A Story of Horror and Hope: Investigating the Ponar Extermination Camp and the Great Synagogue and Shulhoyf of Vilna, Lithuania

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Harry Jol, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Co-Sponsor: Madison-Vilnius Sister Cities (MVSC), Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies

About the speaker: Harry Jol earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Simon Fraser University (Canada) and Ph.D. from the University of Calgary (Canada, 1996). He then was awarded to 2 post-doctoral fellowships (Killam & NSERC) before accepting a position at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he is presently a Professor and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. During his Master's degree he worked on the Fraser River Delta conducting a high resolution shallow seismic program in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Canada. During in his Ph.D. research through to the present he has utilized ground penetrating radar (GPR) at more than 1200+ sites in North America, Europe, Israel, New Zealand, Australia, and Antarctica. Harry has a broad background in the earth sciences, particularly geomorphology, stratigraphy, and geoarchaeology. His research has resulted in numerous publications, and conference presentations including 3 co-edited GPR volumes (Ground Penetrating Radar in Sediments, Stratigraphic Analysis using GPR, and Ground Penetrating Radar: Theory and Applications).