Welcome to Geosciences - Spring 2012

Geosciences plans Spring Fieldtrip

13 students and 2 faculty members will travel to Owen's Valley in California over Spring Break.  They will visit Arrow Canyon near Las Vegas, China Lake where they will study Rhyolite domes, Owen's Valley and Mono Lake.  The group will leave on March 10 and return to Denison on March 16th.  Look for updates and pictures.

World famous paleonotologist visits Geos class

Associate Professor of Geosciences Dave Goodwin's class 'Biodiversity Through Time' enjoyed a visit December 9 from Donald Johanson, world famous paleontologist and discoverer of "Lucy", one of the earliest members of genus Australopitheus: A. afarensis.  Johnson is a professor of paleoanthropology in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and he is the founding director of the Institute of Human Origins.  His breakthrough discovery of Lucy, a 3.18 million year old hominid skeleton, was one of the key discoveries of the 20th century. 

Students and faculty were treated to the sight of Johanson waving a model femur, while his discussion wandered through human anatomy (plus a glimpse into the anatomies of pre-humans and apes), physics, geology, biology, paleoclimatology, and, of course, anthropology.

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