Spring 2025 MGS Seminars

Spring 2025 MGS Seminars will take place on Thursdays at 12:10 PM, unless otherwise noted. All seminars are entirely virtual via Zoom.

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 [email protected].

To request disability accommodations, please contact [email protected] (Tony Runkel) at least seven business days in advance of the event date. We will do our best to accommodate requests made after this date.

Thursday, February 13 (12:10 PM)
Simon Bøtker-Rasmussen (I-GIS, Denmark)
"GeoScene 3D: Build 3D Models from Data with Ease"

Thursday, February 27 (12:10 PM)
Hunter Delikowski (Recent graduate of Minnesota State University-Mankato)
“Post-glacial Landscape Evolution of the Lower St. Croix River Valley: The Enigma of Glacial Lake Grantsburg, the Osceola Bench, and the St. Croix Dells“

Thursday, March 6 (12:10 PM)
José Luis Villaseñor (Environmental Justice Outreach Coordinator, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency)
“Something on the Environmental Justice Program at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency"

Thursday, March 20 (12:10 PM)
Dr. Alex Hastings (Fitzpatrick Chair of Paleontology, Science Museum of Minnesota)
“Extinction Recovery & Ice Age Giants: Fossil Digitization Projects at the Science Museum of Minnesota”

Thursday, April 3 (12:10 PM)
Neal Iverson (Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Climate, Iowa State University)
“Why didn’t the Des Moines Lobe and its southernmost neighbors make drumlins?”

Thursday, April 17 (12:10 PM)
Anders Noren (Director, Continental Scientific Drilling [CSD] Facility, School of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota)
“Something on the CSD”