Each semester, the Geoscience Department hosts speakers to talk about a wide variety of subjects related to the geosciences.
All seminars are in Walsh Hall, Room 104, from 12:20 to 1:10 p.m., unless noted differently.
Fall 2012
- August 31: Start of the School Year Lunch
- September 7: Summer Internship Reports
- September 21: Justin Strauss, Harvard
- September 28: Summer Field Course Report
- October 4: EQT information session and interviews
- October 19:TBD
- October 26:TBD
- November 2: Jennifer Collins, Consortium for Ocean Leadership
- November 16: Nathan Bangs, UT Austin, IODP Distinguished Lecturer
- November 30: TBD
- December 7: Feast Before Finals
Past Seminars
Spring 2012 Schedule:
- January 27: Welcome Back Pizza Lunch
- February 3: Chris Clouser, IUP Library - Introduction to Library Resources at IUP
- February 9, 5:00 p.m.: Talisman Energy - Info on the Energy Business and the role of Talisman Energy
- February 17: Michael Poage - Report on Winter 2011–2012 Fieldwork in Antarctica
- March 23: Shundong Bi, IUP Biology Department
- March 30: Lynn Marquez, Millersville University
- April 13: John Swenson, University of Minn, GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecturer
- April 20: Tommy Gerber
- April 27: Geoscience Day
- May 4: Alumni Mock Interview of Students
Fall 2011 Schedule:
- September 2: Welcome Pizza Lunch
- September 8: Geoscience Students Summer Internship Reports
- September 16: More Student Internship Reports
- September 23: Jon Lewis - A Primer on the Tectonics of Taiwan
- October 7: Nick Panizotto - Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Watershed Program 21: Faculty Research Introdutions
- October 21: New Science Building Discussion and Brainstorming
- Oct 25 : EQT introduction
- November 4: Graduate School Discussion
- December 9: Feast Before Finals
Spring 2011 Schedule:
- January 21: Faculty Research Introdutions
- January 28: Ken Coles
- February 4: Ron Cole, Allegheny College
- March 18: Barbara Kutchko
- April 8: Ken Coles
- April 15: Jeff Deurume
- April 29: Geoscience Day
Fall 2010 Schedule:
- September 3: Welcome Back pizza lunch for the students
- September 10: Ellen Lamont and Anthony LeDonne will report on their summer internships
- September 17: Newfoundland Summer Field Course Report
- September 24: Jessica Ball (University of Buffalo): “Lava Domes and Water — Stewing Up Instability”
- October 15: Matt Powell (Juniata College): “The Peak of Latitudinal Diversity Gradient in Living and Fossil Marine Biota”
- October 22: Jon Lewis: Informational Talk on Field Workshop 2011 — The Rockies
- November 5: Joe Clark
- November 12: Michael Zieg (Slippery Rock): “The Beacon Sill, Antarctica: Evidence for Compaction and Reinjection”
- December 10: Feast before finals
Spring 2010 Schedule
- January 22: Dan Saftner and Mark Smith: Dan and Mark will report on their Fall study abroad in New Zealand
- February 5: Mark Schwartz (Duke Energy)
- February 12: Ellen Lamont: Ellen will report on her research expedition with Dr. Jon Lewis to Taiwan in January 2010
- February 19: Lloyd Onyett (IUP): A personal story about the 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption
- February 26: Michael Zieg (Slippery Rock)
- March 19: Faculty and student report on GSA NE/SE Joint Meeting in Baltimore earlier that week
- March 26: Kristen St. John (James Madison)
- April 9: Yvonne Brannan (IUP)
- April 30: Geoscience Day: Senior research presentations and keynote speaker IUP alumna Dorothy Merritts (Franklin and Marshall)
Fall 2009 Schedule
- September 25: Ben Ford (IUP), “Marine Remote Sensing and the Lake Ontario Maritime Cultural Landscape”
- October 9: Rudy Slingerland (Penn State), “Building a Continental Shelf One Grain at a Time"
- October 16: John Taylor, Bhutan Geology and Birds, a travelogue of his travels Summer 2009
- October 23: Katrin Moeneke (Pitt—Johnstown)
- October 30: Informational talk on our GEOS 403/404 course for 2010, Field Geology of Newfoundland
- November 13: Rachel O’Brien (Allegheny)
