Hey everybody! Spring is just around the corner! Skies are clearing, trees are blossoming, flowers are blooming and cows are cooing...er, mooing. It's time to mark your calendar; join us on Saturday, April 19, 2008, as we celebrate Picnic Day with a "GeoAggie Cow-leidoscope!"
Come spend the day with us and listen to what we have to say about our planet earth. As always, the Geology Department will be open on Picnic Day. But it won't be the staid and stuffy halls of academia that you would normally expect (as if the Geology Department was ever staid and stuffy). Instead the department will be transformed into a geologist's paradise with lots of fossils and rocks and minerals, oh my!
Exhibits will include a mock field camp, a fossil dig, an earthquake monitoring station, displays of faculty research, rocks and minerals from the California Academy of Sciences, microscope labs...and that's just for starters! Who knows what else we may drag out. To top it off...we'll be giving away free stuff while supplies last.
And if you think all that sounds too good to be true, just wait...there's still more! 2008 is the International Year of Planet Earth! Come listen to some of the University's best discuss the past, the present, and the future of our planet earth.
The current changes in climate documented over the past century and projected for our near future are at a magnitude and rate on par with past geologic 'events', many of which had catastrophic biotic and environmental impacts. This talk addresses our present understanding of global climate change and the impact of predicted geologic-scale change will have on regional temperatures and water resources in California.
Iceland is a Green Land: Geothermal Power in Iceland
The combination of climate and geology provides Iceland with abundant geothermal energy and more than 90% of the population directly benefits from this clean and sustainable resource.
