NYS MUSEUM APRIL LECTURE SERIES TO FOCUS ON GEOLOGY
Release Date:
Thursday, April 1, 2010Contact Information:
Contact: Office of Communications
Phone: (518) 474-1201ALBANY – “Ice Age Legacy – Rocks, Ice, People” will be the theme of the New York State Museum’s April lecture series, beginning April 7.
The free lectures will be offered on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the Huxley Theater. The schedule and topics are:
- April 7 – “A Brief Glacial History of NY on Ice.” New York State Museum scientist Dr. Andrew Kozlowski will discuss the cause and effect of glaciation and provide an overview of New York’s glacial history, and recent progress and discoveries that refine our understanding of glaciation and deglaciation in the Great Lakes Region.
- April 14 – “Giant Foods, Inland Oceans, and Dead Mammals.” Dr. Dave Franzi of SUNY Plattsburgh will speak about the deglaciation and late glacial environments of the northeastern Adirondack Mountains and Champlain Valley. He will present evidence for catastrophic breakouts from large proglacial lakes and provide details on a recent discovery of seal bones in the Champlain Sea clay deposits.
- April 21 – “Mysterious Boulders, Rock Avalanches, and the Origin of ‘Darwin’s Boulders.’ ” In 1833 Charles Darwin documented and was intrigued by an association of huge boulders along the Atlantic Ocean in Tierra del Fuego. Dr. Edward Evenson of Lehigh University will use experience gained from 30 years of field work around the world to unravel the mystery of “Darwin’s Boulders” This talk is based on the article in the December 2009 issue of GSA Today, the Geological Society of America journal.
- April 28 – “After the Ice: Human Colonization of New York.” Humans first explored New York about 13,000 years ago, as this region was emerging from the “Ice Age.” Dr. Jonathan Lothrop, curator of Archaeology at the New York State Museum, reviews ongoing research on how and when Native Americans colonized, and adapted to the Late Pleistocene landscapes of New York between 11,000 and 8,000 B.C.
The New York State Museum is a cultural program of the New York State Education Department’s Office of Cultural Education. Located on Madison Avenue in Albany, the Museum is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. except on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. Admission is free. Further information can be obtained by calling (518) 474-5877 or visiting the museum website at www.nysm.nysed.gov.
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