Monday, May
12, 2014
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Pellissippi
State Technical Community College
10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville
J.L Goins Administration Building, Cafeteria Annex
MAY
PRESENTATION
Award-Winning Student Presentation
Insights from Regolithic Meteorites and a Discussion of Meteorites from Antarctica
Nicole
Lunning, PhD Candidate
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of
Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
We hope you
can join us to help celebrate Nicole's award and to have a social
meeting, with free snacks and drinks, before the summer break.
Each year the Department of
Earth & Planetary Sciences at UTK offers a course on
Professional Presentations (Geology 596) to provide a formal
opportunity for students to develop their oral communication
skills. This one-credit course involves writing an abstract and
preparing, practicing, and delivering a 15-minute professional
presentation on any geological topic of interest, usually a
portion of their thesis/dissertation research. The students
present their talks at a departmental seminar and are ranked by
the faculty. This year ETGS has partnered with UTK to further
broaden this valuable experience by recognizing the best Masters-
and best Doctoral-student presentations and inviting them to
reprise their talks at our May meeting.
The winners this year were St
Thomas LeDoux (best Masters presentation) and Nicole Lunning
(best Doctoral presentation). Unfortunately, St Thomas
cannot attend our May meeting because of a prior commitment.
However, he has agreed to do an ETGS talk in the Fall.
Nicole can attend and will give an expanded version of her
award-winning presentation. The abstract of her talk are given
below.
Abstract
Regolithic meteorites represent the lithified soil of their parent asteroids or planets. These meteorite soils are breccias that contain clasts of numerous lithologies including fragments of some rock types previously unrecognized in meteorite collections. Nicole will discuss her research on meteorites that sample the soils of Mars and the asteroid 4 Vesta. These meteorites contain fragments of new rock types, which provide insight into the evolution of Mars and Vesta. Nicole will also discuss the U.S. Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET), which collects meteorites in Antarctica every year. She will talk about her experience classifying those meteorites at Smithsonian and working in the National Meteorite Collection prior to coming to UTK.
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