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Activity

2023

• ILLUMINATING THE GEOSCIENCES AND OTHER STEM FIELDS WITH OPTICAL MINERALOGY
  252 D14. Recent Advances in Mineralogy and Petrology
  Wednesday, 18 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  315 / 316

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2021

• MINERALOGICAL AND STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION, AND CONSTRAINTS ON PROVENANCE, OF THE SHINING ROCK QUARTZITE, SHINING ROCK MOUNTAIN, HAYWOOD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
  14 Deep Disposal or Storage of Waste and Its Potential in the Southeastern U.S.
  Friday, 2 April 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Vulcan Materials Company Room
• ENRICHMENT OF EARTH SCIENCE CURRICULUM THROUGH SHARED EXPERIENCES BETWEEN INSTRUCTORS AND PARTICIPANT IN THE SENIOR AUDITOR PROGRAM AT UNC ASHEVILLE
  3 Out of the Classroom, Out of the Box: Innovative Approaches to Geoscience Education
  Thursday, 1 April 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Syn Terra Corporation Room

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2019

• INDICATOR MINERAL ANALYSIS IN STREAM SEDIMENTS BORDERING THE NORTH AMERICAN EMERALD MINE IN ALEXANDER COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
  41 Undergraduate Research III (Posters)
  Friday, 29 March 2019

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Carolina Ballroom

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2018

• GAINING PERSPECTIVE WITH GOOGLE EARTH VIRTUAL REALITY IN AN INTRODUCTION-LEVEL PHYSICAL GEOLOGY COURSE
  T178 Geoscience Information Needs in Education and Research (Posters)
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls J-K
• INTEGRATED OPTICAL, MICRO-RAMAN, AND COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS OF ROCK SAMPLES FROM FORMER TALC MINES IN THE GOUVERNEUR MINING DISTRICT, NEW YORK
  T10 Mineral Evolution and Ecology: Potential Directions for the Next 100 Years with the Mineralogical Society of America
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 233
• INVESTIGATION OF TI BEARING AND NON-TI BEARING BIOTITES COEXISTING IN METAPELITE SCHISTS FROM MOUNT MITCHELL, NORTH CAROLINA
  11 Undergraduate Research I (Posters)
  Thursday, 12 April 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 301 DE/Henley Concourse

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2017

• MULTIDISCIPLINARY MICROSCOPY COURSE FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES
  25 Transforming Geoscience Teaching and Learning at 2Y and 4Y Colleges
  Friday, 31 March 2017

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Roanoke Room
• IDENTIFICATION OF MINERALS IN SULFIDE BODY WITHIN GRANITE HOST AT NORTH BUNCOMBE QUARRY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  5 Undergraduate Research I (Posters)
  Thursday, 30 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  James River Ballroom

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2016

• MINERALOGICAL STUDIES OF MEDIUM TO HIGH GRADE METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS FROM MOUNT MITCHELL STATE PARK, NORTH CAROLINA, USA
  30 Undergraduate Research: In Honor of Mike Higgins (Posters)
  Friday, 1 April 2016

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall

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2015

• ANALYSIS OF DUST FOR MINERAL CONTENT FROM LOCATIONS WITHIN BUNCOMBE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
  39 Undergraduate Research II (Posters)
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Ballroom
• A DATABASE OF INDUSTRIAL MINERALS BASED ON OPTICAL PROPERTIES: A GUIDE TO THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY’S MINERALS RESEARCH LAB
  39 Undergraduate Research II (Posters)
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Ballroom

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2014

• EVALUATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF MINERALS LISTED AS GROUP ONE HUMAN CARCINOGENS IN SOILS ACROSS THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES
  114 Mineralogy/Crystallography (Posters)
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• FORMATION OF ASBESTIFORM TALC FROM NON-ASBESTIFORM CHAIN-SILICATES IN THE GOUVERNEUR, NEW YORK TALC MINING DISTRICT
  T13 Asbestos, Fibrous Zeolites, and Other Elongate Mineral Particles (EMP) of Environmental Concern: Where Mineralogy and Geology Meet Epidemiology, Industrial Hygiene, and Public Policy
  Sunday, 19 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  202/203

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2013

• COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS AND MORPHOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS OF AMPHIBOLES, TALC, AND OTHER MINERALS FOUND IN THE TALC DEPOSITS FROM THE GOUVERNEUR MINING DISTRICT, NEW YORK, USA
  T373 Advances in Mineralogy, Crystallography, and Petrology: In Honor of Frank C. Hawthorne, 2013 Roebling Medalist (Posters)
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• FINGERPRINTING TALC, TALC ORE AND TALC PRODUCTS BY COMPOSITION AND MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE
  T353 Forensic Geoscience: Advances and Applications (Posters)
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D

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2012

• LAB MANUAL FOR A MINERALOGY AND OPTICAL MINERALOGY COURSE
  T242 New Strategies for Teaching Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry, and Volcanology (MPVG) to Geoscience Majors and General Education Students (Posters)
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• MINERALOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TALC ORE AND COMMERCIAL TALC PRODUCTS FROM THE GOUVERNEUR MINING DISTRICT, NEW YORK: ORIGINS OF ASBESTIFORM TALC
  T57 Bloss Mineralogical Session II: In Honor of the Life-Time Accomplishments of F. Donald Bloss, Emeritus Alumni Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech, as a Researcher, Author, and Teacher in the Field of Optical Mineralogy
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  208B

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2009

• USING THE USDA-NRCS SOIL SURVEY DATABASE TO EVALUATE AMPHIBOLE CONTENT OF SOILS IN THE UNITED STATES
  T233 Issues Surrounding Exposure to Asbestos and Other Potentially Hazardous Fibrous Minerals Occurring in Their Natural Settings I
  Wednesday, 21 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  E143/144
• LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY: A NEW PARADIGM IN GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS
  6 Getting a Better Handle on the “Dirt” Covering the Bedrock—Mapping and Dating of Surficial Deposits
  Monday, 11 May 2009

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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2008

• Effect of Bond Strength on Al and Si Ablation and Intensity in Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)
  T156 Real-Time, In-Field Geochemical Analysis: Current Capabilities and Future Prospects (Posters)
  Sunday, 5 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 4:45 PM