haven Social Hall Innerspace, the (PA) Hospital West in the David Rilling fascinating 3D 9/30/14 12:05 and Haven Holland Union (’62) world of Surgical Building microminerals Associates Bed Edwards, Will Dept. of Earth Summer 2014 Kochtitzky, Sciences, departmental trip 10/24/14 1:35 Kaufman 152 Katie Mattern, Dickinson to Greenland and Amanda College Iceland Santilli Dept. of Climate Risk Side rooms Geosciences, Management in the 201-202 in the Pennsylvania 11/11/14 12:05 Klaus Keller Anthropocene: Holland Union State From Basic Building University, Science to State College, PA Decision Making (and Back) Dept. of How Fracking 11/17/14 Geosciences, Impacts Our (Monday) 11th Pennsylvania 7:00 Althouse 106 Susan Brantley Water: The Annual Potter State Pennsylvania Lecture University, Experience State College, PA Dept. of Exploring the Geosciences, Transformation of Pennsylvania 11/18/14 12:05 Kaufman 186 Susan Brantley Bedrock into Soil State in the Deep University, Critical Zone State College, PA

SPRING 2014 Earth Sciences Lunch and Learn Seminar Series

TIME DATE LOCATION SPEAKER(S) AFFILIATION TITLE (PM) Social Hall Dept. of Earth Costa Rica East in the Sciences, 1/28/14 12:05 Pete Sak Subduction Holland Union Dickinson Erosion Building College Analysis of multi- resolution satellite Geophysical Siderooms imagery of the Institute, 205-206 in the 2012-2013 2/11/14 12:05 University of Holland Union Hilary Morgan eruption of Alaska, Building Tolbachik Fairbanks, AK Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia The Importance of Social Hall Science Kevin Spicer Geoenvironmental 2/18/14 East in the Program, 12:05 and Bruce Science Education (w/ ES) Holland Union Carlisle High Rowland at the High School Building School Level 2/20/14 Dept. of Black Diamond, Stafford (Thursday) Rudy Geosciences, Black Gold, and 7:00 Auditorium, 10th Annual Slingerlan Pennsylvania Black Shale: Rector Potter Lecture d (’69) State Pennsylvania’s U i it State College, Geological PA Heritage Dept. of Geosciences, River Deltas as 2/21/14 Rudy Pennsylvania Self-organized 12:30 Kaufman 186 (Friday) Slingerlan State Morphodynamic d (’69) University, Systems State College, PA Mount Rainier Social Hall National Park, East in the GeoCorps and WA and 3/18/14 12:05 Holland Union Becca Rossi internship Hawaiian Building (’13) experiences Volcano Observatory, HI Geochemistry of Vatnsskarð Pillow Lava Ridge and Siderooms 205- Dept. of Earth Thermal Evolution 206 in the Aleks Perpalaj Sciences, of a Subglacial 4/22/14 12:05 Holland Union (’14) and Ellie Dickinson Pillow Lava from Building Was (’14) College Undirhlíður Quarry, Southwestern Iceland Dept. of Geography, Geology, and the Environment Slippery Rock 31 Degrees South: Patrick and 4/24/14 University, Hydrogeology in 12:05 Kaufman 152 Kenzie (Thursday) Slippery Rock, the High Andes of Burkhart PA and Dept. of Argentina Anthropology/ Archaeology, Dickinson College Geoarcheological sourcing of a stone Dept. of Earth Social Hall East Leslie paver from a Sciences, 4/29/14 12:05 in the Holland Milliman (’14) Colonial Maryland Dickinson Union Building and Geo site; Groundwater- College Nikolov (’14) Surface Water Interactions in the Yellow Breeches Creek Watershed, South Middleton Township, PA

FALL 2013 Earth Sciences Lunch and Learn Seminar Series

TIME DATE LOCATION SPEAKER(S) AFFILIATION TITLE (PM) Luce Foundation’s Initiative on Social Hall History of West in the Asian Studies and glaciations in the 9/17/13 12:05 Kelin Zhuang Holland Union the Environment Permo- Building (LIASE), Carboniferous Dickinson College

Dept. of Geography, Social Hall Geology, and the 9/19/13 West in the Patrick Environment Darwin's Boulders 12:05 (Thursday) Holland Union Burkhart Slippery Rock in Tierra del Fuego Building University, Slippery Rock, PA Subaerial Seafloor Dept. of Earth Spreading in Siderooms Sciences, Iceland: 201-202 in the 9/24/13 12:05 Jeff Karson Syracuse Propagating Rifts, Holland Union University, Transform Faults Building Syracuse, NY and Microplate Tectonics 10/2/13 Dept. of Earth & Using geology to (Wednesday Environmental better understand 5:00 Kaufman 179 Jenn Elick PM) Sciences, the coal fire at (w/ES) Susquehanna Centralia University, Selinsgrove, PA Social Hall Dept. of Earth Ben Edwards, West in the Sciences, Summer field work 10/8/13 12:05 Aleks Perpalaj, Holland Union Liz Plascencia, Dickinson in Iceland Building Ellie Was College Environmental and Social Hall Depts. of Archaeological 10/15 West in the Maria Bruno Archaeology and Research in the (w/ARCH) Holland Union and Will Earth Sciences, Lake Titicaca and Building Kochtitzky Dickinson Poopó Basins, College Bolivia

Melanie

Campbell, Dept. of Earth Sumer Earth 10/25/13 Marcus Key, Sciences, Sciences field trip 12:30 Kaufman 152 (Friday) Leslie Dickinson to Baffin Island, Milliman, College Canada Aleks Perpalaj, Liz Pl i Social Hall Geo Nikolov, Dept. of Earth Overseas West in the Leslie Sciences, 10/29/13 12:05 study/research Holland Union Milliman, Dickinson experiences Building Aleks Perpalaj College National Institute Alternative careers Social Hall of Standards and for ERSC majors Jen Laws East in the Technology, and what the 11/12/13 12:05 Marshall Holland Union Gaithersburg, National Institute (GEOL’01 ) Building MD of Standards and Technology does Institute of The 2012-13 Alexander Volcanology and eruption of Belousov and Seismology, 11/19/13 11:30 Kaufman 140 Tolbachik volcano, Marina Petropavlovsk- Kamchatka, Russia Belousova Kamchatsky, Russia

SPRING 2013

TIME DATE LOCATION SPEAKER(S) AFFILIATION TITLE (PM) Climate Change Department of Social Hall and Human Archaeology/ East in the Societies in the 1/22/13 12:05 Anthropology, Holland Union Maria Bruno Ancient Lake Dickinson Building Titicaca Basin of College the Andes Love Your The Breakthrough Monsters: Why 1/29/13 (with Stern Center, Michael 7:00 Institute, Oakland, Technology Will Clarke Forum) Great Room Shellenberger CA Save the World Mill Dams and Siderooms Department of Legacy Sediments: 2/12/13 205-206 in the Earth Sciences, 12:05 Jeff Niemitz the 18th and 19th (with ES) Holland Union Dickinson c. "gifts" that keep Building College on giving Operating a British Ship on American Strategic Studies 2/19/13 Social Hall Algae? Prospects Institute, U.S. (with East in the for Greater 12:05 John Deni Army War Internationa Holland Union Transatlantic College, Carlisle, l Studies) Building Cooperation in PA Energy Security

Depts. of Biology/ The Fall 2012 Environmental 2/21/13 Gene Wingert et Natural History 5:00 Kaufman 179 Studies/ (with ES) al. Sustainability Education, Mosaic Dickinson College Dept. of Geology, 2/27/13 Earlham College, Societies, Risk, and (with Clarke 4:30 Denny 317 Andy Moore Richmond, Natural Hazards Forum) Indiana

Peter Bechtel Northern Region, Sustainable 2/27/13 Stern Center, ’81 and Ruth World Wildlife Development in (with Clarke 7:00 Great Room Mkhwanazi- Fund, Mozambique Forum) Bechtel Mozambique

Stern Center, Peter Bechtel Northern Region, Human Dimensions 3/5/13 7:00 Great Room Tim Kelsey World Wildlife of Natural Resource (with Clarke Veronica Coptis Fund, Extraction: A Panel Forum) Julie Vastine Mozambique; Discussion Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Penn State University; Center for Coalfield Justice, Washington, PA; ALLARM, Dickinson College Fantastic fossil Social Hall Department of fenestrates: the East in the Patrick Wyse Geology, Trinity functional 3/19/13 12:05 Holland Union Jackson College, Dublin, morphology of Building Ireland some bryozoan taxa

Dept. of

3/27/13 Anita Tuvin Environmental Designing (with Clarke 7:00 Schlechter David Orr Studies and Resilience in a Forum) Auditorium Politics, Oberlin Black Swan World College, OH

Sinkholes: A case Social Hall Earth history of projects East in the John T Pusey, Engineering Inc., 4/9/13 12:05 investigating and Holland Union Jr. ‘98 East Norriton, stabilizing Building PA sinkholes Dept. of

4/11/13 Anita Tuvin Environmental Front Line of the (with Clarke 7:00 Schlechter Bill McKibben Studies, Climate Fight Forum) Auditorium Middlebury College, VT

Department of The Hockey Stick 4/22/13 Geosciences/ Stern Center, and the Climate (with Clarke 7:00 Michael Mann Meteorology, Great Room Wars Forum) Penn State University, PA Skeletal Dissolution Caused By Ocean Department of Acidification; Julia Rasamny; Earth Sciences, Agricultural vs. 4/23/13 12:05 Kaufman 186 David Cruz Dickinson Urban Influence on College Legacy Sediments of the Letort Watershed

Volumetric Analysis of the Upper Freeport Coal Seam Department of Social Hall East Marc in the Saxonburg Earth Sciences, Quadrangle, western 4/30/13 12:05 in the Holland Baumann; Joe Dickinson Pennsylvania; A Union Building Stahley College Comparison of Black Shales: the Utica Fm. vs. the Marcellus Fm.

Fall 2012

DATE TIME LOCATION SPEAKER(S) AFFILIATION TITLE (PM)

9/18/12 12:05 Social Hall Pete Sak Department of Unraveling the West in the Earth Sciences, Appalachians of Holland Union Dickinson Central PA Building College

9/25/12 12:05 Social Hall Ben Edwards, Department of 3-D mapping of West in the Ellie Was, Jim Earth Sciences volcanic features: Holland Union Ciarrocca and LIS, Examples from the Building Dickinson 2010 Gigjokull College lava flow and subglacial pillow lava quarries, southern Iceland

10/4/12 7:00 Stern Center John C. Priscu Department of Earth's icy Great room Land Resources biosphere and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University 10/9/12 12:05 Social Hall Ryan Mathur Department of Isotopes and ore East in the Geology, Juniata deposits Holland Union College Building

10/23/12 12:05 Holland Union Alexander S. Lamont Doherty What Building Lloyd (’07) Earth geochemistry and siderooms 202- Observatory, melt inclusions can 203 Columbia tell us about University magma ascent 11/8/12, 9th 7:00 Althouse 106 David J Bottjer Department of A Climate Carol: Annual Potter Earth Sciences, A Ghost Story of Lecture University of Greenhouse Mass Southern Extinctions California

11/9/12 12:05 Kaufman 134 David J Bottjer Department of The Early Earth Sciences, Evolution of University of Animals Southern California

11/13/12, 12:05 Kaufman 186 Nathan Bangs Institute for Seeing what’s at Ocean Geophysics, fault in subduction Leadership University of zones: Examining Distinguished Texas at Austin great earthquake Lecture megathrusts

11/27/12 12:05 Social Hall Rebecca Rossi Department of Petrology and West in the Earth Sciences, Geoarchaeology of Holland Union Dickinson the Catoctin Building College Metarhyolites of South Mountain, Pennsylvania

Spring 2012

DATE SPEAKER(S) AFFILIATION TITLE 1/31/12 Marcus Key Department of Geology of Arava Desert, Israel Earth Sciences, and its effect on sustainable Dickinson water use College

2/10/12 Kira Lawrence Dept. of Clues to Earth’s Complex * Geology and Climate History at the Interface Environmental of Geology, Chemistry and Geosciences, Biology Lafayette College

2/14/12 Adria Updike Department of The Dusty Universe: Exploding Physics and stars and galactic evolution Astronomy

3/1/12* Frank Pazzaglia Dept. of Earth The Fall Zone, Steep Rivers, and * & Erosion: How Appalachian Environmental geomorphology has shaped our Science, Lehigh nation University

3/2/12* Frank Pazzaglia Dept. of Earth Broadband geodesy and the * & growth of the northern Environmental Apennines, Italy Science, Lehigh University

3/27/12 Bill Roman Gannett Using Digital Photogrammetry Fleming Inc. for Rock Cut Slope Design - An Example in the Central Appalachian Mountains

4/10/12 Maria Snoussi Department of Coastal development in Earth Sciences, Morocco: Challenges and Mohamed V Prospects in the Context of University, Climate Change Rabat Morroco

4/17/12 Michael Beevers Department of Can diamonds and minerals Environmental promote peace in war-torn Studies, societies? Lessons from Sierra Dickinson Leone College

4/23/12 Scott Burns (2012 Richard Department of Urban Landslides – Challenges H. Jahns Distinguished Geology, to Forensic Engineering Lecturer in Engineering Portland State Geologists Geology) University 5/1/12 William Seward Department of Growth of rye in Icelandic Earth Sciences, volcanic ash Dickinson College

5/1/12 Claire Persichetti Department of Soil fertility: a comparison Earth Sciences, between organic and Dickinson conventional agriculture College

5/1/12 Page Hollenbeck Department of Test of a methodology to Earth Sciences, quantify paleoseasonality using Dickinson extant bryozoans from both sides College of the Isthmus of Panama

5/3/12 Breana Hashman Department of The search for life in Earth Sciences, Neoarchean Banded Iron Dickinson Formations College

5/3/12 Natalie Kormushoff Department of Using a Wave Tank to Compare Earth Sciences, Landslide Generated Tsunamis Dickinson to Point Source Tsunamis and its College Implications for the East Coast of the United States

Fall 2011

DATE TIME LOCATION SPEAKER AFFILIATION TITLE Tuesday 12:05- HUB Jeff Department of From A (IDS) to Z 9/13/2011 1:00 siderooms Niemitz Earth Sciences, (imbabwe): Soils, PM 204-205 Dickinson Water, Minerals, and College political will - Key elements for the next generation Tuesday 12:05- HUB Ben Department of Summer 2011 field 9/20/2011 1:00 siderooms Edwards & Earth Sciences, work in Iceland PM 202-203 Rebecca Dickinson Rossi College Tuesday 12:05- Kaufman Mitch Department of Structural and 9/27/2011 1:00 152 Scharman Earth Sciences, Tectonic PM Dickinson Investigations of a College Transpressional System, Chugach Metamorphic Complex, Southern Alaska Wedneday 9:30- Kaufman Catherine Department of Cold-water 9/28/2011 10:20 152 Reid Geological Carbonates and Giant AM Sciences, Bryozoans University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Tuesday 12:05- HUB Social Jake Geo- BMP Monitoring in 11/8/2011 1:00 Hall Davidson Technology Maryland: An PM (’10) Associates, Overview Inc., Abingdon, MD Tuesday 12:05- HUB Social Chris Department of Getting your feet wet 11/15/2011 1:00 Hall Ackley Earth Sciences, and dirty (literally) in PM Dickinson a geosciences career College

SPRING 2011

DATE TIME LOCATION SPEAKER AFFILIATION TITLE Tuesday 12:05- HUB Marcus Department of Stream channel 2/8/11 1:00 siderooms Key Earth Sciences, network analysis PM 202-203 Dickinson applied to colony- College wide feeding structures in a Permian bryozoan from Greenland Tuesday 12:05- HUB Noel Potter Department of Scotch on the 2/15/11 1:00 siderooms Earth Sciences, Rocks in PM 202-203 Dickinson Antarctica with the College World’s Oldest Ice

Tuesday 12:05- HUB Rob Dean Department of Mesoproterozoic 3/1/11 1:00 siderooms Earth Sciences, Plutons in PM 202-203 Dickinson Southern College Colorado: Aureole Structure and Tectonic Implications Tuesday 12:05- HUB Chuck Department of Paleozoic tectonics 3/8/11 1:00 siderooms Bailey Geology, of Piedmont PM 202-203 College of terranes (south of William and your latitude!) Mary Tuesday 12:05- HUB Spring Department of Geology, 3/22/11 1:00 siderooms break trip Earth Sciences, archeology, and PM 202-203 participants Dickinson culture of Sicily College Tuesday 12:05- HUB Chuck Range The History and 3/29/11 1:00 siderooms Moyer Resources - Geology of the PM 202-203 Appalachia, Marcellus Shale Canonsburg, Play in SW PA PA Tuesday 12:05- HUB Pete La Department of Life & Death 4/5/11 1:00 siderooms Femina Geosciences, Struggle in a PM 202-203 Pennsylvania Propagating Ridge State System: Geodetic University GPS and Geologic Observations in South Iceland Thursday 7:00 Althouse 106 Katharine Department of Plateaus to 4/21/11 PM Huntington Earth and paleoclimate: Space 'Clumped' isotopes Sciences, in Earth science University of Washington Friday 12:00- Kaufman 134 Katharine Department of Signals in sand: 4/22/11 1:15 Huntington Earth and Detrital mineral PM Space thermochronology Sciences, and the evolution University of of orogenic Washington landscapes Tuesday 12:00- HUB Kristin Department of How plate 4/26/11 1:15 siderooms Morell Geosciences, tectonics PM 201-202 Pennsylvania surrounding the State Panama Triple University Junction have affected deformation and volcanism in southern Central America Thursday 12:00- Kaufman 134 Jamie Department of Melt Generation in 4/28/11 1:15 Levine Geological Migmatites and PM Sciences, the Role of Strain Jackson School in Preferentially of Inducing Melting Geosciences, University of Texas 5/3/11 12:00- HUB Rob Jansen Department of Origins of 1:15 siderooms Earth Sciences, Polymictic PM 201-202 Dickinson Diamict at Kima' College Kho, Northern British Columbia, Canada 5/5/11 9:00- Kaufman 153 Everett Department of The Implications 9:45 Lasher Earth Sciences, of Climate Change AM Dickinson on Stream Flow College and Legacy Sediment Remobilization, Yellow Breeches Creek, Cumberland County, PA 5/5/11 9:45- Kaufman 153 James Department of Geochemical and 10:30 Haklar Earth Sciences, Thermodynamic AM Dickinson Constraints on the College Source Region of the 2010 Fimmvorduhals Eruption, Iceland

Fall 2010

DATE TIME LOCATION SPEAKER AFFILIATION TITLE Tuesday 12:05- HUB Ben Department of How a small Icelandic 9/21/2010 1:00 siderooms Edwards Earth Sciences, eruption brought PM 202-203 & James Dickinson European airspace to Haklar College its knees Tuesday 12:05- HUB Sean Geography & Paleoecology of 9/28/2010 1:00 siderooms Cornell Earth Science Devonian PM 202-203 Department, edrioasteroid-bearing Shippensburg hardgrounds of New University York Tuesday 12:05- HUB Nate Department of Marcellus Shale 10/26/10 1:00 siderooms Lorentz Earth Sciences, update PM 202-203 Dickinson College Friday 12:00- Kaufman Robert S. Department of Environmental 11/12/10 1:00 134 J. Sparks Earth Sciences, Hazards PM University of Bristol Tuesday 12:00- HUB Katie N/A Internship report; 11/30/10 1:00 siderooms Anderson; Future IR and PM 202-203 Jeff, internship Marcus, opportunities for Ben students

Spring 2010

DATE TIME LOCATION SPEAKER AFFILIATION TITLE Tuesday 12:05- Dana Hall Carl Kirby Bucknell Hydraulic fracturing 2/9/2010 1:00 110 University of the Marcellus Shale PM for natural gas and some potential environmental impacts in PA, NY, OH, and WV Tuesday 12:05- Kaufman Pedro Bryn Mawr Contrasting shallow 2/23/2010 1:00 Hall 134 Marenco and deep PM paleoenvironmentsand the biotic recovery from the End Permian mass extinction Tuesday 12:05- HUB Emily University of Construction and 3/2/10 1:00 siderooms Mercurio Pittsburgh evolution of an ice- PM 204-205 confined basaltic fissure eruption, SW Iceland Tuesday 12:00- HUB Chira Pennsylvania Geochemistry of 24 3/23/10 1:00 siderooms Endress State Ma Basalts from PM 201-202 (’07) University Northeast Egypt: Implications for Widespread Magmatismin Northern Africa Thursday 7:00 Denny 317 John Volcano Volcanoes as Geysers 4/22/10 p.m. Eichelberger Hazards, (6th Annual Potter USGS Lecture) Friday 12:00- Kaufman John Volcano Of Dikes and Magma 4/23/10 1:00 179 Eichelberger Hazards, Chambers:The Great PM USGS Katmai Eruption of 1912 Tuesday 12:00- Kaufman Alyssa Department of Senior Research 4/27/10 1:00 134 Chaplin, Earth Sciences Presentations PM Jake Davidson, Gwen Dunnington, Alexandra- Selene Jarvis Thursday 12:00- Kaufman Christine Department of Senior Research 4/29/10 1:00 134 Miller, Earth Sciences Presentations PM Sayuri Stemp, Marci Wills, Nathan Yancheff

Spring 2009

DATE TIME LOCATION SPEAKER AFFILIATION TITLE Tuesday 12:05- HUB Kamini Penn State Peering into the black 2/10/2009 1:00 siderooms Singha University box: quantifying PM 203-204 anomalous solute transport behavior in heterogeneous environments with geophysics Tuesday 12:05- HUB Lee Reheard Penn DOT Terrestrial 2/17/2009 1:00 siderooms LiDARapplications in PM 203-204 geology Tuesday 12:30 Kaufman Tim Dixon University of Unraveling earth’s 3/4/2009 – 1:30 179 Miami largest earthquakes p.m. using space based techniques Tuesday 12:00- HUB Jon Lewis Indiana Initial Glimpses into 3/31/2009 1:00 siderooms University of the Seismogenic PM 203-204 Pennsylvania Zone: NankaiTrough Japan Thursday 7:00 Tome 115 Mark Yale The rise and ruin of 4/16/2009 p.m. Brandon University mountains around the Mediterranean over the last 35 million years Friday 9:30 Kaufman Mark Yale Interaction between 4/17/2009 a.m. 152 Brandon University glacial erosion and tectonics in the Patagonian Andes Monday 12:00- Kaufman Nate University of Does the Reed 4/20/2009 1:00 140 Lorentz Southern Dolomite, White-Inyo PM California Mountains, California record a Neoproterozoic glaciation or protracted Rodinian breakup? Tuesday 12:00- Kaufman Whitney Department of Relating climate to 4/28/2009 1:00 134 Hoffman Earth Sciences weathering using PM tombstones from the last four centuries Thursday 4:30 – Kaufman Courtney Department of Geochemical analysis 4/30/2009 5:30 134 Haynes Earth Sciences and comparison of p.m. two legacy sediment sites within the Yellow Breeches Creek Watershed, Cumberland County, PA

Spring 2008

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE 1/29 Geology Dickinson College Majors Meeting (Kaufman 179) Faculty 2/5 Alexis Navarre- Penn State University Weathering rind formation on basalt clasts: a Sitchler key intermediate weathering scale 2/12 Duane Braun Bloomsburg The glaciation of NE PA: What we have learned University from mapping the glacial deposits over an area of 25,000 km2 during the past 30 years 2/19 Bob Gallagher West/Rhode The Waterkeeper approach to protecting and & Michael R Riverkeeper & Lower preserving our waters Helfrich Susquehanna Riverkeeper 2/26 Amelia LIS Refworks Workshop to be held in Kaufman 159 Brunskil 3/4 Bill Bragonier PA DCNR Coal in Pennsylvania 3/18 3/25 4/1 Jeremy Scripps Institution of Ecology of mass extinction and faunal turnover Jackson* Oceanography in the tropical Western Atlantic 4/3 Todd Grote Allegehny College A glimpse of the Appalachian landscape as seen through soils 4/8 Karl W. Lehigh University Great earthquakes, rock uplift and seismic Wegmann coupling above the Hellenic Subduction Zone — Crete, Greece 4/9 Lara Storm Colby College Adirondack Origins: Clues from the Rocks 4/15 4/22 Meg Thompson Wellesley College Assembling the Appalachians: A cast study from southeastern New England 4/29 Jenn Wade Boston University From Mexico to Persia to Washington, DC: using geochemistry to study the collections of the Library of Congress 5/2 Departmental Picnic

FALL 2008

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE 8/26/08 Geology Faculty Dickinson College Welcome Back Luncheon 9/2/08 Courtney, Jon, & Dickinson College Geology Abroad Whitney 9/9/08 †Mark Pagani Yale University A Cenozoic history of atmospheric carbon dioxide 9/16/08 9/23/08 9/30/08 Eric Kirby Penn State University Mountain Building in Eastern Tibet and the Great Sichuan Earthquake 10/7/08 10/14/08 Fall Pause 10/21/08 Chris Cornell University Melt transport in the upper mantle and deep Andronicos crust: Examples from Oman and British Columbia. 10/28/08 Neil Leary Dickinson College Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education 11/4/08 Alexandra Temple University Ancient and active processes on Mars as Davatzes revealed by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 11/12/08 *Don University of Munich, MSA Explosive volcanism: a materials Dingwell Distinguished Lecturer catastrophe 11/18/08 Geology Dickinson College 2008 Cassa trip to SoCal Students 11/25/08 Thanksgiving Break 12/2/08 Holiday Luncheon (Kaufman Rm 140)

Spring 2007

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE 2/6/07 Dickinson Students Dickinson College "Studying Geology Abroad at UEA, Norwich England" 2/13/07 Ryan Goldstein ('06) Specialized Engineering "SPECIALIZED ENGINEERING Engineers. Geologist. Inspectors." 2/22/07 Professor Dr. Five Colleges "Oil, War, and Geopolitics" Michael Klare 2/27/07 Professor Dr. Ian University of Pittsburgh "Using the Products of Volcano-Ice Skilling Interaction to Infer Former Ice Conditions" 3/6/07 Professor Dr. Allison Temple University "Pathways in Paleobiology; How to turn Tumarkin-Deratzian a horned dinosaur into an antelope, a bird, a croc, and a rat...."" 3/22/07 Professor Dr. Roger Carnegie Mellon "Addressing Climate Change: A Least- Sant University Cost Strategy" 3/27/07 Elizabeth Pente ('07) Dickinson College " Two Geology students give talks about and Christopher their internships this year" Cresci ('07) 4/4/07 Rob Thieler US Geological Survey, "Changing Climate, Changing Coasts: Woods Hole, MA. Where we've been and where we may be headed" 4/5/07 Rob Theiler US Geological Survey, "From Glacial Floods to Human Sludge: Woods Hole, MA. The Rich Sedimentary History of the Hudson Shelf Valley" 4/24/07 Gordon Clarke ('07) Dickinson College " Two Geology students give talks about and Ian Martz ('07) their independent research projects this year"

FALL 2007

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE 8/28/07 Geology Faculty Dickinson College Welcome Back Luncheon 9/11/07 Lance Simmens* Commonwealth of Global warming: prompting average people to PA action 10/2/07 Mark Penn State Understanding the fossil record of mass Patzkowsky University extinctions and biodiversity cycles 10/9/07 Courtney Dickinson College Haynes: Summer field research assistant Haynes & Alex experience with Prof. Ben Edwards; Mount Jarvis Edziza, British Columbia

Jarvis: Dating lava flows by the(U-TH)/He methods using xenolithic zircons from the Edziza Volcanic Complex, British Columbia 10/16/07 Fall Pause 10/23/07 Joel Moore Penn State Chronosequences as natural laboratories for University geochemical and ecological change 10/30/07 Scott Laird ('71) URS Corp. Conceptual site models: establishing a meaningful geologic framework 11/6/07 Jenn Wade Boston University From Mexico to Washington: Using geochemistry to study Maya artifacts at the Library of Congress 11/13/07 Sarah Burkett GeoDecisions Using Geographic Information Systems across disciplines 11/27/06 Rudy Penn State Tectonic Landscapes: balancing crustal Slingerland ('69) University deformation with raindrops 12/4/07 Holiday Luncheon (Kaufman Rm 140)

Spring 2006

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Professor Theoretical Astrophysics 01/31/06 Richard Program, "Europa, the Ocean Moon: An alien biosphere?" Greenberg University of Arizona Adrian Biscontini Geology Department, "Late Cenozoic drainage reorganization of the Arkansas 02/07/06 ('06) and Dickinson College River, Central Colorado" Professor Peter Sak Department of Earth and Dr. Harold Environmental Science, “Getting Inside the Plate Boundary: Subduction Zone 02/10/06* Tobin New Mexico Institute of Megathrusts in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program” Mining and Technology Division of Earth and Meagen "Construction of Oceanic Crust: New Views Through 02/27/06 Ocean Sciences, Pollock Tectonic Windows" Duke University Stephanie Department of Geology and "Magnetic studies of layered mafic intrusions: 03/09/06 Maes Geophysics, implications for emplacement and evolution." University of Wisconsin at Madison United States Geological Dr. Dave 04/03/06 Survey, Minerals "Geoscience Careers in the Federal Government" Menzie ('71) Information Team Department of Earth and Professor "In the Boiler Room of Volcanoes: A View from 4/13/06 Planetary Sciences, Bruce Marsh Antarctica" (2006 Potter Lecture) Johns Hopkins University Department of Earth and Professor "Magmatic Processes: Impact Melt Sheets to Yucca 4/14/06 Planetary Sciences, Bruce Marsh Mountain" (2006 Potter Lecture) Johns Hopkins University Department of Earth and Dr. Greg "Isotopes in the Biogeochemical Cycling of Nitrogen: 04/18/06** Atmospheric Sciences, Michalski From Acid Rain to Climate Change to Gunpowder!" Purdue University

Justin Dahlin ('06), Ryan Goldstein ('06), Geology Department, 04/25/06 "The Geology Senior Internship Experience" Kendall Reiss Dickinson College ('06), Adrian Biscontini ('06) "Petrology and Geothermometry of Pyroxenite and Peridotite Xenoliths from Stikinia Lithosphere, Craven Veronica Lake Volcanic Center, Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Tsang ('06), Province, British Columbia"

Geology Department, 05/02/06 Camille Dickinson College "Morphology and Paleogeography of Pleistocene Carter ('06), Gastropods from San Quintin Bay Fm., San Quintin

Bay, Baja California, Mexico" Peter Hanley ('06) "Structural Evolution of the Susquehanna River Valley" Adrian Geology Department, "Using Fluvially Transported Clasts to Track the 05/03/06 Biscontini Dickinson College Evolution of the Arkansas River, Colorado" + ('06) "Developing a Methodology for Determining Growth Kristen Miller Geology Department, 05/04/06 Rates in Fossil Bryozoans Using Living Bryozoans ('06) Dickinson College from the Adriatic Sea, Croatia." + "Stratigraphic Analysis of the Welded Sequence in the Matt Nogier Geology Department, 05/10/06 Pointer Ridge Pyroclastic Deposit, Hoodoo Mountain ('06) Dickinson College Volcano, British Columbia, Canada" +

Fall 2006 DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Mike Burns ('07), Gordon Clark ('07) , 09/12/06 Dickinson College "Summer Research Experiences " and Maggie Jackson ('07) Alex Lloyd ('07) and "Sub-glacieal Volcanism at Mt. Edziza, 09/19/06 Dickinson College Chira Endress ('07) Northern British Columbia" Adrian Biscontini 10/10/06 United States Geological Survey “Acid Mine Drainage” ('06) "Landslides in Pennsylvania , with 10/31/06 Helen Delano Pennsylvania Geologic Survey Attention to Social and Economic Aspects." Geology Department, Dr. Beth O'Shea and "The Geology of England and Scotland: 11/07/06 Dr. Jeff Niemitz Adventures from our Summer Trip" Dickinson College "Pollution from Underground Storage 11/14/06 **Brad Wolf ('95) BL Companies Containers " "Humans First Altered Climate, Department of Environmental 12/05/06 William Ruddiman Thousands (not hundreds) of Years Ago Sciences, University of Virginia "

12/07/06 Holiday Party

Spring 2005

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Kate Wetherell ('05), Evan Visone ('05), Dept. of Geology 2/3/05 Michael Studying Geology Abroad Dickinson College Asmussen ('05), and Ned Richmond ('05) Dept. of Geology Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Ulduvai Region of 2/10/05 Cindy Liutkus Bucknell University East Africa Tim Samson Dept. of Geology 2/17/05 ('05) and Marcus Research on fossilized bryozoa collected from Estonia Dickinson College Key

Kate Wetherell Dept. of Geology Eruption history of pyroclasts (volcanic rocks) collected 2/24/05 ('05) and Ben Dickinson College from Hoodoo Mountain in British Columbia, Canada Edwards Geophysical Institute Tapping the 2.6-billion-year old rock record for clues of 3/03/05 Jen Eigenbrode Carnegie Institution early microbial life

Mike Asmussen ('05), Ned Dept. of Geology 3/10/05 Richmond ('05), The Senior Geology Internship Experience Dickinson College and Ryan Stagaard ('05) Potter Lectureship 2005: Global Warming and Abrupt Dept. of Geosciences 3/24/05 Richard Alley Climate Change: How to Make Money by Cleaning Up Penn State University After Ourselves Dept. of Geosciences See Saws and Sea Ice: An Update on Abrupt Climate 3/25/05 Richard Alley Penn State University Change 3/31/05 Ben Marsh Dept. of Geography and Iron Age Environmental Degradation: Alluvial Burial of Environmental Studies ancient Gordion. Bucknell University 4/07/05 Tracy Huff ('03) Pangean-CMD Adventures in Environmental Consulting: the entry-level Associates, Inc. perspective 4/14/05 Andrew Roth Dept. of Geology High Times in the Great Valley: Remote Sensing by ('06) Dickinson College Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

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Evan Visone Thrust Faults in Analog Sandbox Models ('05) 4/21/05 Ken Macdonald Dept. of Geological RIDGE 2000 Lectureship Series: 10,000 leagues under the Sciences sea: deep dives to explore the underwater volcanoes of the University of California global mid-ocean ridges Santa Barbara 4/22/05 Ken Macdonald Dept. of Geological RIDGE 2000 Lectureship Series: Linkages between Sciences tectonics, volcanism, hydrothermal activity, vent animals, University of California and segmentation on mid-ocean ridges Santa Barbara 4/28/05 Tim O'Riordan Dept. of Env. Sciences Grounding Sustainability: An international perspective University of East Anglia Norwich, England 5/04/05 Tim Samson Dept. of Geology Implications of sampling strategy on C and O isotope ('05) Dickinson College chemostratigraphy: a test from the Ordovician of Estonia

5/06/05 Kate Wetherell Dept. of Geology Volcanology and petrology of the West Tuya Lava Field, ('05) Dickinson College Northwestern British Columbia, Canada

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Pete Enderlin Hydraulic evidence of fracture flow in a carbonate aquifer, ('05) South Middleton Township, Pennsylvania 5/31/05 Guadalupe Dept. of Geology & Env. Velazquez- Geosciences Oliman Northern Illinois Univ. 6/2/05 Bethany O'Shea Dept. of Earth & Env. Science Univ. of New South Wales, Australia

Fall 2005

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE

8/30/05 N/A N/A Geology Department Welcome Back Luncheon

Matt Nogier ('06), Kendall Reiss ('06), Experiences from Spring 2005 Geology Study Dept. of Geology, 9/6/05 Peter Hanley ('06), Abroad Programs: Australia , England , The Dickinson College Ryan Goldstein Atlantic Ocean, and New Zealand ('06), and Cammy Carter ('06) Arsenic Contamination in a Town Groundwater Dept. of Geology, 9/13/05 Bethany O'Shea Supply: Why is it there? How did it get there? Dickinson College What are the impacts on the local environment?

Massachusetts Institute of Coupling of tectonics and erosion in central 9/20/05 Katie Ruhl Technology Nepalese Himalayas

Professor Hans Dept. of Physics , A Solar Powered Stirling Engine - Pollution- 10/04/05 Pfister Dickinson College Free Energy Co-production Professor Emeritus, (Earth Science Week: Geoscientists Explore 10/11/05 Prof. Noel Potter Geology Department, Our Earth) Dickinson College Brian H. Greene, The 1911 Sliding Failure of a Concrete Gravity 10/14/05 Army Corp of Engineers PhD, PG Dam at Austin, PA Prof. Ben Edwards and Dept. of Geology, Of xenoliths and volcanic ash: Montserrat 11/1/05 Chira Endress Dickinson College revisited ('07) Prof. Marcus Key Dept. of Geology, Developing a Tool for Determining Colony Age 11/15/05 and Kristen Miller Dickinson College in Fossil Bryozoans ('06)

11/29/05 Geology Faculty Dickinson College Student Research Opportunities in Geology

11/29/05 N/A N/A Holiday Luncheon

Spring 2004

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Department of Geology, The Geological Column: the Historical 1/29/04 Patrick N. Wyse Jackson Trinity College, Dublin, Background to Its Construction Ireland Orogenic curvature: Paleomagnetic and Department of Geology, 2/2/04 Aviva Sussman Structural Analysis of the Catalon Pyrenees, Bryn Mawr College Spain

Dept. of Geologyical & Env. Earthquakes and Fault Interation Along the 2/9/04 Jordan Muller Sciences, Stanford University North Anatolian Fault System, Turkey

Ridge Subduction Has Its Ups and Downs: Department of Geology, Effects of Rough Crust Subduction Along 2/13/04 Peter Sak Bucknell College the Erosive Middle American Margin, Costa Rica Department of Geology & Testing Assumptions About Deformation in 2/20/04 Cheryl Waters-Tormey Geophysics, University of the Lower Continental Crust: A Case Study Wisconsin-Madison From the Mt. Hay Block, Central Australia The Access Initiative: Promoting Public 2/26/04 Frances Seymour World Resources Institute Participation and Accountability in Environmental Decision Making Dept. of Mining & Env. Engineering, New Mexico 3/2/04 Sam Earman Tectonic Influences on Groundwater Quality Institute of Mining and Technology Jill Pasteris, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Mineralogical Society of Sciences, Washington 3/9/04 Broadening Our View of Mineralogy America Distinguished University, St. Louis, Lecturer Missouri Contaminant Migration Through Fractured 3/10/04 Martin Helmke Versar, Inc. Soils: Challenges and Cleanup Dept. of Environmental 3/25/04 Matt Steinman Studies Bio-Diesel Fuel Wilson College Lt. Col. Ken Wisian, 4/1/04 U.S. Army War College Water Wars and Conflict Connections Ph.D. EXXONMobil Upstream Determining the Quality of Potential Oil and 4/6/04 Suzy Kairo ('83) Research Company Gas Reservoirs Department of Geology, Bryozoan research on an active plate margin 4/15/04 Marcus Key Dickinson College in Chile Ben Edwards, Department of Geology, 4/29/04 Marcus Key and Hawai'i Volcanology Spring Break Trip Dickinson College students Department of Geology, 5/6/04 Jeffrey Roth ('01) Martian Field Geology Dickinson College

Fall 2004

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Old, stinky black mud: Nitrogen Dept. of Geosciences 9/9/04 Chris Junium ('00) isotopes in Cretaceous black shales Penn State University from ODP leg 207 Dept. of Geology and Soufriere Hills, Montserrat: Ben Edwards & 9/16/04 Department of Sociology, geosociology of living with an Dan Schubert Dickinson College active volcano Dept. of Earth and Environmental Ridge Collision Tectonics and 10/01/04 Matt Gorring Stidies Volcanism in the Southern Montclair State University Patagonian Andes

Dating techniques including radiocarbon dating, Dept. of Environmental Studies tephrochronology and cosmogenic 10/7/04 Sarah Principato Gettysburg College isotope exposure dating, and how they help decipher the chronology of glaciations in northwest Iceland

Pennsylvania Department of Sustainable Development: Now 10/14/04 John Dernbach Environmental Protection more than ever What happens when magma meets Dept. of Geology and Planetary Science 10/21/04 Ian Skilling wet stuff: the interaction of magma University of Pittsburgh with water, ice, and wet sediment. Dept. of Geology, A day in the life of an 10/28/04 Martin Helmke Dickinson College environmental consultant Fracture-Controlled Groundwater transport at the Dickinson College Well Field Peter Enderlin ('05) Dept. of Geology, 11/4/04 and Adrian Biscontini Dickinson College and ('06)

U-Th/He dating of xenoliths from the NCVP, northwestern Canada 11/18/04 Nadine McQuarrie Dept. of Geosciences How the West was widened Princeton University 12/7/04 Ben Edwards, Dept. of Geology, Internship, Independent Study, and Marcus Key, Dickinson College Independent Research possibilities Martin Helmke, for next year Peter Sak Spring 2003

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Groundwater Residence Time and Response U.S. Geological Survey, 1/30/03 Bruce Lindsay to Nutrient Management New Cumberland, PA Changes in the Chesapeake Bay Jeff Niemitz, Pam Cowher, Cheryl Eberth, Departments of Envirtonmental Paleosols and Waer Resources on San 2/13/02 Tracy Huff, Studies and Geology, Salvador Island, Bahamas Katie Sauer, Dickinson College Julie Vastine, Hilary Zawidowski Kelly Brzezinski, Departments of Biology, Jill Draper, English, Kristen Farwell, Environmental Studies, 2/27/03 Alex Forte, Geology and Evolution in the Galapagos Geology, and Alex Hoffmeier, Political Science, Marcus Key, Dickinson College Josh Yonas Department of Physics, Orogenesis vs. Diagenesis: Can We Use 3/27/03 Steve Lev ('92) Astronomy, and Geosciences, Organic-rich Shales to Interpret the Tectonic Towson University Evolution of a Depositional Basin? John Pusey ('98) and Earth Engineering, Inc., 4/3/03 Geologists in Geotechnical Engineering John Caccese Blue Bell, PA Carbon Tetrachloride (CCl4) Contamination U.S. Department of Energy, 4/17/03 Jennifer Law ('01) of the Vadose Zone and Groundwater at the Hanford, WA Department of Energy's Hanford Site Regional Seismic Interpretation of the Rome Oldham Geoscience, 4/24/03 David W. Oldham Trough, West Virginia - Implications for Morgantown, WV Deep Gas Exploration The Litho and Chemostratigraphy of the Department of Geology, Newark Basin, Nursery Member: Evidence 5/1/03 Clarence Digman Dickinson College for Biogenic Productivity in Paleolakes on a sub-21 k.y. Time Scale Department of Geology, Physical Analysis of Tidal Flow in Three 5/1/03 Cheryl Eberth Dickinson College Inland Ponds, San Salvador Island, Bahamas Department of Geology, Fresh Water Recharge of Carbonate 5/1/03 Tracy Huff Dickinson College Groundwater Systems Paleosols and Soils of San Salvador, Department of Geology, 5/1/03 Hilary Zawidowski Bahamas: Chemical Composition and Dickinson College Diagenetic Processes The Characterization and Correlation of Department of Geology, 5/2/03 Shaun Brown Two Tephra Deposits at Korovin Volcano, Dickinson College Central Aleutian Islands, U.S.A.

Fall 2003

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE

Dept. of Geology, New Zealand: 9/11/03 Marcus Key Dickinson College A bryozoan carbonate factory

Water resources in Belize: Problems Dept. of Geology, 9/18/03 Jeff Niemitz of education, infrastructure, and Dickinson College geology Volcanoes, glaciers, and wildlife: a Ben Edwards and Dept. of Geology, 9/25/03 diary of a research expedition to Kate Wetherell ('05) Dickinson College northwestern British Columbia James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology, Duke University, 2003 10/9/03 Orrin Pilkey A Global View of Barrier Islands Dickinson College, Priestly Award recipient To Drill or Not To Drill? The 10/16/03 John Knox Dickinson School of Law Debate Over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 10/23/03 Eric Epstein DMFR Monitoring; TMI Alert The future of nuclear energy in PA Community Environmental Legal Factory farming and groundwater 10/30/03 Tom Linzey Defense Fund contamination 11/13/03 Paul Zeph National Audubon Society Kittatinny Ridge Project 11/20/03 Laura Toran Dept. of Geology, Stormwater sampling in karst: Temple University Implications for contaminant transport

SPRING 2002

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Insights into the Three-Dimensional Character of Duke University, Crustal Construction at Fast-Spreading Mid-Ocean 2/1/02 Michael Stewart Mineralogy/Petrology Ridges: Evidence from Dikes and Lavas from the Candidate Hess Deep Rift Pregnant or Not-So-Pregnant Mantle: Implications 2/8/02 Laura Wasylenki Hartwick College for Generation of Ocean Ridge Basalts Appalachian Geomorphology New Insights From 2/22/02 Frank J. Pazzaglia Lehigh University He Thermochronology Intra- and Inter-specific Variation in Modern Human and Nonhuman Primate Skeletal 3/1/02 Karen J. Weinstein Dickinson College Morphology as a Way of Understanding Environmental Adaptations in Human Evolution 3/8/02 Thomas Hoffman ('68) CONSOL Energy, Inc. And the Road Less Traveled Geoenvironmental Challenges in the Aggregate 4/5/02 Charlie Grenot Consulting Geologist Industry Letterkenny Industrial Hydrogeo"logical" Redevelopment of Superfund 4/12/02 John Van Horn Development Authority Properties PA Glaciation What We've Learned in the Last 20 4/19/02 Duane Braun Bloomsburg University Yrs. Cumberland Geotechnical 4/26/02 Jeff Barnes Coring Demonstration Consultants Megan Gerseny & Katie 5/3/02 Dickinson College Student Independent Research Tamulonis

FALL 2002

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Cheryl Eberth, 9/13/02 Hilary Zawidowski, Dickinson College Our Summer Job Experiences Katie Sauer Clarence Dingman, Student Independent Research Proposal 9/20/02 Mike Sasso, Dickinson College Presentations Mike Snyder Shaun Brown, Our Study Abroad Experiences in New 9/27/02 Mike Sasso, Dickinson College Zealand Mike Snyder University of Otago, Making Shellbeds: Carbonate Production by 10/11/02 Abigail Smith New Zealand Bryozoans Water Resources Management in the Bahamas 10/14/02 Jeffrey Niemitz Dickinson College (Earth Science Week Lecture) Natural History of Hawaii (Earth Science 10/15/02 Ben Edwards Dickinson College Week Lecture) Korovin Volcano - Evaluating the Hazard 10/17/02 Shaun Brown ('03) Dickinson College (Earth Science Week Lecture) Geographic Variation and Skeletal Dickinson College, Morphology in Human and Nonhuman 10/25/02 Karen Weinstein Anthropology Dept. Primates as a Way to Understand Biological Variation in the Human Fossil 11/8/02 Mark A. Wilson Wooster College Life Between a Rock and a Hard Place Color Infrared Imagery in Geologic Mapping: 11/15/02 Jay Parish PA Geological Survey Agricultural Geobotany Ben Edwards, Marcus Key, Faculty Presentations of Potential Student 11/22/02 Dickinson College Jeff Niemitz, Research Projects Noel Potter Shaun Brown, Clarence Dingman, Cheryl Eberth, Student Independent Research Mid-Year 12/13/02 Tracy Huff, Dickinson College Reports Mike Sasso, Katie Sauer, Mike Snyder

SPRING 2001

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Geology Department 2/2/01 Dr. Marcus M. Key, Jr. The Geology of New Zealand Dickinson College Working in the Geotechnical Field: How to 2/23/01 Tara Jones ('98) Layne Associates get paid to play in the dirt Geology Department Postponed Dr. Gene Yogodzinski Volcanoes on the Edge Dickinson College Harrisburg Area Selection, Application and Management of 3/9/01 Jeb Baxter Community College Multiphase in-situ Remediation Technologies Science Opportunities and Pitfalls for the Consulting 3/30/01 Robert Beard Applications Geologist: Anticipated Industry Trends for International Corp. the 2000s PA Dept. of A New Look at the Heart of the Pennsylvania 4/6/01 Dr. Gale Blackmer Conservation & Piedmont Natural Resources Joel Knauff, Jennifer Law, Geology Department 4/27/01 Senior Independent Research Talks Kylene McLucas, Dickinson College Jeffrey Roth ('01) Honors Defense: Hydrogeology of the Geology Department Cockburn Town Well: San Salvador Island, 5/4/01 Jeremy Coerper ('01) Dickinson College Bahamas: Implications for Aquifer Recharge and Subsurface Hydraulics

FALL 2001

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Mark Kauffman (Science Technician), Megan Geology Department, Dickinson 9/14/01 5 Geologists and a Volcano Gerseny ('02), College Shaun Brown ('03) Megan Gerseny ('02), Geology Department, Dickinson Student Independent Research 9/21/01 Kathryn Tamulonis ('02) College Proposals Marcus Key, Jr., Geology Department, Dickinson 9/28/01 Noel Potter, Jr., WOW (Way Out West) Trip College Michael Sasso ('03) Flood Abatement and Acid Mine Coal Creek Watershed 10/12/01 Kylene McLucas ('01) Drainage Remediation in the Coal Foundation Creek Watershed, TN Bryozoans, Battle Wreckage, and 11/2/01 Dr. Roger Cuffey Penn State University Artificial Reefs Will Pennsylvania Fall Into The 11/16/01 Dr. Charles Scharnberger Millersville University Sea? Earthquakes in Pennsylvania and the Surrounding Region Marcus Key, Geology Department, Dickinson Faculty Research Projects for 2002- 11/30/01 Jeff Niemitz, College 03 Noel Potter Using Plagioclase Zoning as an Geology Department Dickinson indicator of magmatic processes in 12/7/01 Megan Gerseny ('02) College Korovin Volcano, Atka Island, Aleutians Provenance of Late Pleistocene Geology Department 12/7/01 Kathryn Tamulonis ('02) Dropstones, in the Wilson Creek Dickinson College Formation, Mono Lake, CA

University of Maryland, Migmatites and Melt Flow in the 12/13/01 Dr. Nathalie Marchildon Mineralogy/Petrology Candidate Earth's Crust

Terrestrial Volcano-ice Interaction: Grand Valley State University, Episodic Ice Sheets and Volcanism 12/17/01 Dr. Ben Edwards Mineralogy/Petrology Candidate at Hoodoo Mountain Volcano, Northwestern Canada

SPRING 2000

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE The Role of Pennsylvania's Industrial Minerals in 2/11/00 Sam Berkheiser PA Geologic Survey the Economy of the State and the Nation Professor Emeritus Mineralogical and Metallurgical Studies of Bronze- 2/25/00 Dr. William Vernon Geology Department Age Archeological Sites in Thailand Dickinson College Landscape Response to Climatic Change in Central 3/3/00 Dr. Dru Germanoski Lafayette College Nevada Geologic History of the Rocky Coast of Maine: 3/24/00 Dr. David Bailey Hamilton College Basalts, Granites, and Glaciers New Jersey Zinc Detwatering and subsidence problems at the 3/31/00 Dr. Robert Metsger (retired) Friedensville Zinc Mine, Saucon Valley, PA Geology Department Honors Defense: Hydrothermal Alteration of the 4/7/00 Christopher Junium ('00) Dickinson College Balls Bluff Silt Stone, Culpeper Basin, Virginia Geology Department Petrology of Ultramafic Xenoliths from a 4/7/00 Lynn Hamilton ('00) Dickinson College Subduction Volcano URS Greiner 4/14/00 Scott Laird ('71) Geologists: Mind Your Own Business Woodward Clyde

FALL 2000

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Geology Department 9/8/00 Dr. Marcus M. Key, Jr. The Carbonate Geology of Ireland Dickinson College Geology Department 9/15/00 Christopher Junium ('00) My Summer at Geology Field Camp Dickinson College Geology Department 9/22/00 Jeremy Coerper ('01) Study Abroad in New Zealand Dickinson College From the Upper Mantle to the Eel River, Active 10/20/00 Dr. Kevin Furlong Penn State University Tectonics of the Mendocino Triple Junction Department of Tectonic Applications of 10/27/00 Dr. Michael Hozik ('70) Geology Paleomagnetism: Examples from Utah and Stockton College New Jersey Department of 11/3/00 Dr. David Robinson ('77) Geology Snow-Climate Interactions Rutgers University

Spring 1999

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE A Tale of Two Dams: The Penn Forest Dam 1/29/99 Bill Roman Gannett Fleming Inc. Replacement Project Glaciated Karst: Examples from the Great 2/5/99 Dr. Tom Feeney Shippensburg University Lakes Region The Development of Normal Fault 2/12/99 Dr. Juliet Crider Bryn Mawr College Systems Franklin & Marshall 2/19/99 Dr. Robert Wiebe Granite Stratigraphy College Washington & Lee A Pedologic Approach to Geologic 3/12/99 Dr. Dennis Terry University, Interpretations: The Badlands of Sabbatical Candidate Northwestern Nebraska Taphonomy and Paleoenvironmental University of Tennessee, 3/24/99 Jennifer Elick Interpretation of Plants from the Battery Sabbatical Candidate Point Formation, Gaspe, Quebec Topics for possible student/faculty 4/2/99 Geology Faculty Dickinson College research for 1999-2000 Bahamas Hydrogeochemistry and Dr. Jeffrey Niemitz, 4/16/99 Dickinson College Implications for Water Supply: A Crisis in Adam Tagliamonte ('99) Paradise Honors Defense: Bryozoan Colony Growth 4/30/99 Catherine M. Jamet ('99) Dickinson College Rates: A Proxy for Cool-Water Marine Carbonate Production Rates Honors Defense: Hydrogeochemical Analysis of the Cockburn Town Wellfield, 4/30/99 Adam Tagliamonte ('99) Dickinson College San Salvador Island, Bahamas: Implications for Sustainable Water Supply

Fall 1999

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE 9/10/99 Dr. Rudy Slingerland Penn State University Erosion and Mountain Building 9/24/99 Dr. Gene Yogodzinski Dickinson College Volcanoes on the Edge 10/22/99 Dr. Eric Steig University of PA Climate Records from Ice Cores Geology Department 11/5/99 Dickinson College Research Forum Faculty Biostratigraphy, Paleobiogeography, and 11/19/99 Dr. Craig Oyen Shippensburg University Evolution of Fossil Echinoderms from Florida River Restoration and Fluvial 12/3/99 Dr. James Pizzuto University of Delaware Geomorphology

Spring 1998

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE 2/6/98 Geology Faculty Research Forum Sinkholes-to-Vesuvius: The Recent Sara Jablonski ('98), 2/13/98 Dickinson College Experiences of Two Dickinson Students in Emily Gaskin ('98) Geology Hutchinson Group 2/20/98 Pete Hutchinson Geology of a Landfill Consultants, Ltd. Bryozoan Fouling of Crustaceans: An 2/27/98 Marcus M. Key, Jr. Dickinson College Effective Recent Analog for Trilobites? Structure and Deformation University of Kansas Southeastern 3/27/98 Sharon Stern in the Mojave Desert, California Great-grandfather Elephant's Land: Touring 4/10/98 Ruth Allen ('99) Dickinson College the Natural Treasures of Southern Africa 4/17/98 Dr. William Glass University of Delaware Tectite Strewn Fields Variation in Lacustrine and Spring Franklin & Marshall Carbonate Deposition: Northern, Central 4/24/98 Dr. Carol deWet College and Southern Mesozoic Rift Basins, Eastern North America Honors Defense: Preliminary Geochemistry and Carbon-Sulfur-Iron Systematics of a 5/1/98 Susan Herrgesell ('98) Dickinson College Late Triassic Rift Lake, Warford Member, Passaic Formation, eastern North America Honors Defense: Sedimentology and 5/1/98 Meredith Robertson ('98) Dickinson College Mineralogy of the Susquehanna Flats, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland Honors Defense: Analysis of Deformation Mechanisms in the Weverton Quartzite 5/8/98 Tara Jones ('98) Dickinson College Conglomerate at Hammonds Rocks, South Mountain, PA

Fall 1998

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Blackflies, Borscht, and Basalt: The Dr. Gene Yogodzinski, 9/11/98 Dickinson College Maria Ejzak ('98) Remembrances of Two Maria Ejzak ('98) Dickinson Geologists in Kamchatka Jeff Niemitz, Geysers, Gullies, and Gold Mines: A field trip 9/18/98 Dickinson College Noel Potter to South Dakota and Wyoming Earthquakes and Natural Disaster 10/14/98 Thomas L. Holzer U.S. Geological Society Insurance Sedimentology of the Neoproterozoic Catoctin 11/13/98 Dr. Edward Simpson Kutztown University Formation of Virginia Solving the Mystery of the Dead Cat: Using National Institute of 11/20/98 Dr. Steven Lev Geochemistry and Petrography and Standards Technology to Understand Basin History

Spring 1997

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE A Petrologist's Perspective on Volcanic Hazard Assessment at the Proposed High 2/7/97 Gene Yogodzinski Dickinson College Level Waste Repository at Yucca Mtn., Southern Nevada Exploration and Consulting Mineral Resource vs. Ore Reserve: The 2/14/97 Ed Dill Geologist (retired) Role of a Geologist Stillwater Mining Company, Underground Geology at the Stillwater 2/21/97 Andy Chang ('96) Stillwater MT Mine, Montana U.S. Geological Survey Reston Geotectonic History of the New England 2/28/97 Dr. Tom Armstrong VA Appalachians Senior research talks on the Newark Basin Jonathan Cox ('97), 3/28/97 Dickinson College project and on water quality at a mine and Kerstin Witte ('97) milling site in Madagascar 4/18/97 Noel Potter Dickinson College Potter on Rock Glaciers

Fall 1997

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE 9/23/97 Dr. Craig Kochel Bucknell University Modern Debris Flows of Western VA Carnegie Institution of Washington, Can Scientists Provide Credible Advice to 10/9/97 Dr. Frank Press National Academy of Policy Makers? Sciences Emeritus Carnegie Institution of 10/10/97 Dr. Frank Press Washington, Earth Sciences and Public Policy Issues Priestley Recipient Carnegie Institution of An Example of Pattern Recognition to 10/10/97 Dr. Frank Press Washington, Geological Interpretation Priestley Recipient Biological and Evolutionary Principles American Natural History 10/14/97 Rob DeSalle Related to Jurassic Park and Lost World Museum (Science & Hollywood Series) Experiences at the Indiana University 10/31/97 Jon Cox ('97) Dickinson College Field Camp, Summer 1997 What Skills Should a Graduating Geology 11/6/97 Dr. David Menzie ('71) U.S. Geological Survey Major Have to be Successful? Building and Using Mineral Deposit 11/7/97 Dr. David Menzie U.S. Geological Survey Models Deformation of a Duplex, Lost River Range, 11/21/97 Dr. David Anastasio Lehigh University Idaho 12/4/97 Jack Lockwood U.S. Geological Survey Volcanos (Science & Hollywood Series) The Evaluation of Volcanic Hazards at 12/5/97 Jack Lockwood U.S. Geological Survey Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii

Spring 1996

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE K-bentonites in the Ordovician Stratigraphic Secondary Teacher, Record of the Southern Appalachians: 2/16/95 Dr. John Haynes Baltimore MD; Altered Tephras that Provide a Record of Smithsonian Institution Explosive Volcanism during the Taconic Orogeny A Class of '92 Perspective on Graduate 2/23/96 Rolf Ackermann ('92) Rutgers University Studies in Structural Geology, Geomorphology, and Hydrology Hey - This Geophysics @#*!#@ Really 3/1/96 Dr. Timothy Bechtel Enviroscan Inc. Works West Chester Univ., Thermal and Unroofing History of the 3/8/96 Dr. Gale Blackmer Sabbatical Candidate Appalachian Basin in Pennsylvania The Gem Lake Shear Zone: Cretaceous Univ. Of NV, Reno, 3/14/96 Dr. David Greene Strike Slip Faulting in the Eastern Sierra Sabbatical Candidate Nevada, California The Many Myths of Dinosaur Extinction: 4/5/96 Dr. Robert Sullivan State Museum Decoupling Dinosaur Extinction From the Asteroid Impact A Construction Set for Animal Skeletons: 4/12/96 Dr. Roger Thomas Franklin & Marshall Cambrian Exploitation of the Evolutionary Playground A Case Study of an Academic Internship at 4/26/96 Meredith Robertson ('97) Dickinson College Groundwater Services International, Inc. The Geology of Pole Steeple: Analysis of 4/26/96 Jonathan Gourley ('96) Dickinson College the Skolithos Trace Fossil

Fall 1996

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Hydrogeology of the Cockburn Town Aquifer, San Salvador, Bahamas and the Change in 7/24/96 Jason Erdman ('96) Dickinson College Water Quality Resulting from the Development of a Resort Community 9/6/96 Grand Canyon Pizza Party Jonathan Cox, 9/20/96 Dickinson College A Year of Geology Down-Under Derek Peachy ('97) University of Otago, 10/11/96 Dr. Abigail Smith What's a Bryozoan Worth? New Zealand Kimberlites and Carbonatites: Windows to the 11/1/96 Dr. David P. Gold Penn State University Upper Mantle Understanding and Predicting Beach and 11/8/96 Rob Thieler ('87) Duke University Coastal 11/15/96 Geology Department Faculty Research Geographic Information System Data 12/6/96 Dr. Scott McColloch Virginia Geological Survey Models for Geology

Spring 1995

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Migmatites of West Antarctica and Processes for Late-Stage Gondwana 2/10/95 Christine Smith Colorado College Breakup (With Special Insights From the Mineral Cordierite) Metamorphism as Seen Through Rocks 2/14/95 Harold Smith Brown Univ. From the Himalayas of Pakistan Petrology and Geochemistry of Basalt as a Guide to the Evolution of a Mafic Volcanic 2/17/95 Dr. Gene Yogodzinski Univ. of NV-Las Vegas Field in the Basin and Range of South- Central Northern Appalachian Geology & The Field 3/3/95 Trent Harrison ('94) Dickinson College Camp Experience Ethics and the Environment - an Overview 3/10/95 David Graham ('85) CQS Inc. and Discussion Tectonic Geomorphology of Strike-Slip 3/14/95 Dr. Dallas Rhodes Whittier College Faults in California Oceanography of the Cretaceous Seaway in 3/31/95 Dr. Rudy Slingerland ('69) Penn State Univ. Western North America Industrial Minerals, the Other Half of 4/7/95 Bob Ganis Tethys Consultants, Inc. Economic Geology: Examples of Deposits From Around the U.S. And Canada Central Apennies of Italy: New Wrinkles on 4/14/95 Dr. Donald U. Wise Franklin & Marshall Roll-Back Tectonics The Role of a Geologist in a Consulting 4/21/95 Bill Roman Gannett Fleming Engineering Firm Internship on Hydrogeology with Tethys 4/28/95 Bradley Wolf ('95) Dickinson College Consultants, Inc., Harrisburg Internship on GIS Applications with DER, 4/28/95 Jason Erdman ('96) Dickinson College Bureau of Waste Management

Spring 1994

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE From Rocks to Riches???: Research and 4/1/94 Katherine Bock ('90) Univ. of Delaware Life at Graduate School Geologic and Sedimentary Characteristics of the Wrightsville Beach, NC Shoreface: 4/22/94 Rob Thieler ('87) Duke University Implications for Beach Replenishment and Coastal Sediment Transport modeling

Spring 1993

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE 3/12/93 Nancy Jarvis ('84) Cortland Co. Planning Dept. Groundwater Protection in Cortland, NY 4/9/93 Tania Brice ('87) GeoServices, Ltd. Adventures in Environmental Consulting Sediments and Sea Level in a Delaware Salt 4/16/93 Jennifer VanPelt ('89) ECRI Marsh: a 6,000 Year History 4/23/93 Gretchen Dockter ('91) Env. Strategies Corp. A Case Study of a Hazardous Waste Site Pressure-Temperature-Time Deformation Paths: The Life Histories of Metamorphic 4/30/93 Dr. Craig Dietsch ('78) Univ. of Cincinnati Rocks (A Story of Pseudomorphs, Inclusion Trails, and Zircon Dust)

Fall 1993

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE Continental Crust Formation: Insights From 9/10/93 Dr. Michael Wolf Univ. of OK Experimental- and Field-Based Studies of Tonalite Genesis and Emplacement Mechanisms Marcus Key, Noel Potter, Geology Club's May 1993 Field Trip to New 10/8/93 Dickinson College Mark Zuck ('94), England Sue Millspaugh ('95) A Geochemical Reconstruction of the Iapetus 10/15/93 Steve Lev ('91) Univ. of Cincinnati Ocean Paleo-oceanographic Reconstruction of Ordovician 10/15/93 Trent Harrison ('94) Dickinson College Black Shales in Wales Kinematic Significance of Sediment-Filled 11/5/93 Rolf Ackermann ('92) Rutgers Univ. Fissures in the Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada The Cultural Experiences and Academic Implications of Studying Environmental/Earth 11/12/93 Juliane Bowman ('94) Dickinson College Sciences Abroad at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England 11/19/93 Julie Collins ('94) Dickinson College Functional Morphology of Colonial Organisms Adventures in Geophysics at the Lamont-Doherty 11/19/93 Jennifer Atkins ('94) Dickinson College Earth Observatory A Study of the Environment of Deposition of the Norma Luke ('94), Dr. Martinsburg Shale Near Newville, PA and Other 12/3/93 Dickinson College Henry Hanson Stories of NUSEX2.BAS and Poison Ivy

Fall 1992

DATE NAME AFFILIATION TITLE 10/30/92 Dr. Marcus Key Dickinson College Progress: Evolutionary and Eastward 11/6/92 Trent Harrison ('94) Dickinson College Geology of Black Hills and Yellowstone Acid Mine Drainage in Pennsylvania Coal 11/13/92 Peter McAlenney ('93) Dickinson College Fields 11/20/92 Dr. Noel Potter Dickinson College Rock Glaciers of Wyoming 12/11/92 Dr. Jeff Niemitz Dickinson College Roman Geoarcheology in Northern England