Geology Club
Scot
Spirit Day, GeoClub lunches in Lowry, the Holiday Luncheon, the GeoClub picnic,
the All-Science picnic – these are only a few activities in which the
Geology Club participated during the 2003-2004 year.
2003-2004 Geology Club Officers: 2004-2005 Geology Club Officers:
President: Marc Bryson (‘04) President: Amanda Trenton (‘05)
Vice President: Deanne Rider (‘04) Vice President: Josh Michaels (‘05)
Treasurer:
Carl
Kannenberg (‘04) Treasurer:
Kevin
Wolfe (‘05)
2003-2004 Geology Club Presentations:
August 28 Departmental
Meeting and GeoClub Photograph
September 4 Senior
I.S. Seminar:
Matt
Laube (‘04) – “Tree-Ring Dated
1000-Year Advance of
Carl Kannenberg (‘04)
– “Investigating the Possibility of Using Old Growth Trees to
Construct a Proxy Record of Historic Lake Erie Water Levels”
September 11 Senior
I.S. Seminar:
Andy Shields (‘04) – “Behavior and
Systematics of Worm-Like Borers found in the Arnheim and Bull Fork Formations
(Ordovician)”
Aaron House (‘04) –
“Paleoecology and Astogeny of Prasopora simulatrix Colonies of the
Decorah Formation of Northeastern Iowa (Middle Ordovician)”
September 18 Senior
I.S. Seminar:
Marc Bryson (‘04)
– “Paleomagnetic and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Tests of
Accretion of Fast Spreading Ridges from Lava Flows and Dikes in
Steve
Burton (‘04) – “
September 25 Senior
I.S. Seminar:
Deanne Rider(‘04) – “Volcanic
Stratigraphy of Northern
Jessica Hiznay (‘04) – “The
Depositional Environment and Ceiling Structural Integrity of the Vanport
Limestone (Pennsylvanian) in the East Fairfield Coal Company Underground Mine
Located in
October 3 Dr. John Van Wagoner (‘72)
ExxonMobil
Upstream Research Company
“Energy
Dissipation and the Fundamental Shape of Siliciclastic Sedimentary
Bodies”
October 9 Josh Michaels (‘05), Amanda Trenton
(‘05),
Drew Feucht (‘05), and Char Adzima
(‘05)
(Summer
Sophomore Research)
October 16 Dr.
David Goodwin
"Tale
of the Dammed Clam and Other Tragic Stories from the End of the
October 23 Dr.
Ethan Skinner
The
“Taphonomy
of Some Exceptionally Preserved Organisms from the Lower Cambrian of
Laurentia”
October 30 Dr.
Mark Wilson
The
"A
Geologist Visits
November 6 Dr. Stan Totten (‘58)
November 14 Dr.
Joe Ortiz
November 20 Dr.
Gordon Jacoby
Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory
“Dendroclimatology
with Examples from
December 4 Scovel
Hall
January 15 Departmental
Meeting (required for all geology majors)
January 22 Senior
I.S. Seminar:
Matt Beckwith-Laube (‘04)
– “Climatic and Non-Climatic Controls on the 1000 Year Long Advance
of
Carl Kannenberg (‘04)
– “Investigating the Possibility of Using Old Growth Trees to
Construct a Proxy Record of Historic Lake Erie Water Levels”
January 29 Senior I.S. Seminar:
Andy Shields (‘04) – “Behavior and
Systematics of Worm-Like Borers found in the Arnheim and Bull Fork Formations
(Ordovician)”
Aaron House (‘04) –
“Paleoecology and Astogeny of Prasopora simulatrix Colonies of the
Decorah Formation of Northeastern Iowa (Middle Ordovician)”
February 5 Senior
I.S. Seminar:
Marc Bryson (‘04)
– “Paleomagnetic and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Tests of
Accretion at Fast Spreading Ridges using Dikes and Lava Flows in Northern
Iceland”
Steve Burton (‘04) –
“Paleomagnetic Studies of Lava Flows to Determine if
February 12 Senior
I.S. Seminar:
Deanne Rider (‘04)
– “Volcanic Stratigraphy of Northern
Jessica Hiznay (‘04)
– “The Depositional Environment and Ceiling Integrity of the
Vanport Limestone (Pennsylvanian)
in the East
Fairfield Coal Company Underground Mine located in
February 19 Dr.
David Li
The
“A
New Strategy for Subsurface Restoration”
February 26 Dr.
Robert Varga
The
“Highly
Disrupted Ash Flow Sheets of the
March 4 Dr.
Brennan Jordan
The
“Mantle
Plumes Under Fire: Active Debate of
a Widely Accepted Theory in Geology”
March 25 Scott
Simmons
Techni
Graphic Systems, Inc.
“Modeling
Geologic Data in Geographic Information
Systems"
March 31 THE TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL RICHARD G. OSGOOD, JR.
MEMORIAL LECTURE IN GEOLOGY
Dr.
Lonnie Thompson
"Rapid
Climate Change: Past, Present and Future"
April 1 Dr.
Robert Varga
The
Josh Michaels (‘05)
“GeoWall: Virtual Reality for the Classroom”
April 8 Dr. Tod Frolking
"Probing
the Puszta: Streams, Soils and Settlement Patterns in the
April 21 NIXON CHAIR OF NATURAL SCIENCES INAUGURAL
Dr. David Fastovsky
“Ideas in Paleontology: Resonating to Social, Political, and Popular Context”
April 29 Dr.
Gregory S. Springer
"Bedrock
Erosion by Potholes and Other Sculpted Forms: Theory and Empiricism"
The Sedimentology and Stratigraphy class
carefully draws an outcrop in southeastern
Geology Club 2003-2004
Front Row: (left to right) Monica
Umstead (’06), Marc Bryson (’04),
Charlene Adzima (’05), Steve Burton
(’04), Greg Wiles
Second Row: Aaron House (’04), Jessica Hiznay (’04), Nick
Young (’05),
Allison Mione
(’05), Carl Kannenberg (’04), Matt Laube (’04)
Third Row: Suzanne Boyenton (’05), Drew Feucht
(’05), Amanda Trenton (’05),
Kevin Wolfe
(’05), Andy Shields (’04)
Fourth Row: Lori Bettison–Varga, Mark Wilson, Erica Clites
(’06), Deanne Rider (’04),
Josh Michaels
(’05), Anton Heitger (’06), Brennan Jordan