Wisconsin Rocks!

Whatever rock genre you’re into — classic rock, soft rock or alternative rock, the Badger state has all three. But they’re not on your iPod — they lie just beneath your feet. Join us for a very different kind of …

The Evolution of Life: From Microbes to Dinosaurs

Have you ever wondered how geologists reconstruct the Earth’s history? Join geologist Steve Dornbos as he takes you on a journey through geologic time showing us how fossils are formed, preserved and become more complex as faunal succession occurs. Learn …

Folding, Flooding and Faulting: How the Earth Is Shaped

Picture a bathtub with the drain open and the faucet going, geologist Norman Lasca suggests, to better understand how the watertable and soil conditions interact under conditions of potential flooding. Later in “Folding, Flooding and Faulting: How the Earth is …

From Rock to Sand to Muck: All The Dirt On Soils

Soil, the loose unconsolidated material which we take for granted at the surface of the earth, will never again seem ordinary after “From Rock To Sand To Muck: All The Dirt On Soils.” Geologist Norman Lasca literally gets his hands …

From Rock to Sand: The Life History of a Sand Grain

Primal forces are at work in geologist Norm Lasca‘s re-creation of the dramatic story of the history of a grain of sand, most common of substances. He starts with pictures of beaches worldwide and then moves to a large diagram …

On the Trail of the Thick-Skulled Dinosaur

How do we know what dinosaurs really looked like? How do we know where to find dinosaur fossils? Or, as geologist Emily Giffin asks in “On the Trail of the Thick-Skulled Dinosaur,” how do you find something when you don’t …

Sleuthing the Arctic for a Missing Glacier

Norman Lasca — How science works is as much the focus of this video as is a scientific detective story, one possible only now that the former Soviet Arctic is open to exploration. This search for a “lost” glacier, first …