EARTHtalk! – Dr. Joshua Spinler
Dr. Josh Spinler earned his Ph.D in Geosciencs from the University of Arizona. Dr. Spinler’s research focuses on the San Andreas fault in southern California and Baja, Mexico. He is an Instructor in the UA Little Rock Earth Sciences Department. In this lecture, Dr. Spinler explores how some disaster movies portray what happens … EARTHtalk! – Dr. Joshua Spinler
EARTHtalk! – Dr. Rene Shroat-Lewis
Dr. Renè Shroat-Lewis – is an Assistant Professor of Geology at UA Little Rock. She earned her Ph.D at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville where she studied paleontology and paleoecology. Her research interests are all things marine, especially starfish. In this lecture, Dr. Shroat-Lewis shares her recent trip to the Galapagos Islands and … EARTHtalk! – Dr. Rene Shroat-Lewis
EARTHtalk! – Dr. John Czarnecki
Dr. John Czarnecki is a groundwater specialist who retired from the U.S. Geological Survey Arkansas Water Science Center. During his 34 year career, he worked on a variety of projects, including an aquifer thermal energy project in Minnesota and the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. In this lecture, Dr. Czarnecki shares what … EARTHtalk! – Dr. John Czarnecki
EARTHtalk! – Dr. Clive R. Neal
Dr. Clive R. Neal studied mantle petrology at the University of Notre Dame. In the 1980s he was introduced to the study of the Apollo Moon rocks. He currently studies Large Igenous Provinces and the origin and evolution of the Moon. In this lecture, Clive Neal highlights what we learned from the Apollo … EARTHtalk! – Dr. Clive R. Neal
EARTHtalk! – J. Michael Howard
J. Michael Howard . Michael Howard retired as the Arkansas state mineralogist. He talks about his years of working in the rocks and the treasures he’s found.
EARTHtalk! – Dr. Peter Trabant
Dr. Peter Trabant is a petroleum industry consultant who specialized in offshore drilling hazards ahead of platform and pipeline installation. He holds a Ph.D. in geological oceanography from Texas A&M University and is the author of several papers and textbooks on high-resolution geophysics and sequence stratigraphy. In this lecture, Dr. Trabant unravels Earth’s … EARTHtalk! – Dr. Peter Trabant
EARTHtalk! – Dr. van der Pluijm
Dr. Ben van der Pluijm is a professor of Geology and the Environment at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the deformation of the Earth’s crust using X-ray analysis, thermochronology and rock magnetism. In this lecture, Dr. van der Pluijm explains how the San Andreas Fault in California exhibits different types … EARTHtalk! – Dr. van der Pluijm
EARTHtalk! – Erik Pollock
Erik Pollock is the manager at the Stable Isotope Laboratory at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. Erik researches karst systems as well as isotope tracers of groundwater flow paths. In this lecture, Erik looks at how isotope analysis helps us understand what’s happening in in the caves in the Ozarks.