Lester W. Strock Lecture Series
糖心Vlog's annual Lester W. Strock Lecture was endowed by renowned geochemist and friend of 糖心Vlog Geosciences, Lester Strock. Strock, a well-known authority on Saratoga's mineral springs, spent much of his career in research at MIT and at the Sylvania Electric Co. .2023 STrOCK LECTURER: Dr. Victor Guevara, Amherst College
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
5:30 p.m.
Palamountain Hall, Emerson Auditorium
Title: Surficial or Deep: what drives extreme rates of mountain building in the western Himalaya?
Abstract: Dr. Victor E. Guevara of Amherst College will share how his research on metamorphic rocks Nanga Parbat, located in the western Himalaya and ninth highest mountain on earth, furthers our understanding of the interplay between surface processes like weathering and erosion, with deep crustal processes associated with plate tectonic movement.
Past Lectures -
- 2022 - Dr. Daniel Ibarra, "The Rise and Fall of Ancient Lakes in Western North America"
- 2021 - Dr. Tadesse Alemu, "Uncovering ICONS (IntraCONtinental Sags) of the Pan-African Belt: the Ethiopian Testimony鈥
- 2020 - cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
- 2017 - Dr. Darren Gravley "Unraveling the mystery behind the largest volcanic eruptions on earth"
- 2016 - Maya Tolstoy - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, "Pulses of Seafloor Volcanism: Exploring Links to the Rhythms of Long-term Climate Change"
- 2015 - Paul Mann - University of Houston, 鈥淭ectonics and Geology of Lake Nicaragua: Potential Impacts on the Nicaraguan Canal Project鈥
- 2014 鈥 Darby Dyar 鈥 Mount Holyoke College, 鈥淎 Year in the Life of Curiosity on Mars: New Discoveries from the Red Planet鈥
- 2013 鈥 Jason P. Briner - University at Buffalo, 鈥淭he response of ice sheets to abrupt climate change鈥
- 2012 鈥 Chuck Ver Straeten 鈥 New York State Museum 鈥 鈥淕eology of the Marcellus 鈥淪hale鈥: Dynamic Deposition in an Oxygen-Poor Devonian Sea鈥
- 2011 鈥 Ellen Wohl 鈥 Colorado State University, "Seeing the forest and the trees: wood in streams of the Colorado Front Range鈥
- 2010 鈥 Steven Squyres 鈥 Cornell University "Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity and the Exploration of the Red Planet鈥
- 2009 鈥
- 2008 鈥
- 2007 鈥 Milan J. Pavich - United States Geological Survey, 鈥淪ome Inconvenient Truth about Predicting Climate: A Geologic Perspective鈥
- 2006 鈥 Robert Young - Western Carolina University, "Atlantic Hurricanes: Hot New Science, Same Old Policy鈥
- 2005 鈥 David Finkelstein 鈥 Indiana University 鈥 鈥淟ife on the Edge of Hydration 鈥 Using alkaline lakes and geothermal springs as possible analogues for paleolakes on mars?鈥
- 2004 鈥 Paul Bierman 鈥 University of Vermont, "15,000 Years of New England Landscape History - From Glaciers to Clear-Cuts and Mega-Storms"
- 2003 - Ellis Yochelson 鈥 United States Geological Survey 鈥 鈥淐harles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) An Empire State Boy Makes Good: Discovery of the Cambrian Burgess Shale fossils of British Columbia and investigations into the Paleontology of Saratoga Springs, New York鈥
- 2002 - Arthur Palmer 鈥 SUNY Oneonta 鈥 鈥淗ydrogen sulfide as a geologic agent: Effect on cave origin, petroleum reservoirs, aquifers, and ore deposits鈥
- 2000-2001 鈥 John Holloway 鈥 Arizona State University 鈥 鈥淢id-Ocean Ridge Black Smokers: Biogeochemical Cauldrons on the Seafloor鈥
- 1999-2000 鈥 John B. Reid, Jr. 鈥揌ampshire College 鈥 鈥淓nslaved Africans From the New York African Burial Ground: Using Tooth 87SR/86SR to Reconstruct Their Birthplaces and Migrations鈥
- 1998-1999 鈥 Reinhard A. Wobus 鈥 Williams College 鈥 鈥淭racking Ancient Bolcanic Rocks by Their Geochemical Footprints鈥
- 1997-1998 鈥 Craig A. Johnson 鈥 US Geological Survey - 鈥淔inding Ore Deposits, Tracking Past Climates, Fingering Polluters: Stable Isotope Applications in Geological and Environmental Science鈥
- 1996-1997 鈥 Anthony R. Philpotts 鈥 University of Connecticut 鈥淐an Basaltic Magmas Differentiate, And If So, How?鈥
- 1995-1996 鈥 Donald I. Siegel 鈥 Syracuse University 鈥 鈥淲etlands and Congress: The National Controversy In Their Characterization and Control鈥
- 1994-1995 鈥 Philip C. Whitney 鈥 New York State Geological Survey 鈥 鈥淲ollastonite and the Mystery of the Adirondack Mountains鈥
- 1993-1994 鈥 Nancy Rodrieguez Black 鈥 University of North Carolina 鈥 鈥淔luid Seeps and the Geology of the Atlantic Continental Margin鈥
- 1992-1993 鈥 Lauret E. Savoy 鈥 Mount Holyoke College 鈥 鈥淚magined Territory: Encounters With American Landscape鈥
- 1991-1992 鈥 P. Jay Fleisher 鈥 SUNY at Oneonta 鈥 鈥淕laciation in New York State: Perspectives from Southeast Alaska鈥
- 1990-1991 鈥 Charlotte J. Mehrtens 鈥 University of Vermont 鈥 鈥淭he Cambrian of Northwestern Vermont: An Ancient Analogue of the Bahamas Platform?
- 1989-1990 鈥 Yngvar W. Isachsen 鈥 New York State Geological Survey 鈥 鈥淕eology of the Adirondack Mountains: Their Birth, Death and Resurrection鈥
- 1988-1989 鈥 Richard P. Major 鈥 Texas Bureau of Economic Geology 鈥 鈥淢arine Diagenesis of Inorganic Calcite: Examples From the Upper Quaternary of the Florida-Bahamas Platform鈥
- 1987-1988 - William B.F. Ryan 鈥 Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory 鈥 鈥淣ew Imagery of the Ocean Floor鈥
- 1986-1987 鈥 George W. Putman 鈥 SUNY Albany 鈥 鈥淭he Mineral Springs of Saratoga鈥
- 1985-1986 鈥 William B. Heroy, Jr. 鈥 Southern Methodist University 鈥 鈥淎dventures in Applied Geophysics鈥
- 1984-1985 鈥 Gerald M. Friedman 鈥 Rensselaer Center for Applied Geology 鈥 鈥淩ecognition of Reefs: An Experience in Frustration鈥
- 1983-1984 鈥 Marion E. Bickford 鈥 University of Kansas 鈥 鈥淩adiogenic Isotopes in Petrogenesis and Geochronology鈥
- 1982-1983 鈥 Steven R. Bohlen 鈥 SUNY 鈥 Stony Brook 鈥 鈥淧ressure, Temperature and Fluid
Composition of Adirondack Metamorphism: A Model for Petrologic Processes in the Lower
Crust鈥