Tuesdays at 4-5 pm,
there will be a seminar/discussion for geofolks
in room 610 of Dow.
Come and meet your academic and professional community. We have arranged speakers from outside and inside the department. The goal is to identify and define professional contacts for all of us and to build awareness of the breadth of Geosciences.
List of speakers, Fall 2016:
Sept 6: Dr James M Robertson
Maintaining neutrality in a polarized environment: when delivering the facts is not enough
Sept 13: Dr Sajin Kumar
Meteorite Impact Craters
Sept 27: Dr Michael Cooper
Tips & Shortcuts for AVO and Inversion in Oil Companies
Oct 11: Jeff Lynott, Foth, DePere, WI
Mineral Exploration in the Great Lakes Region
Oct 18: Dr Laurel Woodruff USGS
Soil Geochemistry and Mineralogy for the Conterminous United States
Oct 25: Dr Cécile Piret MTU Mathematics
Radial Basis Functions applied to geological Problems
Nov 1: Dr Albert Wylie Cabot Oil & Gas
two seminars!
4 pm: Naturally occurring stray gas and the groundwater chemistry of the aquifers overlying the Marcellus Shale Gas Play, Northeastern Pennsylvania
6 pm: The Marcellus Shale Gas Resource. Appalachain Basin, USA
Nov 7: (Monday): Dr. Susan Moore NIOSH
Building Health and Safety Resources throughout Your Career
(MTU Visiting Minority Lecture/ Scholar Series)
Nov 10: (Thursday): Dr. Ayla Pamukcu Princeton
Zircon dating
Nov 15: Dr Fred Quivik MTU Soc Sci
The Deepwater Horizon Disaster and the Case against
BP under the Clean Water Act