Thursday May 15, 2025 5:30 PM CDT

 

Join us Thursday May 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM to support AEG students from SIUE, WashU, and MU presenting their research topics. Each student will hve 15 mintes followed by 5 minutes of questions. Dinner will be provided (Pizza and salad). Terracon will be hosting this event (11600 Lilburn Park Rd, St. Louis, MO 63146).

The event fee is $5 for students, $15 for members, and $20 for non-members.

STUDENTS!! We will be drawing a lucky winner of the Bob Berri scholarship ($500) at this upcoming meeting! By attending a meeting, you are automatically enetered into this scholarship. Each addiional meeting attened is an additional entry. the more meetings attended, the more likely you are to win this scholarship!!

Presentations: (more info on additional presentors coming)

Comparative Strucural Mapping of Highlands on Venus and Cratons on Earth by Lauren Wratchford.

Lauren is a first year graduate student in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science as Washinton University in St. Louis. Her current research uses remotely sensed data, including multispectral imagery and synthetic aperture radar, to map geological structures on Earth and other rocky bodies in the Solar System. Lauren’s research aims to better our understanding of the tectonic evolution of rocky planets and how tectonics impact climate and habitability.

Assimilation and Immiscibility: Possible Mechanisms for the Formation of Iron-Oxide-Apatite (IOA) Deposits By Will Hunt

Will Hunt is a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri-Columbia where he studies the interaction between fluids and rocks, particularly in ore deposits using microthermometry and experimental petrology. I have experience in other areas including using UAVs to collect LiDAR data and images used for 3D modelling, seismic line surveys, and GIS.

 In this talk, I want to cover what IOA deposits are, their impact on the search for critical minerals, and a recently proposed mechanism for the formation of IOA deposits, in which silicate magmas may be intruding into evaporite-bearing sedimentary layers, which are then assimilated, producing immiscible silicate-rich and iron-rich melts. I will also share some of my current work in which I am looking for evidence of this interaction in the Shepherd Mountain and Pilot Knob deposits in southeast Missouri as well as some experimental work in which I hope to confirm the validity of this proposed mechanism.

Mariam Sani of SIUE will be presenting as w