Philipp Heck, the Robert A. Pritzker Associate curator of meteoritics and polar studies at the Field Museum of Natural History, will give a talk titled "Recovering a Record of Asteroid Collisions in Marine Sediments" at 11 a.m on Thursday, May 4, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series.
Heck received his Ph.D. in geo- and cosmochemistry at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. As the curator in charge and head of the Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies, Heck oversees the collection of meteorites, the largest meteorite collection housed at a private research institution. Other responsibilities include the curation of the gem, mineral, rock and economic geology collections.
Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the lecture at 10:30 a.m.
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