Spring, 2009, Guest Speaker Series : Colby College Geology
Spring, 2009, Seminar Presentations
Colby College Department of Geology

All seminar talks are in Mudd 218 at 1:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons.
Light refreshments are provided.

Date Speaker Topic
13 February, 2009 Christopher Fielding
University of Nebraska		Gondwanan Record of Permian Environmental Change: From Severe Icehouse to Hothouse and Biotic Crisis
20 February, 2009 Martha G. Nielsen
Maine Water Science Center		 From protecting Acadia's wetlands and estuaries to studying the effects of large dam removal: selected USGS science in Maine in the last decade
27 February, 2009 Linda Kah
University of Tennessee		 The Evolution of the Proterozoic Biosphere
6 March, 2009 Molly Miller
Vanderbilt University
 Modern Sedimentologic, Biologic, and Taphonomic Processes Under Antarctic Sea Ice: Construction and Importance of an Unique Stratigraphic Record
13 March, 2009 Tom Burbine
Bates College
 The Threat of Near-Earth Asteroids
20 March, 2009 David West
Middlebury College		 The ancient tectonic history of New England as revealed through studies of some very unusual rocks in Maine
27 March, 2009 SPRING BREAK No Seminar
3 April, 2009 NO SEMINAR Geological Society of Maine Meeting, Colby College
10 April, 2009Michael Wyatt
Brown University		 Thermal Infrared Observations of Mars, Earth, and the Moon
17 April, 2009 Linda Kalnejais
University of New Hampshire		 Acid Mine Drainage Generation and the Role of Microbes in this Big Environmental Problem
24 April, 2009 Michael Wysession
NAGT Distinguished Speaker
Washington University, St. Louis		 Teaching that Civilization Exists by Geologic Consent
1 May, 2009 Julia Daly
University of Maine, Farmington		 Ups and Downs of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand: A Tale of Sea Level, Sand, and Salt Marshes
8 May, 2009 Colby Student presentations
Colby College		 t.b.a.

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