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NOVEMBER, 2007

Thanksgiving HACE Food Drive

Please bring food for the Hace Food Drive to help those in need !  Items will be picked up November 19, 2007.  Please help those less fortunate !  A box for your goods will be in the main office, Room 406.

OCTOBER, 2007

OEAS Undergraduate Ice Cream Social/Advising Workshop

The Ice Cream Social will provide an opportunity for undergraduate students to meet and get to know their advisors.  It will be held on Tuesday, October 30th from 12:30-1:30 pm in the Zaneveld Conference Room.

Fall 2007 Comprehensive Exam

The Fall 2007 Comprehensive Exam will be given on Friday, October 19th, 2007.  Please contact Dr. Fred Dobbs prior to September 21, 2007 if you intend to participate.

SEPTEMBER, 2007

Fall 2007 Seminar Series Schedule Is Announced

Click here for details.

College of Sciences Thesis and Dissertation Workshop

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 in OCNPS Room 200 from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m.

AUGUST, 2007

Dr. Dennis Darby Participates in Lomonosov Ridge Off Greenland (LOMROG) Expedition

Due to his experience and expertise in matters of the Arctic, Dr. Darby was invited to participate in this scientific expedition to map the seafloor in the region north of Greenland.  This sea floor mapping will hopefully show areas of grounded ice from past ice ages and other features leading to a better understanding of geologic processes in the Arctic.  Sediment cores will be collected from several sites to help better understand past climate changes in this area and to show ice drift patterns off Greenland in the past.  Dr. Darby will also be in charge of collecting dirty sea ice samples from the drifting pack ice.  These samples can be analyzed for small grains that, like a fingerprint, can be traced back to their source and thus determine where the ice originated.  Related to the scientific goals of this expedition is the hotly contested matter of mapping the Arctic for future drilling rights among Russia, Canada, Denmark and the United States as outlined in this article.

Dr. Darby is also keeping a daily log of events as they unfold on this important expedition.

Dr. Darby sampling a patch of sediment on the ice at about 88 deg N, his closest position to the North Pole on LOMROG.
Dr. Darby sampling a patch of sediment on the ice at about 88 deg N, his closest position to the North Pole on LOMROG.

 

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