Thursday, September 25
5:30 – 7:30 Reception in the Geology Museum

Friday, September 26
8:30 – 9:15 Registration and coffee in Laing Gallery (photos)
View the new photo competition gallery exhibit, “GeoBadgers in the Field”

9:15 – 9:30 Laudon Lecture Hall (AB20)
Welcome
Cliff Thurber, Department Chair; Tom Johnson, Board of Visitors

9:30 –12:15 Technical Talks – Faculty in the Field (photos)
9:30 Chuck DeMets: A comparative study of tectonic faults and triathlons using ultra high precision GPS
10:00 Clark Johnson: What is astrobiology?

Break

11:00 – 12:15 Technical Talks – Faculty in the Field, continued
11:00 Laurel Goodwin: If the earth quakes does the sand(stone) break? Why some fault zones have fractures and others don't
11:30 Shanan Peters: A sea change for whales in the desert of Egypt

12:15 – 2:00 Lunch in the courtyard (photos)

2:00 – 5:00 Department Open House

2:10 - 3:10 Halliburton Geoscience Visualization Center demonstration, Weeks room 212
4:00 Student Poster Session, Leith Library (photos)
Tour labs, the museum, or take a self-guided campus tour

5:00 – 8:00 Cookout in the Courtyard (photos)
With GeoBadger Reminiscences of Field Experiences

Saturday, September 27
7:30 – 10:00 Breakfast in the C.K. Leith Library of Geology and Geophysics
8:00 – 5:00 Classic fieldtrip with lunch (Field guides Bob Dott, Gordon Medaris, Shanan Peters, and Basil Tikoff) (photos)