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News

  • Geology Fall 2025 newsletter – News from the department!
  • Geology Fall 2024 newsletter – Updates from faculty, department happenings, and beautiful pics.
  • Geology Winter 2021 newsletter–catch up on the the latest news and updates from the Geology Department!
  • Congratulations to Professor Ray Rogers, named an endowed chair and Macalester’s latest Dewitt Wallace Professor of Geology! (11 February 2020) This is an honor bestowed on a small group of faculty members who are doing amazing work on all fronts – teaching, scholarship, and service to the college and their community. Ray gave an inaugural lecture to celebrate the appointment.
  • Geology Spring 2018 Newsletter–all the dirt (and rocks) from the 2017-18 academic year. It was a busy one!
  • Geology Spring 2016-17 Newsletter–Read all about the 2016-17 academic year!

 Past Events

5/6/2025

Lacuna Bajada - Geology Picnic

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

4/18/2025

Dinosaurs Extravaganza!

4/18/2025

Dinosaurs Extravangaza

Dinosaurs Extravaganza - a celebration of art and science! 

4/9/2025

Macalester Geology Senior Capstone & Honors Presentations

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). 

4/3/2025

Geology Guest Speaker: "Post-glacial drainage network evolution: rates and processes"

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.


12/5/2024

20th Annual Geology Jökulhlaup

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!

10/29/2024

Geology Guest Speaker - "Causes and Consequences of Ordovician Cooling"

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.

4/19/2024

Dinosaurs Extravaganza!

4/12/2024

Geology Senior Research Presentations

Friday, April 12, 4:00-7:00 p.m.

Olin-Rice Science Center 100

Come support your 2024 graduating seniors as they present their research.

Stay as long as you can. Schedule is posted in the department so you know who is presenting when.  

Congratulations, seniors!