GO 521 Announcements

Announcements
History of Geology
James S. Aber

May 6: The final exam is now available. Please submit your answers by the deadline.
April 30: The end of April and the last week of classes for the spring semester! We complete our review of Kansas with a lecture on Wooster, first geologist at Kansas Normal School (now ESU).
Your last report is due this week on an individual from list 5 or a geological institution. The final exam will be available at the beginning of next week (due on May 10).
April 23: Continuing the Kansas theme, our subject this week is the Sternberg family of fossil collectors. Web presentations are due this week.
April 16: Our last subject is history of Kansas geology, beginning with the Kansas Academy Science. Unfortunately the annual KAS meeting this past weekend was canceled because of a winter storm! Note: Webpage reports are due next week.
April 9: After an exceptionally warm early spring, Kansas had a hard freeze (15-20°F) over the weekend--setting many record low temperatures. All flowers and fruit trees are done for, and the winter wheat crop is in jeopardy. Such is life on the Great Plains.
We wrap up our review of American history of geology with a look at Penrose & GSA. See also IBS 13 & 14. Your fourth short report on an individual from list 4 is due this week.
Reminder: Webpage reports are coming up in a couple of weeks. Students should contact your instructor about a suitable topic. See course procedures.
April 2: Moving into the month of April, spring flowers are in full bloom, and already some trees are leaving out on campus. Although mid-winter was seasonally cold, late winter was relatively warm with lots of rain during the past 10 days, and vegetation has responded early. We continue our review of American geology with biographies on Gilbert and Chamberlin; see also IBS 11 & 12.
Note: your fourth short report is due next week on an individual from list 4 (but not one covered in course lectures). See pdf files given in the list for additional background. Students may turn in draft versions for preliminary review this week.
Mar. 26: Welcome back from spring break! Moving northward this week, we have a lecture on the Geological Survey of Canada, including its founder, William Logan.
Mar. 12: We are ready to begin history of American geology with a lecture on Maclure. See also IBS chap. 10. Your third report is due this week.
Mar. 5: We complete our review on history of European geology for the late 19th and early 20th centuries--see Nansen and Wegener as well as IBS 15 & 16. Also download pdf files shown on list 3. Your third report is due next week; students may submit draft versions this week.
Mar. 2: March certainly came into Emporia like a lion. The evening of Feb. 28, we had a substantial hail/rain storm followed the next morning by snow! The mid-term exam is completed and the class did quite well--all scores in the 80s and 90s percentage range. Results will be returned to students individually.
Feb. 25: The mid-term exam is now available. Please follow instructions; turn in your answers by the deadline.
Feb. 19: Our lecture this week deals with Louis Agassiz who spanned both European and American geology in the mid-19th century. Your second report is due this week for an individual from list 2.
Mid-term is coming soon! The exam will be placed online next week (Monday), and your answers are due by Thursday, March 1st. The exam will cover reading materials through this week.
Feb. 12: We are ready to step into European 19th century geology with a lecture on Humboldt. See also IBS 8 and IF I-II. Your second short report is due next week on an individual from list 2 (but do not use a person given in a course lecture). Students may submit a draft summary for comments this week.
Feb. 5: Moving along with European 18th century geology, our next lecture is about Torbern Bergman. See also IBS 7.
Reminder: all students should be in weekly contact with your instructor. Summary I was due last week.
Jan. 29: As January comes to an end, we move into European 18th century geology. See lecture on Lomonosov, as well as IBS 5 & 6. Your first short report on an individual from list 1 is due this week.
Jan. 25: The initial student roster for the course is now available. Please send any corrections for email addresses. Feel free to contact other students about the course subject.

Student roster (ver. 1.0).

Jan. 22: We continue Renaissance geology with a lecture on Steno. See also IBS 4 and SM 10-17 readings.
Note: the first short report is due next week over an individual from list 1 (but do not use a person given in a course lecture). Students may submit a draft summary for comments.
Jan. 15: We move into Renaissance geology this week with a lecture on Agricola. See also IBS 3 and SM 1-9 as well as agricola.pdf.
Jan. 10: Regarding the summer session and fall semester of 2007, your instructor's schedule was somewhat uncertain because of several pending applications for research projects. The schedule is now resolved as follows. GO 547/747 Field Geology will be taught May 29-June 29. This course is required for all B.S. and B.S.E. students in earth science.
Your instructor received a grant for field study in Slovakia with Juraj Janocko. We will investigate geomorphology in the Tatry Mountains, which are part of the Carpathian Mountain system of central Europe. This work will take place mid-July through the end of August. See SAIA program.
In fall '07, the following courses will be offered. Note these courses begin the week of Sept. 4th (following Labor Day).
- ES 351 Intro to Geospatial Analysis.
- ES 546 Field Geomorphology.
- ES 771 Remote Sensing.
Jan. 8: The spring semester begins this week! All students should be in contact with your instructor via email at this time. We begin with ancient and medieval geology--see al-Biruni and biruni.pdf, as well as other readings given in the course schedule.
All students should send their current postal (street) mailing address, in order to receive any paper handouts or other "hard" copy course materials.
Startup schedule: The spring semester is coming soon! All students should be in contact with your instructor beginning Jan. 8th. Review the course syllabus, schedule and requirements.
Note: Your instructor will be out of town and away from email, Dec. 28 to Jan. 7. Please do not send any messages during this period.
Welcome! History of Geology will be taught for on-campus and distance-learning students in spring 2007. Check here again for more information about the course or contact the instructor, J.S. Aber, jaber@emporia.edu.