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Geologist talks about landslides and wine making
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“Lessons Learned from Landslides in Oregon” is the topic of this month’s Geology Lecture Series at Southwestern Oregon Community College.
Dr. Scott Burns will talk about landslides in a presentation featuring numerous images of landslide activity that has occurred in Oregon.
The event is scheduled at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 14, in the Hales Center for the Performing Arts on the Coos Bay campus.
Burns has been teaching for more than 30 years, including positions in Switzerland, New Zealand, Washington, Colorado, Louisiana and at Portland State for the past 18 years. He specializes in environmental and engineering geology, geomorphology, soils and Quaternary geology.
Burns also will be providing a special lecture opportunity at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 14, at the Oregon Coast Culinary Institute. The afternoon talk is titled “The Mystique of Terroir in Oregon Wines: The Relationship Between Geology, Soils, Climate and Wine.” The afternoon lecture has a requested donation of $5 per person with proceeds going toward the 2009-10 geology lecture series.
The series is sponsored by Oregon Resources Corporation and the college’s foundation. The final talk in the lecture series this year is scheduled for Friday, May 29, with Dr. Hubert Staudigel (Scripps Institutions of Oceanography) on “Microbes and Volcanoes: A Tale from the Seafloor.”
For more information, call Ron Metzger at 888-7216.
Dr. Scott Burns will talk about landslides in a presentation featuring numerous images of landslide activity that has occurred in Oregon.
The event is scheduled at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 14, in the Hales Center for the Performing Arts on the Coos Bay campus.
Burns has been teaching for more than 30 years, including positions in Switzerland, New Zealand, Washington, Colorado, Louisiana and at Portland State for the past 18 years. He specializes in environmental and engineering geology, geomorphology, soils and Quaternary geology.
Burns also will be providing a special lecture opportunity at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 14, at the Oregon Coast Culinary Institute. The afternoon talk is titled “The Mystique of Terroir in Oregon Wines: The Relationship Between Geology, Soils, Climate and Wine.” The afternoon lecture has a requested donation of $5 per person with proceeds going toward the 2009-10 geology lecture series.
The series is sponsored by Oregon Resources Corporation and the college’s foundation. The final talk in the lecture series this year is scheduled for Friday, May 29, with Dr. Hubert Staudigel (Scripps Institutions of Oceanography) on “Microbes and Volcanoes: A Tale from the Seafloor.”
For more information, call Ron Metzger at 888-7216.
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