They're not exactly Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, or even Jack Kerouac and Dean Moriarty, but several UMR researchers have been spending a lot of time on the road this fall, presenting their work at various conferences or preparing to do so, and even spurring some conversation among sci-tech bloggers. Here's what's been happening, or is about to happen, with some UMR faculty hitting the lecture circuit:
- Last week, Dr. David Summers, Curators' Professor of mining engineering, traveled to Dubuque, Iowa, to discuss his experiments in growing algae underground as a possible fuel source at a regional biofuels conference sponsored by the Soil and Water Conservation Society. A brief review of his presentation was included in a long blog post on the energy-focused blog The Oil Drum, and Summers' approach of growing algae in a mine drew quite a bit of commentary from Oil Drum readers.
- This Friday, Dr. Stephen A. Gao, associate professor of geophysics, will visit the University of Texas at Dallas to present a seminar on his research into the evolution of the earth's crust. In Dallas, he'll address the crustal evolution and composition in Southern Africa. Gao and his colleague Kelly Liu in UMR's geological sciences and engineering department have tapped in to the U.S. Geological Survey's Global Seismographic Network, a collection of seismographic stations around the world, to study how the earth's crust formed throughout its volatile history.
- Dr. J. David Rogers, our Hasselman Chair of Geological Engineering, will travel to Denver soon to present a dozen ideas about the land loss problem along the Gulf Coast during the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting. The meeting will be held Oct. 28-31, but if you can't wait until then to know Rogers' 12 reasons, Discovery News' Larry O'Hanlon spills the beans on his blog.
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