Seminars, Workshops, and Meetings
GGE SEMINARS | GRAD BROWNBAGS | GIS WORKSHOPS | GGE ADVISORY BOARD
GGE Seminars 2020-2021
In response to COVID-19, all talks will be held online until further notice.
Announcements
Announcements for each talk are emailed to the South Dakota Mines campus community.
If you are off campus, please subscribe to GGE_SEMINAR-L to
get announcements and updates.
Joining seminars online
- Please run the Zoom meeting test a day or two before the meeting.
- The day of the seminar click here and enter password: GGE
Contact: Curtis Price (
Curtis.Price@sdsmt.edu )
Date |
Location |
Speaker |
Organization |
Title |
Host |
Aug-21 |
No Seminar (GGE Faculty meeting) |
Aug-28 |
online only |
GGE Fall Kickoff Social
|
South Dakota Mines GGE |
Socially Distanced Friends and Fellowship: South Dakota Mines Geology & Geological Engineering |
Katzenstein
|
Sep-4 |
online only |
Dr. Jacob Lowenstern |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Hazards, History, and Hydrothermal Phenomena at the Yellowstone Caldera
|
Price |
Sep-11 |
online only |
Dr. Peter Guth |
U.S. Naval Academy |
Military Geology |
Price |
Sep-16 (Wed) |
online only |
Greyson Buckingham, CEO |
Disa, LLC |
High-Pressure Slurry Ablation: A size reduction/liberation technology for mining and reclamation (sponsored
by MET, MEM, and GGE) |
Cross |
Sep-18 |
online only |
Dr. Dennis Helsel |
Practical Stats |
Incorporating Nondetects in Science (Download pre-talk material) |
Price |
Sep-25 |
online only
|
Dr. Matthew Minnick |
RESPEC, Inc.
|
Development of Sedimentary Heat Geothermal: The current Boom in Canada |
Price |
Oct-02
|
online only |
Dr. Barbara Kutchko |
U.S. Dept of Energy |
The New Science Behind Foamed Cement
|
Price |
Oct-09 |
online only |
Dr. Robert Hall |
Head, South Dakota Mines Mining Eng & Mgmt |
Mining Technology development: A look at the past, present and future
|
Price |
Oct-16 |
No Seminar (GGE Faculty meeting)
|
Oct-23 |
online only |
Dr. Kelsey Prissel |
Carnegie Institution for Science |
Insights into Lunar Petrology from Iron Isotopes |
Keenan |
Oct-30
|
online only |
Dr. Mark Fahrenbach |
SD Geological Survey
|
What is a Geologic Map? |
Price
|
Nov-06 |
No Seminar |
Nov-13 |
online only |
Dr. Gregory Delzer |
U.S. Geological Survey |
Dakota Water Science Center: Current Research and Activities |
Price |
Nov-20 |
online only |
GEOL 464 students |
South Dakota Mines |
Geology Senior Research Proposals Q&A, 3 pm to 5 pm Please watch presentations online ahead of time |
Anderson |
|
Jan-15 |
No Seminar, GGE Graduate Student Town Hall |
Jan-22 |
online only |
Dr. Caroline Strömberg |
University of Washington |
Neo-Ecology Meets Deep Time: Reconstructing plant paleo-niches in the Late Cretaceous of Wyoming |
Pagnac |
Jan-29 |
online only |
Mr. Alan H. Rea, PE |
U.S. Geological Survey |
National Hydrography Dataset - Plus |
Price |
Feb-05
|
online only |
Tom Durkin* |
South Dakota Space Grant Consortium |
Mars 2020 Lander Geology and Technology Pre-Landing Briefing |
Price |
Feb-12 |
No Seminar, President's Day Holiday
|
Feb-19 |
online only
|
Dr. Albert Eggers |
University of Puget Sound (ret) |
Field Geophysics on the Slopes of Mt. St. Helens, March-May 1980 |
Price |
Feb-26
|
online only |
Dr. Heather Bedle |
University of Oklahoma |
Machine Learning Applications for Seismic Interpretation
|
Price |
Mar-05 |
No seminar, Spring Break |
Mar-12 |
No seminar, Spring Break |
Mar-19 |
online only |
Dr. Andrew Farke |
Raymond M. Alf Museum |
Campanian Life of Laramidia: Alf Museum Explorations in the Kaiparowits and Mesaverde Formations
|
Price |
Mar-26 |
online only |
Dr. Jonathan Delph |
Purdue University |
Controls on the spatial distribution of deep non-volcanic tremors along the Cascadia margin |
|
Apr-02 |
online only |
(GGE faculty candidate?) |
|
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Apr-09 |
online only |
Dr. Nick Dygert |
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
TBA |
|
Apr-16
|
online only |
Dr. David Hammond |
Hammond International Group |
U.S. Rare Earths Today: Misconceptions, Dreams, and Realities |
Price |
Apr-23 |
online only |
TBA |
TBA |
GGE Graduate Student Distinguished Lecturer (invited) |
Sawyer |
Apr-30 |
TBD |
GEOL 465 students |
South Dakota Mines |
Geology & Geological Engineering Senior Research Q&A 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Please view student presentations ahead of time -- links posted Nov 16. |
Anderson |
Grad Brownbags 2020-2021
Mondays noon-1PM on zoom meeting 96358772727 (meeting link). Coordinated by GGE Graduate Representatives. Information will be added as seminars are arranged.
Please volunteer for a talk, we are interested in what you are doing!
Contact: Dr. Foster Sawyer ( John.Sawyer@sdsmt.edu )
Date
|
Lead |
Title/Topic |
(Monday) |
|
|
Aug-31 |
-- |
|
Sep-07 |
-- |
|
Sep-14 |
Grad Rep elections
|
Vote for 2020-2021 grad reps/Logistics
|
Sep-21 |
-- |
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Sep-28 |
-- |
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Oct-05 |
Curtis Price |
Scale dependence in digital elevation model-based landform analysis |
Oct-12 |
Fleford Redoloza |
Geological Modeling Using Deep Learning with Progressive Generative Adversarial Networks (GNAs) |
Oct-19 |
-- |
|
Oct-26 |
Redoloza/Riemers/Sawyer
|
Grad student meeting: invited talk and other issues |
Nov-02 |
Grace DeVault |
Examination of Pig Wallow Site Geochemistry Using Decomposition Estimates from the Minimum Number of Individuals |
Nov-09 |
Jichao Bao
|
Leveraging Deep Learning for Flow and Transport Data Assimilation in Complex Aquifers
|
Nov-16
|
Brooke Long-Fox |
Examining shell shape and evolutionary relationships in lucinid bivalves (cancelled)
|
|
Jan-11 |
-- |
Reminder: Grad Student Town Hall Friday Jan 15 4 pm |
Jan-18 |
-- |
MLK Jr Day |
Jan-25 |
Rudolph Hummel |
TBA |
Feb-01 |
Jessica O'Neall |
TBA |
Feb-08 |
Erica Cung |
TBA |
Feb-15 |
-- |
President's Day |
Feb-22 |
Peter Daly |
TBA |
Mar-01 |
Brooke Long-Fox |
Examining shell shape and evolutionary relationships in lucinid bivalves |
Mar-08 |
-- |
Spring Break |
Mar-15 |
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Mar-22 |
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Mar-29 |
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Apr-05 |
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Apr-12 |
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Apr-19 |
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Apr-26 |
-- |
Last week of term |
GIS Workshops
Workshops are typically offered in December/January and May/June
Intro to GIS I and II; Switching To Pro; GIS Field Data Collection
GEOE/GEOL/PALE Advisory Board Meetings
Next meeting: Saturday, April 17, 2021