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FEBRUARY EARTH SCIENCE EVENTS
Mon., Feb. 18 through Fri., Feb. 22,
9 a.m. - 4 p.m. daily, annual book sale at the Colorado School of
Mines Library and this year only, also at the Colorado School of
Mines Geology Museum.
Tuesday, Feb. 19, The gradual closing
of the Indonesian Seaway and the onset of northern hemisphere ice ages, by
Dr. Peter Molnar, University of Colorado; at the monthly meeting of the Colorado
Scientific Society; American Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St. (NE corner with
Washington), Golden; Social half-hour – 6:30 p.m. Meeting time – 7:00 p.m. No
admission charge and all are welcome. See
http://www.coloscisoc.org/
Upcoming lectures at the Denver Museum
of Nature and Science
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations,
by David Montgomery, PhD, author and professor, Department of Earth and Space
Sciences, University of Washington
Thursday, February 21, 7:00 p.m.,
Ricketson Auditorium, $12 member, $15 nonmember
Book sale + signing
Dirt—it’s everywhere we go, but we don’t
think much about it. Turns out it’s worth thinking about! Montgomery, an
award-winning leader in geomorphology, shares the disquieting notion that we are
running out of dirt. Cultivated soils erode slowly enough to be overlooked in a
single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of
civilizations. Using an engaging blend of history, archaeology, and geology,
Montgomery will explain how societies have continually risen, prospered, and
plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. He will share his hope that
the rise of organic and no-till farming will create an agricultural revolution
to avoid the fate of previous civilizations. He is the author of Dirt: The
Erosion of Civilizations.
Thurs., Feb. 21, Opening of a new
special exhibit at the Western Museum of Mining and Industry, Colorado Springs;
"Back to the Future: Uranium". 5:00 p.m., reception & speaker; free
with reservations by February 14; (719)
488-0880 or info@wmmi.org
Fri.-Sat.-Sun. Feb. 22-24, Gem and
Mineral Show at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, Exhibit Building, 15200 W.
6th Ave. (frontage road south of highway 6 and west of Indiana Street,
Lakewood/Golden). see http://home.comcast.net/~DenverGem/Shows.html
Mon., Feb. 25, Dr. Martin Lockley,
CU-Denver, Tracking Early
Birds: A 150 Million Year Journey along the Avian Fossil Footprint Trail
(Cretaceous to Present) at the
monthly meeting of the Denver Field Ornithologists, 7:30 p.m. in the V.I.P.
Room, Denver Museum of Nature and Science; see http://www.dfobirders.org/
Wed., Feb. 27, Free Fireside Chat public
lecture by the Friends of Dinosaur Ridge, "The Colorado College Specimen",
Steven Veatch, Beth Simmons, and Dr. Martin Lockley will tell the story of an
historic set of dinosaur footprints on display at Colorado College, in Colorado
Springs. Dinosaur Ridge Visitors Center, 16831 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison,
7:00 p.m.; for more info see www.dinoridge.org
Thurs., Feb. 28, at the Western Museum
of Mining and Industry, Colorado Springs; Heritage Lecture Series speaker, Dr.
Jim Burnell, Uranium mining issues in Colorado and the world; 7:00 p.m.,
free with reservations made by
February 14; (719) 488-0880 or info@wmmi.org
Courtesy of:
Peter J. Modreski
U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado
Central Region Office of Communications
tel. 303-202-4766, fax 303-202-4767
email pmodreski@usgs.gov
SCIENCE FOR A CHANGING WORLD
http://www.usgs.gov http://ask.usgs.gov
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