Geology & Geography

 Lecture Series


1997-1998
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Matthew Golombek
NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
"Mars Pathfinder: Roving for Rocks on the Red Planet"
Friday, 12 September 1997, 4:00 p.m
Mahar Auditorium, University of Massachusetts

Paul F. Hoffman
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
"A Short History of Geology"
Tuesday, 30 September 1997, 7:30 p.m.
Room 105, Clark Hall, Williams College

Nicholas K. Coch
Department of Geosciences, Queens College, City University of New York
"A Modern Look at Hurricane Damage Patterns - Lessons for the Northeast United States"
Wednesday, 8 October 1997, 7:30 p.m.
Room 5, Pratt Museum, Amherst College

James Austin, Jr.
Institute of Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin
"Global Sea-Level Fluctuations: ODP's Inaugural Expedition
to the New Jersey Continental Shelf"
Tuesday, 24 February 1998, 7:30 p.m.
McConnell Hall Auditorium, Smith College

Paul Bierman
Department of Geosciences, University of Vermont
"The Last 10,000 years of New England Landscape Change - Human and Forcings"
Wednesday, 4 March 1998, 8:00 p.m.
West Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College

Jose Jorge Aranda-Gomez
Estacion Regional del Centro, Institute de GeologiaUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
"Late Tertiary Mafic Alkalic Volcanism in Central and Northern Mexico"
Thursday, 16 April 1998, 8 p.m.
Room 101, Dwight Hall, Mt. Holyoke College