CONGRATULATIONS TO NGS MEMBER PRISCILLA GREW
Please join the Nebraska Geological Society in congratulating long-time Nebraska Geological Society Member and renowned Husker Geologist Priscilla Grew on being honored with the naming of a new mineral in the garnet supergroup - priscillagrewite! See the article in the Nebraska Today using the link below.
https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/new-mineral-priscillagrewite-named-in-honor-of-renowned-husker-geologist/
News from UN-L
Congratulations to Sheri Fritz, George Holmes Professor in the UNL Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science on her highly prestigious election as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) !
https://eos.org/agu-news/2020-class-of-agu-fellows-announced
Sheri has previously won national and international scientific medals and awards for her outstanding research using lake sediments as clues to past climate change. She has been honored for distinguished contributions to Quaternary paleolimnology and paleoclimatology, particularly for work at the intersection of ecology and geology relevant to climate change research and conservation.
https://eos.org/agu-news/2020-class-of-agu-fellows-announced
Sheri has previously won national and international scientific medals and awards for her outstanding research using lake sediments as clues to past climate change. She has been honored for distinguished contributions to Quaternary paleolimnology and paleoclimatology, particularly for work at the intersection of ecology and geology relevant to climate change research and conservation.
NGS CHARTER MEMBER IN THE NEWS
NGS charter member, our first Secretary, and current History committee member, Duane Eversoll, received the 2018 Maurice Kremer Groundwater Achievement Award. Duane Eversoll was presented with the award at the Maurice Kremer Memorial Lecture on February 27, 2019 at 3:30 p.m. in the Hardin Hall Auditorium (room 107) on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus (33rd and Holdrege Streets, Lincoln).
Photo credit: Duane Eversoll
NGS 50th Anniversary Celebration
NGS head its 50th Anniversary celebration at Blue Blood Brewing Company in Lincoln on November 17, 2018, in spite of slick roads and snow swirling through town. The celebration featured a tour of Robber's Cave with local historian and author Joel Green. Joe's book; "Robber's Cave: truths, Legends, Recollection" is available for purchase at www.robberscavebook.com. Special thanks to Karen Griffin for sharing photos!
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