The Geology Club is a student-run organization that meets on Mondays at 12:00pm in Duncan Hall 306. Geology Club membership for this semester is $30 for students and $35 for faculty. This fee brings you the weekly Speaker Series lectures as well as any other events that may occur.

The Speaker Series is the Geology Club's weekly event, which gives students and faculty the opportunity to hear geology-related talks from guest professionals and educators on a wide variety of geologic subjects.

Speaker Series, Spring Semester 2013

Date	Speaker	Title
1/28/13	John Williams Professor Emeritus, San José State University	"Professional Ethics- An Essential Element of Our Geoscience Profession"
2/04/13	Rufus Catchings United States Geological Survey	"Comparisons of Shaking from Eastern/Central US (Intraplate) and Western US (Interplate) Earthquakes: Why the 23 August 2011 M 5.8 Virginia Earthquake was so Widely Felt"
2/11/13	Bill Evans United States Geological Survey	"Silent Eruptions: When Volcanic CO2 Becomes the Killer"
2/18/13	Angela Hessler Chevron Energy Technology Company	"The Zircon Well-Traveled"
2/25/13	Jonathan Miller Professor, San José State University	"Probing Zircon for Insights into the Growth and Evolution of Miocene Magmatic Systems in Southern Nevada"
3/04/13	John Caskey Associate Professor, San Francisco State University	"Plio-Pleistocene Tectonic Development of Southern Death Valley (SDV): New Perspectives on the SDV Fault Zone"
3/11/12	Jake Lowenstern United States Geological Survey	"Magma Intrusion, Crustal Degassing and Hydrothermal Processes at the Yellowstone Caldera"
3/18/13	David Wood Pacific Gas & Electric	"Identifying Hazards on the Natural Gas Pipeline"
4/08/13	James Baker County of Santa Clara Planning Office	"Mitigation of Geologic Hazards in Santa Clara County, California"
4/15/13	David Crouse Imerys Performance & Filtration Minerals	"The Geology and Applications of Industrial Minerals"
4/22/13	Katja Meyer Stanford University	"What's the big stink?  CO2 release and biogeochemistry of the end-Permian mass extinction"
5/06/13	Master's Thesis Defense Ashley Van Dyne	"Structure and Emplacement of Cretaceous Plutons, Northwest Yosemite National Park"