The Nittany Lion looks out from a 
Central Pennsylvania doubly terminated quartz crystal.  Artwork © John Passaneau.
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April 2024:
A Geologist's Trip to Antarctica
by Dr. Charles E. Miller, Jr.




March 2024:
Geode Night / Inside the Peculiar Geodes from the Trancas Station Deposit, Chihuahua, Mexico
by Jeff Smith "The Geode Guy"




February 2024:
Coast to Coast: A 100 day Adventure
by Mike Canich




January 2024:
Celebrating 30 Years of Nittany Mineralogical Society History
by David Glick




April 2023:
How to Study an Asteroid: Penn State's role in NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission
by Dr. Kate Freeman
See also this news story.




March 2023:
Geode Night - Journey of the Mexican Geode, Las Choyas Geode Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico
by Jeff Smith




February 2023:
A Modernized Stratigraphic Framework: Revising and Reconciling Stratigraphy Across Pennsylvania
by Hailey Filippelli




September 2022:
Flintknapping 101
by Ken Burton




August 2022:
Show & Tell
by members and visitors




May 2022:
Pennsylvania Caves: A Geological Overview
by Dr. William B. White




April 2022:
Land and Geology of Pennsylvania
"A Portrait of our Commonwealth"
by Dr. Robert Altamura




February 2022:
Applied Paleontology
by Dr. Charles E. Miller, Jr.




January 2022:
The Seven Metals of Antiquity That Forged the Modern World
by Paul Fagley




September 2021:
Iris Agates and Cantor Dusts: The Textural Complexity of Agates
by Dr. Peter Heaney

We are grateful to GIA and Dr Heaney for providing this video of his presentation from the 2021 Sinkankas Symposium, as we did not record his NMS presentation.


August 2021:
Show and Tell
by the members



May 2021:
"Evolution" of a Fossil – Arthrophycus Alleghaniensis: The story of the "Jointed Seaweed"
by Paul Fagley

Also see photo: variety of diameters of Arthrophycus


April 2021:
Start to Finish: The Process of Mining to Selling New Mexico Thundereggs
by Lori Lytle Coleman



March 2021:
Gembone: Gem Dino Bone
by Daniel Bontempo



February 2021:
Caves and Karst:
The Crossroads of the Geosciences
by Dr. George Veni, National Cave and Karst Research Institute



January 2021:
Dinosaurs of Pennsylvania:
What we know about them and their neighbors
by Dr. Steven Jasinski, State Museum of Pennsylvania


December 2020:
Spherical Structures in Rhyolite
by Daniel Bontempo


November 2020:
Making the Case for Celestine as the Pennsylvania State Mineral
by Dr. Peter Heaney, Penn State



Summer 2020:
Nicolaus Steno, the most important scientist you've never heard of (the father of mineralogy, crystallography, geology, and paleontology).
by Dr. Andrew Sicree
It is in two parts on YouTube (improved audio clarity in this presentation); to view it, use each of the following links:
Part 1 Part 2

May 2020:
Fluorite: The Fourth Mineral
by Dr. Andrew Sicree
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3



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