Geology & Geography

 Lecture Series

 

2008-2009
* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Dr. Karen Harpp
Department of Geology
Colgate University
“Iguanas and Igneous Rocks: Recent Studies from the Galapagos Islands”
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 4:15 p.m., Clark Hall 105
Williams College

“Darwin’s Enchanted Isles: The Geology of the Galapagos Islands”
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 7:30 p.m., Clark Hall 105
Williams College

Dr. Kirk Johnson
Vice President of Research & Collections, and Chief Curator
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
“Crocodiles in Greenland and Hippos in London: A fossil-fueled tour of past and future climates”
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Paino Lecture Hall, Room 107, ESMNH Building
Amherst College

Dr. Alfred S. McEwen
Director, Planetary Image Research Lab, Lunar and Planetary Lab
University of Arizona
“Mars at Sub-Meter Scales from MRO's HiRISE”
Friday, 24 October 2008, 3:30 p.m., 231 Herter Hall
University of Massachusetts

Dr. Charles Marshall
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
Harvard University
“Experiment, Abstraction, and Analysis in Paleobiology: Insights into the Origins of Tetrapods, The Cambrian Explosion, and The Calibration of Molecular Clocks”
Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 7:30 p.m., McConnell Hall Auditorium
Smith College

Dr. Michele Minihane
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Stanford University
"Groundwater Contamination and Protection in a Sandy, Tropical Environment"
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 6:00 p.m., Hampshire College Red Barn
Hampshire College

Dr. Julia E. Cole
Department of Geosciences
University of Arizona
"Climate Change: Is it too late?"
Thursday, 9 April, 7:30 p.m., Dwight Hall 101
Mt. Holyoke College

2007-08 Lecture Series