February 17, 2017 (Presidents' Day - Monday, February 20, 2017)

Welcome to Our Newest Major: Chaz Soubie - Geol. Please do not hesitate to let us know how we can best support you with your goals. (Geol=Geology major, AEG=Applied Environmental Geosciences major, EST=Earth Science Teaching major).

Applications for Department of Geosciences Scholarships Now Being Accepted: All Geoscience majors are eligible to apply for our departmental-level scholarships for the 2017-2018 academic year. Full scholarship information and the application can be found on this page. The deadline is Tuesday, Feb 28. The application is also attached.

SGE Recruiting New Members: Our student chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, the national academic and pre-professional society for geoscience students, is now recruiting new members. Requirements are a 3.0 GPA in your geoscience courses (minimum 10 credit hours) and a minimum 2.67 overall GPA. Please see Dr. Ford to confirm your academic qualifications and arrange for paying the $25 national membership fee. Contact Daksha Patel (Chapter President) to learn more about this semester's SGE activities.

Summer Jobs at the NHMU: The Natural History Museum of Utah, at the University of Utah, is looking to fill several positions working with their science-related summer camps for children. These are great opportunities to share your passion for STEM with young people.

NHMU Camp Instructor: https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/61457

NHMU Early Childhood Camp Instructor: https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/61406

NHMU Youth & Family Programs Assistant: https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/61405

​Panel Discussion -- The Role of Education in a Post-Fact World: ​

Join us for a freewheeling discussion of the implications of ‘post-fact’ or ‘post-truth’ times for education. If we all get to pick our own facts and live in our own reality, who needs an education? Is there something unique about our present circumstances, or have we always lived in post-fact times?

 Wednesday, February 22, 2:30-3:30 pm, Stewart Library 324. Co-sponsored by WSU's Honors Program and Teaching & Learning Forum.​

Geoscience Movie Nights!: Come hang out with your classmates and professors while enjoying some delightfully bad blockbuster disaster movies. Showing the last Monday of each month during Spring Semester, 6-8pm in TY102. Remaining showings are:

• February 27 - San Andreas
• March 27 - Dante's Peak
• April 24 - Evolution​

Geoscience Speaker Series: Save the Dates for more great talks! Flyers & information on their presentations coming soon.

• March 13, 12:30pm, TY 102 - Dr. Carlie Pietsch, paleontologist at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, will be speaking about paleontology.
• March 27, 3:30pm, TY 102 - Dr. Pete Lippert (University of Utah)
• April 3, 3:30pm, TY 102 - Dr. Alexis Ault, from Utah State University, will be discussing the uplift history of the Wasatch Range based on (U-Th)/He low temperature thermochronology.

Call for Photos: We'd love to feature your geoscience-related photos in future issues of our newsletter! Whether you are on a field trip, working on a class project, or something else, please pull out your phone and grab a few shots to send us. You can email them to geosciences@weber.edu, or bring them in on a flash drive. Thanks!

Photo of the Week:

Samantha Giroux (photographer), and an early rising black-billed magpie, enjoy the sunlight illuminating Ben Lomond (elev. 9,712 ft).

Fun Fact: Ben Lomond may have been the inspiration for Paramount Pictures' logo. Check out this page.

Have ​a great 3-day weekend​!​​

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