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Dru Germanoski, professor and head of geology and environmental geosciences at Lafayette, will present a lecture entitled “Heavy Metal Contamination from Mining, Rio Pilcomayo River, Bolivia” noon-1 p.m. today in Van Wickle Hall room 108.
Lunch is free for students and costs $3 for faculty and staff. The event is part of the Geology Department Spring Seminar Series, featuring noon talks on most Fridays this semester.
Germanoski will share experiences for his sabbatical research in Bolivia, which is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (see related story). The agency has contributed $53,897 for a project to assess the long-term effect of mining on river stability in Rio Pilcomayo Basin in southern Bolivia.
He also is conducting research funded by the United States Forest Service during his year-long leave. The forest service has awarded a $25,821 grant for continued study on the effects of wildfire and controlled burns on drainage basins in central Nevada. Germanoski has conducted fieldwork in the Great Basin of Nevada with four Lafayette students, including EXCEL Scholar Daniel Latham ’04, a geology major from Islip Terrace, N.Y., and expects to accompany another there next summer.
A National Leader in Undergraduate Research. Daniel Latham ’04 coauthored an article on his joint research with Dru Germanoski, professor of geology and environmental geosciences, in The Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts.