EAST TENNESSEE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

May 2013 Meeting


Monday, May 13, 2013
6:00 - 7:30 pm

Pellissippi State Technical Community College
10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville
J.L Goins Administration Building, Cafeteria Annex

 
MAY PRESENTATION

Award-Winning Student Presentations

This month’s ETGS meeting will follow a slightly different format than is usual. Instead of having one speaker give a 50-minute-long presentation, we will be featuring three mini presentations, each approximately 15 minutes long, by graduate students from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. Each year EPS offers a course on Professional Presentations (Geology 596) to provide a formal opportunity for students to develop their oral communication skills. This one-credit course involves writing an abstract and preparing, practicing, and delivering a professional presentation on any geological topic of interest, usually a portion of their dissertation/thesis research. The students present their talks at a departmental seminar and they are ranked by the faculty. Once again, ETGS is partnering with EPS to further broaden this valuable experience by offering awards to the student presenters and inviting them to give their talks to a professional geology audience at the May ETGS meeting. We hope you can join us to support this new generation of geologists and see their presentations.

Changes to Bone Structure and Composition
During Fossilization

Sarah W. Keenan
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee

 

Do Silicon Isotopes Reveal Information About Critical
Events in Precambrian Earth History?

Latisha Brengman
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee

 

Using Local-Scale Stratigraphy to Investigate the
History of Past Rivers and Climate on Mars

Robert Jacobsen
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee


 

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