Fall 2021 MGS Seminars

The Fall 2021 MGS Seminars will be hosted virtually via Zoom and will take place on Thursdays at 12:10 p.m. The Zoom link for the seminar will be sent out in the weekly seminar announcement. If you do not receive these announcements and would like to join us for our virtual seminar or be added to the weekly announcement list, please contact Tony Runkel at runke001@umn.edu.

October 7
Julia Steenberg, Phanerozoic Geologist, Minnesota Geological Survey
MGS Watershed Scale Geologic Models: A Step Towards Making the Invisible Visible

October 21
Heather Arends, Mineral Potential Manager, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Division of Lands and Minerals
DNR Mineral Potential Evaluation Section—Update on Current Activities

November 4
Annia Fayon, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
An Appetite for Apatite

November 11
Harsh Anurag, Hydrogeology Graduate Student, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota
Modeling the impact of spatiotemporal vegetation dynamics on groundwater recharge

December 2 (POSTPONED and rescheduled for December 9)
Aaron Hirsch, Geophysicist, Minnesota Geological Survey
Sesimic structure of the near-surface: Beyond HVSR

December 16
Andy Breckenridge, Professor, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Superior
The glacial varve record from northern Minnesota and northwestern Ontario: the challenges, successes, and current questions