About the Speaker Series
Earth Talks Speaker Series is hosted each semester by the Geoscience Department.
The series serves as a forum through which experts from academia, government and the private sector, as well as WSU students and faculty, share their experiences and research results with the WSU Geoscience community.
The series also provides a venue for discussions of professional, educational, and employment issues related to Geology, Natural Resources, Earth Science teaching, and other related disciplines.
Spring 2020 Events
| Jan. 13 |
Geoscience Teaching Assistant Orientation Geoscience Faculty and Staff - Winona State University |
4pm - SLC 120 |
| Jan. 20 |
No Event - Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
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| Jan. 27 |
Just tell me what I have to know to pass the test!! Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment Jennifer Anderson - WSU Geoscience Department |
4pm - SLC 120 |
| Feb. 3 |
The Geography minor for Geoscience and other science majors Michael Scholz - WSU Geography Department |
4pm - SLC 120 |
| Feb. 10 |
No Event |
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| Feb. 17 |
The Path to Geology Licensure Keith Rapp - Pinnacle Engineering, Inc. and the Professional Geologist representative of the Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience and Interior Design (AELSLAGID) |
4pm - SLC 120 |
| Feb. 24 |
Nitrate transport through the surface water - groundwater system in southeastern Minnesota Anthony Runkel - Chief Geologist, Minnesota Geographical Survey |
4pm - SLC 120 |
| March 2 |
Dyeing in the Driftless: What have decades of groundwater tracing told us about the Paleozoic aquifers of southeast Minnesota Jeff Green - Minnesota Department of Natural Resources |
4pm - SLC 120 |
| March 9 |
No Event - Spring Break |
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| March 16 |
TBA |
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| March 23 |
Alumni Spotlight (tentative) Amber Schmidt - WHKS & Co. Kiel Jenkin - GHD Group |
4pm - SLC 120 |
| March 30 |
Iron geochemistry of lakes and the genesis of Precambrian iron formations Chad Wittkop - Minnesota State University, Mankato |
4pm - SLC 120 |
| April 6 |
TBA |
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| April 13 |
Snow drought in a warming climate Jennifer (Dierauer) Brand - University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point |
4pm - SLC 120 |
| April 20 |
TBA |
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| April 27 |
Geoscience Student Research Presentations Geoscience Majors - Winona State University Student Presenters to be announced at a later date |
4pm - SLC 120 |
