Spring 2022 MGS Seminars

Spring 2022 MGS Seminars will be hosted virtually via Zoom and will take place on Thursdays at 12:10 PM unless otherwise noted. The Zoom link for the seminar will be sent out in the weekly seminar announcement. If you do not receive these announcements and wish to join us, please contact Tony Runkel at runke001@umn.edu.

February 10 (12:10 PM)
Mark Jirsa
Minnesota Geological Survey (retired)
"43 Years of Mapping Minnesota's Bedrock"

February 24 (12:10 PM)
John Anfinson
Retired Park Superintendent of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
"Saving St. Anthony Falls"

March 10 (12:10 PM)
Ben Frieman
Research Associate, Metal Earth, Laurentian University
"Elucidating Archean geodynamic and metallogenic processes: Perspectives from the southern Superior Province, Canada"

March 31 (12:10 PM)
Crystal Ng
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
"Something on Tribally Directed Collaborative Research on Wild Rice"

April 7 (1:30 PM, date and time tentative)
Esther Stewart
Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
"Something on understanding Paleozoic reactivation of Precambrian structures in the Baraboo Wisconsin area"

April 21 (12:10 PM)
Christa Wood and Audray Hinkemeyer
Graduate Students, Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, University of Minnesota-Duluth
"Something on provenance of Rainy lobe till, and characterization of saprolites with implications for environmental stresses"