Spring, 2012, Seminar Presentations
Colby College Department of Geology

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

Date	Speaker	Title
10 February, 2012	Ms. Carrie Tyler Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Candidate for Visiting Assistant Professor	Does predation play a role in the decline of post-Paleozoic brachiopods? Re-visiting chemical defenses and palatability.
17 February, 2012	No seminar	No seminar
24 February, 2012	Mr. Adiel Klompmaker Kent State University Candidate for Visiting Assistant Professor	Predator-prey interactions and decapod crustacean biodiversity in the fossil record
2 March, 2012	Ms. Mary Koslowski Cornell University Candidate for Visiting Assistant Professor	Spines and ridges in marine gastropods: Why are specific morphologies recurrent through time?
9 March, 2012	Ms. Sarah Garlick author of Flakes, Jugs, and Splitters: A Rock Climber's Guide to Geology North Conway, New Hampshire	Creating Connections: Geology, Rock Climbing, and the Future of Science Education
16 March, 2012	Ms. Jacinda Nettik Caerus Oil and Gas	A Petroleum Geologist's Career: It's as much what you know as who you know
23 March, 2011	SPRING BREAK	No Seminar
30 March, 2012	Dr. Tim Grover Castleton State College	New insights regarding the Proterozoic geologic evolution of the Adirondack Mountains, New York
6 April, 2012	Dr. Rory McFadden Salem State University	Oblique tectonics in West Antarctica: A window into the deep crust
13 April, 2012	Dr. Michael Jessup University of Tennessee	Strain partitioning and mid-crustal flow in the Himalaya
20 April, 2012	Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette University of Massachusetts	Arctic Vulnerability to Climate Variability over the past 3.6 Myr: Lessons from sediments drilled at Lake El’gygytgyn, Western Beringia
27 April, 2012	No formal seminar	Colby Undergraduate Research Symposium
4 May, 2012	Emma Beck '12	Examination of Spatial Variations in Recrystallization Mechanisms in Quartz

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