From Earth to Moon and Back Again: Stories from “Lunar Analog
Studies”
Last in our three-part spring geology series with Dr. Jane
NielsonDebris from space constantly rains onto the Earth’s surface;
by the 1950s, meteorite studies showed that the variety of known space
materials could represent a destroyed Earth-like planet, or raw
materials that could have coalesced to create one. In 1963 the U.S.
Space program provided funding for studies of suspected meteorite
impact craters, and focused Earth Science into the debate about the
origins of supposed extra-terrestrial masses, which also funded
studies of deep Earth rocks. This talk will focus on some
passionate 1960s debates, which space exploration and lab
studies eventually resolved—including speculations that proved to
be hilariously wrong.
Jane Nielson has three degrees in geology, including MS in
Geochemistry from The University of Michigan and Ph.D. in Geology from
Stanford University, and is a California Licensed Professional
GEOLOGIST (PG). Dr. NIELSON WORKED 18 YEARS FOR THE U.S. Geological
Survey as a field and research GEOLOGIST, and taught undergraduate
geology courses at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ;
California State University, Hayward; and Pomona College, Claremont
CA. After retiring from USGS, she moved to Sonoma County in 1999, and
in 2003 was a co-founder of the Sebastopol Water Information Group
[http://owlfoundation.net/swig.html] and the Sonoma County Water
Coalition [http://scwatercoalition.org/]. She also serves on the board
of directors for Sonoma County Conservation Action
[http://www.conservationaction.org/] and the O.W.L. (Open-Space,
Water, and Land Conservation) Foundation
[http://owlfoundation.net/swig.html]. She is co-author of_ The
American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and
Recovery_, published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
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