Geological and Mining Engineering and Science News

Society of Exploration Geophysicists Challenge Bowl

Published March 29, 2012

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Two students from the geological and mining engineering and sciences department were runners-up at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Challenge Bowl recently. Josh Richards, a PhD candidate in geophysics, and Chad (Danford) Moore, a senior in applied geophysics, took second place at the Sixth Annual Sooner Challenge Bowl at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.
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The SEG Challenge Bowl is an international contest testing students’ breadth and depth of knowledge about the field of geoscience. The quiz-show format features intense competition, as the contestants attempt to buzz in first with the answers to challenging geoscience questions.

Departmental Seminar

Published March 20, 2012

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Title/Abstract

Beauty and the Beast: Using EarthScope, Sense of Place and the Landscapes of Our National Parks to Engage the Public on the Scenery and Geological Hazards of the United States

Presenter

Robert J. Lillie, PhD, Certified Interpretive Trainer, Emeritus Professor of Geosciences
Oregon State University
E-mail: lillier@geo.oregonstate.edu
Web: http://geo.oregonstate.edu/~lillier

Date

March 20, 2012 2 pm Dow 610

Pennington Gives Talk at Portland Museum on Earthquakes

Published March 2, 2012

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Department Chair Dr. Wayne Pennington gave a talk on the Haiti and Japan earthquakes at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) Science Pub night at Portland Oregon recently. The entire talk. titled “Scientific and Humanitarian Lessons from the Haiti and Japan Earthquakes” can be viewed from the Youtube link: Link to Video 1 hr 16 min

Details about the talk in this OMSI web publication:

Science Pub Portland Article

New Mineral Named for Seaman Museum Curator

Published February 29, 2012

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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.

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Exploring Eruptions: Research on Volcanoes Could One Day Help Save Lives

Published February 14, 2012

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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.

Linking Microbial and Ecosystem Processes: what to measure and how to measure it

Published February 9, 2012

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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

Field observations of mixing and transport near topography in lakes and the ocean

Published February 8, 2012

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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

Full Scale Coastal Experiments….from Flying Buoys to Caribou Hunters

Published January 19, 2012

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Date and Location

Feb 8, 3-4pm, Dow 642

Presenter

Dr Guy Meadows, Univ of Michigan and adjunct professor, GMES

Abstract

Over the past several years, the Ocean Engineering Laboratory (OEL) of the University of Michigan has been involved in the design, fabrication and deployment of a wide variety of Great Lakes and coastal ocean environmental monitoring platforms. These platforms are all either, semi- or fully-autonomous in the execution of their respective missions and capable of producing real-time data. The development of these platforms offers a glimpse into the possible future of advanced aquatic sensing and long term, open water, measurement persistence. Examples of the utilization of these and other environmental sensing platforms, many developed jointly with MTU, will be provided. Applications to a variety of Great lakes and coastal ocean environments will be discussed including searching for evidence of Paleo-Indian occupation of what is now the submerged Alpena-Amberley, central ridge of Lake Huron.

Geology Club Meetings

Published January 19, 2012

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Do you like rocks?
Want to go collecting in the Keweenaw?
Would you like to learn more about Geology first-hand?

Come to our next Geology Club Meeting
Every other Wednesday at 5 p.m. in the Dow (632) Atrium (lake side)
All majors and levels welcome!

Spring Semester Meeting dates (every other Wednesday)
Jan 18
Feb 1, 8, 15, 29
March 14, 28
April 11