Natural Resources of the West
Energy

GEOL/ENVS 396

Fall 2008

Saccomanno Lecture Hall (SL 110)

Mesa State College 

Grand Junction, CO

Seminars are free and open to the public

18 Aug - Energy Oveview

Gigi Richard
Associate Professor of Geology
Mesa State College

25 Aug - Energy Resources in the Piceance Basin, Colorado

Rex Cole
Professor of Geology
Mesa State College

1 Sept - Garfield County Community Health Assessment: Risk Assessment

Russ Walker
Professor of Environmental Science
Mesa State College

8 Sept - Garfield County Community Health Assessment: Health Study

Teresa Coons
Senior Scientist
Saccomanno Research Institute

15 Sept - From Boom to Bust to Boom Again: Riding the Energy Roller Coaster in Western Colorado

Andrew Gulliford
Professor of History
Fort Lewis College

22 Sept -A Public Perspective and Community Impacts from Energy Development

Tim Sarmo
Town Adminstrator
Town of Palisade

29 Sept - Science Informing Policy: New Rules for Oil and Gas Development in Colorado

Richard Alward
Commissioner
Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission

6 Oct - Yes We CAN -- Conservation and Alternatives Now!

Jim Spehar
RST Associates

13 Oct - No Seminar - Fall Break

20 Oct - Colorado's oil shale: its origin, resource importance, and potential exploitation

Rex Cole
Professor of Geology
Mesa State College

27 Oct - Impacts of Energy Development on Sage-grouse

Tony Apa
Sage-grouse Biologist
Colorado Division of Wildlife

3 Nov - Local Government Energy and Mineral Impact Assistance Fund

Jack Kirtland
Regional Manager
Colorado Department of Local Affairs

10 Nov - Water and Non-Renewable Energy Development in Northwest Colorado: Oil Shale, Coal, Natural Gas, and Uranium

Dan Birch
Deputy General Manager
Colorado River Water Conservation District

17 Nov - Uranium in the Western USA

Tony Kovschak, Manager of Exploration, Homeland Uranium

25 Nov - Environmental, Social and Health Impact Assessments

Sean Norris, ESHIA Coordinator, Chevron North America

1 Dec - Balancing Energy Development and Wildlife - The Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative

Steven Garman, Research Ecologist, Rocky Mountain Geographic Science Center Dusty Perkins, Northern Colorado Plateau NetworkNational Park Service

For more information contact:
Prof. Gigi Richard, 970-248-1689, grichard@mesastate.edu 
OR
Prof. Tamera Minnick, 970-248-1663, tminnick@mesastate.edu