Department News

Join the Geology Department for food, fun, and friendship at our annual spring BBQ.

Dinosaurs Extravaganza - a celebration of art and science! 

Please join us for an evening learning from, and celebrating, our 16 senior majors!

Talk titles and schedule will be posted outside the department office (OLRI 116). 

Join the Geology Department in welcoming Alison M. Anders, Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Science and Environmental Change, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a talk about her research on drainage network evolution.

Jökulhlaup is Icelandic for a glacial outburst flood. Join the in the fun as the Geology Department bursts out and floods into the Webers Rock Garden for a BBQ!  Food, fun, hammer throws, and more!

Guest Speaker: Nick Swanson-Hysell, Associate Professor, Dept of Environmental Sciences and Associate Director, Institute for Rock Magnetism at the University of Minnesota.

Nick’s presentation will explore recent advances in reconstructing Earth’s cooling climate during the Ordovician period when the rocks under Macalester College were deposited. He will then broaden the scope to discuss his research group’s efforts to understand the links between changing paleogeography and climate from the Cryogenian Snowball Earth, 717 million years ago, to the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation 2.5 million years ago.