A new mineral discovered in the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine in Arizona has been named georgerobinsonite. The mineral is named after George W. Robinson, professor of mineralogy and curator of Michigan Tech’s A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum. It is a lead chromate—a salt of chromic acid—that occurs as minute, transparent, orange-red crystals on cerussite, another lead carbonate and secondary lead mineral.
Geology takes the long view. It is a field, after all, in which the pace of change spans billions of years. John Lyons, however, is interested in geological events that happen at a faster rate. So the recent graduate of Michigan Tech’s PhD program in geophysics has found a compromise: he studies volcanoes.
Feb 9: Ed Hall, USGS Research Biologist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory Colorado State University, Title: “Linking Microbial and Ecosystem Processes: what to measure and how to measure it” Thursday February 9th, 2:00 PM Rekhi Hall G06
Feb 8: Danielle Wain, University of Washington “Field observations of mixing and transport near topography in lakes and the ocean” Rekhi G06 2:00 pm
