Monthly Archives: October 2009

It was a dark and stormy night…Halloween in Mineralogy

Tomorrow is Halloween, but Mineralogy students celebrated the holiday today by dressing as their favorite optical property. Guess what the people in the picture below are dressed as (hint: they are all under crossed polars!). The people below appear every … Continue reading

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Wooster Students Close the GSA Meeting with Poster Presentations in Two Interdisciplinary Sessions

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Wooster Students Present Research at Portland GSA in “Recent Developments in Paleoclimate” session

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Wooster Geology Alumni at GSA

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“Overcoming Resistance to the Reality of Evolutionary Change in Nature”

PORTLAND, OREGON–This was the very direct title of an inspiring panel discussion today at the Geological Society of America meeting. It was sponsored by the Paleontological Society and included some of the strongest voices in the endless Evolution Wars: The … Continue reading

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AWG Breakfast

I was fortunate enough to have a ticket to the sold-out Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) breakfast. How inspiring it is to be surrounded by women and men who support and promote female geoscientists! After a heartfelt series of stories … Continue reading

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Digital Geology at #GeoPort

This post is for my Instructional Technology Fellows. #GeoPort is the GSA Portland twitter hash tag, so you can follow what people are saying about the meeting. GSA also posts meeting updates on its own twitter feed and facebook page. … Continue reading

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First Wooster talk at the 2009 GSA meeting

PORTLAND, OREGON–By now I’ve given over 35 talks at annual Geological Society of America meetings, but I still get as nervous as I did as a graduate student. The cavernous room, the high quality of the previous presentations, the people … Continue reading

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First Wooster poster presentation of the 2009 GSA annual meeting

Elyssa Belding Krivicich (’09) and Sophie Lehman (’08) cheerfully presenting their poster on Jurassic marine paleoecology in Israel at the Geological Society of America meeting in Portland.

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Conservation Paleobiology Short Course

PORTLAND, OREGON–The Paleontological Society has a free short course program it runs on the day before the GSA meeting officially begins. When I began my career the topics were always about some taxonomic group such as “Brachiopods”, “Mollusks”, “Plants” and … Continue reading

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