Jan 11 Fri* 3:00-4:30pm*:

Randy Orndorff, USGS Denver, “The Role of Sandstone in the Development of an Ozark Karst System, Southeastern Missouri”
AND
Randall Orndorff and Lydia Quintana, “The National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program EDMAP - Training the Next Generation of Geologic Mappers”

Andres Aslan, Mesa State College, Colorado, “Origin of the upper Colorado River system:  The view from western Colorado”

Jan. 28

Brian Collins, USGS Menlo Park, "The Use of Terrestrial LIDAR in Geomorphologic Investigations: Examples from the Grand Canyon, Hurricane Katrina, and the California Coast"

Feb 4

Geology Club Meeting

Feb 11

Holly Godsey, University of Utah, “Snails and sand, evidence for a mid-Provo regression?  Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Utah

Feb 22* FRI*

AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Kate Giles, “Tracking the migration of salt diapers using halokinetic sequence stratigraphy” or “Complex Feed Back Loops Controlling Heterozoan Reef Development on Salt Diapirs, La Popa Basin, Mexico”

AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Mike Blum, “"Signatures of Climate and Sea-Level Change in Gulf of Mexico River Systems over the Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle: A Source-to-Sink View"

Mar 3

Susannah Porter, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Seawater chemistry and the evolution of carbonate skeletons”

Mar 10

Mar 17

No lecture  GSA Las Vegas this week.

Mar. 24

possibly Steve McKay and Jay Gatten, North American Exploration,
Kaysville, UT., “Current thinking on mineral exploration and related
employment”

Mar 31

Russell Shapiro, Chico State University, Chico, “Iron formations and
methane seeps in the rock record and their implications”

Apr.7

Masters project updates/Student defense

Apr. 14

Masters project updates/Student defense

Apr 21

Masters project updates/Student defense