Scot Spirit Day, GeoClub lunches in Lowry, the Holiday Luncheon, the GeoClub picnic – these are only a few activities in which the Geology Club participated during the 2004-2005 year.

2004-2005 Geology Club Officers:
President: Amanda Trenton ('05)
Vice President: Josh Michaels ('05)
Treasurer: Kevin Wolfe ('05)

2005-2006 Geology Club Officers:
President: Monica Umstead (’06)
Vice President: Peter Johnson (’06)
Treasurer: Erica Clites (’06)

2004-2005 Geology Club Presentations:

September 9 -- Departmental Meeting and GeoClub Photograph

September 16 -- Summer Geology Adventures (various students)

September 23 -- Senior I.S. Seminar:
Allison Mione (’05) – “A New Family and Genus of Bivalve from the Triassic of Southern Israel”

Kevin Wolfe (’05) – “Reinterpretation of the Zohar Formation of Makhtesh Qatan (Calovian, Middle Jurassic)”

September 30 -- Senior I.S. Seminar:
Suzanne Boyenton (’05) – “Paleoenvironment and Stratigraphy of Middle Ordovician Strata of Tennessee”

Drew Feucht (’05) – “The Stratigraphy of Long Island, Bahamas, and its Relation to Sea Level Change during the Holocene”

October 7 -- Senior I.S. Seminar:
Josh Michaels (‘05) – “A Geophysical Survey of Cyclone Graben, Canyonlands National Park, Utah”

Amanda Trenton (’05) – “A Geophysical Survey of Cyclone Graben, Canyonlands National Park, Utah”

October 14 -- Senior I.S. Seminar:
Charlene Adzima (‘05) – “The Petrology of the Strjugsskard Andesite, Langadallsfjall, North-Central Iceland”

October 21 -- Senior I.S. Seminar:
Will Driscoll (‘05) – “A New Dendroclimatic Tree Ring Network from Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska”

Nick Young (’05) – “Using Tree-Ring and Glacial Records from Southern Alaska to Investigate a Possible Temperature Structure to the First Millennium A.D.”

October 28 --Mark Wilson
The College of Wooster
“The Ancient Rocky Coastlines of the Czech Republic”

November 11 -- Jeann Fromm
Science Education Center Director
“How College Students can get Involved in Local Science Education”

November 18 -- Jamie Gleason (‘84)
“New Adventures in Paleoceanography: Radiogenic Isotopes, Climate Reconstruction, and Past Ocean Circulation”

December 2 -- Jerome Hall (‘02) – “Overview and Methods of Marine-based Geophysical Analysis of the Western Antarctic Rift System, Ross Sea, Antarctica”

December 9 -- Scovel Hall Holiday Luncheon

January 21 -- Departmental Meeting (required for all geology majors)

January 28 -- Senior I.S. Seminar:
Will Driscoll (‘05) – “A New Dendroclimatic Tree Ring Network from Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska”

Nick Young (’05) – “Using Tree-Ring and Glacial Records from Southern Alaska to Investigate a Possible Temperature Structure to the First Millennium A.D.”

February 3 -- Senior I.S. Seminar:
Suzanne Boyenton (’05) – “Paleoenvironments and Stratigraphy of the Middle Ordovician Strata of Central Tennessee”

Drew Feucht (’05) – “The possible Holocene stratigraphy of Long Island, Bahamas, and its relation to sea level change”

February 9 -- Evening lecture by Vance Holliday
University of Kansas

February 17 -- Senior I.S. Seminar:
Allison Mione (’05) – “A New Family and Genus of Bivalve from the Triassic of Southern Israel”

Kevin Wolfe (’05) – “Reinterpretation of the Zohar Formation of Makhtesh Qatan (Calovian, Middle Jurassic)”

February 24 -- Senior I.S. Seminar:
Josh Michaels (‘05) – “Exploration Geophysics of Northern Cyclone Canyon”

Amanda Trenton (’05) – “Geophysical Studies of Southern Cyclone Canyon”

Charlene Adzima (’05) – “The Origin of the Strjugsskard Andesite, Skagi Peninsula, North-central Iceland”

March 3 -- Greg Wiles
The College of Wooster

March 10 -- Deborah Kelly, Ridge Lecturer
“Life Within the Endeavor System: One of the Most Extreme Environments on Earth”

March 31 -- Dan Goldman
University of Dayton
“Paleogeographic, Paleoceanographic, and Tectonic Controls on Early Late Ordovician Graptolite Diversity Patterns”

April 4 -- Bill Woessner, Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer (’71)
“Occurrence, Transport and Fate of Viruses and Pharmaceuticals in Groundwater Impacted by Septic System Effluent: The Hydrogeologists and Human Health”

April 14 -- Patricia H. Kelley (’75)
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
“The Arms Race from a Snail's Perspective: Evolution of the Naticid Gastropod Predator-Prey System”

April 14 -- THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL RICHARD G. OSGOOD, JR.
MEMORIAL LECTURE IN GEOLOGY
Patricia H. Kelley
“Evolution and Creation: Conflicting or Compatible?”

April 28 -- Dorothy Merritts
Franklin and Marshall College
“Widespread Burial of Prehistoric, Organic-Rich Floodplains behind Early American Mill Dams, and the Cause of Modern High Sediment Yields in the Atlantic Piedmont”

GEOLOGY CLUB 2004-2005

Front Row: (left to right) Allison Mione (’05), Kevin Wolfe (’05),
Charlene Adzima (’05), Nathan Malcomb (’07), Will Driscoll (’05)

Second Row: Nick Young (’05), Monica Umstead (’06), Suzanne Boyenton (’05), Amanda Trenton (’05), Anton Heitger (‘06), Elyse Zavar (‘07)

Third Row: Brennan Jordan, Anne Krawiec (’06), Andrew Mullen (’08),
Kaylin Siegner (’07), John Sime (’08)

Fourth Row: Mark Wilson, Patrice Reeder, Josh Michaels (’05), Greg Wiles,
Drew Feucht (‘05)