Karl Leonard, Professor of Geosciences, and two geoscience students (David Ahumada and Karissa Beierle) attended the 2019 Williston Basin Core Workshop. The event familiarized scientists from academia and industry with the 19 hydrocarbon producing horizons represented in rock core housed at the newly remodeled William M. Laird Core Library. The workshop took place October 7 through 10 in Grand Forks, […]
Geosciences student Asami Minei won first place in the student poster competition at the 29th Annual MN GIS/LIS Conference. Her poster was entitled “Classification and Calculation of Non-NIR Vegetation Indices Using High Resolution UAS Imagery.” The conference was held in St. Cloud, Minn. Her advisor is Dr. David Kramar.
Dr. David Kramar from the Department of Anthropology and Earth Sciences presented his research entitled “Estimation of Total Above-Ground Biomass at Two Sites Using High Resolution Imagery, Machine Learning, and Non-NIR Vegetation Indicies” and the 29th Annual Mn GIS/LIS Conference in St. Cloud, Minn. Four students from MSUM also attended the conference: Asami Minei, Yoko (George) Kosugi, Christine Lidenberg (Anthropology […]
Dr. Paul Sando assisted in the placement of the largest Geocache in Minnesota (and possibly the largest nationally) right here in Moorhead! The cache is part of the historic Probstfield Farm properties. The Geocache is part of a nationwide set of new cache sites set to go active on Sept. 28. This also happens to be the day of Probstfield […]
George Holley, Department of Anthropology and Earth Science has published an article “Incised Catlinite Tablets from the Red River Valley of the Northeastern Plains” in the current volume 75 of The Minnesota Archaeologist.