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