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Geology Professor Emeritus Dr. Frank Revetta to offer three free educational series through September

Posted 9/6/14

POTSDAM -- Geology Professor Emeritus Dr. Frank Revetta will offer three free educational series this fall at SUNY Potsdam -- including his popular planetarium shows and seismology workshops, as well …

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Geology Professor Emeritus Dr. Frank Revetta to offer three free educational series through September

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POTSDAM -- Geology Professor Emeritus Dr. Frank Revetta will offer three free educational series this fall at SUNY Potsdam -- including his popular planetarium shows and seismology workshops, as well as a new geoscience theatre program.

Planetarium shows are held every other Thursday afternoon, at 4 p.m., in the College's planetarium, located in the basement of Stowell Hall. Each show lasts about 45 minutes, and guests of all ages are welcome. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early. The Fall 2014 planetarium show schedule is as follows:

Sept. 11: "Circumpolar Constellations"

Sept. 25: "Winter Constellations"

Oct. 9: "The Brightest Stars"

Oct. 23: "Spring and Summer Constellations"

Nov. 13: "Worldwide Constellations"

Dec. 4: "Constellations of the Zodiac, and How Astronomers Locate Stars"

Seismology workshops will also be held on alternating Thursdays, at 4 p.m. The workshops will be held in Timerman Hall Room B23, Revetta's seismology laboratory. Class size is limited to 16 participants, so everyone is able to use a computer for the sessions. The Fall 2014 seismology workshop schedule is as follows:

Sept. 18: "How are Earthquakes Detected?"

Oct. 2: "When do Earthquakes Occur?"

Oct. 16: "Seismic Waves"

Oct. 30: "Seismogram Interpretation"

Nov. 20: "Tsunamis and Waves that Shook the World"

Dec. 11: "Local Quakes"

The geoscience theatre program will feature free lunchtime scientific video screenings. All screenings will be offered on Mondays and Tuesdays at noon in Revetta's lab, located in Timerman Hall Room B23. The Fall 2014 geoscience theatre program schedule is as follows:

Sept. 8: "100 Greatest Discoveries"

Sept. 9: "Local Earthquakes"

Sept. 15: "Asteroid and the Dinosaurs"

Sept. 16: "Loma Prieta Earthquake"

Sept. 22: "Mt. Pinatuba"

Sept. 23: "Birth of a Theory: Plate Tectonics"

Sept. 29: "Lewis and Clark Expedition"

Sept. 30: "Earthquake"

Oct. 6: "Storm that Drowned a City"

Oct. 7: "World's Deadliest Earthquakes"

Oct. 20: "World's Deadliest Volcanoes"

Oct. 21: "Wave that Shook the World"

Nov. 10: "Magnetic Storms"

Nov. 11: "Northridge Earthquakes"

Nov. 17: "Vesuvius"

Nov. 18: "Japan Earthquake"

Nov. 24: "Earthquake is Coming"

Nov. 25: "San Francisco Earthquake"

Dec. 1: "Super Volcanoes"

Dec. 2: "Mexican Earthquake"

Dec. 8: "30 Years of National Geographic"

Dec. 9: "An Inconvenient Truth"

For more information about the planetarium shows, seismology workshops or geoscience theatre program at SUNY Potsdam's Department of Geology, please contact Frank Revetta at (315) 267-3441 or revettfa@potsdam.edu, or Roberta Greene at (315) 267-2286 or greenera@potsdam.edu.