Ice Age to Snowball Earth: Geology as Scientific Rebel

Dr. Paul F. Hoffman
Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences Harvard University

Monday, October 8, 2007, at 4:00 p.m.,
Wright State University
218 Fawcett Hall

Professor Hoffman is a tectonic and sedimentary geologist. He has received numerous prestigious awards and honors, including the Alfred Wegener Medal from European Union of Geosciences, and the Willet Miller Medal of Royal Society of Canada. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, among others. He has published extensively in sedimentary geology and surface processes, tectonics and regional geology, and about the Snowball Earth Theory.

During periods of Neoproterozoic, Earth appears to have been completely frozen over as a result of a series of global glaciations. The phenomenon was termed “Snowball Earth” by Joseph Kirschvink of Caltech in 1992. Based on extensive field studies, Professor Hoffman and his colleague Daniel P. Schrag, have championed the Snowball Earth Theory since 1998.

Click here for the abstract of this special lecture by Professor Hoffman.

This lecture is part of WSU’s Fortieth Anniversary Celebration. For more information, please contact Songlin Cheng at songlin.cheng@wright.edu or 937-775 3450.