ONLINE: Stories in Stone

×

Expand

Brooke Norsted, assistant director of the UW-Madison Geology Museum.

media release: Talk will take place at https://www.facebook.com/UWConnects/. For a complete schedule, visit https://badgertalks.wisc.edu/badger-talks-live/.

Tuesday, February 9, Noon

Stories in Stone

Brooke Norsted, assistant director, UW Geology Museum

Travel through deep time to discover some surprising stories of Wisconsin’s geological past featuring volcanoes, tropical seas, and mastodons!  We will focus on three very different times in our state’s history and examine rocks and fossils which help us piece together how very different it used to be on Earth.

Brooke Norsted, assistant director of the UW Geology Museum, will be our guide as we hop around the state visiting quarries, state parks and road cuts which yield the specimens and stories from millions and even billions of years ago.

Brooke has twenty-four years of experience in informal earth science education, with the past seventeen served at the UW Geology Museum. Studying rocks and fossils has meant she has been able to explore the high desert in eastern Oregon, excavate dinosaurs in Canada, study ancient amphibian footprints in Oklahoma, work at Arches National Park in Utah, spend a summer at the edge of the Matanuska Glacier in Alaska, and investigate why a giant lake covered a quarter of Wyoming 50 million years ago. She especially enjoys sharing the stories we glean from Wisconsin rocks and fossils with people around the state.  

In these uncertain times, many of us are in the same position: hunkered down, trying to get a handle on our new reality. Like organizations and businesses across the globe, we at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have made changes to keep our campus and community healthy and safe. While gifted UW researchers identify ways to understand and develop a vaccine for COVID-19, our campus experts are finding new, innovative ways to support and connect with Wisconsin residents.  

We are pleased to offer Badger Talks LIVE…. a Facebook Live series intended to help you cope, stay engaged and thrive during these challenging times. Can't catch the live talks? Check out past talks here.