Soft Rock Lunch

Sept. 13: Kirsten Fristad (visiting postdoc) "Evidence for contact metamorphism and carbon degassing in the Siberian Traps at the end-Permian"

Sept. 20: Dan Jones (postdoc): A tale of two (iron) springs: Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of an acidic coal mine drainage, Somerset Co., PA and Preliminary community analysis of circumneutral iron springs of the Platteville Fm., Minneapolis, MN

Sept. 27: Ben Tutolo (grad student): Geothermal energy in Minnesota: revised prospects based on new heat flow measurements

Oct. 4: Beverly Flood (postdoc): What Can the Epibiont Community of a Hydrate Ridge Methane Seep Endemic Snail Tell Us About The Ecology & Physiology of Giant Marine Sulfur Bacteria? 

Palmer Fliss (grad student): "Metagenomic Assembly of Thiomargarita nelsonii

Oct. 11: Laura Vietti (grad student): Advancements in Methods for Reconstructing the Deposition of Marine and Terrestrial Vertebrate Fossils: Surface Texture Analyses and Pyrite Framboids

Oct. 18: Paul McKinney (grad student): Observing and modeling the Lake Superior thermal bar

Oct. 25: Chris Crosby (grad student): 2 Ga phosphatic rock hosts apparent microfossils with possible eukaryotic affinities

Nov. 1: Andrew Haveles (grad student): Dietary Reconstructions of Modern and Fossil Small Mammals in a Grassland Ecosystem of Southwestern Kansas



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