Spring 2026 MGS Seminars
Seminar Details
Spring 2026 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 Tony Runkel at [email protected] at least seven business days in advance of the event date. We will do our best to accommodate requests made after this date.
Schedule, Speakers, and Topics
Thursday, February 19 (12:30 PM)
Kent Syverson (Professor, UW Eau Claire)
“Glacial history of Wisconsin through the lens of the new (2025) statewide glacial geology map”
***POSTPONED - NEW DATE TBD***
Jason Thomason (Illinois State Geological Survey)
“Mapping Aquifers in Illinois using Airborne Electromagnetics”
Thursday, April 2 (12:10 PM)
Chloé Fandel (Assistant Professor, Geology Department, Carleton College)
Tentative Title: "Preliminary findings from the 2025 Driftless Snapshot Spring Survey"
Tuesday, April 14 (12:10 PM)
Kevin Theissen (Professor, Geology and Environmental Science Programs, Department of Earth, Environment, and Society, University of St. Thomas)
“Evidence for the Late Holocene Dry Period and other paleohydroclimate change from a southern Nevada lake”
Thursday, April 30 (12:10 PM)
Jessica Marggraf (Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
“Lithological and base-level control on fluvial erosion and river longitudinal profile evolution along Minnesota's North Shore”
Thursday, May 7 (12:10 PM)
Klara Kjome-Fisher (Undergraduate, Carleton College)
“Deformation features of the Mt. Simon Sandstone in the Pine Bend Impact Structure”
&
Peter Bergenross (Undergraduate, Carleton College)
“Discovering a negative anomaly: Gravity survey of the Pine Bend impact structure”
