Geology & Geography

 Lecture Series

 

2002-2003
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Dr. Maria Zuber
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Expedition to an Asteroid: The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission”
Thursday, 26 September 2002, 8 p.m.
Wege Auditorium, TCL 123, Science Center, Williams College
Dr. Kenneth Deffeyes
Department of Geological & Geophysical Sciences
Princeton University
“Author of Hubbert’s Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage
A Geologists Looks at the Coming Crisis”
Friday, 11 October 2002, 3:30 p.m.
Room 131, Morrill 2, University of Massachusetts
Dr. Suzanne L. Baldwin
Department of Earth Sciences
Syracuse University
“Continental Break-up and the Formation of Active Metamorphic Core Complexes in the
Western Woodlark Basin, Papua, New Guinea”
Thursday, 7 November 2002, 8 p.m.
Room 5, Pratt Museum, Amherst College
Dr. Donna L. Whitney
Department of Geosciences and Geophysics
University of Minnesota
“Gneiss Domes and Orogeny”
Tuesday, 4 February 2003, 7:30 p.m.
McConnell Hall Auditorium, Smith College
McConnell Hall Auditorium, Smith College
Dr. David Marchant
Department of Earth Sciences
Boston University
Wednesday, 5 March 2003, 7:30 p.m.
“Paralyzed Landscapes of the Dry Valleys: Clues to a Stable Antarctic Climate”
West Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College

Dr. Jill Pasteris
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University at St. Louis
“A Mineralogist’s View of Bone Mineral”
Friday, 5 April 2003, 4:00 p.m.
Dwight 101, Mt. Holyoke College
2001-02 Lecture Series