All Lectures

Seminar Lab Date Seminar Lab Subject Seminar Lab presenter
2025-05-05 Spring Banquet - Distribution of Ancient Carbon in Groundwater and Soil Gas from Degradation of Petroleum near the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Jared Trost, M.Sc., hydrologist with Upper Midwest Water Science Center, USGS
2025-04-21 Stromatolite Morphology and Diversity - How did (mostly) brainless pond scum build large, complex structures? Julie K. Bartley, Ph.D., Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College
2025-04-07 Current and Future Mapping at the Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS) Bob Tipping, Ph.D., Director, Minnesota Geological Survey
2025-03-24 Earthquake Hazards Stephen Delong, Ph.D., USGS Earthquake Science Center and Visiting Professor, U. of Minnesota
2025-03-10 Iron-ore in Minnesota: Geology and the Industry (V) Joyashish Thakurta, Ph.D., Research Manager, Natural Resources Research Institute, U. of Minnesota Duluth
2025-02-24 Greatest Mass Extinctions in Earth's History (V) Rachel Phillips, Ph.D., (GEO GIRL), Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor, U. of South Carolina
2025-02-15 Saturday Lab: The Crystallography of Common Rock Forming Minerals Jeff Thole, Geology Laboratory Supervisor and Instructor at Macalester College.
2025-02-10 Soils: The Most Undervalued and Overlooked Geologic Resource Holly Dolliver, Ph.D., Department Chair of Plant and Earth Science, U. of Wisconsin, River Falls.
2025-01-27 Origin of olivine phenocrysts in oceanites at Piton de la Fournaise volcano (Reunion hotspot) Benoît Welsch, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar in Geology, Macalester College
2024-12-09 The Great Courses: Wonders of the National Parks: A Geology of North America Ford Cochran
2024-11-25 Shale in a Nutshell: An Overview of Shale Oil and Gas in the U.S. and Texas (V) Tim McMahon, Ph.D., Project Manager & Principal Investigator for Tight Oil Resource Assessment (TORA) consortium
2024-11-11 Geological Mapping Harvey Thorleifson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, U of MN
2024-10-28 *Groundwater Governance in the Great Lakes States—from Well-Cobbled to Equitable and Sustainable? Carrie Jennings, Ph.D., Research and Policy Director, Freshwater Society
2024-10-14 Damaging earthquakes continue in Oklahoma nearly a decade after peak wastewater injection (V) Jacob Walter, Ph.D., State Seismologist, Oklahoma Geological Survey
2024-09-30 Plan, Core, Scan, Store: Facilitating Core Research Kat Cantner, M.Sc., Science & Outreach Coordinator for Continental Scientific Drilling Facility at U of Minnesota
2024-09-16 Fall Banquet - Geology of the Mississippi River Gorge Randy Strobel, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Natural Sciences, Metropolitan State U.
2024-05-06 *Spring Banquet - Digging into the Stories of Sands Kate Clover
2024-04-29 From Formations to Foundations: The Geology of Bridge Construction Jill Mickelson, Principal Engineer, Braun Intertec
2024-04-22 CANCELLED: PFAS: Contaminant hydrogeology of the East Metro
2024-04-15 Important Events In Precambrian Earth History As Seen Through Minnesota's Bedrock Eric Nowariak, Precambrian Geologist, Minnesota Geological Survey
2024-03-11 *Tales Told by Trilobites (V) Thomas Hegna, Ph.D., Associate Professor, SUNY Fredonia, Research Associate at the Buffalo Museum of Natural History
2024-02-26 Tennessee’s Natural Resources & Geology-Related Tourism (V) Ron Clendening, B.Sc., Geologist, Tennessee Dept. of Environment & Conservation
2024-02-17 Paleo Lab: Fossils Through Time: Fossil Diversity and the 'Big Five' Mass Extinctions Jeff Thole, M.Sc., Geology Laboratory Supervisor & Instructor, Macalester College
2024-02-12 *Charting Pathways to a More Sustainable Future in the Ogallala Aquifer of Western Kansas (V) James Butler, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Geohydrology Section, Kansas Geological Survey
2024-01-29 Sediment Records of Extreme Earthquakes Chris Paola, Ph.D., CSE Distinguished Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of MN
2023-12-11 *T. rex, Triceratops, and MOR: The Dynamic Dinosaurs of Museum of the Rockies (V) Ashley Hall, Outreach Program Manager, Museum of the Rockies
2023-11-27 CANCELLED: Tennessee’s Mining Industry and Geology-Related Tourism (V) Ronald Zurawski, State Geologist, Tennessee Dept. of Environment & Conservation
2023-11-13 Deciphering the Details of Dinosaur Worlds: Insights From 35 Years in the Cretaceous Rocks of Montana Ray Rogers, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Geology Dept., Macalester College
2023-10-30 The Great Lisbon Earthquake in 18th-Century Philosophy and Seismology Anna Graber, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History of Science and Technology, U of MN
2023-10-16 Urban Micrometeorites and Everything You Need to Know about Them Scott Peterson, micrometeorite hunter
2023-10-02 Making magmas: Experimental insights on magma depth and temperature beneath Emily First, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Geology, Macalester
2023-09-18 Fall Banquet - The Deep Caves of Minneapolis and the Shock of the Anthropocene Greg Brick, Ph.D.
2023-05-08 Spring Banquet - Snorkeling at Shadow Falls: Fossils of Minnesota Justin Tweet, M.Sc., Associate, Geologic Resources Division of the National Park Service
2023-04-24 Science, Politics & Psychology: How do we form opinions about complex scientific problems? Paul F. Putzier, P.G., CGP, Hydrogeologist Supervisor, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
2023-04-10 *Meteorites: The History and Mystery of Raining Rocks Craig Zlimen, Owner, Minnesota Meteorites
2023-03-27 Geophysics of Minnesota Aaron C Hirsch, Ph.D., Geophysicist, Minnesota Geological Survey
2023-03-13 *The River That Flows Uphill: Geologic Evolution of the Upper Mississippi River, Stream Piracy, and Reorganization of North American Mid-Continent River Systems (V) Eric Carson, Ph.D., WGNHS Interim Director
2023-02-27 *Volcanic Features and Highlights of Southern Idaho (V) Shawn Willsey, M.Sc., Distinguished Professor, Geology, College of Southern Idaho
2023-02-18 Saturday Lab: Rock Cycle (Hand-identification) Conducted by Jeff Thole, M.Sc., Geology Laboratory Supervisor, Macalester College
2023-02-13 Ongoing Geological and Archaeological Investigations at the Pedersen Site in SW Minnesota Josh Feinberg, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, U of Minnesota
2023-01-30 Minnesota’s Major Aquifers – An Introduction to Groundwater Provinces Paul F. Putzier, P.G., CGP, Hydrogeologist Supervisor, MN DNR Groundwater Atlas Program
2022-12-12 Hunting for Dinosaurs: The Search for Ancient Giants Alex Hastings, Ph.D., Fitzpatrick Chair of Paleontology, Science Museum of Minnesota
2022-11-28 Ice Age and more recent extinctions: first signs of human impacts on the Earth system David Fox, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, U of Minnesota
2022-11-14 Southern Spain: Tectonic Collision, Geoparks and Fabulous Vacation Spots Melissa Lamb, Ph.D., Professor, Earth, Environment, & Society, University of St. Thomas
2022-10-31 What’s New with Plate Tectonics? Christian Teyssier, Ph.D., Professor, Gibson Chair in Geoscience, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, U of Minnesota
2022-10-17 From Sparta to St. Paul, the Roles Earth Processes Played in Our Past Kent Kirkby, Ph.D., Teaching Professor, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, U of Minnesota
2022-10-03 Minerals and Microbes and Mining...Oh My! Cara Santelli, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, U of Minnesota
2022-09-19 Fall Banquet - Geologic Highlights of the Sioux Quartzite in the Pipestone Basin: Rock, Pipestone & Nobles Counties in Southwestern Minnesota Mark Jirsa, M.Sc., Minnesota Geological Survey (retired)
2022-05-09 Spring Banquet - Minnesota Underground: A Guide Book to Exploring the Minnesota Underworld Greg Brick Ph.D.
2022-04-25 Record of an Ancient Meteorite Impact Buried beneath the Twin Cities, MN Julia Steenberg, M.Sc., Phanerozoic Geologist, Minnesota Geological Survey

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