2012 Programs and Materials

01/19/12 – A Three Week Safari in East Africa (Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania)
Peter Ward

01/24/12 – Critical Rare Earths & new US Mine
Chuck Dahl – MATERIALS

02/07/12 – Deep Space Photography & use in understanding the Universe
Mike Adler

02/16/12 – South Pass Geology
John Guslander – MATERIALS

02/21/12 – Touring & Tectonics in the Himalayas
Mary Chessman – MATERIALS

03/06/12 – Life & Climate in the Miocene: Examples from an Idaho Fossil Quarry
Bill Rember – MATERIALS

03/15/12 – The Geology of Our Solar System
Mike Adler

03/20/12 – Rafting the Idaho Batholith
Wayne Johnson – MATERIALS

04/17/12 – Oil & Gas, Public Lands, & Wyoming’s Economic Challenges & Opportunities
Paul Ulrich & Sherrie Merrow – Encana – MATERIALS

04/19/12 – Seismic Imaging: a powerful tool for understanding the earth
John Hebberger Jr.

05/01/12 – Why Was This Winter So Warm???
Peter Ward

05/15/12 – How and when did the Rockies get their relief?
Paul Heller, UW

05/17/12 – Anomalous Gravels of the U.S. Cordillera and their Implication for the History of Regional Tilting
Paul Heller, UW – MATERIALS

06/19/12 – Wind River Field Trip
Viettos JJH  – PHOTOS

06/21/12 – Future energy demand & Wyoming’s energy supply
John Willott

07/03/12 – The New Yellowstone Earthquake and Volcano Monitoring Network and Related Teton Earthquake and GPS Measurements
Bob Smith, Univ Utah

07/17/12 – Climate Change and Aspen: Implications for Our Future Forests
Don Zak, U Mich

07/26/12 – Not Rocks:  Unconsolidated Sediments in Southern Jackson Hole Note date change to 4th Thursday
Dave Adams

08/16/12 and 8/17/12  Trip to YNP – “Super” eruption environments make for “super” hydrothermal explosions: Extreme hydrothermal explosions in Yellowstone National Park
Hotspot & YNP-GTNP geology
Lisa Morgan, USGS – PHOTOS

08/20/12 Is Extraterrestrial Life Likely – or Not? (Note change to Monday for this week)
John Hebberger Jr. – MATERIALS

08/25/12 Members BBQ & share a rock story meeting
GofJH Board – PHOTOS

09/04/12 – The curious case of Crooked Ridge River — an ancient stream that is changing the way we think about the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon
Ivo Lucchitta

09/18/12 – Cosmology & How the Universe Evolved
Mike Adler

09/20/12 – Glaciation of the Greater Yellowstone area
Ken Pierce

09/27/12 – Devonian Stratigraphy in the Tetons
Jim (BJ) Bjorken – MATERIALS

10/02/12 – Deserts, Dunes, and Dust
Bob Rutford

10/16/12 – Fossils and Locals of Jackson Hole
Mike Scher- MATERIALS

10/18/12 – Local Rocks and Local Lapidary
David Anderson – MATERIALS

11/07/12 – North Dakota And North America’s Energy Independence
John Willott