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by Zach Van Orsdel, ’15 During the weekend of September 13th and 14th Senior Geology major Dominic Delmont in conjunction with Professor Julie Bartley led a team in search of bison bones in the Des Moines River near Jackson Minnesota.   The goal was to find as many bison bones as they could, and find bison…

Elizabeth Froden (’16, Geology) is spending the semester in Sweden, studying at Uppsala University.   She sends this note:   “Hello! I just wanted to pop in and say hi. I hope your semester is going well so far and that there’s lots of new geologists in the class of 2018! Although it’s strange not to…

This spring, a group of faculty was awarded a $25,000 SERC/InTeGrate grant to develop teaching modules about climate change.  Julie Bartley led the proposal, which also includes Laura Triplett, Jim Dontje (Johnson Center for Environmental Innovation and Environmental Studies), Cindy Johnson (Biology and ES), Michele Koomen (Education), and Jeff LaFrenierre (Geography and ES).  Beginning in…

(contributed by Gabe Grosshuesch, ’17) Being able to go on a class trip where you see something most normal people don’t get to is worth any amount of money and time.  The trip to Chicago was so much fun.  Getting to drive there and listening to tunes the whole way was so cool.  I formed…

It’s National Groundwater Week!  Many of us drink groundwater every day, and even if you don’t, some of your food was likely grown with the help of irrigation from groundwater. However, most people don’t realize that groundwater supplies need to be used wisely.  Check out these websites for fun facts you can share as you…

This week, Gustavus is well-represented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco!  An estimated 22,000 geoscientists attended the week-long meeting, making it the largest such gathering in the world.  Andrew Choquette (’14) presented a poster about his thesis work monitoring sediment fluxes in ravines in the Le Sueur River watershed,…

As Prof. Laura Triplett’s National Science Foundation-funded project continues, she and her 2013 summer research students traveled to the Platte River in Nebraska one last time.  Dr. Karin Kettenring (Utah State University), a co-investigator on the project, met our group there.  The Platte River has undergone dramatic alterations in the past 100 years, from large…

This spring we bid farewell to one of our largest senior classes in recent years!  Graduating seniors – with destinations – were: Amanda Adams (Dinosaur Center, WY), Jeff Allen (workforce), Jake Bruihler (U of Nebraska- Lincoln), Mike DeLucia (Illinois Geological Survey), Adam Lund (workforce) Matt Illies (Dinosaur Center, WY), Rachel Oien (U of Illinois-Urbana Champaign)…

We can almost taste spring, but I still want to share some photos and stories from this past January in Geology.  Our corner of Nobel was very lively! The Dinosaur class finished up their fossil preparation and curation, and took a trip to the Field Museum in Chicago.  If you want to see the fossil…

This January, Dr. Bartley is teaching “Dinosaurs and Food”, and dino fever is taking over the lower level of Nobel Hall! Today, each student selected their own REAL 150-million year old dinosaur bone to prepare and curate for display. The bones were lent to us by the Wyoming Dinosaur Center. Over the next two weeks,…