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GLS, Fridays, 3:30 Morrill III, Room 203
• February 5th - John Brady from Smith College will give a talk entitled: Pseudomorphs after Lawsonite, Syros, Greece
The blue GLS link above will take you to the preliminary schedule for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Prosem, Fridays, 12:20, Hasbrouck 126
• February 5th - TBA
• NEW !! Geography Web New content and links from the Writing In Geography students
• World On Wednesdays: UMass Geography Film Series, Mor 136, 6 PM
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• Dave Vaillencourt was interviewed about his senior research and summer research in Svalbard. The interview and story can be seen on the College of Natural Sciences webpage. |
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| • Michele Cooke Andresen and Mariel Schottenfeld illustrate how future earthquakes may occur around the San Andreas Fault through special clay modeling techniques in a video available for viewing on YouTube. |  |
| • Ray Bradley and 3 other faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Read the story here. |
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| • Stan Stevens spoke at the United Nations on May 26, 2009 in an event organized as part of the VII Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The theme of this year's UNPFII was implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007). Read the whole story here. |  |
| • Climatologist Douglas Hardy's recent research on glaciers on Mt. Kilimanjaro was featured in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Read the story here. | |
The Department of Geosciences was present at the Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting on October 18th to the 21st in Portland Oregon. As usual, a number of students and faculty presented an array of talks and posters throughout the meeting. |
| The department hosted an alumni reception on Monday evening during the conference which many alumni and friends attended, and we had an information table in the Graduate Forum all day Sunday and Monday. |
• Geology folks in campus news: click to read about the recent activities of Beth Caissie and David Boutt.
• Dr. M. Lee Allison (UMass PhD’86) presented a talk entitled “Intelligent Design and the Assault on Science and Religion” on October 2. Dr. Allison, currently State Geologist of Arizona, spoke about his involvement in the state of Kansas, during a six year battle against imposing intelligent design and other religious beliefs into science classes in the elementary and secondary schools of the state. After the talk Dr. Allison received the Department of Geosciences Distinguished Alumni Award. |
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• UMass Geosciences was well represented at this year's NEGSA meeting. Organizeed by UMass alum (PhD '80) Art Goldstein (shown here with Mike Williams), over 1100 scientists attended the three day conference in Portland, ME. More |
| •Don Wise, Mike Williams and about 30 faculty, undergraduate and graduate students from UMass Amherst, Smith College, Amherst College and Hampshire College attended the 2009 Five College geology field trip to Pennsylvania in May. More |  |
