The Geoscience Department presents a seminar by Dr. Katrin Moeneke, U. Pitt. Johnstown, on October 23. Her seminar, “Coastal Marshes in Northern Sumatra as an Archive for Past Tsunamis,” will discuss her work on understanding the recurrence of tsunami in Northern Sumatra.

Dr. Karen Rose Cercone of the Geoscience Department will discuss her creative use of IUP's new Moodle learning management software at the first ever Moodle Faculty Showcase, to be held November 10, 2009, at 5:00 p.m. in the Crimson Event Center. Dr. Cercone will discuss how she uses narrated PDF files, live streaming classroom sites, and other techniques in both distance education and on-campus sections of GEOS 101: The Dynamic Earth.

John Taylor, of the Department of Geoscience, will present a community lecture on October 14, 2009, as part of the R&P Coal Show Lecture Series on the “Life and Times in the Pennsylvanian Coal Swamp: The Origin of Pennsylvania’s Coal Deposits.”

The IUP Department of Geoscience invites you to a public lecture by Rudy Slingerland, NSF Margins distinguished lecturer, on Thursday, October 8, 2009.

The Geoscience Department presents a seminar by Dr. Ben Ford of the IUP Anthropology Department. He will be speaking on “Marine Remote Sensing and the Lake Ontario Maritime Cultural Landscape” on September 25, 2009.

The senior Geoscience majors will be presenting their research at the thirty-fifth annual Geoscience Day on Friday, April 24, 2009.

Nine Geoscience students will be presenting their research projects at the IUP Undergraduate Scholars Forum on April 7, 2009.