The Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences welcomes Carle Pieters, professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown University, as the invited speaker for the James and Julie Bockheim Distinguished Lecture in Soil Science.

“Is Lunar Water a Renewable Resource”
Wednesday, December 11 at 3:30 pm in 1520 Microbial Science Building
Reception immediately following the presentation in the Jackson-Tanner Commons (third floor Soils Bldg.)

After having worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sarawak, Malaysia, Pieters joined the Brown faculty in 1980 as a research professor. A few years later, she joined the Brown academic faculty. General research interests include planetary exploration and evolution of planetary surfaces with an emphasis on remote compositional analyses and spectroscopic techniques. Pieters has published more than 150 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and was co-author of the book, “Remote Geochemical Analyses: Elemental and Mineralogical Composition” along with Peter Englert. 

For more information, contact Carol Duffy at (608) 262-0485 or cjduffy@wisc.edu, or Doug Soldat at djsoldat@wisc.edu.