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The 2nd Annual Las Vegas GeoSymposium
April 20-21, 2007


Logo by Alex Roy

UNLV Geoscience students are planning a two-day event including presentations on Friday April 20th and field trips on Earth Day, Saturday April 21st. Oral presentations will be offered on Friday morning, and the 15 minute sessions will include time for discussion with audience members. Lunch will follow the oral presentations, with poster sessions scheduled for the afternoon period. A review panel will award prizes for the best presentations and posters in several geoscience specialties. The day will conclude with a post-symposium gathering of all students, faculty, and invited guests at a reception with food and refreshments. Half-day field trips are scheduled for Saturday, one in the morning and another in the afternoon. The field trips will focus on the geology of the Lake Mead area. Interested participants will tour Lake Mead on a houseboat, the Forever EarthTM, in the company of experts on the surrounding geology of this unique region.

The UNLV Geoscience Student Symposium will showcase a wide range of important graduate and undergraduateresearch and provide a forum for participating students to develop presentation skills in a friendly, relaxed environment. Student research projects include such diverse topics as: soils, geomorphology, hydrogeology, paleontology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochemistry, volcanology, seismology, structural geology, and economic geology.

GeoSymposium Award Recipients:

*Tonia Arriola: Kinematics and Timing of Orogen-Parallel Flow, Grouse Creek Mountains, Utah (Oral) Abstract
*Shelley Zaragoza: Imaging the Southern Trace of the Black Hills Fault: A Three-Component Approach (Oral) Abstract
*Zach Artz: Petrology and Age Constraints of Intrusive Phases at Cortez, Lander County, Nevada (Poster) Abstract
*Kathleen Wooton: Petrogenesis of Extracaldera Rhyolites, Yellowstone Volcanic Field, Wyoming (Poster) Abstract
*Lora Griffin: Characterization of Minerals Associated with Gold Deposition in Carlin Deposits, Northern Nevada (Oral) Abstract
*Jennifer Mercadante: Gregarious Behavior Recorded in the Tracks of an Early Middle Jurassic Synapsid (Poster) Abstract

GeoSymposium Committee Members: 

GeoSymposium Committee Chair: Shelley Zaragoza

Correspondence and Fundraising:
Penelope Padmore, Audrey Rager, Kati Gibler, Kathleen Wooton

Abstracts With Programs:
Lora Griffin, Craig MacNeil

Web Page:
Jun Yin, Todd Arrowood

Symposium Setup:
Rhonda Fairchild, Tiesa Dunlop, Shereena Dyer

Field Trip:
Mike Howell, Tonia Arriola, Tricia Evans

Facilities and Catering:
Feng Pan, Colin Robins, Alex Baron, Wenming Nie 

Faculty Coordinators:
Adam Simon, Eugene Smith, and Kim Johnson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lilly Fong Geoscience (LFG) 104B
Ph: 702-895-3262 Fax: 702-895-4064
Email: geodept@unlv.edu
Department of Geoscience
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 S. Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154-4010