Fall 2011

CAMPUS MAP

Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. All dates are Thursday; talks will begin at 4:10 p.m. and are held in Harrington Hall Room 217, 845 Elmwood Avenue, Oshkosh WI, unless noted otherwise.

SEPTEMBER 15

Kelsey Putman, Ph.D. candidate and UW Oshkosh Geology graduate, Dept. of Geological Sciences-University of Missouri
Ordovician Paleoclimatology: exploration of an ancient ocean in Wisconsin's backyard

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 IN HALSEY ROOM 109

Dr. Darren Gravley, Dept. of Geological Sciences-University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Living on a Plate Boundary: Earthquakes, Eruptions, and Frontiers Abroad

OCTOBER 20 IN HALSEY NORTH ROOM 57
Dr. Rebecca McKean, Geology Dept.-St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin
Life and Death in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway

NOVEMBER 3

Dr. David J. Hart, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Extension; Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey and Department of Geology and Geophysics-University of Wisconsin–Madison
What's in the Box, Applications of Near Surface Geophysics to Arsenic Plumes, Sinkholes, and Mysterious Tunnels

NOVEMBER 17

Sara Akin, Masters candidate and UW Oshkosh graduate, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science-Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Iron formation in shoreline environments in the Paleoproterozoic Frere Formation, Earaheedy Basin, Western Australia: a strange ocean on an “alien” planet