Our recent activities have reached well beyond the usual weekly
Geology Club meetings during the past few years; the same was
true for 1998-1999. Besides faculty speakers, outside speakers,
and Senior Seminar presentations, GeoClub sponsored a Geology
Club "Date" "Dinner and a Movie" (featuring
those box office smash hits "Volcano" and "Planet
of the Apes"), a Spring picnic at Dr. Wilson's home, a December
holiday luncheon (a joint venture with the Department of Philosophy),
weekly luncheons after GeoClub meetings, the designing of a new
departmental T-shirt, and even a rock and fossil sale held at
Lowry Center. Listed below are the speakers who made presentations
to the Geology Club throughout the 1998-1999 year.
| September 3 |
Departmental Meeting |
|
- September 8
|
- Dr. Steven Wojtal
- Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio
|
"Displacement Control of Fault
Surfaces in Sheared Serpentinites" |
- September 17
|
- Dr. Greg Wiles
- The College of Wooster
|
"Ocean-Atmosphere Variations
Along the Extratropical West Americas Inferred from Tree Rings" |
| September 22 |
- Jason Biga ('99) and
- Liz Myers ('99)
|
Senior Independent Study Seminar |
| October 1 |
- Kenton Trubee ('99) and
- Karrie Karpinski ('99)
|
Senior Independent Study Seminar |
| October 13 |
- Megan Mandernach ('99) and Mary Beth Cheversia
('99)
|
Senior Independent Study Seminar |
| October 19 |
- Dr. Mark Wilson ('78)
- The College of Wooster
|
- A Practice GSA Session: "New Data on Hard Substrate
Communities in the Middle Jurassic of Southwestern Utah, USA:
Faunal Diversity in the Western Interior Seaway"
|
| October 20 |
- Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga, Dr. Robert Varga, Dr. Greg Wiles,
and Dr. Mark Wilson
- The College of Wooster
|
"Where Do We Go From The College
of Wooster?": a discussion of jobs, resumes, field camp,
and graduate school |
| November 3 |
- Joe Dzuban ('99) and
- Robbie King ('99)
|
Senior Independent Study Seminar |
| November 11 |
- Tom Pilon ('99) and
- Rick Stanley ('99)
|
Senior Independent Study Seminar |
| November 11 |
- Dr. James R. Baroffio ('54)
- Retired President
- of Chevron, Canada
|
- DEDICATION OF THE JAMES R. BAROFFIO FUND FOR GEOLOGIC RESEARCH
- "The Hibernia Platform"
|
| November 17 |
- Dr. Bill Ausich
The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio
|
"The Origin of Crinoids" |
| December 1 |
Sarah Skelly ('99), Hans Ramseyer ('99),
and Halle Morrison ('99) |
Senior Independent Study Seminar |
| January 21 |
Kenton Trubee ('99) and Karrie
Karpinski ('99) |
"Fossils: what to think about
while experiencing a roof fall (or something like that)" |
| January 28 |
- Megan Mandernach ('99) and Mary Beth Cheversia
('99)
|
"An Edge of your Seat Adventure: Megan and
Mary Beth travel to Maine and are forced to study igneous rocks
on a small oceanic island!" |
| February 4 |
- Joe Dzuban ('99) and
- Robbie King ('99)
|
"Blue Light Special of the Week: an all
expense-paid virtual trip to warm and sunny California" |
| February 11 |
- Jason Biga ('99) and
- Liz Myers ('99)
|
"Paleomag Delite" |
| February 18 |
Sarah Skelly ('99), Hans Ramseyer ('99),
and Halle Morrison ('99) |
"Three Limericks: Alaska, Ohio, and Massachusetts" |
| February 26 |
- Dr. Bruce Latimer
- The Cleveland Museum of Natural History
- Cleveland, Ohio
|
- THE 1999 OSGOOD LECTURE:
- "The Perils of Being Bipedal"
|
| March 4 |
- Tom Pilon ('99) and
- Rick Stanley ('99)
|
- "The Brady Bunch Comes to Wooster" or "Two
Guys . . . One Limestone"
|
| April 1 |
- Dr. Ralph Harvey
- Case Western Reserve University
- Cleveland, Ohio
|
- "Meteorites, Martians, and Microbes: Mars Under the
Microscope"
|
| April 8 |
- Dr. Mark A. Wilson ('78)
- The College of Wooster
|
- "An Oasis in the Cretaceous: a Geological Excursion
in Arabia"
|
| April 15 |
- Dr. Scott Bair ('72)
- The Ohio State University
- Columbus, Ohio
|
"Science in the Courtroom: The Woburn, Massachusetts,
Toxic Waste Story" |
| April 27 |
- Dr. Don Lofgren
- The Webb School
- Pomona, California
|
"Cretaceous-Tertiary Transition in Montana" |
| April 29 |
- Dr. Robert Varga
- The College of Wooster
|
"1999 Oceanographic Cruise to the Hess Deep,
Central Pacific Ocean: Finally, the Cyprus Connection!" |
