HGS Annual Guest Night - May 22, 2010 - Speaker Announced

 
Announcing
2010 HGS Annual Guest Night
Saturday, May 22, 2010
"Big Bend
Where the Rockies Meet the Appalachians
Discoveries and Enigmas"
 
 
Guest Speaker:
 Dr. Patricia Wood Dickerson,
The Geological Institute and Visiting Research Fellow,
Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin
 
The 2010 Houston Geological Society Guest Night program will be held on Saturday, May 22 at 6:30 p.m. at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. HGS members and their guests will have access to the first and second floors of the Museum for a fun and informative evening. Upon arrival and check-in, HGS members and guests will have about an hour and a half to enjoy the Museum’s spectacular collection of fossils, minerals, and oil and gas exhibits. Attendees will enjoy a delicious Texas-sized buffet dinner, beverages and dessert inside the Museum’s main hall. Following the social hour and dinner, guests will retreat to the IMAX Theater for a presentation by Dr. Patricia Wood Dickerson of the Jackson School of Geoscience at the University of Texas. Dr. Dickerson will present an intriguing geological analysis of the stunning and mystical Texas treasure.. The Big Bend!.
 
Dr. Pat Dickerson was born (at a very early age) in Waukegan, Illinois. She has worked as a geologist, editor, photographer, writer, dance instructor and apricot cutter for a California fruit-packing firm (not in that order).
 Her research in rifts and mountain chains of the world, including doctoral studies (University of Texas-Austin) in the Big Bend of west Texas, has provided opportunities for wide-ranging explorations: the Rocky Mts., Rio Grande rift, Iceland, Norway, the Cordillera of western North America, Mexico, Belize, Argentine Precordillera, Appalachian chain from the Canadian Maritimes through west Texas, and the Southern Alps of New Zealand. She has drawn from those investigations in petroleum, gold, and water resource assessments and now applies those passions in astronaut crew training, in academic teaching, and in leading natural history field seminars for students, professional scientists, and nonscientists. For her efforts in astronaut training in field geophysics and geology, she was recently awarded the NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal.
 
Always a sell-out, the 2010 HGS Guest Night program will limited to 400 people due to seating capacity limitations of the IMAX Theatre. Prepayment is required, and tickets will NOT be available for walk-ins. On-Line registration will be open on April 1, 2010.  For more details, click here.