Seminar Schedule
Department of Geology
The College of Wooster
2006-2007

The following are the Senior Seminar and Geology Club programs scheduled for the 2006-2007 academic year. Unless otherwise noted, meetings will be held on Thursdays at 11:00 a.m. in Scovel 205. The Geology Club lunch will be on Thursdays in Lowry Center after the presentation. Stay tuned here for any changes in this schedule. The Geology Club president is Elyse Zavar and the Geology Club Faculty Advisors are Jade Star Lackey and Greg Wiles . As always, junior and senior geology majors are required to attend Geology Club meetings; other majors are strongly encouraged.

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August

31

Organizational Meeting, Welcome Back, Photos

 

September

7

No Geoclub This Week

14

Summer Geology Experiences

21

Senior I.S. Seminar:

Denise Hardman: "Ship Rock, New Mexico: Understanding the Subsurface Structure of a Volcanic Neck

Elyse Zavar: "A Study of Cryptic Communities at the Callovaian-Oxfordian Boundary, Near Kraków, Poland"

28
Senior I.S. Seminar: Stella Mascari and Nathan Malcomb

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October

5

Senior I.S. Seminar:Kaylin Siegner

12

Senior I.S. Seminar:Brian Mumaw and Eva Lyon

19

Senior I.S. Seminar:Jessica Hark and Cordelia Dennison-Budak

26

Senior I.S. Seminar:Emiliann Griffin

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November

2

Senior I.S. Seminar:Andy Horst, Ann Steward, Emily Cunningham

9

Dr. Steven Wojtal, Oberlin College:
The style and kinematics of transpressional deformation adjacent to the southernmost segment of the San Andreas fault, Durmid Hill, CA

16

Dr. Tom Lowell, University of Cincinnati
Climate Change, Glacial Lake Agassiz, and Other Misadventures
23 No Meeting—Thanksgiving Break
30

Dr. Steven Lower, Ohio State University:
A bacterium’s sense of touch –
Exploring interactions at the mineral-microbe interface

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December

7

Holiday Luncheon

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January

18

Dr. Doug Alsdorf, Ohio State University:
Measuring the Amazon from Space and Modeling its Flow

25

Senior I.S. Seminar: Emiliann Griffin and Jessica Hark

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February

1

Senior I.S. Seminar: Andy Horst and Emily Cunningham

8

Senior I.S. Seminar: Kaylin Siegner and Eva Lyon

15

Senior I.S. Seminar: Brian Mumaw and Ann Steward

22

Senior I.S. Seminar: Stella Mascari and Denise Hardman

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March

1

Senior I.S. Seminar: Cordelia Dennison-Budak and Nathan Malcomb

8

Senior I.S. Seminar: Elyse Zavar

15

No Meeting—Spring Break

22

No Meeting—Spring Break

29

Dr. Peg Yacobucci, Bowling Green State University
Using GIS to Analyze Ammonoid Suture Patterns

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April

5

Dr. Jade Star Lackey, College of Wooster
Complex Patterns of Fluid Flow During Wollastonite Grade Contact Metamorphism at Laurel Mountain, California.

12

Dr. Kirsten Nicholaysen, Whitman College
Rumbling rocks of Mt. Cleveland volcano: does subducted sediment
melt to contribute to Aleutian magmas or not?

Keck Symposium (12th –15th)

19

Dr. Andrew Moore, Kent State University
Tsunami geology and paleotsunami reconstruction

26

Sarah Laxton , University of Cincinnati
Dendrogeomorphology: Case Studies from the Coast Mountains of British Columbia and the Indian Himalaya 

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May

2

Spring Picnic at Christmas Run Park

 

Directions to Scovel Hall (home of the Department of Geology) can be found on the Admissions Visit Page. Note the series of linked maps which include one showing the campus grounds.