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UNLV Lilly Fong Geoscience Building (map), Room 105
To get there, drive east on Harmon coming from Swenson or Paradise. When you can't drive any further the LFG should be directly in front of you. See the UNLV map for building location and parking.
Meeting Time
Social half-hour starts at 6:45 pm
Meeting starts at 7 pm
If you or your company would
like to sponsor a GSN meeting please contact our President, Bruce
Hurley.
Everywhere on the UNLV campus requires either a parking permit or paying the meter between the hours of 7 am until 7 pm. We're not going to lie, parking at UNLV is not pleasant if you aren't prepared. For more information on parking and the best spots during our meetings please visit the website of UNLV Parking Services!
January 27, 2011
Speaker - Wanda Taylor & Barbara Luke
Title - Earth quakes and faults in Southern Nevada
Meeting Sponsor - Charley Pedro
February 24, 2011
Speaker - Vicki Meyers
Title - Comparitive analysis of two pliocene fossil beds
Meeting Sponsor -
March 24, 2011
Speaker - John Price
Title - The Exciting future of Mineral Resources in Meeting World Energy Demand.
Meeting Sponsor -
Note - Activities will take place in Lilly Fong Geoscience building at UNLV, Room 101 beginning with social time (food and drink) beginning at 6:45pm. A short business meeting will be conducted at 7:15 followed by the talk from our guest speaker to begin at 7:30.
April 24, 2011
Speaker - Marvin (Nick) Saines, Ph.D., from Saines Environmental Hydrogeology
Title - Groundwater Exploration and Development in a War Zone - Report from Afghanistan
Meeting Sponsor -
December 15, 2007
Joint Holiday Party w/ Nevada Friends of Paleontology
Location - Nevada State Museum
Date & Time - 5 pm - 8 pm
November 29, 2007
UNLV Geoscience Student Posters
Speaker - Zach Artz, Lora Griffin, Robyn Howley, & Greg Zellner
Meeting Sponsor - None
October 25, 2007
Speaker - Patrick Haynes
Title - Minerals of the Frederickson Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Clark County, Nevada
Meeting Sponsor - Lance Taylor, Geotemps
September 27, 2007
Speaker - Bruce Hurley PhD, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Title - A Brief History of the Nevada Test Site & It's Community Environmental Monitoring Program
Meeting Sponsor - Rich DeLong: Enviroscientists, Inc.
April 26, 2007
Speaker - Wayne Belcher,
Title - Death Valley regional groundwater flow model
Meeting Sponsor - None
March 29, 2007
Speaker - Adam Simon,
Title - Active Volcanoes of Russia
Meeting Sponsor - Rich DeLong: Enviroscientists, Inc.
February 24, 2007; Saturday
Fieldtrip to dinosaur track sites in Warner Valley and Johnson Farm, St. George, Utah,
Time - 8:00 AM
January
25, 2007
Speaker - Steve Rowland,
PhD; UNLV Geoscience Dept.
Title - CSI: Ice Age Las
Vegas; Using mammoth teeth to improve Earth Science education in
southern Nevada
Meeting Sponsor - None
December 7, 2006
Speaker - Steve Scott,Clark
County School District
Title - Museum without
Walls
Meeting Sponsor - Rich DeLong:
Enviroscientists, Inc.
November 30, 2006
Speaker - Dr. Bruce Crow,
Title - Basaltic Volcanic
Cycles at the Southwest Nevada Volcanic Field
Meeting Sponsor - None
October 26, 2006
Speaker - David Beusch,
USGS
Title - Geologic events
of the Miocene that shape our view of Yucca Mountain
Meeting Sponsor - Lance Taylor,
Geotemps
September 28, 2006
Speaker - Jim O'Donnell,
Geological/Geophysical Consultant
Title - Overview of Seismic
Surveys in Las Vegas for Geotechnical Investigations
Meeting Sponsor - GEOLINES,
LLC
April
27, 2006
Speaker - Otto Holmquist,
GEOLINES, LLC
Title - Tracing faults
and fissures in the Las Vegas Valley - Reprised
Meeting Sponsor - Enviroscientists,
Inc
March
30, 2006
Speaker - Dr. Adam Simon
Title - A Magmatic Plumbing
System in Antarctica: How a Cold Landscape Provides Hot Clues
to Magmatic Processes
Meeting Sponsor -
February
23, 2006
Speaker - Max Blanchard
Title - Introduction to
using thermal infrared imagery
Meeting Sponsor - no sponsor
January
26, 2006
Speaker - Dr. Brett McLaurin,
UNLV Geoscience Dept. Post-Doctoral Scholar
Title - The role of faulting
in evaporite karst development, southern Nevada
Meeting Sponsor - Jeremy C.
Wire; Geoconsultants, Inc
November 17, 2005
Speakers - UNLV Graduate
Students
Peter Druschke -
The Sheep Pass Formation, Nevada, a latest Cretaceous to Eocene basin
developed on the Sevier Plateau
Matt McKelvey - Systematics
of caldera formation in the central Basin and Range; Insights from
the Reveille Range, Nevada tentative title
Meeting Sponsor - Dr. Rod Metcalf
October 27, 2005
Speaker - Dieter Krewedl
- GSN President
Title - Geology of uranium
mineralized, collapse breccia pipes in the Grand Canyon area, northwestern
Arizona
Meeting Sponsor - Eklund Drilling
Company
September 29, 2005
Speaker - Dr. Brenda
Buck - UNLV Geoscience Department
Title - Decorative Landscaping
Rock as a Source for Heavy Metal Contamination, Las Vegas, NV
June 30, 2005
Speaker - Max Blanchard
- CCSN Astronomy Department
Title - A discussion about
the March 2005 field trip to examine structures and rocks affected
by a Devonian meteorite impact in southern Nevada
May 26, 2005
Speaker - Dr. Nick Saines
Title - Evidence for
glaciation in the Spring Mountains
April 28, 2005
Speaker - Otto Holmquist
- Geolines, LLC
Title - Tracing faults
and fissures in the Las Vegas Valley using seismic refraction methods
with physical verification
March 31, 2005
Speaker - Bruce Hurley - U.S. Department of Energy
Title - Geology and mineralogy
of Searles Lake, San Bernadino County, California
February 8, 2005
Joint Meeting with
Association of Engineering Geologists Southwestern Section
Held at McCormick & Schmick
in Las Vegas
*Student Presentations*
Speakers - Melissa
Hicks, Stephanie Mrozek, Shelley Zaragoza
January 27, 2005
Speaker - Jonathan Price
- NV Bureau of Mines & Geology
Title - Greek geology
and the rise of western civilization
December
16, 2004
Speaker
- Dr. Jean Cline - UNLV Geoscience Department
Title - A brief tour of northern South Africa: Classic
ore deposits, Bushveld geology, & S. African people
November
18, 2004
Speaker - Maxwell Blanchard
- CCSN, Astronomy Department
Title - Meteorites, Cosmic
Dust & Their Parent Bodies
October 28, 2004
Speaker - Jim O'Donnell
- Geophysical Consultant
Title - New Seismic Survey
Methods for Solving Geotechnical Problems in Las Vegas
Speaker - Steve L. Deveny - LSI Chairman of the Southern Nevada Grotto
Title - Let a Speleologist Explore Your Nooks & Crannies
August 26, 2004
Speaker - Dr. Patrick
Drohan - UNLV Geoscience Department
Title - "The Rarest Soils,
Do They Matter?"
*UNLV Geoscience Graduate Student Presentations*
Speaker - Kristeen Bennett - M.S. Student
Title - The Panther Creek Volcano: A newly discovered basaltic vent in Yellowstone National Park
Speaker - Elizabeth Glowiak - M.S. Student
Title - A Taphonomic Analysis of the Gypsum Cave, NV
Pleistocene Mammals: Implications of Fire, Fractures, and Scratch
Marks
Speaker - Joseph Kula - Ph.D. Student
Title - Stewart Island, New Zealand: A record of Paleozoic-Mesozoic
arc magmatism, intra-arc tectonism, and continental extension and
fragmentation
March 25, 2004 - Partially sponsored
by Southwestern Section of AEG
*Joint
Meeting with AEG*
Speaker - Craig Westenburg
February 26, 2004 - Sponsored
by Paul Bowen
Speaker - Maxwell Blanchard
- CCSN
Title - "A Discussion
of Geologic Features on Venus"
January 29, 2004
Speaker - Steve Castor
- NBMG
Title - "Minerals of Nevada"