The IUP Geoscience Department invites you to attend its thirty-seventh annual Geoscience Day.
Student presentations of their independent research projects start at 9:00 a.m. and are followed by Keith Rittle (IUP ’91) presenting the keynote address at 10:30 a.m.
- Where: IUP, Weyandt Hall Planetarium
- When: April 29, 2011, 9:00–11:45 a.m.
Student Presentations
- 9:05 a.m.—Matthew R. Harding: “Vein Structures and Faults in Core Samples from NantroSeize Expedition 315, Sites C0001 and C0002”
- 9:20 a.m.—Anthony J. LeDonne: “Fracture Orientations in Devonian Marcellus Shale Outcrops in the Valley and Ridge Province Adjacent to the Allegheny Front”
- 9:35 a.m.—Daniel M. Saftner: “Eolian Deposition Patterns in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean and the Paleo-Climate of the Late Cenozoic”
- 9:50 a.m.—Mark R. Smith: “Petrographic Characterization of Deformation Mechanisms and Kinematics in Post-Cleavage Faults Accommodating Differential Uplift of the Hsuehshan Range: Taiwan”
Keynote Speaker
- 10:30 a.m.—Keith A. Rittle (IUP ’91), Trihydro Corporation: “An Overview of the Vapor Intrusion Pathway at Environmental Sites”
All are welcome to attend.
