Presentations by Keck Geology Consortium Projects at GSA 2017
The Geological Society of America 129th Annual Meeting,
October 22-25, 2017 Seattle, Washington
Keck Reps Meeting – Fall GSA Meeting
Institutional representatives of the Keck Geology Consortium will meet on Saturday, 21 October, from 6:30-10:30 pm in the Sheraton Seattle Hotel (Greenwood Room). If you are no longer the Keck representative for your home institution, please contact us with the name of your replacement.
IODP Focus Project Update
Suzanne O’Connell (Wesleyan) and Joseph Ortiz (Kent State) led four students to the International Ocean Discovery Program core repository at Texas A&M University.
Dominica Frontier Project Update
During a two-week period, based at the Archbold Tropical Research and Education Center on Dominica, students collected samples ranging from pumice clasts and ash from thick ignimbrite sequences, to enclaves and mingled magmas….
Alaska Gateway Project Update
Five Gateway Program students joined Greg Wiles (Wooster) in Juneau for a dendrochronological study of Yellow Cedar in Juneau, Alaska.
Utah Gateway Project Update
Meagen Pollock (Wooster) and five Gateway Program students used geochemical mapping to revise the boundaries of some of the lava flows in the Ice Springs Volcanic Field of the Black Rock Desert.
2017-2018 Keck Geology Consortium Undergraduate Research Projects
The 2017-2018 Keck Geology Consortium projects involve a mix of field and laboratory research experiences that make meaningful scientific contributions in the areas of structural geology, paleontology and paleoecology, and paleoclimatology as well as igneous and metamorphic petrology, sedimentology and stratigraphy, and hydrogeology.
30th Keck Symposium Volume
At Wesleyan University, 2017
Exploring Geochronology: Dating Young Lava Flows and Old Trees in Decline (Keck Gateway Project)
What: How old is that volcano? How old is that tree? This Keck Gateway Project will explore how geologists date Earth materials, focusing on young lava flows and trees that are on the decline. Our geochronological study will supplement ongoing volcanological and...Unraveling Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics Viewed though a Marine Depth Transect near the South Orkney Microcontinent, Weddell Sea (Keck Focused Project)
What: Sea level rise is observed in many coastal areas from remote islands in the Pacific to naval bases in Richmond, VA. Critical to modeling and then adapting to this sea level rise is understanding how fast ice sheets are melting (water into the oceans) and oceans...Keep in Touch!
