GEMS Seminar Series

The purpose of the GEMS Seminar Series is to showcase the individual departments within the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and promote general awareness of the unique disciplines found within the College. By doing so, the symposium is meant to recruit students from outside the College as well as provide options for those thinking of changing majors within the College; promote interaction and networking between alumni, professionals, faculty, and students; and underscore the importance of the business aspect of the discipline to society.

2004 GEMS Seminar Series - Department of Materials Science and Engineering - "It's a Materials World: The Value of Materials in Business and Society

2007 GEMS Seminar Series - Department of Geosciences - "Water: An Endangered Resource"
On Thursday, September 13, 2007, the GEMS Board of Directors, in conjunction with the Department of Geosciences, hosted the bi-annual GEMS Symposium. This year's theme was Water: An Endagered Resource. A copy of the program and an on-line video of each speaker's presentation is linked below. Theresa Miller-Kleiner '93 EMS acted as the moderator for three prestigious speakers: 

Scott Bair '76, '80 EMS currently at Ohio State presented, Cheating the Hydrologic Budget: Adopting Sustainable Measures to Unsustainability

Richelle Allen-King from SUNY-Buffalo presented A Hydrogeochemist’s Perspective on Contaminant Transport in Ground Water

Michael Manga from UC- Berkeley, presented Water on Mars

The seminar concluded with a panel discussion led by Tim Bralower, Geosciences Department Head, on The I-99 Environmental Problem. The panel members consisted of Hu Barnes, Duff Gold, Dick Parizek and Art Rose, all faculty members from the Department of Geosciences involved in this local central Pennsylvania issue.