Department of Earth Sciences
Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences


MGS and USGS Brown Bag Lunch

 

Spring 2013 MGS and USGS Brown Bag Lunches

The Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS) and the local U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) office will again host the Spring 2013 brownbag seminars.  The MGS will host all but one of the seminars. The first presentation is this Wednesday, February 20, with a talk by Val Chandler (MGS)  on Passive-aggressive geophysics: An evaluation of the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) passive seismic method for determining glacial deposit thickness in Minnesota

 

Copied below, and attached, is the entire Spring schedule of MGS/USGS brown bags, with tentative titles or topics. Presentations are WEDNESDAYS at noon every-other week.

 

The USGS Minnesota Water Science center is at:

2280 Woodale Drive

Mounds View, MN 55112

For a map and directions:

http://mn.water.usgs.gov/about/MoundsView.html

 

The MGS is located about half-way between the St Paul and Minneapolis campus’, on University Avenue (2642 University Ave West, St Paul, 55114-1057). For a map and directions go to our website at

http://talc.geo.umn.edu/mgs/expanded.html

 

 MGS/USGS  BROWN BAG  SPRING 2013 SCHEDULE

 

Wednesday, February 20,   12:00 LOCATION MGS OFFICE, ST PAUL

Val Chandler

Minnesota Geological Survey

 “Passive-aggressive geophysics: An evaluation of the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) passive seismic method for determining glacial deposit thickness in Minnesota

 

Wednesday, March 6, 12:00 LOCATION MGS OFFICE, ST PAUL

Laurel Woodruff

US Geological Survey

North American Soil Geochemical Landscapes Project”

 

Wednesday, March 20, 12:00 LOCATION MGS OFFICE, ST PAUL

Tony Runkel

Minnesota Geological Survey

” Talking about silica sand, for the 25th time”

 

Wednesday, April 3, 12:00 LOCATION MGS OFFICE, ST PAUL

Ben Sheets

Barr Engineering

"Modeling Alberta Oil Sand tailings deposition”

 

Wednesday, April 17, 12:00 LOCATION USGS OFFICE, MOUNDS VIEW

Mark Brigham

US Geological Survey

Methylmercury in stream ecosystems - controlling factors and lessons learned”

 

Wednesday, May 1, 12:00 LOCATION MGS OFFICE, ST PAUL

Julia Steenberg, Bob Tipping and Tony Runkel

Minnesota Geological Survey

“”Something about our nearly finished “Geologic Controls on Nitrate in Ground and Surface Water”  or  “St Lawrence Aquitard” projects, or both””