Geophysics Lunchtime seminar opening event

Following the great success from last year, the opening of the academic year with the Geophysics Lunchtime seminar will be held again in together with faculty and students from the Geology institute. Our distinguished speaker is Prof. Frank Brown from the University of Utah. Dr. Frank Brown is a distinguished professor of geology at the University of Utah, who has spent his career working on Quaternary stratigraphy and thephrochronology in the Turkana Basin of the East African Rift. He obtained his academic degrees at the University of California at Berkeley (BA 1965; PhD 1971). For many years Frank Brown was also the Chair of the Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Dean of the College of Mines and Earth Sciences while maintaining his active research program in East Africa. Owing to his leadership and fund-raising skills, a state-of-the-art geosciences building for the Department was financed and built. For his many interdisciplinary contributions to geology, Frank was recently awarded the Outstanding Research Award of the Archaeological Geology division of the Geological Society of America. Frank Brown is currently visiting the LMU Munich, sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center.