Department of Geological Sciences

“The Mexican Drought Atlas: Tree-Ring Reconstructions of the Soil Moisture Balance during the Late Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, and Modern Eras” presented by Dr. David W. Stahle, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

“Drought Induced Civil Conflict Amongst the Maya” presented by Dr. Douglas J. Kennett, Professor of Environmental Archaeology, Director of the Human Paleoecology and Isotope Geochemistry Lab, and Co-Director of the PSU Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Radiocarbon Facility in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania.

“Drought Induced Civil Conflict Amongst the Maya” presented by Dr. Douglas J. Kennett, Professor of Environmental Archaeology, Director of the Human Paleoecology and Isotope Geochemistry Lab, and Co-Director of the PSU Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Radiocarbon Facility in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania.

“A Three-dimensional Approach to Community Turnover: Pleistocene Extinctions, Abrupt Climate Change, and (Dis)equilibrium Dynamics” presented by Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, Assistant Professor of Paleoecology and Plant Ecology in The Climate Change Institute and School of Biology and Ecology at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine.  This event is co-sponsored by the University of Florida Department of Biology.

“A Three-dimensional Approach to Community Turnover: Pleistocene Extinctions, Abrupt Climate Change, and (Dis)equilibrium Dynamics” presented by Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, Assistant Professor of Paleoecology and Plant Ecology in The Climate Change Institute and School of Biology and Ecology at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine.  This event is co-sponsored by the University of Florida Department of Biology.

“The Plague in Prague (Oklahoma): A Rash of Induced Seismicity” presented by Dr. Danielle Sumy, Project Associate in the Instrumentation Services/Education and Public Outreach division of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Consortium in Washington, DC.

“The Plague in Prague (Oklahoma): A Rash of Induced Seismicity” presented by Dr. Danielle Sumy, Project Associate in the Instrumentation Services/Education and Public Outreach division of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Consortium in Washington, DC.

“Canaries in the Coal Mine: Northern Lakes as Sentinels of Environmental Change” presented by Dr. John P. Smol, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change and Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL) in the Department of Biology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.