Chris Schenk, Project Chief with the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, CO, will give a talk titled “The role of geology in USGS oil and gas assessments” on Thursday, April 2, at 4:30 p.m. in Fribourgh Hall Room 101.
All are invited. Refreshments will be served at 4:15 pm outside the lecture hall. The talk is sponsored by the Department of Earth Sciences and the UALR Geology Club.
Rheannon Hart (BS Geology 2003, MS Integrated Science 2007) is the first author on two U.S. Geological Survey publications on the hydrogeology of the Mississippi Embayment Regional Aquifer System. Rheannon is a Hydrologist at the USGS Arkansas Water Science Center in Little Rock. Check out the links below to see her latest accomplishments - a great example of one career path available to Geology majors.
Digital Surfaces and Thicknesses of Selected Hydrogeologic Units within the Mississippi Embayment Regional Aquifer Study (MERAS) By Rheannon M. Hart, Brian R. Clark, and Susan E. Bolyard, USGS Scientific Investigation Report 2008-5098
Geophysical Log Database for the Mississippi Embayment Regional Aquifer Study (MERAS)
By Rheannon M. Hart and Brian R. Clark, USGS SIR 2008-5192
Have you ever wondered what the moon is made of (other than cheese) or how it was formed? Have you ever noticed that there are light- and dark-colored parts of the moon? Do you want to see and touch a real moon rock?
Jamey Jones, a faculty member in the UALR Earth Sciences Department, will give a public talk titled “Geology of the Earth’s moon” on Thursday, March 12, at 4:30 pm in Fribourgh Hall Room 101. He will also discuss and display samples of lunar rocks and soil collected during the Apollo missions. The samples are currently on loan from NASA.
All are invited. Refreshments will be served at 4:15 pm outside the lecture hall. The talk is sponsored by the Department of Earth Sciences and the UALR Geology Club.
