Sept. 7

Hartman Planning

Hartman Southwestern North Dakota Field Trip

Sept. 14

Perkins Planning

Perkins Yellowstone Field Trip

Geol 421-422 Spontaneous Talks

Sept. 19

AUG planning

5:00 p.m. Departmental Picnic at Lincoln Park, Shelter 2

Sign-Up in Geology Office

Sept. 20 Thurs

SGE planning

Geology's Beta Zeta Chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon (SGE):

6:30 p.m., EERC's Terry Bailey (Geology B.S. 1970) will present a talk entitled: "From Log-Slipping to 3D Workstations: The Changing Times in the Oil Industry."

All are welcome to attend and refreshments will be served in Room 100 (Lecture Bowl) Leonard Hall.

Sept. 21

Hartman Planning

Master's Student Thesis Proposal Presentation

12:00 p.m.: Tanya Justham (for Geol 356-421-422 students, faculty, and others), "Geochemical Diagenetic Model for Ironstone Cretaceous and Paleocene Mollusks in North Dakota"

12:30 p.m.: Geol 421-422 Artifact Talks (with Geol 356 students)

3:00 p.m.: Geol 421-422 Artifact Talks (with Geol 356 students)

Sept. 27

GGE Planning

GGE Homecoming-A.G. Leonard Award Banquet

Awardees: Mary Scott (M.S. '72) & Joni Lerud-Heck (M.S. '79)

(Thursday, Ramada Inn) Festivities start at 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 28

GGE Planning

12:00 p.m. GGE A.G. Leonard Award Banquet Lecture

To be presented by Thomas Hamilton (Geology Alum – M.S. '67, Ph.D. '70) – "Global Oil Supply, Peak or Not? Implications for Consumers and Geologists" (Sioux Awardee, this homecoming)

1:00 p.m., GGE Advisory Meeting (Conference Room)

2:30 p.m. SEM Academy, refreshments (Upson II)

3:00 p.m., SEM Academy Ceremony, inductee Brett Fossum (B.S. G.E., 1982) (Dean Watson, President Kupchella, Chair Gosnold)

Dean's SEM Academy Award and Dinner (by invitation only)

Oct. 5

Perkins Planning

LEEPS - Julie Baldwin, University of Montana, Missoula

12:00 p.m.: "Extreme crustal metamorphism of granulites in the Anaplis-Itaucu Complex, Brailia Belt, central Brazil"

03:00 p.m.: "Formation of ecologite and reaction during exhumation, Snowbird Tectonic Zone, north Saskatchewan, Canada"

Oct. 12

Hartman Planning

Geol 356, Geol 421, Geol 422 class

12:00 p.m.: Geol 421-422 Chalk Talks

3:00 p.m.: Geol 421-422 Chalk Talks

Oct. 18

SGE Planning

Geology's Beta Zeta Chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon (SGE):

6:30 p.m., Ken Lepper (North Dakota State University, Fargo) will present on: "Lake Agassiz: Trigger man for the Younger Dryas or an innocent bystander?"

All are welcome to attend and refreshments will be served in Room 100 (Lecture Bowl) Leonard Hall.

Oct. 19

Perkins Planning

LEEPS - Adam Lewis, North Dakota State University, Fargo

12:00 p.m.: An ongoing geomorphic problem in Antarctica - are subglacial megafloods real?

3:00 p.m.: A terrestrial record of Neogene Antarctic climate from glacier thermal regimes and extinction of a tundra biota

Oct. 26

Travel

Geological Society of America annual meeting (Denver)

Nov. 2

Hartman Planning

Geol 356, Geol 421, Geol 422 class

12:00 p.m.: Geol 421-422 Chalk Talks

3:00 p.m.: Geol 421-422 Chalk Talks

Nov. 7

SGE Planning

Geology's Beta Zeta Chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon (SGE):

6:30 p.m., Jim Miller (University of Minnesota-Duluth) will present on: The Precambrian Research Center at the University of Minnesota Duluth - Preparing students for the growing boom in mineral exploration

All are welcome to attend and refreshments will be served in Room 100 (Lecture Bowl) Leonard Hall.

Nov. 9

Perkins Planning

LEEPS - Karl Wirth, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota

12:00 p.m.: Extensive regional sedimentation following Grenville deformation: Evidence from the Midcontinent region

03:00 p.m.: How do we know they are learning what we want them to? Assessing our classes and our curricula

Nov. 16

Hartman Planning

Geol 421-422 PowerPoint review (Abstracts due)

Master's Student Thesis Proposal Presentation

3:00 p.m.: Lucas Buckingham (for Geol 356-421-422 students, faculty, and others), "Stratigraphic framework and shallow gas potential of the Cretaceous, east flank of the Williston Basin, North Dakota"

Nov. 23

No lecture

Thanksgiving Day Observance

Nov. 26

Gosnold Planning

3:00 p.m.: Master's Thesis Defense

Shannon Heinle on "Resolving terrain effects in borehole temperature profiles"

Nov. 27

Gerla Planning

12:30 p.m.: Master's Thesis Defense

Abigail Franklund on "Developing a rapid method for assessing the physical stability of streams in Minnesota’s Agassiz beach ridges"

Nov. 30

Hartman Planning

12:00 p.m.: Geol 422 Senior Theses Presentations

Anne Worden: "Distinction of the Breien and Cannonball Tuffs of Southern North Dakota"

Andrew Bongard: "The downstream transport of boron and choride from a flowing well at Pigeon Point, Ransom County, North Dakota"

3:00 p.m.: Geol 422 Senior Theses Presentations

Jon Hrabik: "Numerical modeling of CO₂ non-Darcy flow in rocks"

Sean Knutson: "Wetland creation"

4:00 p.m.: Geol 421 Presentation

Ben Huffman: "An introduction to the Skaergaard Complex and how it compares with Stillwater Complex"

Dec. 6

(Thur)

GGE planning

GGE Christmas Party

See GGE office sign-up sheet

Dec. 7

No lecture

Reading and Review

Dec. 10

No lecture

Finals Week

Jan. 11

Fri.

Hartman

12:00 p.m.: Geol 356-421-422 classes

Jan. 18

Fri.

Hartman

12:00 p.m.: Geol 356-421-422 classes, Artifact Talks

3:00 p.m.: Geol 356-421-422 classes, Artifact Talks

Jan. 23

Wed.

Perkins Planning

LEEPS - Steve D. Jacobsen, Northwestern, Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer

12:00 p.m.: Water cycling in the deep Earth: Are the oceans just the tip of the iceberg?

03:00 p.m.: Unfamiliar landscape in the deep mantle: Properties of Earth materials at very high pressures and temperatures

Jan. 25

Fri.

Hartman

12:00 p.m.: Geol 356-421-422 classes, Artifact Reivew, Chalk Talks

3:00 p.m.: Geol 356-421-422 classes, Chalk Talks

Feb. 1

Fri.

Perkins Planning

LEEPS - Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat, North Dakota State University, Fargo

12:00 p.m.: Ore deposit geology, germanium-rich zinc deposit of Tres Marias, Mexico

3:00 p.m.: Whence Gondwanan Patagonia?

Tue.

12:00 p.m.: Candidate Presentation, Surficial Processes Position

1:00 p.m.: Lunch with Students

Feb. 8

Fri.

Zane Planning

LEEPS - P.H.S.W. Kulatilake, Department of Geological Engineering Program, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson

12:00 p.m.: Rock slope stability analyses--A case study

03:00 p.m.: Three dimensional rock mass fracture geometry and fluid flow modeling for a tunnel site in California

Tue.

12:00 p.m.: Candidate Presentation, Surficial Processes Position

1:00 p.m.: Lunch with Students

Feb. 15

Fri.

GGE Search

Hartman

12:00 p.m.: Candidate Presentation, Surficial Processes Position

1:00 p.m.: Lunch with Students

3:00 p.m.: Geol 356-421-422 classes

Tue.

12:00 p.m.: Candidate Presentation, Geo-Engineering Position

1:00 p.m.: Lunch with Students

Feb. 21 Thur.

SGE

Room 215

GGE Sigma Gamma Epsilon Lecture Series

Vladimer Zivkovic, UND GGE, Ph.D. student

5:30 p.m.: The Lake St. Martin impact crater

Feb. 22

Fri.

Perkins

LEEPS - Rodney Ewing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

12:00 p.m.: Nuclear energy issues: Plutonium vs. Carbon

3:00 p.m.: Pyrochlore: The elegant response of a simple structure to extreme conditions

Feb. 26 Tue.

GGE Search

12:00 p.m.: Candidate Presentation, Geo-Engineering Position

1:00 p.m.: Lunch with Students

Feb. 29

 Fri.

GGE Search

Hartman

12:00 p.m.: Candidate Presentation, Geo-Engineering Position

1:00 p.m.: Lunch with Students

3:00 p.m. Geol 356-421-422 classes

Mar. 7

No lecture

Spring Break

Mar. 14

Fri.

9:00 a.m.: The John Denver Project - Emerging methods in Hell Creek and Triceratops research

Mar. 14

Fri.

Hartman Planning

LEEPS - Greg Wilson, University of Washington, Seattle

12:00 p.m.: Dying Dinosaurs & exploding mammals: Hell Creek’s window on the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction

3:00 p.m.: Endemics, relicts, and dispersalists: Cretaceous mammals from the drifting Indian subcontinent

Mar. 21

No lecture

Easter Observance

Mar. 26

Wed.

5:00 p.m.: Emerging Infectious Diseases

Mar. 28

Fri.

Hartman

12:00 p.m.: Candidate Presentation, Geo-Engineering Position

1:00 p.m.: Lunch with Students

3:00 p.m., Geol 356-421-422 classes on PPT talks

Apr. 2

Thur.

Geology's Beta Zeta Chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon (SGE):

5:30 p.m., Jim Sorensen, EERC

Topic: Phase III, CO2 Sequestration

Apr. 4

Fri.

Hartman planning

LEEPS - Alycia Stigall, Ohio University, Athens

12:00 p.m.: Using GIS and phylogenetic biogeography to quantify biogeographic patterns in Late Devonian brachiopod and bivalve species invasions over short temporal intervals

3:00 p.m.: Taphonomy of high-latitude Jurassic lake deposits of Antarctica

Apr. 11

Fri.

Hartman

12:00 p.m., Geol 356-421-422 classes

3:00 p.m., Geol 356-421-422 classes

Apr. 17

Thur.

Master's Thesis Defense, Tanya Justham, UND GGE

9:00 a.m., Rm 109: Geochemical analysis of ironstone preserved molluscan fossils of the Hell Creek Formation and Ludlow Member of the Fort Union Formation of southwestern North Dakota

All are invited to attend.

Apr. 17

Thur.

Geology's Beta Zeta Chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon (SGE):

Betsy Scharf, University of North Dakota Department of Anthropology

5:30 p.m.: Using lacustrine sediments to investigate patterns and causes of fire over the past millennium in the Columbia Basin, Washington, USA

Apr. 18

Fri.

Hartman

12:00 p.m., Geol 356-421-422 classes: Senior Thesis & Senior Design

3:00 p.m., Geol 356, 421-422 classes: Senior Thesis & Senior Design

Apr. 24

Thur.

NDAS

Grand Forks

North Dakota Academy of Science Annual Meeting

NDAS Web Site

Time TBD: Marron Bingle (UND GGE), Paleobiogeographic analysis of uppermost Cretaceous Viviparidae (Class Gastropoda) from infratrappean sediments of the Deccan Plateau, India

Apr. 25

Fri.

Hartman

12:00 p.m., Geol 356-421-422 classes: Senior Thesis & Senior Design

3:00 p.m., Geol 356, 421-422 classes: Senior Thesis & Senior Design

May 1

(Thur)

SGE-GGE planning

SGE-GGE Spring Awards Banquet

Mary Schweitzer - North Carolina State University

12:00 p.m., How do we know what we know about dinosaurs

Banquet, T rex under the microscope, an new look at an old dinosaur

May 2

No lecture

Reading and Review

May 7

No lecture

Finals Week