Anita Grunder, Oregon State University, will discuss the High Lava Plains of Oregon.
Peter Douglas (’05), California Institute of Technology, will be presenting new data on interactions between the Maya and their environment gathered from the isotopic composition of plant wax biomarkers preserved in lake sediments.
Speaker: Christopher Kim, Chapman University
Title: “Arsenic Transport, Speciation, and Bioaccessibility in Gold Mining Environments”
Looking back at 2013, here’s a sample of what our small dynamic research community achieved.
Heather Wright, Cascade Volcano Observatory, will be speaking about the five holocene rhyolite domes that lie along the southern margin of the Salton Sea, California.
Colin Robins, Keck Science Department (CMC/PIT/SCR) will give a talk titled "Mineralogical and Soil-Geomorphic Insights from a ~4-5 million-year-old Mojave Desert Soil."
Anne Sheehan, University of Colorado, Boulder, will present recent results from a major passive and active source EarthScope Flexible Array seismological experiment in the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming.
John Grotzinger, California Institute of Technology and JPL, will be discussing exciting new data from the Curiosity rover on Mars.
At the start of each academic year the Geology Department takes a multi-day trip to renew friendships, share stories from the summer, and indulge our love of geology.