February 3, 2017

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 applications can be found on this page. The deadline is Tuesday, Feb 28. Both applications are attached.

University GIS Position Open: WSU Facilities Management is looking to fill an hourly GIS Technician position. Please visit https://jobs.weber.edu/ and search for requisition number, "10605" or job title, "Hourly GIS Technician."

University Water Conservation Tech Position Open: WSU is looking to hire a student worker interested in water conversation with full-time hours over the summer months. Please see the attached flyer for more information.

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

• March 27, 3:30pm, TY 102 - Dr. Pete Lippert (University of Utah)

• April 3, 3:30pm, TY 102 - Professor Alexis Ault (Utah State University)

Summer Internship: GeoTenerife's summer internship program is now open for application. Thanks to the success of previous years' programs, they have a record number of  placements available. The program is run in association with the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, INVOLCAN, and includes:

- Geochemical volcano monitoring

- Hydrogeochemical volcano monitoring

- Seismological volcano monitoring

- Environmental monitoring

For full details, including video interviews with previous interns from the US, Canada and the UK, please see www.geotenerife.com/internships. All dates and programs offered are on attached flyers. Application deadline: 31 March 2017.

Call for Student Presenters: The Intermountain Section of the Association of Engineering Geologists is looking for students to present their research at their annual Student Night. The event will take place down in SLC on February 16, 2017, with dinner and a social hour starting at 5:30 and presentations at 6:30. For more information please visit their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/aegutah/, and feel welcome to email jessicacastleton@utah.gov with any questions.

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​

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:

A winter view from the chairman's office in the new Tracy Hall Science Center, (Photo credit: Rick Ford)

Have ​a great weekend​!

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