Wooster Geology Department Seminar Schedule, 2007-2008

Seminar Schedule
Department of Geology
The College of Wooster
2007-2008
The following are the Senior Seminar and Geology Club programs scheduled for the 2007-2008 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 Meredith Sharpe and the Geology Club Faculty Advisors are Rocky Severs and Mark Wilson. As always, junior and senior geology majors are required to attend Geology Club meetings; other majors are strongly encouraged.

**August**
30	Departmental Meeting; Welcome Back and Annual Photographs

**September**
6	Summer Geology Experiences
13	Senior I.S. Seminar: Jean Sloan & remaining Summer Geology Experiences
20	Senior I.S. Seminar: Sophie Lehmann and Meredith Sharpe
27	Senior I.S. Seminar: Kamilla Fellah and Andrew Milligan

**October**
4	Senior I.S. Seminar: Patrick Ferringer and Andrew Welshhans
11	Senior I.S. Seminar: Ryan Barnett and Alex Trutko
18	GSA Preview: Wooster posters and talks
25	Joseph D. Ortiz (Assistant Director, Kent State University Water Resources Research Institute, Associate Professor of Geology): "Total Suspended Particulates in Old Woman Creek and the Western Basin of Lake Erie"

**November**
1	Andréa G. Grottoli (School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University): "Stable Carbon Isotopes in Corals and Sclerosponges: Implications for Paleoceanography and Biology"
8	Johannes "Joe" Koch (Visiting Assistant Professor, The College of Wooster): "Alpine Glaciers in Western Canada Approach Their Smallest Size of the Past 7000 Years"
15	Matthew "Rocky" Severs (Visiting Assistant Professor, The College of Wooster): "The Geohydrologic Cycle: Water, Water, Everywhere!"
22	No Meeting—Thanksgiving Break
29

**December**
6	Holiday Luncheon

**January**
17	Bruce Simonson (Oberlin College): "How to find an asteroid impact with a hand lens"
24	Senior I.S. Seminar: Jean Sloan
31	Senior I.S. Seminar: Sophie Lehmann and Meredith Sharpe

**February**
7	Senior I.S. Seminar: Kamilla Fellah and Andrew Milligan
14	Senior I.S. Seminar: Patrick Ferringer and Andrew Welshhans
21	Senior I.S. Seminar: Ryan Barnett and Alex Trutko
27	Osgood Lecture (Paul Olsen) on Wednesday, February 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Lean Lecture Room (Wishart Hall); “Mega Eruptions, Mega Impacts, Mass Extinctions, and the Shape of Life”. No regular Geology Club meeting on Thursday, February 28

**March**
6	James Kennett (University of California, Santa Barbara): "The Earth's Turmoil of the Last Deglacial Period"; 7:00 p.m. in Lean Lecture Room, Wishart Hall. (No Geology Club meeting at 11:00 a.m.)
13	Spring Break
20	Spring Break
27	TBA

**April**
3	Jason Rech (Assistant Professor of Geology, Miami University of Ohio): “Mars on Earth: case studies from the Atacama Desert, Chile”
10	TBA
17	Bill Ausich (Professor of Geological Sciences, Ohio State University): "Crinoid Macroevolution Through the End-Ordovician Extinctions"
24	TBA

**May**
1	TBA

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.