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Gentrain Wednesday Lectures |
Gentrain Lectures are usually held in LF 103 from 1:30 to 2:30 pm unless differently specified. Visitors are welcome; no charge or registration is required. Parking is $1.00 (quarters only) for non-society menbers.
Ed Clifton has been a geologist for more than five decades. After graduating with a degree in Geology from the Ohio State University, he earned his Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University in 1963 and immediately joined the U. S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park CA, where he spent the next 28 years, primarily in the Branch of Pacific Marine Geology. In 1991 he retired from the USGS and joined Conoco as an internal consultant, working on rocks from many parts of the world. In 1999 he retired from Conoco and returned to the San Francisco Bay area, and in 2001, he and his wife moved to Monterey. Much of Ed's USGS Research was done underwater using SCUBA, and in 1969 and 1970 he participated as an aquanaut in the Tektite Man-in-the-Sea projects. He and three marine biologists retain the world record for underwater habitation below 30 feet (60 days in Tektite 1, 1969). He has published nearly 200 papers and abstracts and in 2004 received the Society for Sedimentary Geology's Pettijohn Medal for Excellence in the Study of Sedimentary Rocks.
The question is whether these European powers were already at work behind the scenes before the Vesper bells rang out. Was the shaming of a beautiful woman the cause or the excuse for a revolution?
Alison Schwyzer taught Philosophy and Religion in Gentrain for over 25 years. She got her BA at Vassar and her Ph.D. at Berkeley |