Each semester the Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences hosts a seminar series of invited speakers.
All presentations are on Fridays at 12:00 Noon, in Van Wickle 108, unless otherwise noted.
FALL SEMESTER 2023
September 8, 2023
Lafayette College Geology Majors
Title: “Our Summer Experiences in the Earth and Environmental Fields”
September 15, 2023
Tom Hale
University of Delaware
Title: “The Mineral-Security Nexus”
September 22, 2023
Juliane Gross
Rutgers University
Title: “To the Moon: From Apollo to Artemis, and what we can learn from rocks”
October 13, 2023
Lafayette College Geology Staff
Title: “Life In and After Lafayette Geology”
October 20, 2023
Jeffrey Vervoort (*AGU College of Fellows Distinguished Lecture*)
Washington State University
Title: “The Growth of Earth’s Earliest Crust”
October 27, 2023
Multiple Presentations on the History of Geology in New Jersey
Geological Association of New Jersey
*Talks occur in Marlo Room, Farinon Center*
November 10, 2023
Claire Zurkowski (*Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer*)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Title: “Mysteries Beyond our Solar System: Characterizing the Mineralogical Building Blocks of multi-Earth Mass Exoplanets”
November 17, 2023
Caitlyn Dempsey
Langan Engineering & Environmental Services
General Topic: Environmental Consulting in Urban Areas
December 1, 2023
Annie Mailloux
Rutgers University
General Topic: TBA
Past seminars can be found here.