For more information, contact Dr. Dave Moecher
phone (859) 257-6939; e-mail: moker@uky.edu

Sept. 2
Dr. John White, Assistant Professor, Eastern Kentucky University:
“Geology of the South Rim Formation, Big Bend National Park, Texas: Petrology, Volcanology, and the Evolution of its Interpretation”.

Sept. 9
Dr. Alan Fryar, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky:
“How I Avoided Vishnu's Revenge on my Passage Through India”

Sept. 16
Dr. Jeffrey Keaton, GSA/AEG Jahns Distinguished Lecturer:
“Engineering Geology Mapping in the Information Technology Age”

Sept. 21
Dr. Barbara Bekins, U.S. Geological Survey, GSA Birdsall-Driess Distinguished Lecturer:
“Hydrogeology and the Weak Nature of Plate Boundary Faults”

Sept. 30
Dr. Greg Springer, Assistant Prof., Ohio University:
“Caves and Their Potential Use in Paleoflood Studies: An Appalachian Perspective.”

Oct. 7
Dr. Andy Fisher, Professor, Univ. California Santa Cruz, RIDGE Distinguished Lecturer:
“Large-scale Lateral Fluid Flow within Oceanic Crust and the Importance of Seamounts in Driving Seafloor Circulation on a Global Basis”

Oct. 14
No Lecture: required van safety course for all potential Dept. vehicle operators

Oct. 21
Dr. Scott Samson, Professor, Syracuse University, Brown Lecture:
“Feeling the Heat: what drives magmatic events in the Appalachians and related orogens?”

Oct. 28
Dr. Jim Dinger, Kentucky Geological Survey:
“Effects of Longwall Coal Mining on Hydrogeology of the Cumberland Plateau”

Nov. 4
Dr. Ana Carmo, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky:
“Biomarkers and Paleoenvironments: Searching for Molecular Records of Photic Zone Anoxia in Appalachian Black Shales”

Nov. 11
No Lecture,
Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, CO

Nov. 18
Dr. Chuck Bailey, Associate Professor, College of William and Mary:
“A Tail of Two Shear Zones”

Nov. 25
No Lecture, Thanksgiving Break

Dec. 2
Dr. Drew Andrews, Kentucky Geological Survey:
"Geologic controls on the erosion history of the Kentucky River”