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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello Whitaker Center Friends and Family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Just a reminder about tomorrow’s (Thursday’s) STEMinar. It is at a nonstandard day and time this week:
<b><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Thursday, Feb. 25 at 3pm</span>.</b> Register directly at this link:
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://bit.ly/RotzSTEMinar__;!!IkmNjII!XbzT_ZvwSGBuTWg02MS0Ran5I951E9ua4AJymVC9n7bvdhke38LQnoMj9O9pc7ka$">http://bit.ly/RotzSTEMinar</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Brian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Whitaker Center Virtual STEMinar Series</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Whitaker Center is pleased to welcome <b>Dr. Rachel Rotz</b>, Assistant Professor of Geology in the Department of Marine and Earth Sciences at FGCU, for a virtual STEMinar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Time, Date, Location</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">3:00-4:00PM, Thursday, February 25, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Zoom info at <a href="http://www.fgcu.edu/whitakercenter">www.fgcu.edu/whitakercenter</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Title</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <i>Interdisciplinary Approaches to Investigating Water</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Abstract:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Interdisciplinary approaches to investigating water inspires students across disciplines to pursue the geosciences and make local connections
to water and sustainability issues. In this presentation, Dr. Rotz will present several examples of integrated, interdisciplinary approaches to investigating water. She will demonstrate how remote sensing, field methods, and modeling can be employed across
geoscience fields (i.e., geology, hydrology) to identify the timing and flow of surface and subsurface waters in drylands on Earth and Mars. The work is from Dr. Rotz’s doctoral research, and she will also discuss new projects on the horizon for her work within
the new Environmental Geology program here at Florida Gulf Coast University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Brian Johnson, Ph.D.
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</span></b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Interim Director and Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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