The senior Geoscience Majors are presenting their research at the 37th annual Geoscience Day.
Where: IUP, Weyandt Hall Planetarium
When: April 29, 2011 9:00 - 11:45 a.m.
Geoscience Day 2011 Program (PDF)
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. Mr. Keith A. Rittle (IUP '91), Trihydro Corporation: "An Overview of the Vapor Intrusion Pathway at Environmental Sites"