2014 Programs and Materials
January 2014
The Blast from the Past! A decade of research on the Alamo impact crater in southern Nevada
Leif Tapanila, ISU – SUMMARY
Snow, Avalanches, Run outs & WYDOT Avalanche Control in Teton Co
Rod Newcomb & Jamie Yount – MATERIALS A, MATERIALS B
Do It Yourself Geology in Jackson
John Guslander – MATERIALS
February 2014
Geology, Scenery, & Trekking: The High Himalaya
Mike Adler – SUMMARY
Listening to the infra sounds of exploding volcanoes
Jeffrey Johnson Boise St – MATERIALS
Petroleum Exploration, Development, & Investing
John Willott and John Hebberger
March 2014
Fossil Quarries of North America
Doug Bradstreet Video
Volcanoes on the Verge
Ken Sims, U of Wyoming
Sniffing for Clues to the Dinosaur’s Demise: Importance of rhenium and noble metal volcanic fluxes in global biogeochemical cycles
Ken Sims, U of Wyoming
April 2014
Lake Powell, Jewel of the Colorado
John Sharsmith – SUMMARY
The Precambrian Geology of The Teton Range; A Window into the Tectonic Development of the Earth’s Crust
Ron Frost, U of Wyoming – MATERIALS
May 2014
Unconventional Energy in Your Future
Tom Drean, WSGS – MATERIALS
Going Underground in a Trona Mine
Kent Fiske
Trona Mining in Wyoming
Paul Peterson –
June 2014
Exploring the undersea geologic wilderness – why, how and what is down there
Barbara John, U of Wyoming
Landslides, Washington & Wyoming: Not uncommon at all!
John Hebberger & Wallace Ulrich – MATERIALS
The 6 Myths of Renewable Energy
J Willott
Field Trip Univ of Utah & Utah Natural History Museum -Salt Lake City
J Willott – Photos
July 2014
Climate Change and the New Normal
Chris Poulsen, Univ. of Michigan – Video
Geology of Jackson Hole
John Hebberger & John Willott – Materials
Evolution of the Sevier and Laramide mountain belts: Wyoming’s changing landscape
Adolph Yonkee, Weber State MATERIALS
Global warming and climate change: 45-million-year-old rocks in Wyoming support the concept
Ron Surdam – MATERIAL
August 2014
The Museum of Idaho: Race to the End of the Earth
Bob Rutford & J Willott –
World’s Largest Eruption Since 1912: Mount Pinatubo, 1991
Bob Tilling, USGS – MATERIALS Video
New discoveries and insights on the dynamics of the Yellowstone hotspot
Bob Smith, Univ. of Utah – VIDEO
Huckleberry Tuff and the Rise of the Tetons
B J Bjorken
Field Trip – Fossil Quarry – Trona mines – Coal mines & power plant
Wally Ulrich & John Willott
September 2014
Wild Rocks: A tour of the Gros Ventre Wilderness and it’s unique geology
Linda Merigliano, NFS – MATERIALS VIDEO
The Magical Kingdom of Bhutan: Geology, Scenery, and Trekking in the High Himalaya
Mike Adler – VIDEO
Assessing Geologic Hazards in WY
Mort Larsen, WSGS –
October 2014
Climate Change: Risk and Opportunity in the United States
Gov. Bill Ritter –
Yellowstone: Studies of Ground Deformation
Dan Dzurisin, USGS – MATERIALS Video
Dynamic evolution of a small volcanic complex in Big Bend NP, Texas
Lisa Morgan, USGS –
November 2014
Why did global warming stop in 1998?
Peter Ward – VIDEO
Rocks, Minerals & other neat things!
Doug Bradstreet – VIDEO