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Department of Geology

 

WEEKLY COLLOQUIUM
The Department sponsors a weekly colloquium during the academic year in which speakers from inside and outside the Department give talks on areas of current research interest.

Fridays at 2:30 pm

Room 201 Braunstein Hall. Refreshments following at 513 Geology/Physics Building.


SPRING QUARTER 2008 COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE:

April 4th
Ethan Grossman, Texas A&M University
The Stable Isotopic Record for Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration in the Permo-Carboniferous: Promise and Pitfalls.


April 8th, Special time: 4 pm
Bert Holldobler , Arizona State University
George Rieveschl Geolecture: Order in Chaos: Communication and cooperation in ant societies.


April 11 th
Peter Wagner, Smithsonian
Compatibility: New paleontological uses for an old method.

April 18th
Matt Hurtgen, Northwestern University
Title TBA: Geochemistry of anoxic marine systems

April 25th
No Colloquium

May 2nd
Bruce Watson, Rensselar Polytechnic Institute

Rich Lecture: Ti-Zr Thermometers for quartz, zirson, rutile and sphene with applications to crustal rocks.

May 7th, Noon
Kenneth Tankersley, Universitty of Cincinnati
Late Pleistocene Extinctions: A View from Sheriden Cave.

May 9th
Joint Talk with Anthropology: TBA - Geoarcheaology

May 16th
Department Discussion Session

May 23rd
Allen West
Diamonds, Mammoths and Younger Dryas Comet


May 30th
Karla Parsons-Hubbard, Oberlin
Title TBA: Taphomy

June 6th
Anthony Chappaz, University of Quebec
Title TBA: Aqueous and Sedimentary Chemistry of Lakes


Class Trips
4-day Field Trips
Annually, the faculty of the Department of Geology organize a field trip of about 4 days to localities in the eastern mid-west of the US. See more about the 4-day field trips.

Paul Potter in Southern Illinios
Professor Emeritus Paul Potter speaks in Southern Illinois on the 2002 4-day field trip.



 

History

Scientific studies of both glacial and bedrock formations led to the establishment of the Department of Geology at the University of Cincinnati in 1907. 

Nevin M. Fenneman was its first chairman and, for a while, its only faculty member.  His landform classification map of the U.S., published in 1916, became the most widely used map of its type, and his two-volume work on the physiography (landforms) of the eastern and western U.S. became a classic in the field of geomorphology.

For the next several decades, the department grew in reputation as it continued to attract students and a number of nationally known faculty members, such as Walter Bucher, Kenneth E. Caster, Otto von Schlichten, and John Rich.  In the early years, a small group of scholars established excellent programs  in geomorphology, tectonics and structural geology, petroleum and sedimentary geology, and paleontology. 

Since then, the geology department has continued to grow and to keep pace with the rapidly changing field it represents.  In the 1970's, the addition of more faculty and modern, well-equipped laboratories allowed the department of geology to expand its course offerings at both the undergraduate and graduate level.  As a result, the number of students annually receiving Baccalaureate, Masters and Doctoral degrees increased.


   

Department of Geology
P.O. Box 210013
Cincinnati OH 45221-0013


345 College Court, Cincinnati OH 45221-0013

tel: 513-556-3732    fax: 513-556-6931

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